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> The US was a net exporter for most of the time it was a de jure and de facto reserve currency, up until the dollar was floated (i.e. end of gold convertibility). No, the US ra…
by carefree-bob · Sep 18, 2026
When the accumulator isn't the second argument in a fold, left or right, it feels wrong and I waste some time cursing whomever made a silly mistake like getting the order wrong.…
by shawn_w · Sep 17, 2026
It's still a complex and more abstract function than map or filter. Those do a single thing that's easy to grasp. reduce/fold can be easily abused to duplicate the effect o…
by mcv · Sep 17, 2026
I am always happy when I find an opportunity to reduce or zip, so handy. I also like Lodash'es transform[1]. It's like reduce, but expressly for transforming one collection to a…
by dwoldrich · Sep 17, 2026
I think I've written this before and generally people are horrified, but a neat trick I like to do for a little bit of concurrency is making the first argument an async function…
by roblh · Sep 17, 2026
Exactly, and sometimes you also get the indez as argument of the function. `reduce(acc,(acc,elem,idx)=>…)` and in many case the accumulator is a tuple, and in many cases you nee…
by d--b · Sep 17, 2026
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