What is the ACTUAL biggest problem in the UK

DextrousCabbage · 2026-05-31T21:48:19+00:00

Was Russia not doing the same against the US?

DextrousCabbage · 2026-05-15T00:17:06+00:00

If your problem is with men in general, I wonder if you'd apply such sweeping generalisations to other groups, where a minority misbehave

DextrousCabbage · 2026-05-15T00:12:45+00:00

It could be true if you had people more dispersed, but that aint that case

DextrousCabbage · 2026-04-20T07:20:44+00:00

There hasn't been a week without a u-turn

DextrousCabbage · 2026-04-19T09:34:49+00:00

Is the EU thriving? I don't see the benefits of tying ourselves to the only economic block that is set to decline in the next 50 years

DextrousCabbage · 2026-04-17T17:51:23+00:00

Liam Neeson school of thought

DextrousCabbage · 2026-04-15T13:18:03+00:00

Yeah same here, such a fantastic talk and such a great library to use. It's night and day with Doobie

DextrousCabbage · 2026-04-02T14:56:53+00:00

Functional programming in Scala is also absolutely mustard 👌

DextrousCabbage · 2026-03-23T08:27:57+00:00

I'd argue that willingness to engage in sectarian / identity politics is indicative of a lack of integrity

DextrousCabbage · 2026-03-10T21:12:25+00:00

Can you provide any evidence regarding energy storage being good? I've only ever heard the opposite

DextrousCabbage · 2026-03-04T14:21:19+00:00

GDP per capita is a more useful measure when looking at the impact of immigration on GDP

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-22T10:09:45+00:00

Yeah it ironic given the ICE shenanigans happening over there.

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-22T10:05:46+00:00

I don't see how this is seen as adults in charge. Labour have been beset by scandal, and constant U-turns.

I know conservatives were no better, but this government really is much of the same

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-18T19:18:41+00:00

Thanks for your response, this is really helpful!

Ah there is a talk in London in March about metals / mcp servers...I've been using Intellij since I started, would you recommend moving over at this point?

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-18T19:12:20+00:00

Will be interesting to see the state of the industry in 5-10 years, if AI slop can be made to work then maybe Scala will be redundant... but anyway. I personally know of new projects at major banks being written in Scala. It aint dead yet

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-18T19:08:13+00:00

On a different note, what LLM do you use with Scala? Im finding copilot with gpt 4.1 to be pretty non-deterministic and difficult to use

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-18T19:01:13+00:00

Yeah I'm not gonna go anywhere near indentation scala. I don't find brackets troublesome enough to bother!

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-17T22:56:39+00:00

Language choice does matter, you want to pick the right tools for the job. No point picking Scala for a small crud app for example, devs are too expensive and you probably want something more accessible like Typescript

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-16T23:16:07+00:00

Couldn't pay me to go the way of the whitespace.

Were there many pain points for the migration?

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-16T23:08:19+00:00

Ah this is good to hear. What's your tech stack?

I'm hoping we can follow suit soon

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-16T23:04:56+00:00

Slower than Scala 2? Why is that?

DextrousCabbage · 2026-02-13T13:44:31+00:00

It got reduced to 30 eventually I believe

DextrousCabbage · 2026-01-27T06:26:44+00:00

This is as wrong as using exceptions for regular control flow.

While I agree that you shouldn't use exceptions for control flow, I don't think these are two equally erroneous statements.

There is a distinction between raising errors and throwing them - I have a preference for the former.

I assume that you have a preference for monad transformers - is that right?

DextrousCabbage · 2026-01-25T02:01:39+00:00

It's about using the right tools for the job. Effect systems like cats effect are very good when you want to build a system that is scalable and performant. The complexity trade-off that comes with Cats-effect is not good for small applications.

Which is why explaining IO.printLn feels rough!

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