So many games could have been played with all of that hardware…

Agreed. In troubling times like these, it is more important than ever that we stand up for our grammatical principles!

In Haskell, all functions are curried by default, so you can partially apply a function merely by applying it to fewer than the supported number of arguments.

Also, it is worth noting that laziness-by-default in Haskell makes it so that you can use ordinary functions to define control structures, rather than needing to turn to metaprogramming like you do in Lisp.

Why not? Are you trying to dictate to me how to use my device?

I unfortunately think that AI will be able to hold out longer for food than they will.

Yeah, I really do not like how the article makes it seem like being fully comfortable with boredom is something that anyone can sit down and immediately do, rather than being a skill.

As someone with a small amount of skill in this: similar to the situation that you have described, I find that sometimes, when giving myself space to be “bored”, I discover that my mind insist that I think about something that is really bothering me. In such times, I have found it is best to just let the thoughts go on, like cuing up an audiobook and letting it play. Usually (though not always), what eventually happens is that audiobook finishes and the thoughts end, providing me with a great relief. Paradoxically, though, this only works if I am not trying to bring this outcome about, but only creating the conditions under which can occur; exerting control just disrupts the process and prevents my mind from settling. I have gotten to the point where I can do this kind of thing because I have practiced taking a general approach of playfulness and curiosity with respect to my own mind, but I won’t lie and deny that there have been times when the process has been uncomfortable, especially at times when I have not been sure what I should be doing.

Just to be clear, I am not going to judge you at all for spending your time reading fanfic instead of learning to be comfortably bored. After all, we all have our hobbies—mine just happens to be esoteric spirituality, if you can’t tell! 😀 However, I would point out that you cannot be reading fanfic all of the time, so being able to be at peace when there is not something actively distracting you can be useful, and this skill is attainable to whatever degree you want if you decide it is worth the trouble.

Thanks, I appreciate you starting from the understanding that their intent was to be satirical and then explaining why it did not translate well, rather than just loudly accusing them of being misogynistic. Yours is the only comment that reached my brain rather than causing it to reflexively react.

Alternatively, maybe it’s just that we don’t see this particular comment, which is about underwear, as being a big deal? And you insist that we just take it as given that it is misogynistic because you say so, and accuse us as being willfully ignorant when we disagree, rather than doing anything on your part to convince us otherwise?

The person who did the most good is actually @y0lai, who actually took a moment to explain why the comment did not translate well, but acknowledged that the intent has been to be satirical. That is the only comment I read that made me think, “Okay, you have a good point.”

Exactly. While I get that it’s not exactly the same, it seems roughly as weird to make a big deal of accusing @nandeEbisu of being misogynistic as it would be to accuse the comic artist of being violent.

So it’s okay for her to advocate violence so long as it isn’t specific to men?

Do you reject with equal vehemence the rhetoric advocating for violence in the comic in the last panel?

Burn it all to the mother-fucking ground!

This actually makes a surprising amount of sense because Musk does not actually need to make Tesla eight times better of a company, he only has to convince the market that it is eight times better than it is now, and it will imagine that insane market capitalization into being.

Remember the wise quote of John Keynes: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

They had one job…

Drinking milk is more pleasant than eating grass directly, so it is not thatweird.

As much as I love this idea in theory, in practice there are probably simpler ways for me to volunteer my physical or virtual machine to be part of a botnet.

I congratulate you on writing a comment that I genuinely cannot tell whether it is supposed to be a parody or not; have a Poe’s law award!

His eyes are frequently not shut, it’s just that the artist often uses shut eyes in all of her characters as a form of facial expression.

It is worth mentioning that the artist still draws silly comics that are not about politics; they just aren’t the ones that get posted here very often.

There has never been a constitutional right to protest on private property.

I don’t feel strongly positively or negatively about Woz, but I agree with his message that, to the extent that life is about collecting anything, it is about collecting happiness points rather than money points. (Having said that, money does a very good job of taking away obstacles that get in the way of happiness.)