How old were they, when they had those experiences? I’ve been thinking I need to have them feel they’ve wasted “their own” money to develop a sense of regret, too.

What did you do?

Do you have a version with type annotations, perhaps in a gist?

IMO that is a legitimate practical transition barrier to really having UBI, though

It’s hard for me to imagine a transition to UBI that isn’t fairly tumultuous

Yeah, this should be common software engineering problem for a senior engineer

In the beginning, there is only one data model used both externally and internally, to keep things simple. Now that they’re diverging, it’s time to draw an abstraction boundary that translates between internal and external models.

I’m not super strong with Java, but subclassing to handle v1/v2/vX doesn’t sound like the right thing to do. I’d detach the old model from the API while otherwise keeping it unchanged, implement a new pathway to connect with the new API, then translate in/out of the old model before it passes into the existing system. This way, the surface area of change and of integration is isolated and decoupled from everything else.

Then seems like they may have chosen these platforms because they’re not accessible and thus not threatening, in a malicious compliance way

Although, giving them the benefit of doubt, perhaps they wanted a low blast radius for their first integration rollout, which is considered good engineering practice.

That’s not “a fix”, that’s called “a practical workaround” which is used in the real world all the time.

What aspects of coding?

Turing Tumble is a marble run puzzle game that’s Turing complete, i.e. in the abstract sense, it can compute anything a computer could. It implements bit flippers, logic gates, and memory using falling marbles and levers. Completely mechanical and very tactile.

For textual programming, check out Hedy, a language designed for the classroom. It stands out vs others like Scratch or Snap because Hedy is gradual. A presentation by its creator

If “natural immunity” is playing a sport and winning against an opponent (pathogens), then vaccination is practicing beforehand.

And this is not a game you want to lose.

Here: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

A very practical and tangible walkthrough

Yeah, that explanation is missing the critical point of generically applying external functions through flat_map/bind

I think this is a good explanation: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/rop/

In the short term, I would:

isVibrating = waveformParameters != null // may have just started
if (isVibrating) {
    waveformParameters.Shape = WaveformShape.Square;
    widget.UpdateWaveformParameters(waveformParameters);
}

In the longer term, unless there’s a good reason not to, I’d nudge the implementation towards having the code read more like:

widget.update(waveformParameters);

South Park made a good satire of exactly this, where Cartman immediately realized it meant he could continue being offensive and “safe space” away anything he didn’t want to acknowledge

In practical terms, “monad” means “chainable”.

Turns out that there’s no statute of limitations for terrorism, even if nobody was injured.

But then there will be funny/fuzzy cases then, whether something is considered political (and thus “terrorism”) or not

Classier than listing every program individually?

I mean… Isn’t that?

It’s “~~beat~ [guess] the hash [with distributed gamified brute force]”

Re: “wrongness” and “accepting yourself”, how much do you think it has to do with how society/others regard the identity you present? I.e. how much do you think the path you’ve taken is an internal development vs a response to society?

In order to describe what I’m thinking: Today, you’ve found a place/role within society where you’re more comfortable than the places/roles you’ve taken in the past. However, a completely different culture/society would have had different available “options”.

Sorry if I’m being way too abstract/hypothetical. Even as a “more conventional normal person”, I’ve long wondered how different I might be had I grown up in a completely different society.

Either 1:0 or 0:1, depending on my mood

This is when the argument can be reduced to absurdity, e.g. banning the Bible for the sexual imagery in it. Ban absolutely anything and everything even remotely objectionable to anyone (there are people with feet fetishes, ban all feet, and thus also all shoes), so there’s no Internet at all.