Its a money laundering operation for sure.

I believe the official narrative is JD Vance was Donald Trump Jr’s shitbrained idea. Trump Jr and Vance personally both roll with the same “intellectual dark web” theories, neo-eugenics and such.

Who actually hates on declarative/immutable distros as a concept? Its always the actual usability of the specific implementations thats the problem. Stale packages, poor documentation.

The only clean way to do it is for Biden to step down put Kamala in by default and let anyone who wants to run in 2028 fight for the new VP spot. Most voters thought this was the plan anyways in 2020. That said Biden’s not going to step down so they aren’t doing shit.

Its like if subroutine bar could say its going to execute at line N of routine foo. But if you were just reading foo then you’d have no clue that it would happen.

You can simulate this effect with bad inheritance patterns.

This loony bullshit is why tankies go full useful idiot and parrot shit most of them know isn’t true. The right-wing disinfo about Tianamen square - or any other communist atrocity - is so widespread. Tankies think that the most ultra counter-narrative will somehow combat that even if its just as loony.

My method names are the same way but I aggressively sort things into modules etc so it comes out the other way.

But if I was staring down dozens of these methods and no way to organize them, I’d start doing the sorted names just for ease of editing. L

No. Persistent Data Structures are not mutable. The memory space of an older version is not rewritten, it is referenced by the newer version as a part of its definition. ie via composition. It can only safely do this if the data it references is guaranteed to not change.

x = 2 :: 1 :: Nil -- [2, 1]
y = 3 :: x -- [3, 2, 1]

In this example both x and y are single linked lists. y is a node with value 3 and a pointer to x. If x was mutable then changing x would change y. That’s bad™ so its not allowed.

If you want to learn more about functional programming I suggest reading Structures and Interpretation of Computer Programs or Learn You a Haskell for Great Good

Very standard use case for a fold or reduce function with an immutable Map as the accumulator

val ints = List(1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3)
val sum = ints.foldLeft(0)(_ + _) // 14
val counts = ints.foldLeft(Map.empty[Int, Int])((c, x) => {
  c.updated(x , c.getOrElse(x, 0) + 1)
})

foldLeft is a classic higher order function. Every functional programming language will have this plus multiple variants of it in their standard library. Newer non-functional programing languages will have it too. Writing implementations of foldLeft and foldRight is standard for learning recursive functions.

The lambda is applied to the initial value (0 or Map.empty[Int, Int]) and the first item in the list. The return type of the lambda must be the same type as the initial value. It then repeats the processes on the second value in the list, but using the previous result, and so on until theres no more items.

In the example above, c will change like you’d expect a mutable solution would but its a new Map each time. This might sound inefficient but its not really. Because each Map is immutable it can be optimized to share memory of the past Maps it was constructed from. Thats something you absolutely cannot do if your structures are mutable.

You avoid having mutable state as much as possible. This is a pretty standard concept these days.

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Immutable members. Set in constructor then read only. The Builder pattern is acceptable if you’re language is an obstacle.

I think “psychotic 1800s style colonial project we inherited from the Brits” is better but also too verbose.

Theres a reason BDS just points to Apartheid South Africa. (and Rhodesia)

Bibi is basically a centrist in Israel so I dont think that holds up. eg the humanitarian aid at some border crossings are being picketed by Israeli chuds. Sure there are some good Israelis but they aren’t the norm.

Vassal isnt the right word. Israel notoriously doesnt take orders from the US. Also I’m pretty sure they have a like a visitor pass to 5-eyes.

Manic episode, part 3