LambdaDuck
anka213.bsky.social
LambdaDuck
@anka213.bsky.social
Haskell and type theory enthusiast

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i’d argue that parallelism is extremely easy, bordering on trivial, in haskell. the tricky part is to make the parallelism help performance more than it impedes it
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
exactly!
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Basically Einstein’s ”God doesn’t roll dice”?
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 AM
i wonder if the same thing holds true for more mainstream languages like c, c++, java, python, javascript, php etc? even though rust is moving towards mainstream it’s still fairly niche and fairly young

all the hype around rust with how groundbreaking it is creates fertile ground for misinformation
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
wait, how on earth does it fit in there?!
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
unbelievably useless for something that technically works. XD
the only way it doesn’t instantly die is if your opponent happens to have at least one artifact with the exact same mana value as your number of mountains.

though, maybe, if people use free artifacts, it could work in commander
November 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ooh, sounds nice indeed! which one?
November 15, 2025 at 10:55 PM
what is this mystical dense coded sequence of hyphens, numbers and zeros?! 😁
November 15, 2025 at 10:50 PM
this is high quality unintentional satire!
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
oh, now I see where the ”audio overview” button was!
November 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
wtf?! 😆
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
i mean, already the standard library has a lot of functions duplicated just for the sake of being generic over mutability, so yeah, that makes sense
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
i mean, very many disagreements stem from misunderstandings, but yeah, assuming that it must be the case and that it’s the other party that misunderstood is very annoying!
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
this felt like a fever dream 😅
November 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Isn’t this the founding principle of industrialism (and capitalism)? ”Whenever possible, replace things with things that are worse, but a lot cheaper”

Most things that are mass-produced are worse than their hand-made counterparts, but being cheaper makes them replaceable when they inevitably break
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 AM
that’s one of the main perks of getting a doctorate. you get a gender neutral title that’s fairly often available on these forms 😅
November 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
what’s next? “Did the Emancipation ruin America?”
November 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reposted by LambdaDuck
Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder.

Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined
October 21, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i don’t get why presidential pardon exists at all?? is it a leftover from monarchies that the US was inspired by since it didn’t have (many) other democracies to look at for inspiration?
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 AM
no you wouldn’t!

there are plenty of use cases for traversing over the second element of a tuple, but you’d want to be more explicit and use e.g. bitraversable for that!

i was afraid that traversable would be a superclass of bitraversable, but they were actually sensible enough not to do that! 🎉
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM