Would be the most sane thing he's ever done.

Nah, the best ranch can be found at Amigos, a fast food chain in Nebraska. It's so much of a thing here that they have a dedicated ranch station in all of the restaurants and even package it and sell the ranch in local grocery stores.

Unless you're writing Scala or something (which is probably the one exception to the rule), if you are using a language that supports OOP, you're not really doing functional programming. Functional-esque features that have made their way into imperative languages like map are only a tiny fraction of the functional toolbox.

There's a bunch of features you want in a language to do functional programming, and imperative languages don't really have them, like purity by default (and consequently, an orientation towards values rather than references) ergonomic function composition, algebraic data types, pattern matching, support for treating everything as first class expressions/values, etc.

Perhaps this is presumptious (and I apologize in advance if so), but I'd wager you haven't truly programmed in the functional paradigm. What imperative programmers tend to think of functional programming is very surface-level and not really reflective of what it actually is. It's an entirely different beast from imperative programming. It requires a shift of your mindset and how you think about programs as a whole.

Source: Senior software engineer writing Haskell full time for the last 4 years. Will avoid OOP until my dying breath.

The system has a lot of problems for sure, but IME as a senior software engineer, people without degrees are often lacking in core CS skills and are much less comfortable with the more conceptual aspects of the field like graph theory, systems design, DSLs, etc. Usually database skills aren't quite as strong either due to not having studied relational algebra and other database concepts.

None of this is to say that someone without a degree can't be a valuable part of the team, but at the higher levels of seniority, you do want people who have really strong foundations so you can ensure that you actually are building strong foundations. A degree doesn't guarantee these qualities, but it certainly makes a person much more likely to have them. Not saying someone without a degree can't possibly achieve this on their own, but it's quite rare and requires much more self study than most actually do.

Anarchism is not chaos, which is what it seems like you think it means. Anarchism is the opposition to hierarchy and is thus directly opposed to fascism and therefore Trump. No anarchist wants to see Trump win because it means fascism has won.

It makes a lot of sense for very rural living: you need a defense against the wild, and possibly hunting for food. I fully support that.

The general desire among Democrats is stricter regulation, which is a very reasonable thing. People should be required to prove that they can be a responsible gun owner and are mentally fit to own one. I shouldn't be able to pick one up from the sporting goods store like it's a bag of potato chips. It is an incredibly powerful tool and can easily kill others. It should be treated as such.

Vim is extremely feature-rich, and people that think otherwise don't really know how to use vim. Saying vim doesn't have a lot of features is just a meme that isn't true.

Also, the vim plugin for vscode is kind of a joke compared to what vim can do. It's very "surface-level" with minor emulation of some of the common keybinds.

The manufacturer obviously also makes the app and can control the encoding.

You don't have to take arbitrary bytes. UTF-8 encoded strings are just fine and easily handled by libraries.

Pretty dumb, honestly. If anything it just adds a Streisand effect to it as people try to figure out what's censored.

Not that censoring it has any value whatsoever. Like if a child sees that, so fucking what?

My pixel 7 pro is perfectly smooth and seamless. Oh and voice assistant is far faster than anything on iPhone thanks to the on-board Tensor chip.

Because you never learned SQL properly, from the sound of it.

Also, ORMs produce trash queries and are never expressive enough.