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More and more, I try to live in harmony with the seasons, not the clock. ​ It turns out that in northern Norway, “people view winter as something to be enjoyed, not something to be endured,” says Leibowitz, and that makes all the difference. ​ “there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing”

The system, then, does not particularly care for the individual user as much as it thrives on the decomposition and recomposition of the data that users provide Being shown what you are “supposed” to see is central to what social media offer (the promise of self-expression is mainly an alibi for that larger surrender to algorithmic recommendation); they allow us to consume that passivity toward what we want as pleasurable in itself.

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Some Swift libraries, such as ReactiveSwift and RxSugar, implement the is defined in the standard library, but with a caveat: // Workaround for SubTLF: Default ...

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We have a responsibility to learn the underpinnings of the standard of living we all enjoy. To understand and appreciate how we got here, and what it took. And ultimately, to keep it going

To hold someone's attention with a blank slate, all that's necessary is to put another blank slate beside it. You don't have to write anything on either of them. I start to think about the many selves I project, and how the phones work to align them beside themselves, inviting comparison.

I don’t want to suggest that we should resist change entirely. I do think we can be thoughtful about the rate of change that we introduce. I also think it’s a choice, rather than an inevitability, to drop bombs that throw an entire ecosystem off-balance. I tend to interpret this dismissiveness as a way of saying, “We don’t want to become a ‘thing’ because ‘things’ are destroyable by outsiders.” Avoiding labels is a way of keeping hidden cities away from the colonizers, like a nomadic tribe on the move.

i let summer take over the house for however long it needs --- making their way from meal to meal across the sky --- it’s not quite true that every car should stop while a poem is in operation but try to tell me it wouldn’t be nice

The problem, and it’s obvious, is that whatever sucks that I’m running away from will be there once I stop working. or doing things like not being available on the weekends, because they’re the weekends.

but `parseNonEmpty` gives the caller access to the information it learned, while `validateNonEmpty` just throws it away. Consider: what is a parser? Really, a parser is just a function that consumes less-structured input and produces more-structured output.

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Lenses have gained some traction in the functional programming world, mainly in haskell. However, they are still viewed as a largely complicated, difficult, high level concept that is not really worth it to invest in learning or putting in your code base. It can be hard to get a good overview on what they actually are and how one can use them. They seem to be somewhat related to getters and setters, but what does that really mean? In addition, it seems to be one of the deepest rabbit holes around. Surely something like this can't be of interest for an everyday working programmer, trying to solve real world problems? Wrong! In this talk, it's my goal to give a brief overview of what lenses are. But more importantly, I will also try to present a "slice" of the world of lenses that is not only directly applicable and useful in our daily work, but is also strangely familiar to people coming from an imperative/object oriented background. Sara Fransson Sara is a software engineer by day and a math enthusiast by night. Sometimes the two worlds collide (and sometimes they make them collide by banging them together). After having taken several trips back and forth between academia and industry in an attempt to balance their love for both the pure abstract theory and the practice of leveraging it to solve concrete problems, they have landed in the core banking domain at Klarna. There they are making themself busy spreading the gospel of functional programming and type theory. When they're not busy building a bank or trying to find time for studying, they enjoy cooking and eating tasty vegan food and playing tetris as fast as possible. Find out more about the life at Klarna: https://www.klarna.com/careers/life-at-klarna/ Information about current job openings: https://www.klarna.com/careers/openings/

How would you attack a pass code entered into a keypad without an "enter" key? Would requiring an enter key improve security more than requiring another digit?

Currently appearing in AMC’s horror drama NOS4A2, and now co-starring in Into the Dark: Pure on Hulu, actress Jahkara J. Smith found instant viral success on YouTube as Sailor J. Combining social commentary with makeup tutorials, Jahkara built a following of over 445,000 subscribers in just over a year before switching it up to focus on her acting career. Follow Jahkara on Twitter: https://twitter.com/slaylerj Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jahkarajsmith/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJOzFn6EU1wxQlEhbor14RA NOS4A2 on AMC: https://www.amc.com/shows/nos4a2 Stream "Into the Dark: Pure" on Hulu: https://www.hulu.com/movie/pure-6d2f52ce-e850-4d58-8446-971754ef77dc — Recorded in September 2019 at XOXO, an experimental festival in Portland, Oregon for independent artists and creators who work online. For more, visit https://xoxofest.com. Intro music: "Sad Game Boy" by Mikey Geiger, licensed with Soundstripe. Video production by Searle Video. Captions by White Coat Captioning.

