Here's Reagan's press secretary laughing and joking about "the gay plague" when only a few hundred had died, you homophobic ghoul

https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids

>It was the same with the aids epidemic, the gay community ignored/denied/downplayed the demographic localization of HIV but the truth was that at it's height if you were not a gay male the epidemic was effectively irrelevant to your life.

There are a hell of a lot of people - and a hell of a lot of people who have sadly died - who would be very surprised to hear this. It's a pretty accepted view by those that study the AIDS epidemic that calling it a gay plague caused massive problems for people who weren't gay and contracted HIV.

Singling out gay men for what you have decided are immoral behaviours is exactly why there is a stigma around HIV and why people continue to fail to seek treatment.

This is so true. What really terrifies me is if this new monkeypox became more easily transmissible and killed millions of people. Imagine the backlash against homosexuals?

...imagine the millions of dead people? What are you implying exactly, that if behavior from a protected class is the source of a major social issue/catastrophe, that we need to avoid making that link, and allow this class to continue engaging in antisocial practices, because we are worried about stigma?

That doesn't seem like a sane ordering of priorities.

I'd avoid making the link to "gay men", by highlighting the link to "promiscuity".

That's more strictly correct anyhow, and assigns causation to a behavior - where it belongs - instead of a vulnerable group.

This sort of wokeness is actually dangerous. 99% of the cases in the US have been linked to gay sex. In europe its been linked to a couple of raves involving the participants having gay sex. Its ok for health authorities and people to say "hey there does not seem to be a need to panic as we have identified the infection vector and its gay sex". It calms the general population and it arms the gay community with the knowledge that this disease is currently a risk for them. Why lie about the numbers in order to not hurt peoples feeling and expose people to real bodily harm? I am a relatively left leaning person but this constant insistence of altering the narrative to make people feel better is inane.

I’m more than mildly amused that you assigned the label “wokeness” to my position. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me :)

Would you mind specifying exactly what kind of “gay sex” might spread this - or any other disease - that does not equally apply to heterosexual anal or oral sex?

The number of heterosexuals engaging in repeated random anal sex with strangers is significantly less than that of the male homosexual population. But you're smart, pretty sure you already know that.

It's a numbers game. 83% of gay men report having more than 50 partners, majority of whom are strangers. 23% report more than 1000 partners. That last stat is hard to believe but this link [0] has many damning publications.

You cannot elevate protected groups above criticism. That's a dangerous privilege and as we see in this instance, condoning this sort of irresponsible behavior puts greater society at risk. Straight people on average are not having nearly as much anonymous sex with nearly as many partners and, ergo, not spreading nearly as much disease.

It's probably a manifestation of sexual dimorphism. The average woman is not as willing to sleep with a stranger. Not sure about how much lesbians get around though.

0. https://carm.org/homosexuality/statistics-on-sexual-promiscu...

If the close contact during sex is a good way to get infected then it makes sense that a group that are largely cut off sexually from the rest of the population would see it first.

I think this information is from the UK where MSM are more likely to be engaged with their sexual health (ie get tested more often) than the population generally

"the performance can be close to par with native apps"

That has not been my experience with any electron app. They are dog slow across the board

Does that include VS Code? VS Code feels very responsive to me. I even replaced notepad++ on my Windows machines with it.

VScode is the best electron app I have used, but it still feels a little bloated, even on my very high latency display. We're just so spoiled with super responsive GUI toolkits, and that's how it should be, especially in an editor.

I'll stick with emacs for now, until I finish writing my own editor.

It's rarely seen in normal society as well. I really don't understand where this person is coming from.

Really I have seen this attitude recently in a FTSE 100 company and I am sure it was a factor in some of the many multi million pound fuckups they had.

It's a huge factor in the UK's tradition of multi-million pound fuckups.

There's a definite bias against people, especially clever people, who get stuff done. You're not supposed to do that here - you're supposed to get on by knowing the right people, talking a good game, and being above it all because of your social connections and money.

Actual hands-on development work is for the little people.

Occasionally one needs to say important-sounding things in public and hustle a little. But that's as practical as it gets.

The irony is that the UK has world-class engineering talent, and a long history of real innovation. But the UK is the only country to have had - for example - its own working satellite launch platform, and thrown it away to save money.

We genuinely have some of the worst political and business "leadership" in the developed world.

Did you, by chance, pay for your own education?

No. State school. Shit area.

It doesn't just assume knowledge of the language though. Assuming knowledge of Applicative, Monad and Functor is fine but as the current top comment says there is a lot more than that. Most of which you wouldn't find in a normal Haskell tutorial/article

No, exactly. This is not a beginner tutorial - there are plenty of those. This is for people who have already acquired some knowledge of the language. It's an intermediate article for those looking to move beyond the toy programs solving toy problems usually presented.

You can still do state using the state monad.

> this gives almost all of the advantages of Haskell

except one of the biggest ones - the type system. Obviously this is subjective though. Some people prefer dynamic typing :)

To be fair most of the trending github projects are libraries for use in Haskell. There are very few actual applications - there is pandoc, git-annex and hakyll and that is it.

hakyll is a library and not an application, technically, as is xmonad, another famous haskell "application". pandoc is often used as library as well.

the point is, that often you have one-off applications that are just a few lines and use these libraries.

Perhaps the reason people are not commenting on the correctness as much is that it is, broadly, correct. It's quite difficult to add to a discussion when it's already right - there's no debate to be had.

In which case, in a sane technical community, I would expect this thread to contain few comments.

It seems, from the comments here, that speaking and donating against equal rights is a protected freedom but as soon as anyone is called out for it then that isn't allowed.