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I'm thinking of moving into functional programming. I'm deciding between F# and Haskell. I don't like that both have indentation as syntax, but that's neither here nor there.
I know the .net core stdlib like the back of my hand. I'm trying to decide - and, as the purpose of this post, trying to ask the community - if this is a *bad* thing when trying to learn a new programming paradigm.
In other words, I think I want to try Haskell because I won't be able to lean on my knowledge of the standard library. I'll be forced to actually understand the language and learn functional concepts, instead of trying to bring my OOP knowledge over from C#.
Additionally, the .net stdlib is obviously built in a OOP design, so I'm afraid that the F# stdlib might suffer from that too.
But I'm still thinking that maybe my knowledge of the .net stdlib will be more helpful than harmful? Like, yes, I'll be using it as a crutch but at least I won't be trying to learn three things at a time (stdlib, syntax, and paradigm) and can focus solely on the syntax and paradigm.
Anyone have any insight into this problem, or maybe some wild guesses?14 -
Don't get me wrong, I like funcional programming, but this smug „This would neeever happen with FP“ bullshit really gets on my nerve and kind of turns me off the idea of ever wanting to work with FP programmers.
It's just another paradigm, it's still possible to write unmaintainable fuckugly crapcode with functional programming.
And it is still very possible to write beautiful, clean, well maintainable code with OOP. Get over yourselves and understand that it's a tool and not a religion, and a good dev should know when to pick which tool for which job without childish notions of intellectual superiority.4 -
Everything goes behind payment walls regarding AI. Claude pro sucks, codex got limits, perplexity limited file uploads, I can hit daily limits with gemini that I didn't have before.. It started already with the limited deep search everywhere. The problem is, I'm still paying the same but got less. Wtf.11
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I've always been a frontend guy but this time I'm ready for the backend
And no I'm not talking about code8 -
Shamefully, after years of c++ hobbyism, I've only now discovered the ABSOLUTE BEAUTY of constexpr
I thought it was just the "new way of defining constants", so I always skipped over it as more of a basic utility than a hugely powerful part of c++
I didn't realize it could do comptime code! I can pre-compile huge arrays into my binary just like I could with comptime in zig.
Fuck me, I feel stupid as hell. More c++ rants to come, surely.6 -
Ain't nothing like compiler development to make you want to jump of a bridge
I went in with my childish naivety. How wrong I was... lmao33 -
A man flying in a hot air balloon suddenly realizes he’s lost. ♨💨🎈
He reduces height and spots a man down below.
He lowers the balloon further and shouts to get directions,
"Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?"
The man below says:
"Yes. You're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."
"You must work in Information Technology," says the balloonist.
"I do" replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but It's of no use to anyone."
The man below replies, "You must work in management."
"I do," replies the balloonist, "But how'd you know?"
"Well", says the man “you don’t know where you are or where you’re going, but you expect me to be able to help. You’re in the same position you were before we met, but now it’s my fault."7 -
I am a student. I like my tech. I am obsessed with it.
And I've studied hard my entire life thinking it was gonna pay off one day.
2021 rolls around. AI gets wild. I'm not threatened, because I understand it's a natural part of technological progress, and hence inevitable.
I am not against it, but I've always held off on using it until I have no other options.
I've been coding ever since 9, since my dad taught me how to mess with variables in Python on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ hooked up to our TV.
I loved it. Still do.
So when AI came along and people started vibe-coding, I understood why - but I kept my distance. I knew it was a tool, but I also knew becoming over-reliant would cost me big-time in terms of my intellectual development.
I'm in college now.
I have a thing for coding manually. I love building stuff from scratch and I'm good at it. When my peers ask me why I dont use ChatGPT, or Claude, or Perplexity, etc, I tell them that it wont help me interview for a job. Because companies test your skill.
Right?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
THOUGHT WRONG DIDNCHA? GET FUCKED LOSER. MUHUHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA.
