Google was trying to sell me a matching algorithm as a service and now everything google makes that uses item matching (youtube, cards) is royally fucked.
i get weirdly specific shit like "here's twenty articles on how to cook dishes with vodka" or "have a slurry of videos of animals that are mentally disabled or have eaten drugs" yeah well done googal
cards doesn't even work, it's just fucked, you get the random, worst results, most of the time the feed isn't even populated.
YouTube: "I bet you're really jonesing for a lot of news videos from exactly 3 years ago"
"you've watched one noel miller video. now your feed is only noel miller videos forever"
Me: I stopped watching TV because it was made up entirely of re-runs
YouTube: (obviously not listening) I hear you love re-runs
Google tech sales team: "Would you like to buy this"
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Recently someone asked me what I liked about Haskell and if I thought it was the best language. I said I liked it, but it wasn't the best. The gist of it was this tweet by @DRMacIver. (thread)
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I like Haskell because it lets me build larger systems, more easily, and with less hassle, than any other lang I've used. It feels much more solid in the hand, like a quality hammer, compared to eg Python, which to me feels fragile, and cheap. I'll put more confidence in Haskell.
Haskell solves pretty much all issues that arise for small to medium sized projects and many that arise for large and very large projects. This is unlike Python/Java/C/PHP/Bash/C#/Scala which have issues at all scales. (I will collectively call them Python#++)