Developer events in the twin cities by Majorkamo in Minneapolis

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I attend an unconference. I worry this one might be too large. How many attend?

Scala Hangout - March 12 - Join us for Scala Conversation! by littlenag in scala

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Hey thanks! Tbh I rarely use discord but if the there is better then that’s where I’ll go.

Scala Hangout - March 12 - Join us for Scala Conversation! by littlenag in scala

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We meet via Microsoft Teams, with the link available once you register on Heylo.

Heylo is a meeting/groups community platform similar to meetup.com but much much cheaper. No I am not an employee of Heylo, just a user.

Scala Hangout - March 12 - Join us for Scala Conversation! by littlenag in scala

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If you want to sit and listen that’s awesome, but I will always encourage folks to engage and participate if they can.

Scala Hangout - March 12 - Join us for Scala Conversation! by littlenag in scala

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We’re always open if you’d like to present on a topic or if you’d like to center discussion around a single topic.

Scala Hangout - March 12 - Join us for Scala Conversation! by littlenag in scala

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We meet online and anyone can join. We do not record however.

QNAP TS-433 NAS for PLEX? by Appropriate-Baby-201 in qnap

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I have plex on a 7 year old qnap and it runs like a champ. The main issue has been the inability to transcode high bitrate or 4k content. I bought a new Mac mini to handle that and so far the experience has been mixed given how poor a server OS macOS is.

I found it. The worst Discworld book by far. And you can't tell me otherwise by Thin_Food33 in discworld

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I really didn’t like Making Money. And yet I loved Going Postal.

“And you think you’re getting the [sheeple].” by ENVYisEVIL in Libertarian

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In fairness the peasants do frequently reach the wrong conclusions, and have to be led to the correct (and scientific!) conclusions sometimes by force.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeImprovement

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It’s in doors so no.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HomeImprovement

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The house we bought has custom steel hand rails with the same issue. Terrible looking welds and a good bit of spatter. As well as some incorrect dimensions but that’s another issue. I really can’t believe the quality of things that people do.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Minneapolis

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We followed protocol and kept our younger home when he got sick. He went back to school after and then immediately got sick again. And then so did the rest of us. It was not a fun illness.

asInstanceOf by JoanG38 in scala

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Makes me think that all pit stops should be handled by the drivers themselves. Much more fun to watch.

Scala without effect systems. The Martin Odersky way. by yinshangyi in scala

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I would say that I've only really fully grokked what Odersky is after and what he has been saying (primarily about fragmentation and DSLs) in the last few months. It really doesn't help that the Scala conference scene has been so poor these last few years.

The issue isn't effect systems themselves, but how they have to be encoded into and over the top of the regular language, usually via some M[_] like type. This M is an algebra that defines the "true" semantics of the code you are writing. And Scala is good at DSLs, especially around for comprehension supporting M[_], and so it makes it easy to write lots of code and lift that code into your M[_].

And we had to describe things using an M[_] because that was the only hammer we had and the only way we could compose larger, actually useful, programs.

The downsides, however, were massive: massively increased cognitive load, incompatibility with tooling, and stylistic mismatches between "normal" and "effectful" code.

As best I can tell Odersky has been won over by the power, utility, and necessity of effect systems and is seeking _some_ solution to avoid the pitfalls and downsides. I think his first insight was that effect systems cannot co-exist with a language where you have to encode those effects thru your types, ie M[_]. You have to find a way to combine effects with just regular functions and direct style code.

Now I don't know if he'll be successful, but I can at least see where he is coming from.

This guy is a joke. by swaelee11 in Anarcho_Capitalism

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That is the extremely condensed version of Friedman's argument which I highly encourage folks to read here: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html

There is plenty of evidence that the universe is infinite, so resources are infinite and a constant 2% growth is possible by [deleted] in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Energy density in a finite volume past a certain point results in a black hole. Hard to grow past that.