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Were many people outraged by this photo? This is the first I've heard of the photo or the outrage, so I genuinely don't know

Which country has sanctioned China as the result of the tariffs so far? Most Asia-pacific nations have expanded trade with China, to make up for the shortfall from reduced trade with America.

I am pleasantly surprised by how significantly better the quality of ChatGPT's answers are, once Search + Reason are turned on. I used it for a project I'm working on, and it has given reall…

ChatGPT with Search mode turned on correctly answered who won Canada's election that happened yesterday, with sources.

Stands to reason a human might get fooled by this as well

I do sometimes wonder how the last generation of human computers [1] felt [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(occupation) …

Is this Truepic Vision thing a US requirement? I signed up for a virtual office here in Sydney, and obtained a DUNS number using that address with no issue. This was last year.

Supabase + Cloudflare Workers, both have pretty generous free tiers

People are susceptible to peer pressure. You see other people doing it, you want to do it yourself

For me, Reddit and HN

I guess people didn't realise they are allowed to, and in fact are expected to, put very wide ranges for things they are not certain about.

I think openness is a must. Alternatives that were proprietary largely died out because they were proprietary. They can't survive transitions into newer platforms, like how Flash failed to make i…

If you have trouble committing to an option, it's usually because the options are equally good as far as you know . There are two ways to go about this: 1. If the stakes are low, you can just pi…

If you consider the constraints on how it can evolve and the alternatives that has been attempted, I think web languages turned out pretty well.

Getting Java flashbacks from this

Went back to wired headphones over wireless ones. Considerably more reliable, and no futzing around with charging

This comment proves my point about how "all the Haskell" hinders mainstream adoption of a thing. It's very easy for folks to miss the point of the thing! Lenses and more generally optic…

See e.g. Youtube Shorts and Instagram Reels

The big one that springs to mind, though it's not a Haskell idea, are algebraic effects and effects handler

Love the intro articles you wrote!

I would be very happy to be proven wrong here. But I view parser combinators in the same lens as lenses, another powerful approach to solving a specific problem that is unlikely to receive mainstream …

PEGs don't have this problem only because they place restrictions on the grammar. In practice, this isn't a problem, but it does require you write grammar rules in a specific way (e.g. no le…

Parser combinators are one of those ideas that is really powerful in practice, but will never be mainstream because it had the bad fortune of coming from the functional programming world. It's a …

In the short term, there will be a direct revenue hit as the result of very uncertain policies causing investors to be more cautious. In the long-term however, I think Australia is in a strong positio…

Convincing and training old retirees to use 2FA is not something I will wish on my worst enemy.