I did the same (although some years after the acquisition) and had a similar experience, though over the years I've managed to claw back some of the friends I lost. Though it's still hard to communicate with them.
I tried Em D Am6 Cadd9 which is a kind of stock alternative rock / indie rock jangly guitar progression.
The variations thing suggested some really jazzy chords that didn't preserve the vibe.
Thats a nice suggestion. Thank you! Initially I built the app so as the users could select the style. Later on I thought that might clutter the input and confused the users so I disabled it in the frontend and fixed the style to jazz, funk, and rnb. Will re-enable it soon.
That neglects all the other ecosystems in your body that lead you to behave the way you do.
Have you ever been hangry? How about the experience of chronic intestinal irritation worsening your depression? How do you feel in your head when you can’t stop your heart from racing after a stressful day of work? Those are all examples of the inverse.
The author is Larry Paulson - my (and I'm sure many others' on HN) Foundations of Computer Science lecturer at Cambridge back in 2009. I wonder if I still have a little credit at the front of the lecture notes (for spotting some typo or other). It's foreboding to see him writing up his "memories" like this.
Being woken up into the world of functional programming (via Moscow ML) - after learning to code as a kid in JavaScript and Visual Basic 6 - was priceless. And in a way it led to my fascination with Scala, which has made the transition to Swift much easier.
Hah, +1 for HN users who attended that course in 2009 here. (I usually post on a pseudonymous account though.) I surely must know you, though I couldn't tell who you are from very briefly stalking your comments!
While we're reminiscing, I imagine you also took Concepts in Programming Languages in second year (https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/ConceptsPL/ ?), which (after a tour de force through all sorts of paradigms that were consigned to the fossil record for the time being) did advertise Scala pretty heavily. I found that course to be a true gem and haven't seen anything like it at any of the other universities I've passed through since then.
Ha ha.. I don't have it anymore, but I also went through ML for the Working Programmer. At my university, some web apps were written in ML, but then our principal was Mads Tofte - He is a good guy, learned a lot from him.
Consider a world without antibiotics, and a UTI can become life threatening. Most STDs would be similarly restrictive to reproductive potential, as men are much less at risk than women, and many women would be taking quite a gamble having sex with someone known to have an STD.
Even today, PID can cause sterility in women and is not uncommon.
In a world without antibiotics I’d rather not want anyone getting within 10 feet of my son’s penis with an unsterilized blade, thank you. Not to mention the whole “direct oral suctioning” tradition of some religious groups [1], which sounds like a recipe for spreading herpes and other goodies.
Considering in that world said child, with or without circumcising, often only had 50:50 odds of making it to adult hood, but if they were an adult, these things would matter?
Risk of death or permanent tissue damage due to poor medical practice long before a boy had any chance to reproduce isn't necessarily less significant than possible moderate transmission risk reduction for sexually transmitted diseases later in life [if they flouted strong social conventions against extra-marital sex]. Traditional societies hadn't figured out that cleaning tools between procedures reduced infections immediately afterwards obviously didn't know about the links between circumcisions and mildly reduced risk of certain rare ailments decades later.
You'd likely have others overrule you regardless, but the same applied when it came to unambiguously harmful quasi-medical procedures like FGM blood-letting.
If circumcision as a tradition gave cultures an evolutionary advantage due to medical benefit you'd expect that it would've spread farther, yet we see basically 1 small insular group and another much more recent, semi insular group adopt it. The vast majority of men on this earth are uncircumcised.
Foot binding probably led to reduced STD tranission as well, due to women being unable to leave the house and become sexually active (which was part of the reason for it), I don't think medical benefit is a good defense of violating a human beingst agency and bodily autonomy.
There are other cultures that have other circumcision traditions that are much more brutal, I don't see any arguments for their medical benefit, and I think this argument about medical benefit is a rationalization for defense of a cultural tradition after the fact.
