Some midwit tried to be clever, and other midwits applauded. The top story on Lobsers. https://lobste.rs/s/y13fa3/poor_man_s_types Replying with the Djikstra “presense, not the absense” quote would be too easy. There are two principal distinctions. First how type-classes (in Haskell) can formalize and systematize so-called duck-typing (walks like a duck, quacks like a duck) for the most general mathematical notions, such as equality, ordering, etc. This alone would have been enough to ever rise this bullshit again. ...

A product-type is a generalized notion of having a bunch of things at the same physical locality (or proximity) – this and [also] that. This is what molecules are. A sum-type is a generalized abstract notion of having this-or-that (either-this-or-that, and NOT both). This is, among other things, a “fork” on a path – never both can be taken (except when backtracking). These notions are enough for everything and they are our basic building blocks. ...

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1925710474366034326 I have read the notes. they are a mess. For me, Carmack, aside from being a legend, is sort of Goggins of imperative procedural programming, who learned everything by doing without studying the theories first. His ultimate strength is, it seems, in a focused doing, ploughing through a problem, if you will, without being exceedingly dramatic. Learning from experience (actual trails and errors and quick feedback loops) and gradual improvement of his own “emergent” intuitive understanding – ones own mental model of how things should be done. ...

Yes! yes! https://thewayofcode.com/ > Free from intellect, free from abstraction I see. Some humanties and liberal arts majors are staring in wonder and awe at changing complicated symmetrical patterns. Many such cases. So this is a new cult forming right before our eyes. Now I got what is the thing about so called vibe coding – it is the appeal to exactly that kind of “arty types” (highly emotional, without habitual critical thinking, incoherent, undisciplined minds of generally low IQ, who usually follow all the emotionally charged esoteric bullshit) so they could “create” without knowing, leave alone understanding. ...

On the very auspicious occasion of the th Buddha Jayanti it is good to show that his teaching – to see things as they are – still cuts through and illuminates the darkness of ignorance. The praise of an intuitive knowledge, which is based on attentive observations with a quiet mind, to capture the common and recurring patterns, properly generalize them and abstract away the irrelevant details by capturing the “essence” as an abstraction and then to give such abstraction a name. This is not just how mathematics “works” (came to be), but it is a more general and universal process, which is behind not only a human language (which is prior to any math), but how the brain structures has been shaped (trained) to match some aspects and constraints of the shared environment in which it happen to evolve. ...

What is so “natural” about Gentzen’s “Natural Deduction”? It is that our brains are conditioned by the Environment In Which We Happen To Evolve, and the environment is governed by what we call the Law of Causality, which has been captured in the East by the Buddha’s “Dependent Origination principle” and even more precisely by Modus Ponens in the West. When this exists, that comes to be; with the arising of this, that arises. When this does not exist, that does not come to be; with the cessation of this, that ceases. ...

Dear f*cking degens, for Christ sake, try to understand what are you doing and why, once in a while. Every time I start neovim with a simple, almost default LazyVim config it starts to download a new copy of the haskell-language-server using ghcup. Please, try to understand that this version of haskell-language-server almost certainly won’t work with an installed GHC, it works only with the version it has been compiled with. ...

DESCRIPTION: Removing the veil of Maya to see things as they really are What to do when you have discovered that something is wrong with the world? Nothing, this happens all the time. Everything is wrong with C++, but everyone uses it, everything is wrong with packaged food, especially the toxic crap Nestle produced, and everyone is buying it. Nothing can be done. Here is what is wrong with your “AI” and “LLMs”. ...

DATE: <2025-04-22 Tue> A lot in common with cooking, which is (arguably) the simplest and the most ancient form of engineering. (TODO: explain with examples). No one can learn to cook by watching a “food porn” on social networks. It is a “learn-by-doing (and making mistakes)” process. Small, complete (Always Be Compiled) iterations, which conceptually corresponds to “recursive calls” of a spiral-shaped recursive process, which ends up at (converges to) a local optimum. ...

There is something to realize – some zoomer (a teenager) brought down a unique world-wide service using some ready-made exploit, probably found on the web, against way outdated unpatched PHP crap. The most important thing is that the whole website seem to be never updated after being bought from @moot. This explains anything one needs to know about the how. It does not really matter which particular attack has been executed – it is against old PHP which is a fractal of bad design by definition. ...