I think doing math professionally can be stifling as it can feel like you’re expected to know everything while staying collected. This blog is my outlet to do my best to grow as a mathematician while giving myself and others permission to be wrong, ignorant, and emotional about math!

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateinfi What happens when you multiply shapes? This is part 2 of our episode on multiplying things that aren't numbers. You can check out part 1: The Multiplication Multiverse right here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4I2C3Ts7_w Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com And discuss the episode further over on reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/PBSInfiniteSeries/ Previous Episode The Multiplication Multiverse | Infinite Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4I2C3Ts7_w In our last episode, we talked about different properties of multiplication: associativity and commutativity are the most familiar, but they’re just two of many. We also saw it’s possible to multiply things that aren’t numbers, and in that case we may not have... associativity, for instance. But that’s not a bad thing. In fact, it’s a beautiful thing! References:: More on the associahedra: http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-associahedra http://www.claymath.org/library/academy/LectureNotes05/Lodaypaper.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0212126.pdf More on multiplying non-numbers: http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/11/24/multiplying-non-numbers An introduction to operads: http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/10/23/what-is-an-operad-part-1 http://www.math3ma.com/mathema/2017/10/30/what-is-an-operad-part-2 Some applications in math and physics: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3245 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.2871&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://bookstore.ams.org/conm-227 http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780817647346 Richard Stanley’s book on the Catalan Numbers: https://www.amazon.com/Catalan-Numbers-Richard-P-Stanley/dp/1107427746 Written and Hosted by Tai-Danae Bradley Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Meah Denee Barrington Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Thanks to Matthew O'Connor and Yana Chernobilsky who are supporting us on Patreon at the Identity level! And thanks to Nicholas Rose and Mauricio Pacheco who are supporting us at the Lemma level!

the more I try to focus on what I genuinely love. The stuff that really nourishes and feeds me.

I say ‘feasibly’ because often the upper end of career ladders for Independent Contributors (ICs) could be paraphrased as “we’ll know it when we see it”, which can leave those who haven’t sufficiently proven “it” in a frustrating limbo. ​ I’ve worked very hard to become an engineer and I want to stay here. ​ Developing prototypes to further explore and support ideas that come from that research.

So even a little familiarity—the amount you gain from one steely sit-down with the thing—can dislodge major chunks of fear. For good.

I felt joy, and a familiar pang of shame that comes from realizing you’ve moved too fast to cherish what’s in front of you. ​ The truth is, I don’t always want this kind of life. ​ I wish slowing down didn’t feel like a luxury.

The thing I try and tell myself every week: Just because people don’t want to hear it doesn’t mean it’s not true. And just because this work is relentless doesn’t mean it’s not worth it. ​ It’s difficult to explain that patriarchy means rule and control by men, power held by men, and the generalized idea that men are more valuable and important — and that that can be true even if some women have some power. All sorts of people, and not exclusively men, can be involved in its preservation; the vast majority of the time, they’re not aware they’re doing so. Institutions help sustain patriarchy, but so do individuals and traditions and clothing norms and religious beliefs and health insurance benefit plans and air conditioning standards.

So the assertion that technology companies can’t possibly be shaped or restrained with the public’s interest in mind is to argue that they are fundamentally different from any other industry. They’re not. ​ an echo of the very ethos that founded America: progress at all costs. ​ and it’s time to question what “progress” actually means.

A beauty and order that language fails to describe but math, art and music do a better job of conveying. That against all odds, I - a collection of atoms consisting mostly of empty space - has the chance every single day to experience and explore this incredible universe. ​ And that the only logical thing in the face of all these realizations is to enjoy, celebrate, and try my best to preserve that beauty.