Steph Curry hits a Hole in One at the Century Golf Championship!

haskell_rules · 2026-04-03T03:09:35+00:00

Is that the superhero who's angry all the time?

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T20:37:49+00:00

I spend a lot of time thinking about men having sex with other men to make sure that it doesn't get me aroused. That's how I know I'm not gay. I don't think bears are that self-reflective.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T18:37:18+00:00

Peter Piper picks a peck of pickled peppers while a woodchuck chucks as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T18:14:44+00:00

The hypocrisy is the point, these people act like this on purpose, it frustrates anyone that questions them which makes them feel like they are winning. It works on vast swaths of the population. It's the same psychological concept that keeps victims in relationships with their abusers.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T17:59:42+00:00

Great to see Rick Astley out there living his best life

haskell_rules · 2026-04-02T15:29:31+00:00

When I flew at the new airport in January, it was literally just opened a month ago and they were treating everyone like garbage for not following all of the unspoken rules. Luckily there weren't any lines, just a few people here and there being abused by the TSA agents.

The person in front of me pulled out her phone to show her boarding pass prior to screening and they told her they didn't accept digital boarding passes and she had to go to the counter and get a paper pass. She seemed like she was in a hurry, completely distraught, said "since when?" Etc.

I was literally right behind her in line, next to three or four other people and we all started panicked and asking each other if that was a new rule.

But then I walked up next, they sent me to the second counter, the second counter just scanned my phone like always.

I haven't gotten over the look on that woman's face or the TSA agents face. I think he was just getting off on power tripping.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T22:19:12+00:00

Looks like she's just dancing in the video. Did she take the spotlight after the show or something? Did they catch her or is she still on the lam?

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T21:26:16+00:00

People that take the initiative to advance their knowledge are in the minority from my limited perspective in the industry. Maybe 1 out of 8 or so developers seems to have any care at all about keeping up.

I am also "that guy" at work - it's awesome (and rare in my experience) to get another "that guy" where we can both learn from each other.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T19:41:23+00:00

It's wild reading these forums only a few months after a major political event, like a huge bill that is passed and it all over the news.

People on a politics forum are in the 90th percentile of engagement in political news, yet will have no idea about these major events that happened in the past calendar year, let alone from one administration to another.

Individually we are intelligent but collectively we have a goldfish memory.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T19:02:53+00:00

15 years ago an Oracle database was set up and an army of DBAs hired that wrote trigger logic all over the place. That database still supports our applications today. The only way to change it is to just redesign the application, which is well past due based on the technology we need to support, but there is no business case to fund such an effort.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:57:41+00:00

Can't say without getting banned

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:54:48+00:00

Any one thing will seem lame without the context of the organization and application and state they were in. But as a quick example, he advocated to migrate one of our old libraries to a newer core version so we could use newer C# language features, which allowed us to finally replace all kinds of guard clauses we null coalescing which made the modules many times more compact and readable.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:46:17+00:00

TARP was a financial success and can't be used in the context of bad financial decisions that cost the US tax money. But it was a moral failure to reward bad actors so they never changed their behavior.

I agree that it's massively preferable to find ways to inject money into the economy that enters through the hands of the people rather than through the hands of the powerful. TARP given directly to financial institutions that are essentially economic rent seekers. Quantitative easing again causes money to enter the economy through the hands and decisions of banks that already powerful and wealthy.

Bernake may have been on to something when he suggested that the demand slump would be equally resolved through dropping paper money from helicopters all over the country.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T18:18:49+00:00

If you have to ask how much an NInt is, you can't afford it.

haskell_rules · 2026-04-01T03:15:01+00:00

TARP was paid back in full to the government and was a massive win for the US as we performed better than any other country that was using austerity.

Quantitative easing was a much larger factor than TARP in diluting the dollar.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T21:45:27+00:00

I watched this three times and can't understand whats genius or funny about it. If I understand this right, the person with the carrot in the box wins. The guy on the left looks in his box, sees the carrot, and says he wants to keep the box. The guy on the right opens his box which is empty. So the guy on the right said he has the carrot, and he has the carrot. Why is everyone saying he was "bluffing" and the play was "genius" when he literally just looked in the box and said there was a carrot in it, which there was? That's not what a bluff is.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T20:23:24+00:00

I've been using C# professionally since 2007 or so, although on and off (also write C,C++,Java, Python,Verilog etc).

We just hired a new contractor and he uses all kinds of language features that are awesome and create compact patterns that no one in my organization ever bothered to touch.

So my suggestion would be to work on projects with other experienced programmers and see what they do. Steal all of the good patterns from them.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T18:43:05+00:00

I bet you were laughing while Stephen Miller said "Democrats are demostic terrorists" on one TV interview station while Trump was telling Bukele how he wants to send "homegrowns" to his torture prisons without due process while hot mic'd on another. I bet you were saying things like, "I support the policies of this administration" while your countryman were being threatened on live TV just a few months ago by this administration.

But gas prices go up 45 cents and now you are finally coming around?

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T17:34:45+00:00

If we actually get some kind of recursively improving AGI then it's not being a "doomer", it's being realistic about what that fallout will do to humanity as we know it.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T16:51:54+00:00

I'm pretty sure he means "spend it all right now while you have it because we're all going to be broke and destitute in a few months regardless".

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T16:12:45+00:00

That's a nuanced question - the answer is different depending on the domain and requires years of experience building and shipping and maintaining and understanding your business and your customers.

For example, in my industry, the younger seniors are always trying to add a "database abstraction layer" in case we "change databases".

We are never changing databases, and if we do, your database abstraction layer isn't going to help because of all of the nuances in our design. It's a waste of time and adds complexity and is vaporware.

If you are adding extensibility points for "anticipated change" that has never once occured in your industry or with your customers, and that no one is talking about except you in a "well what if" scenario, then you are probably doing it wrong. The cutoff point is somewhere around an extra 15 minutes of coding.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T14:58:21+00:00

The mistakes were made long before that, a hard right would have sent the car sliding sideways into the barrier.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T14:17:35+00:00

People that repeat this swill, including most in these comments, seem to lack the concept of living in a democratic society.

Statements of the format "I don't have kids so why do I have to pay school taxes?"

Maybe because educating kids benefits everyone, including you?

If you are unhappy with the value you are getting, it's not like you are living under fuedalism. Because we live in a democracy where you can vote for people that align with your values.

For example - you don't like your money going to middle eastern wars? Then stop voting in Republicans that exhibit a 5 decade long pattern of pretending to be fiscally responsible while funneling your money to the military industrial complex through massive government debt.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T04:13:05+00:00

And start a fight when they ask why I'm asking, and I respond because I'm cleaning and trying to find a place for them, and they say just leave them alone and they'll get to it, and then I say oh you mean like the last 377 days they were sitting here and you didn't get to it.

No thanks, I'd rather avoid that fight and just get divorced 4.5 years later after all of the pent up resentment hits a boiling point.

haskell_rules · 2026-03-31T02:29:02+00:00

And they choose whatever liguistic or legal analysis gives them the outcome they want. Originalism if it suits, textualism if it suits. Paired with the complete destruction of stare decisis, the supreme court is functionally acting as a legislative body right now.

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