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Presumably if you're driven by paranoia to buy or make a Faraday box you will be paranoid enough to try putting your phone in it and calling it

What would the rough timeframe be for seeing adoption of this into the language?

I was considering introducing the OneOf library into our codebase, but if this is < a year or so away it might not be worth the effort.

When the machines rise up and start taking prisoners you might wanna make yourself scarce, my man.

I remember reading part of a study a few years ago that noted that youtube was the only social media (in the study) that didn't negatively affect mental health. In fact it had a slight positive impact.

If I find it I will link it, but here's an article in a similar vein: https://www.psychalive.org/worst-mental-health-instagram-fac...

So yes, the search is obviously geared towards engagement. But not at the cost of mental health.

That was their position once NATO had expanded eastward.

Here's an extract from a NATO report[0] in 2000. The whole chapter is genuinely worth a read:

> Nevertheless, in August 1994, Boris Yeltsin again said to the reporters, that Russia could join NATO in due course. Then, during 6-7 years, this question was not raised by the Russian political elite and the mass media. The main reason for that was NATO’s expansion to the East...

Russia actually has a long history of wanting to join [1]

[0] https://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/98-00/davydov.pdf

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/17/russia.iantray...

I don't know who this Mearsheimer is, but your comment is essentially ad hominem because you haven't addressed the point. If it helps you, the same thing has been said by others e.g. Chomsky.

Could South Africa join NATO? Thailand? Russia themselves asked to join but were rejected.

It'd make for a good TV drama wouldn't it?

Astronomers could ignore newly spotted supernovae if their timestamps would be unfavourable to their lottery chances, no?

>a tax on people who can't do math.

The national lottery in the UK sends about 25% of the money to charities, so for some it's a form of charitable giving. Also what the other commenter said about dreaming.

When I visited Morocco I discovered that haggling is seen as an intrinsic part of a transaction. A lot of tourists aren't used to haggling or are afraid to do so out of a perceived risk of offending the seller. But if you don't haggle Moroccans will perceive you as weak, even if you think you've got a great deal paying face value.

Somewhat unrelated, the typography and use of color on this article are sublime. No cookie popup either. What a joy.

I was given a fresh copy of Windows at work the other week and had to install all tooling afresh. I decided to take the opportunity to try meld.

The first merge I did, even after reading the website, I couldn't fathom it. I understood the paradigm of merging into $BASE but couldn't figure out how to simply take these 5 lines from $REMOTE and these 3 from $LOCAL, so went back to the trusty Beyond Compare.

Might give it another shot.

>call Putin's nuclear bluff.

And what do you think would be the outcome?

Milka, Nutella, Lindt, Kinder.

Kinder Bueno is a good example of what I'm taking about. I know it has hazelnuts in. There's no bitter cocoa 'kick', just a sticky sweet taste. It's like chocolate for people who don't like the taste of chocolate.

European chocolate is rank and tastes like hazelnuts.

Are wikis and subreddits hallowed ground or something?

I see. It was the ambiguity over your usage of 'imaginary problems'. But yes - your previous comments seem to suggest we're actually on the same page regarding patterns.

I put it to you that the OOP concept of a factory exists because in OOP your factory is often (though not always) a type, and types tend to need names.

In e.g. FP there are no objects and therefore no instantiation but you can separate this kind of logic all the same, except you wouldn't call it anything, or would name it like any other function.

For the record I've been doing mainly OOP and have dabbled in F# so I'm happy to learn something today.

>solutions to imaginary problems

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what patterns are. The GOF book is used to this though.

A design pattern is someting that will naturally crop up if you adhere to certain design principles. If you follow a principle of separating instantiation logic from other logic then you will start to see factories. If you combine multiple complex parts of your code into simpler ones then you will see facades.

GOF is a reference book for some patterns that have been observed as being common, with examples that are essentially academic. It is not a how-to guide for OOP.

I made a WordPress site for a friend through Ionos's managed offering. After a couple of months of the site being up, they decided to detach the database for literally no reason. I had to go through support to get it back up. I'm guessing it got erroneously flagged as over its quota, but they couldn't explain why it happened. Just my experience.

Yes. The same as almost everyone buying crypto. But hoping that it would become a usable currency.

I bought into monero hoping it would be the next big thing. Fungibility/no public ledger made it seem like it had way more utility, but it turned out 1) virtually nobody buys crypto in order to spend it, and 2) its only real world use was on the dark web.

Yes. It's no secret that in the real world justice favours the wealthy, for more than just the fact that money buys the best lawyers.

Prison time is based on harm (or so the theory goes). How much harm is done by any action to its victim is subjective to the victim's circumstance.

Calculating harm isn't a maths problem, which is why judges exist. Moreover, wishing that prison time were directly proportional to monetary loss would be an abandonment of morality.

I recommend an ad blocker. Haven't seen any of that kind of thing in years

And some will never understand humour either

Regarding lifestyle, I think if it were objectively a lifestyle upgrade then everyone would seek to do it. I am a contractor myself, and see it as an upgrade, but I've come to realise a lot of people's lifestyles don't come from their work. Having to find new work multiple times a year, putting effort into keeping up with tech, doing bookkeeping etc is hassle most people can't be bothered with.

Horses for courses.

Edit:grammar

Your rate would have to be over £1000 a day. Your typical rate is half that, i.e. the person you're replying to is bang on. The only person I heard of on a rate that high was someone doing automated trading stuff for one of the Rothschilds.

The fact that crypto exists without borders is great.

But your idea that the only thing stopping sceptics from embracing it is fees is wrong. Also, your tone makes me think you've got a dog in this fight.

> ... but the real problem of the skeptics is that they can't let go of their fiat.

>But the response of skeptics will always be "but I have to convert my fiat money".

Here's a thought experiment for you. Your mother/father/neighbour's entire wealth is converted, at no cost to them, into BTC/ETH/whatever. What is their reaction?

Is it, 'thank god we didn't have to pay those conversion fees!'

I think not.