"I just preferred the pacing of the book. The main character's arc felt a lot more believable," I say, taking another huge bite of my Uncrustable as my interlocutor nods on appreciatively
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![[Slim, today at 18:05] 1. have you played frog detective
2. I love refried beans
I could eat refried beans rest of life
[Slim, today at 18:22] help I overate
refried beans
fml](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreigfj5svdsfy4zvih3vjrcgnhxstouhuobkt5qmhtfq4ru3z4l76aq)
!["We'll counter the PLA's mass with mass of our own, but ours will be harder to plan for, harder to hit, harder to beat."
In a follow-up speech, delivered on September 6, Hicks provided (slightly) more detail on what she called all-domain attritable autonomous (ADA2) weapons systems. "Imagine distributed pods of self-propelled ADA2 systems afloat...packed with sensors aplenty....
Imagine fleets of ground-based ADA2 systems delivering novel logistics support, scouting ahead to keep troops safe.... Imagine flocks of [aerial] ADA2 systems, flying at all sorts of altitudes, doing a range of missions, building on what we've seen in Ukraine."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreifin4wxjpmxipblxvzcfmp2mqrwjpkz6hue4j5jmpzckd3pf43kge)
![Me: You're right that making `Result` a proper thenable overloads the meaning of `then` in JavaScript. But consider this just as a thought experiment. If we did make `Result` a thenable, we could use JS's native `async`/`await` syntax with it. And then wouldn't we end up with something like `await await foo()` where `foo` returns a `Promise<ThenableResult<Foo, Bar>>`? Wouldn't this `await await` be analogous to `lift . lift`?
Claude: This is a really interesting observation! You're onto something - there is an analogy here, but with some subtle differences.
If we made `Result` thenable and had a `Promise<Result<A, E>>`, then yes, we'd need `await await` to fully unwrap it. This is superficially similar to `lift . lift` because:
1. Both involve repeated application of an operator to "dig through" layers
2. Both are about accessing the inner value through multiple wrappers
3. The number of repetitions corresponds to the number of layers
However, there's a key difference in what these operators are doing:
- `lift` in a monad transformer stack is about lifting operations UP through layers to the top level of the stack. It's saying "this operation from a lower layer should be visible at the current layer"
- `await` is about unwrapping/extracting values DOWN through layers to get to the inner content. It's more like repeated applications of `join` or `>>=` (bind)
So while the syntax looks similar [some code snippets in Haskell and TS]
They're actually going in opposite directions - `lift` promotes operations up the stack, while `await` extracts values down through the wrappers.
That said, it's a fascinating parallel because both patterns emerge from similar underlying causes: the need to work with multiple layers of monadic structure without built-in composition tools. The repetitive syntax in both cases points to a missing abstraction for handling these layered effects more elegantly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreigaxcuwbymovqsxxfzgpg3yxizjuw7tzquydlaioul2fhvtq4none)
![Among the particular grants, which, on closer inspection, will be seen to be included in one or more of the four general grants, especially the first, the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum draws special attention 161 to four activities for which a plenary indulgence can be gained on any day, though only once a day:
1. Piously reading or listening to Sacred Scripture for at least half an hour. [161
2. Adoration of Jesus in the Eucharist for at least half an hour. 16]
3. The pious exercise of the Stations of the Cross. 116]
4. Recitation of the Rosary or the Akathist in a church or oratory, or in a family, a religious community, an association of the faithful and, in general, when several people come together for an honourable purpose. 116]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreiepu4noaa2i7ydtg5hpebe7gnaomfldlzozmg5ffpd4g6xs5su6si)
![[Pokémon GO logo] Trainers,
We want to provide you a detailed look at a new feature coming soon to Pokémon GO - Daily bonuses! Trainers will soon be able to receive a bonus for certain daily activities, including catching a Pokémon or visiting a PokéStop once a day. You'll earn a larger bonus if you do this seven days in a row!
