Also, in the books (which I should admit I've not read), what exactly were the BG expecting would happen after creating their Quisatz Hadderach? I can't conceive of how they would hope to retain control or, perhaps rather, how their usual manipulation strategies wouldn't have blown up in their faces. Would the person they were looking for be so vulnerable in that way? Would they not still have the capacity to retaliate?

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Nominal typing was a premature optimization. Product types should be structural and row polymorphic. And if they had been, dynamically typed languages nevdr would've needed to exist and wouldn't have waited so long to smuggle types back onto their data structures. That said, i'm kinda glad shell scripting languages exist.

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    So there i was, hazy in between sleep and wakefulness trying to concentrate on a design problem (which i don't think the dream directly featured but was tangentially related) and whenever i tried to focus on thst problem, i noticed that i'd have to stop breathing to produce the next word in the sentence or weave each syllable into my breathing pattern. Even when i'm typing this out it happens. You guys do it too, right?

     

    This doesn't warrant a mic drop moment, so here's some text to cushion the blow.

    In a certain light these groups could be seen as having a yin-yang dynamic in the sense that both can be characterized as fundamentally lacking talent but one wallows in it and the other sees it as a gimmick.

    Questions: Is a dude who smells but generally endeavours to stay out of your way than an ideological fuckboy with clout chasing tendencies? could any of these people have failed become the kind of person who votes for Trump?

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