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jancsikalast Thursday at 8:31 PM4 repliesview on HN

The evil of global mutable state strikes again.

This is why I only train my dogs in a pure functional language.


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mckirklast Friday at 8:03 AM

Just don't be confused if they then follow the commands side-effect free.

Hackbratenlast Friday at 12:40 PM

"Reduce!" ("Reduzier!")

"Map!" ("Bild ab!")

bulbarlast Friday at 6:31 PM

I don't think you can entirely remove the side effect of getting treats.

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yencabulatorlast Thursday at 11:36 PM

It's merely the software architectural mistake of only constructing a broadcast channel.

Security by obscurity is fundamentally weak, this use wastes bandwidth, and can be destroyed by statistical analysis where the other dogs learn German.