Catching a Pokémon every day will earn the following bonus:
• 500 ХР
• 600 Stardust
Catching a Pokémon every day for 7 days straight will earn the following larger bonus:
• 2,000 ХР
• 2,400 Stardust
Visiting a PokéStop and spinning the Photo Disc every day will earn the following bonus:
• 500 ХР
• A number of additional items
Visiting a PokéStop every day for 7 days straight](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreih5m7utoyzeimwng6z4m2asajmyuoayvnoki6zbugexc3z242ilqe)
![A three-panel photo strip captioned "Me on new year". [23:59] A woman in a yellow tank top and tight braided bun sits at a desk, typing in front of an older desktop computer. [0:00] The woman turns away from the computer towards the camera, smiling and making "peace" signs with both hands. [0:01] The woman has returned to working on the computer. In fact, this panel is identical to the 23:59 photo.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreie57bw7kt6dx2dvcqosdmcf7rra4z6symguxfrrpnpi5rrxrrgk6e)
![The creators' and producers' goals were to "empower, challenge, and build the self-esteem of preschoolers"[58] while entertaining them. Kessler, Santomero and Johnson were influenced by Sesame Street, the first children's television program to utilize a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum developed from research.[59] "We wanted to learn from Sesame Street and take it one step further," Santomero said.[60] Like Sesame Street, formative research which the producers called their "secret sauce,"[61] was used during all aspects of the creative and decision-making process during the production of Blue's Clues.[62][63] In addition to a curriculum that emphasized reasoning skills relevant to preschoolers' everyday lives, the producers wanted to include audience participation, called by Variety its "call and response style,"[25] that encouraged mastery of the information presented, positive reinforcement, and prosocial messages.[58] In their first brainstorming sessions in 1994, Santomero, Kessler, and Johnson decided to promote mastery rather than rote learning or memorizing, make sure that their viewers knew the answers to the puzzles with which they were presented, and include elements of surprise and play. By 2001, the show's research team consisted of head researcher Alice Wilder, Alison Sherman, Karen Leavitt, and Koshi Dhingra.[64][note 3] The research team and creators worked collaboratively.[66]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreieim76uj3bwpd3ty7jy4iij5x4e7qvbaiksmxeg6rev4trwkytruy)
![Unlike Sesame Street, which tested a third of its episodes,[67] the Blue's Clues research team field tested every episode three times with children aged between two to six in preschool environments such as Head Start programs, public schools, and private day care centers. There were three phases of testing: content evaluation, video evaluations, and content analysis.[68] In their tests of the pilot, conducted throughout the New York City area with over 100 children aged from three to seven,[69] the show was "immediately successful."[2] They found that as the pilot progressed, children's attention was not only captured and sustained, but they became excited and actively participated with what they saw, to the point that they stood up to get closer to the television and spoke back to the host.[70] The producers and researchers also consulted outside advisers, who were chosen based on their expertise and the needs of each script. As Anderson stated, the formative research team served "as a liaison between the feedback provided by the preschoolers and outside advisers and the production team, including writers, talent, producers, directors, element artists, and animators."[68]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreiaspiosr5a65f7j37dgm22y2bcehgfpntf22evzujhsdcmevl6mce)
![Jennings Bryant conducted a two-year longitudinal study of the effects of Blue's Clues at the University of Alabama in 2001 to ascertain whether or not the show's curriculum goals were achieved. He compared regular viewers and non-viewers and found that the show's episode repetition strategy improved children's comprehension while holding their attention and increasing their participation, which suggested that watching Blue's Clues increased children's learning and social interactions. At the end of the study, regular viewers outperformed the non-viewers, solving problems more successfully and systematically.[120] Anderson stated, "Given the program's large audience, it appears that the program is not only doing well, but it is also doing good."[113]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreighris3uf4ejlk6zmddhdecsb5zbk7orwf6xiiixofnvmieoury7e)
![An Instagram post by user @annamariamatziorinis, depicting a greyscale image of a shiny metallic ball swerving through sand. Superimposed on the photo is the following center-aligned, serif-typeset text: `updatedRelationship :: Maybe String updatedRelationship =
relationshipState >>= \state ->
insecurity >>= insec ->
return (state ++ " (fragmented by: " ++ insec ++*;`
The post description reads: "This Haskell pseudocode provides a powerful metaphor for how insecurities propagate through relationships and social networks. By using the Maybe monad to model these dynamics, it parallels the way Social Echoes Effects can reveal the broader implications of individual actions. The monadic structure allows for dependencies between states, ensuring that the absence of a relationship state or insecurity gracefully halts the computation, just as unresolved issues in […]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyuor6sjixqdyc2shed7pfsb/bafkreihyh22ek52xyjrbtbh4o6kr6r53pdsryr3okorgcp3du5ryobhsly)
