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re: browser engines 

; { const sum = (() => {"use strict"; return (x,i=0) => x === 0 ? i+x : sum(x-1,i+x)})(); sum(5000000) }

Works On My Machine

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browser engines 

webkit is still the only one which lets you do proper functional programming, huh

tech culture 

heaven forbid one of those implementations be open source because then it will within a year be held together by the struggling efforts of an unrecognized generally good queer weirdo despite the fact that the original code was written by a friend of a literal nazi, and then it becomes impossible to tell whether supporting it is good or not

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tech culture 

“i’m so genius i made a thing which thousands of people use” no, you’re trash and your thing is trash, you’re just popular

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tech culture 

it’s very depressing working in a field full of shit standards which only exist because some startup bro spent like a weekend throwing it together and it took off on twitter and now there are five interoperable implementations which no competitor will ever be able to usurp

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tech culture 

every day i curse the fact that tech does not have any mechanism for resource sharing beyond being active on some socially regressive forum or visibly working for an exploitative company or being popular on twitter

“scripting languages” 

the language discourse has somewhat faded (not entirely tho, as evidenced by the whole “typescript is better than javascript” crowd) but the “real programmers don’t write scripts they develop Frameworks and build Applications” sentiment absolutely hasn’t

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“scripting languages” 

remember when tech culture went on a war against these, thus rendering itself incapable of building a website without importing 15,000 packages

prrgrrmmng 

trying to see what Lady is working on (not published to git) by seeing what Lady is working on (published to git)

prrgrrmmng 

can’t believe i’m spending my saturday optimizing a make·file

prrgrrmmng 

hope to have the source code up sometime this weekend

but before doing that i at least need to write a README for it

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prrgrrmmng 

i now have the ability to create dragon age–style codices from a directory of text files

it looks terrible because there is no styling yet, but i can do it

They should address the
behaviour of the students
on the computer

pokémon 

remember when ash was like… dragonite evolved arms… to hug

“A·I” 

maybe indexing every website on the internet is the actual problem and we should only be indexing the good ones

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“A·I” 

it probably is easier to train an A·I system to recognize and elevate high-quality sources than it is to fix whatever Google’s current algorithm is

until that A·I system becomes popular and S·E·O starts targeting it instead, at which point you have a black box you can’t do anything with

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“A·I” 

“A·I powered search does better than Google!” well yeah that is because Google is trash

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