Elliot Cameron

If you're an evolutionist, don't buy crypto. The probability that life originated from evolutionary processes is much, much less than the chance your private key might be guessed. If you think evolution can happen, you're keys cannot possibly be safe!

@ericson2314_ @ChShersh Windows really doesn't like dual boot. I had the same experience with NixOS+Windows. Once you let Windows own you, it works fine.

@ChShersh I booted up my old windows partition on other laptop recently and it was a huge pain in the ass

OK, I decided. I'm installing Windows. I do almost zero programming in my free time. But I do play games a lot. And Windows is superior here 🪟

Ansible is by far the worst software I have ever used. Not even one of the design choices was a good idea. It's Python, Jinja, YAML glued together in such a way that nothing is obvious, everything is dangerous, and run time incredibly slow.

To all restaurants, stores, airports, etc.: Please turn off the music. If you must play something, play nature sounds or something. But please, just please turn off the music.

Linux isn't for everyone, but if you love rebuilding your wireless driver from source and reinstalling every time your computer restarts, man is it the perfect operating system for you.

Haskell community: "Converting between all the String types is terrible." Also Haskell community: Plugs laptop into USB C cord into USB C->A adaptor into AC->DC adaptor into wall plug.

Hacking First-Class Functions into Terraform HCL link.medium.com/n5JexyImcyb

@aking443 The only bathroom on this floor.

@a_cowley This is so profoundly accurate I'm surprised I've never heard anyone say it before!

Any discussion about C++ coding conventions involves one party essentially arguing, “If I were writing the code, I would simply not include any bugs.” The only exception is when that is what both sides are saying.

@Profpatsch cc @ericson2314_

@shajra While you'd probably hate it just as much, I always say it as "Don't let best be the enemy of better." And what I mean by that is, "Best is still better than what we have, but what we have is better than what we had before, so let's start using it."

I have never found the phrase "perfect is the enemy of the good" useful. Not once. It's just a relativistic cudgel that I've only seen used to mean "stop caring so much."

@HackageUI Fantastic!

#HackageUI is a new project, the main goal of which is to improve the user experience on #Haskell packages documentation. Follow us and bring your ideas and critique. Try: hackage-ui.vercel.app GitHub: github.com/visortelle/hac…

Simon Peyton Jones is joining Epic! Simon is a force of nature behind the Haskell programming language and has written amazing papers on type systems, transactional memory, and other fields that will be key in realizing the metaverse. discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-futu…

@code Simplicity - simple code is composable (think lego bricks), has clearly defined interfaces (think lego bricks), is relatively easy to change (think lego bricks), has more uses than you first realized (think lego bricks), and inherently helps you get it right (think lego bricks).

❓ What makes good code? Let's hear your thoughts 💭

#githubcopilot, how the hell did you learn to translate Applicative syntax to a #Haskell do block?!?

@AlexEpstein @BernieSanders They used fossil fuels to get to the moon, bruh.

Contest: Refute this cliché as stated by @BernieSanders. Top 5 responses get a signed book. “The USA put people on the moon 50 years ago. We can sure as hell transform our energy system away from fossil fuels to 100% renewables today and create millions of jobs in the process.”

God, save me from the great that isn't good.

@deech Pianos get passed around families and can often be acquired used very cheaply or even for free (if you're willing to move them yourself).

Never fails to amaze me how the piano which is historically the most expensive instrument to own by orders of magnitude is so pervasive, iconic and regarded almost blue collar.

@ReinH Wait, do people *not* explain it that way?

How come no one explains the Haskell State monad as a function from value and state to new value and new state (updateState :: (value, state) -> (value, state))? When m a = s -> (a, s) then a -> m a = a -> s -> (a, s), which is the curried version of (a, s) -> (a, s).

@kelvindotchan @BartoszMilewski Well, honestly, things that are 500 years old tend to be pretty valuable for that very reason. :D

@BartoszMilewski Haha, great. But reimagine the scenario, lets say you can put away something (concrete or abstract), and time-capsule it for 500 yrs, such that someone you appoint to (maybe your great^N grandkids), and hope they can benefit financially.

I think it's a great time to buy tulip bulbs, since they are down from the 1637 highs. Buy tulip bulbs and sit on them. They are bound to go up.