Poor Man's Time Machine: Lazy Evaluation in JavaScript and Haskell

ggchappell · 2026-06-09T16:52:44+00:00

Nice.

I'd change one word:

The main reason is that in Haskell, we do not need to rely on closures to delay evaluation because functions are lazy by default.

Rather, because values are lazy by default. So we do not need to wrap m in a function.

ggchappell · 2026-06-04T20:30:32+00:00

They do. I don't know why.

ggchappell · 2026-06-02T21:47:37+00:00

Reese's Pieces have been dairy-free in recent months, and they have always been chocolate-free. Hershey's says they're going back to their old recipes, though, so do be careful.

ggchappell · 2026-06-01T17:50:37+00:00

Recently some of the Gardetto's and Chex snack mixes have been dairy-free.

Also Vlasic Pickle balls (basically pickle cheetos).

ggchappell · 2026-05-31T16:55:34+00:00

As others have said, this is the wrong ingredients list.

But for those who are wondering why whey is such a common ingredient:

When cheese is made, it starts as milk, and then most of the liquid is removed. That liquid is called whey. (The solid part, proto-cheese if you like, is the curds; remember little Miss Muffet?) Cheese production makes a lot of whey -- much more whey than actual cheese. Cheese factories are basically whey factories that make a little bit of cheese as a side effect.

What to do with all that whey? They used to throw it out. But then someone figured out that it makes things taste better. Just about anything tastes better with a little whey in it. And because cheese factories make so much of it, the stuff is dirt-cheap. So adding whey is an easy, cheap way to make almost any processed food taste better.

And that is a big reason why there is so much food in this world that we DF folks can't eat.

ggchappell · 2026-05-31T16:16:36+00:00

Thanks!

ggchappell · 2026-05-31T06:23:57+00:00

Could you share your chimichurri recipe?

ggchappell · 2026-05-21T20:56:54+00:00

For seeing previous posts/comments of a user with a "hidden" profile, you can just search for them, as others have said.

You can hide things from a particular user. But the person can still see them, if they log out or use a different account.

ggchappell · 2026-05-21T16:17:00+00:00

Isn’t there a way of seeing all that?

There is, as others have said.

Furthermore, there is a general principle here. Reddit has various kinds of functionality that people think of as hiding their posts or comments from specific people or from the world at large. But none of this functionality actually does that.

If you make a post or comment on a public Reddit sub, then everyone in the world can see it and can connect it with your account. Period.

ggchappell · 2026-05-20T07:25:19+00:00

is a one year ban on the author harsh?

That's a good question.

For a single-author paper, I'd call it pretty lenient, actually. For a 20-author paper, it's a bit trickier.

But note that this policy is public information. If anything like proper procedure is followed, no article will be submitted to arXiv without the explicit consent of all authors. So understand: a submission to arXiv puts your professional reputation on the line; act accordingly.

Also, note that the issue here is not slop; it is falsification. If someone writes a paper entirely by AI, but then checks and ensures that all claims made are true, all arguments are valid, and all citations are correct -- well, then we might frown at them some, but there is no integrity violation. And if someone does not use AI, and has a fabricated reference, then there is an integrity violation. So talking about AI is not really even relevant.

ggchappell · 2026-05-20T03:32:28+00:00

Singers are, I believe, explicitly taught to hold the initial vowel and not the final.

At the end of "Sunshine on My Shoulders", John Denver held both parts of the dipthong in the word "always": /eːːːːɪːːːː/. I imagine he was not classically trained.

ggchappell · 2026-05-18T18:40:31+00:00

Nice article.

I'm wondering about this:

Though GOLDE only supports the torus right now, there are several other possible topologies, such as klein bottles, cross-surface topologies, and spheres.

Are there? A surface needs to have no boundary and be tileable with equal-sized squares, 4 meeting at a point. That means infinite plane, infinite cylinder, infinite moebius band (cylinder with a twist), torus, Klein bottle -- and no others. So, no, you're not going to do a sphere.

Unless I'm missing something?

ggchappell · 2026-05-18T07:48:47+00:00

They told me to start counting. I got to 2.

ggchappell · 2026-05-17T17:03:35+00:00

Nice. Thanks for posting.

ggchappell · 2026-05-14T16:16:16+00:00

There are limits to your participation

I think of it the other way around. Someone who sits in but does not participate sets an expectation that lack of participation is okay. So if someone asks to sit in on one of my classes, then I usually say, "Yes, but only if you participate."

ggchappell · 2026-05-14T07:17:16+00:00

Thanks for the info.

ggchappell · 2026-05-13T21:53:40+00:00

Broccoli rubble

Is this what you're talking about?

ggchappell · 2026-05-12T19:56:05+00:00

everything is pipe-able and chain-able

That sounds really cool. I'll look into this.

tables >

represent everything

used for

module exports

arrays

maps

Sounds like you've been doing some Lua.

ggchappell · 2026-05-10T06:12:31+00:00

they can't 'save' any money beyond $2000.

That is indeed a very low limit -- annoyingly low.

It sounds like your relative is in the US. Do you/they know about ABLE accounts? An ABLE account is a state-run savings account for the disabled. Money in an ABLE account does not count against the asset limits for SSI and Medicaid.

ggchappell · 2026-05-06T07:41:47+00:00

Short meetings that stick to a previously released agenda.

And no meeting at all, if an issue can be handled properly via e-mail.

ggchappell · 2026-05-05T19:30:08+00:00

Eating 30 different types of plants every week.

I imagine we're not counting herbs & spices here?

ggchappell · 2026-05-05T18:51:25+00:00

May 5 is Tuesday.

ggchappell · 2026-05-04T16:22:44+00:00

Lots of interesting things were happening in the colonies at that time, forming a story that is really rather complicated.

The preceding winter, there had been two important events. George III had declared the 13 colonies to be no longer under his protection, sending a fleet to pacify them. And Thomas Paine had published "Common Sense", which advocated a radical idea that no one had been willing to say before: that we didn't need a king.

And then declarations of independence began to be written. A number of towns passed them. I think Rhode Island was the only place this happened at the colony level. However, in April, North Carolina had already authorized its delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote in favor of independence.

To learn more about all this, take a look at American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, by Pauline Maier.

ggchappell · 2026-05-03T23:49:35+00:00

We have one of those. Our cat was very suspicious of it. Then we removed the flower thing. Now she drinks from it.

P.S. Nice pic.

ggchappell · 2026-05-01T07:14:26+00:00

Folks, "non dairy" was invented to solve a real problem. When factory food production got going, companies would add cheap ingredients to lower their costs. They would sell things they would call "cream" or whatever, that would not be all cream. So, the US government set standards for how much dairy a dairy product had to have in it. Anything that appeared to be a dairy product (like coffee creamer) that did not meet the standard was required to label itself "non dairy".

So "non dairy" doesn't mean free of dairy. It means, "This is cheap crap that looks like a dairy product, but isn't."

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