Ellesystem

Functional programming (F# mostly), generative art.

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@ASterling @Stephanie_Skora @CrowellBrian There are many issues in which Biden has failed to meaningfully distinguish himself from Trump. It is also true that Trump really would be worse in ways that remain important e.g. climate change policy, judicial appointments

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@FreyaHolmer ...n...no. We can't do this. Not to ourselves. Not to each other.

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@LadyMeowMix @Ramyisback There's a doctor in-thread that mentions having a diagnosis and asking to have it removed from their chart bc they knew it would cause other doctors to not take them seriously

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@Blackamazon Sigh. People trust GOP more on some issues and I can't help but wonder whether it's bc Dems are afraid of a full-court press. Afraid to say "No, actually the GOP sucks on the economy and foreign policy, too"? It's not like Obama needed Chuck Hagel, Dems have a deep enough bench

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@shouldhaveanima herd says we're movin

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@ericswalwell Listen those whales aren't going to chainsaw themselves

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@focusfronting For me it's always "it's not that I have a problem sitting next to you in specific, but... you are a person when I could be sitting next to not a person" but there's no way to get that vibe across politely

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@EmmaSzewczak Dudes, it's time for a date with a bag of frozen peas

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@NadavPollak Is the concern that he's asking for this so that someone else from Hamas can martyr him, blame Israel, and thus scupper the deal?

(I wouldn't *normally* blame someone for saying "I'll put weapons down if you assure me that you won't kill me"; would be pretty std precondition)

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@BillPascrell I'm so sorry for your loss.

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@RichDecibels @QiaochuYuan I honestly don't mean to be flippant when I say "because linear algebra is *awesome*"

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@atrupar the... crosstabs told him that?

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@Wells_S_Hansen But effects rooted in emotionally charged or personal experiences are harder to change. If I accidentally evoke unwanted images of this kind, then it is unlikely that I can change those through reason. The *listener* chooses whether it is prudent to change their reaction.

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@Wells_S_Hansen This depends on what is changeable. Scientists can morph their definitions because they agree that different defs have different degrees of usefulness and strong community norm to keep their feelings out of things. Mathematicians don't morph nearly as much, just make up new words

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@Wells_S_Hansen @cwilhelm2014 @PortiaNoir So I guess it comes down to how you want to spend your time

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@Wells_S_Hansen @cwilhelm2014 @PortiaNoir "Ebenezer Scrooge was niggardly" is, by the dictionary, correct, but fx on others' minds include all sorts of associations beyond Scrooge's miserliness. Communicators foreseeing these effects could choose other ways to express, OR (so tempting!) invoke the fx and argue afterward

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@joshtpm by "locked and loaded" they meant "ready to start whining about having to change targets/strategies on day one"

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@MSNBC Interesting & potentially a good thing, to see journalists reject what Jay Rosen derides as "the view from nowhere". But for subjective journalism to work, journalists must know and acknowledge their own biases. Does Tur know, and make clear to viewers, where she is coming from?

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@CBHessick Very similar issue with immigration- many people want to make it more difficult to become a naturalized citizen until they learn what the *current* state of difficulty is

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Maybe I haven't done enough async work, but .then and .ContinueWith are still more natural for me than await syntax.

(I also don't know whether await syntax allows one to spawn a bunch of tasks and then Task.WhenAll them)

[David Walsh @davidwalshblog]

RT if you lived through this