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Hacking is like painting. Hacking is like eating. Is painting like eating too?

• deleted 15y ago
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• _Y_ 15y ago
  It may or may not be. It's not false but neither is it true. Strictly logically speaking. And in a sense both can be considered as different pleasures - eating derives joy from taste and painting derives joy from fine craftsmanship.
• tikhonj 15y ago
  Approximation can't really be transitive. Otherwise, $1 is "like" $1.01 which is "like" $1.02 ... which is "like" $100,000,000 ;)
  • shoo 15y ago
    Maybe we could allow the quality of the approximation to degrade: if 'hacking is like painting' and 'hacking is like eating' are ||hacking - painting|| < \eps and ||hacking - eating|| < \eps respectively, then ||painting - eating|| < 2 \eps. So painting is at least half as like eating as painting is like hacking.