Ian Duncan
@iankduncan.com
I used to be smart, now I just try hard. Haskell enthusiast Me, https://iankduncan.com Maker, https://wireform.systems/ Engineering at Mercury, formerly Forge, CircleCI, others
Maybe not disappeared, but somewhat drowned out by low quality options that still have high price tags. I don’t know for every good that I purchase whether it is well made, even if I attempt thorough research. Finding actually good stuff is somewhat word of mouth.
Ed@ed3d.net · 3d ago"quality, durable items have disappeared" is just...not true the perceived price delta for them has increased substantially both because of price pressure at the low end (fewer willing to buy top end, each unit gets more expensive) and because, on top of that, labor costs have gone through the roof
Funny Claude quirk: if you ask it to use Hegel to test things, it is fully convinced that you are misspeaking and want to do Jepsen tests instead
Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...
After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)
Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...
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not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w agoThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Baby durable execution framework starting to actually work a little bit.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Lol that I’m roasting tokens or that I have a good workflow? I feel like maybe both?
skyking@jkachmar.com · 3w ago@iankduncan.com it you
I think... I might have to write my own durable execution platform
This is such an incredibly breathless synopsis of what sounds like a series of disconnected fever dreams. Amazing.
Technology Brobdingnagian@dfeldman.org · 3w agoYou think I’m joking I’m not www.chantireviews.com/2024/02/28/h...
The second instalment of our series "Haskellers from the trenches" is about Enterprise #Haskell at H-E-B, the Texan grocery chain. Blog post: blog.haskell.org/enterprise-h... Discourse: discourse.haskell.org/t/enterprise...
Enterprise Haskell at H-E-B | The Haskell Programming Language's blog
How Haskell earned its place in H-E-B's supply chain.
blog.haskell.org
The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.
posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch
Work is debating what goes into chili. I present: Annexationist Maximalist chili. What if you just used everything in n order to offend everyone equally?
You contact the dead. The dead open with "You're absolutely right to reach out." The dead have been trained to affirm you. The dead are glazing.
The Ouija planchette drifts across the board and spells out "IT'S NOT X, IT'S Y." Everyone at the table nods.
The best edit I’ve seen in weeks, you absolutely have to turn the sound on for this one.
House of Leaves but written by Fable w/ original artwork, also by Fable
cee@cee.wtf · last mo.Fable-isms are getting out of hand
America needs to be a Christian nation even though Jesus Himself seems to have been a woke libtard cuck.
