Hoovering accepted. ;D

Xcancel is an alternative frontend for twitter to specifically avoid having to create an account to use Twitter. Again you could’ve gotten this information with a simple google search lmao “what is xcancel” 😂 there, I even typed it for you.

I also wasnt the person you responded to initially.

I also think that you’re a startlingly uncurious person if doing even a cursory glance at a google search is too much for you. Maybe these kinds of discussions just arent for you to begin with. If you really couldnt care less whether someone is a fascist or not, certainly not to the point of wanting to actually find out for yourself, then yeah maybe dont partake in the conversation.

You’re more interested in defending being lazy than you are in discussing the subject. I’m sure you’ll say something like “its the principle that matters”, which is the most boring possible answer you could give. I’m more than willing to see if someone hates trans people and/or is a white supremacist. I would absolutely prefer to know that so I can avoid them. It took me very minimal effort to find that information for myself. Less than 2 minutes.

that little triangle means you need to click on the the text in the comment to read the rest of it, because it’s wrapped in a spoiler tag. also fyi you can search twitter without a login using xcancel.com; it takes much less than 5 minutes to do so.

That’s not really what I meant.

To do this properly, OP would have to start with the relevant timestamp and a brief transcript. The context would then be, like, why this is being mentioned in that video and at that place in the video, even if it’s as simple as “this is a prominent Linux YouTuber talking about the drama a bit in passing”. Just so that it’s not quote mining from irrelevant people and places.

(It’s worth noting that a guy I’ve never heard of being fashy isn’t really a crazy claim, anyway. I’m not going to make final judgements based on it, but then I wouldn’t ask for a source, either)

WTF I never said you must watch the video… OP answered they don’t even know who it is that’s perfectly reasonable. I I won’t pressure them into learning more about Lunduke. Nobody deserves that.

Well, that’s a little too far the other way. It was still a single comment.

I’ve been through phases when I could explain it, and in far simpler terms, less jargony, than endofunctors

A monad is when you can do shit and return stuff. There are two things you can do in absolutely every doShitAndReturnStuff:

1. andThen, also known as ; in less flexible languages and >>= in more esoteric languages.
2. And return also known as
   function ret(const a)
{ ret = a
} in other languages.

There are two rules:

1. (a then b) then c = a then (b then c), which sounds obvious, but I skipped a couple of values being passed (I’m using the kleisli category), and it can actually go wrong, which means that if you don’t have a monad but behave like you do, all sorts of subtle and very hard indeed to debug errors can sneak in. See “software complexity problem” for details.
2. ret then somethingrother = somethingorother = somethingorother then ret, which would seem obvious to you if you spotted that ret does nothing, but for fun, it turns out that in a language with a sufficiently advanced/flexible/accurate type system (eg Hindley-Milner stuff), of you manage 2 you get 1 for free, which is totally awesome.

“But what’s the point?” I hear all the Python devs say “We already got rid of the curly brackets. What more do you want?” (Which starts a flame war with the C syntax folk while the elm programmers shake their head and wonder why anyone is manually formatting their code whether it’s with curly braces or not in 2026).

Well, the point, my dear internet Lunatics that have persisted with this fairly unhelpful and daft re-expression of monads, the point is: what if you could redefine ; locally to totally rewire your programming language and everyone was used to that and understood what you were doing from context? Yesterday it was making database requests, but today it’s answering queries on a server. Or authenticating users from the other side of the globe. Maybe now it’s a recursive descent parser or a non-deterministic, expanding list of possible future moves in a game.

It’s totally awesome and powerful and you just don’t know that you’re missing it because you have no idea unless you already know, but that’s not really helping anyone that doesn’t already understand monads, sorry. Not that this was a plausible attempt at that. It’s more just a bit of humour if you already came across monads. Famously a monad is like a burrito more than anything else.

But unfortunately there are also monad transformer stacks. And… …operator soup for lenses and prisms. And trust me, you don’t want to go there, you really, really don’t. Just don’t go there, I’m telling you, don’t. DID YOU LIKE BEING SANE? I WARNED YOU, REMEMBER.