COMPANIES ARE STARTING TO ALLOW AI IN INTERVIEWS.
YES! BECAUSE WHY WOULD WE ASK EMPLOYEES TO LEARN SHIT WHEN A MACHINE ALREADY KNOWS ALL?
WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF I SPENT YEARS OF MY LIFE PAINSTAKINGLY BUILDING EACH FUNCTION AND METHOD, ONLY FOR THAT TO BE STOLEN BY AN AI WHO CHARGES YOU MONEY FOR EACH QUERY?
FOR THINGS THAT ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON THE WEB?
I feel lost now. I've looked forward to college all my life.
I've always been mocked for wanting a desk job because people somehow think it is limiting.
But I loved it. Every moment of it. Because it felt _right_.
This was always happiness to me.
I've always been an extroverted kid with no friends. Don't ask how. I just don't have the humor that people find attractive.
This was my life. This was something I was good at.
And now an algorithm does it all.
A business major who can't even change his screen brightness now has the audacity to mock my work because his LLM can do more than mine.
Fuck y'all. I still love this. I've been doing this all my life, and I'll keep doing it.
And if one of you uneducated, uncultured, smooth-brained fucks remind me ONE MORE TIME that you can "code" better than me just because you can type into a textbox, then BEST BELIEVE I will go Dark Souls on your ass.18 -
Israelis are just brainwashed ppl. The only not brainwashed are the ones in control that brainwash the shit that lives on stolen earth.
I like catgirls4 -
Using c++ without (most of) the standard library and avoiding operator overloads has made me like the language again. It's an extremely capable language, but my LORD is it bloated and overgrown. Using it like "c with classes" again is the way.9
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Let me get it straight.
There's devRant, then came Element (Matrix), then came snek and now there's mydevplace.
Pretty soon we'll have more platforms than users using them. Everyone will sit alone in their chatrooms talking to themselves.
It's sad.18 -
Currently thinking about how all the hardware currently getting propped up for AI might end up getting used by the US Government to crack encrypted data. Because AI inevtably failed.6
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LLMs will FIX the internet, not ruin it; an argument:
Sam Altman recently acknowledged the large presence of LLMs on twitter and stated that he was finally starting to believe in dead internet theory.
And I couldn't agree more nor be any happier.
I had a sudden realization that social media has slowly crept from being "connect to your friends" to "try not to commit suicide as you climb the infinite social ladder amongst people who are not your peers"
... and I think it deserves to die. Furthermore, I think the only thing that could kill it is the greed that we're seeing finally strangle social media today.
People will never quit social media just because it's *bad for them*. It's too exciting, too interesting.
People will only quit social media if it itself becomes *bad*.
And when it becomes overbearingly full of corporate "brand personalities", LLM slop accounts churning out 500 posts a day to gain $4 in ad revenue, and 100 different AI bot accounts that add nothing to the conversation...
... that's when it's gonna be *bad* enough for people to reduce their usage of it. It will once again encourage the spaces we had before greed took a strangle-hold. Private areas for just you and your real-life friends. To be safe from the corporate slop bots, the LLMs, the 8-second videos of kittens performing impossible tasks... just you and your buds keeping up with each other.
This is the self-healing that nature is so good at. It's incredible how it always happens.12 -
If weed can damage your short term memory, imagine what weed can do to you.
Stay away from weed!! It does something to you but I forgot what.5 -
A programming language is a compromise between the absolute bullshit that a human wants to write and the absolute horsepiss that a computer wants to read.1
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WASM threads have been supported in every browser since 2021, but Rust can't support them because production users and library authors enabled WASM support in thread-unsafe ways relying on WASM being single threaded, so enabling it would almost certainly introduce vulnerabilities.11
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!rant && coolThing
Today, I fully parallelized my evolution algorithm.
That means that since Thursday of last week, even though I took yesterday off, I was able to learn about metaheuristics, implement three of them (one being my own awful invention that did not perform) and successfully parallelize them.
Feeling good, man.2
