Yeah our corporate machines won’t run any external media. I assumed that was standard practice.

It’s speed, but it’s also flow and a continuous stream of thought. If all your editing is being done with muscle memory and minimal thought, you can continue thinking about the problem at hand rather than interrupting your thoughts process to fumble through some context menu to make a change.

A language is not functional just because it supports higher order functions. Technically C even supports them (even though the ergonomics and safety of them are terrible). Would you call C a functional programming language? Obviously not. Rust is also not a functional language, even though it comes closer than most OO/imperative languages.

Kotlin and plenty of other OO languages have borrowed some ideas from functional languages in recent years because those ideas are useful. That doesn’t make them functional languages. If Kotlin were a functional language, then it wouldn’t need libraries like arrow to try to make doing FP in Kotlin even (kind of) possible.

Hallmarks of FP (beyond higher-order functions), in no particular order:

• Organization around functions as the fundamental unit of code
• Code primarily defined in terms of expressions and data transformations rather than statements manipulating object state (so languages that have big blocks of imperative statements like Kotlin don’t count)
• A general orientation around pure functions, even if they vary on the degree to which they enforce purity
• Explicit parameter passing being the standard and preferred way of providing data to functions, rather than methods operating on implicit state
• First class support for function composition (method chaining doesn’t count)
• Pattern matching and destructuring as a first-class and ubiquitous concept (what Kotlin does have is a joke comparatively and no one would actually call it that)
• For statically-typed functional languages, first class support for algebraic data types (Kotlin has sealed classes which can kind of be used to try to emulate it, but it’s pretty awkward in comparison and requires you to write very OO-ish code to use)

There are some minor exceptions, such as Clojure lacking pattern matching, but on the whole functional languages generally fit these descriptions.

That list also counts Java and C# as “functional languages”. I wouldn’t take it too seriously. Ocaml, Scala, F#, etc. are impure functional languages. Kotlin absolutely is not. Having a couple of features you might find in functional languages does not make a language functional. Kotlin is still very much an OOP-based language. It’s basically a somewhat nicer Java.

Minor nit: Kotlin is decidedly not a functional language.

Design patterns in OOP exist purely to solve the problems created by OOP itself. If you have a language with proper ADTs and higher order functions, the need for traditional design patterns disappear since the problems they solve are first-class features baked into the language.

The first-class replacement for the Strategy pattern (and many other patterns such as the Visitor pattern) is sum types (called enums in Rust).

The negative impact a lot of screen time has on kids is very well documented. Basically, even educational shows do basically nothing for young kids. It’s passive and doesn’t help development in any way. Kids benefit a lot more from active exploration, play, and socialization.

“Moral panic” is a phrase reserved for complaints that have no basis in reality.

It’s still grossly negligent from a security perspective.

Yeah. Anduril has tried to hire me multiple times as well as well as a number of people I know (their software is written in Haskell, which is a somewhat niche skill set).

Every time I’ve told them absolutely not.

That’s certainly what we do in my workplace. Shocked that they don’t.

Thank God someone else said it. I was constantly in an existential battle with IT at my last job when they were constantly forcing updates, many of which did actually break systems we rely on because Apple loves introducing breaking changes in OS updates (like completely fucking up how dynamic libraries work).

Updates should be vetted. It’s a pain in the ass to do because companies never provide an easy way to rollback, but this really should be standard practice.

I’m not, really. They’re one of our largest operating expenses and we’re trying to work on reducing our log output to reduce the cost.

For what they do I’m not aware of any players in the space that come anywhere close, though.

Glad you got fired. Vaccines should always be mandatory save for legitimate, doctor-validated medical exemptions.

Anti-vaxxers are fucking stupid and should either be educated properly or, if they still refuse to do their civic duty after being de-programmed of misinformation, punished. You are only allowed to participate in society if you take the necessary steps that you are morally and ethically obligated to do in order to protect it from preventable, transmissible disease. We had eradicated polio until stupid motherfuckers like yourself decided that it would be a good idea to forgo the standard polio vaccine schedule that we’ve had for decades. Now, we saw the first case in 30 years in 2022 because someone selfishly thought that their personal beliefs were more important than the health and livelihood of everyone else.

Yep. Postgres is fantastic and there’s no justification to use proprietary bullshit like that.

The issues are primarily with Azure, I believe.

From what I recall, particularly the younger generations that exclusively use mobile devices (though of course this is not limited to them) actually have terrible tech literacy across the board, primarily related to spending all of their time in apps that basically spoon-feed functionality in a closed ecosystem. In particular, these groups are particularly vulnerable to very basic scams and phishing attacks.

VMware workstation supports using a GPU. You can even use it in “pass-through” mode to give the VM full, exclusive access to the GPU.

Yeah that’s what I was referring to by “archaic”. Pretty much anything using the LAMP stack falls in that category. I don’t generally see new things using it.

Databases aren’t related to VMs or containers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database does a good job of describing what a database is. That page also has a lot of examples of uses of databases.

To answer your question about MySQL: in my experience it’s rarely used outside of classrooms or archaic systems. Postgres is a much better general-purpose option for SQL. Sqlite is also nice for different use cases (such as a database on a mobile device).

I used to work for a company that made software built on VMware. The biggest customer was using hundreds of thousands of VMs. Pretty sure they’re working on moving off VMware now because of all this bullshit.

But yeah, it’s gonna take a long time to move off.

I know it’s a joke, but just wanted to say that Uranium used for fuel is not something you can actually use for weaponry directly. It requires enrichment to increase the concentration of U-235 to weapons-grade levels.