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Haskell PVP numbers are your friends

Haskell PVP numbers are your friends

I know you don't want to read this, but it's short and important, I promise.

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Chris Martin
Aug 21, 2023
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Using the Computer involves being exposed to, and at times interacting with, a lot of nonsense. If you use git, you have probably said things Online like “this issue is fixed by b7ae910a.” That last bit is a hash and its entire purpose is to be meaningless nonsense; it’s a beautiful marvel of cryptography, really. It identifies the git commit, but you w…

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