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  • Not OP but I was a pretty competent C/C++/C# programmer first. Lisp and Haskell both totally changed how I thing about programming. I’ve used all the other languages you listed and I don’t think any of them have a unique philosophy to offer, except maybe rust for the memory model.

    Lisp teaches you how flexible programming languages should be. Haskell teaches you about things like higher kinded types, and exposes you to loads of cool category theory stuff. Other languages can probably accomplish these goals, but I don’t think any of the alternatives you listed could.




  • I try my best to do this, and find lots of great new music.

    I still find a lot of new popular music just doesn’t do it for me, and I think it’s because as you’ve heard more music, the it’s harder to find something that sounds fresh.

    When I was in the peak of that chart I was really into stuff like Spacehog, who seemed really cool to me at the time, but probably would have sounded a bit derivative to my parents. At the same time my dad loved Smashing Pumpkins enough to buy all their albums…




  • I think they are just talking about annoying main-character type people you see traveling all over the world. It’s not really an American thing, it’s just that a you’re likely to come across an American one of these assholes due to various statistical factors. I’m sure in Spain they have the same idea about the English, or in Indonesia about Australians.

    If you’re the type of person to think about this and contemplate how people perceive you, I strongly suspect you are not going to annoy anyone.









  • Corngood@lemmy.mltoScience Memes@mander.xyzArxiv bans slop
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    We might never reach singularity. I think our universe is a simulation built to study how it happened in base reality - or what kinds of singularities aliens build. The event itself is probably too expensive to render. Our universe will cut to black.

    I feel a little bad dunking on a random guy, but this is very stupid