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  • It still can panic/abort and deadlock/wait infinitely long on most fp languages because that’s typically implied. And there isn’t actually a way around that because computation almost always can fail or block indefinitely - and if you have a total language you can implement waits for billions of years, which for all practical purposes is “infinitely” long on human time scales.





  • Nowadays the hyphen is the only easy dadh to type

    That’s not true in general. I personally use the German Extended (E1) layout (when I’m not on mobile) and the em dash is super easy to type. There are also lots of other custom layouts used by people who care about typesetting.

    Even people that don’t internationally care about typesetting sometimes use them because their tool (like Word and some CMS systems) automatically replace hyphens in specific places with em dashes, or substitute straight double quotes with the correct quotation marks (depending on which country you are from)


  • Which is obviously complete BS. I often use em dashes when I’m not on mobile, my keyboard layout typically is German Extended (E1) which makes them (and many other symbols needed for propper typesetting) accessable pretty easily.

    Em dashes are not a sign of AI, but a sign of propper typesetting. They can be a tell if somebody didn’t use them before and randomly started using them in emails. But if you don’t know somebody and their tools or style of writing saying that they used Chat GPT because they used em dashes is completely ridiculous.



  • If they’re at MY door, what else can be done but defend my life with my life?

    That’s what I meant with you wouldn’t do anything. First you’d still have other options and if ICE is at your door and you start shooting at them it will probably kill you faster.

    You sound pretty flippant with people’s lives

    That was not my intention. It totally get why nobody is doing anything, especially with guns, because of the consequences. I just pointed out that so many people in favor of armed civilians bring completely flawed arguments and now we actually see in action how useless a “regulated militia” is.

    why don’t you go grab a gun and suicide into an armed force for great justice?

    Why would I? I don’t have a gun and never argued in favor of armed civilians, because it’s completely useless (and research shows that it only increases the chances of domestic violence and suicide). Maybe it wasn’t useless at the time the constitution was written but the current situation shows that it is now. Besides that I live in Vienna.