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Bad examples. Anyone named Riemann might hypothesize on any subject. And Kubernetes is a word in Ancient Greek. I had a Natural History professor in college na
by quesera 3y ago
Bad examples. Anyone named Riemann might hypothesize on any subject. And Kubernetes is a word in Ancient Greek.
I had a Natural History professor in college named Riemann. He was a Darwinist, the irony! And I've met Greek scholars in the same venue.
At some point, you just have to say "My liberal arts education was cut short before we got to 19th C Scandinavian playwrights". It's fine. You're in excellent company.
(At the risk of offending the canon, I have to say that I really did not enjoy Strindberg, and although I acknowledge the cultural significance, I would happily exchange those hours for one kanelbulle.)
- CRConrad 3y ago> At the risk of offending the canon, I have to say that I really did not enjoy Strindberg Yeah, by all acounts, he was pretty much an arsehole. But fuck, could that arsehole write!
- CyberDildonics 3y agoOnly here would someone try to argue that two terms that have giant wikipedia pages as their first result on google are somehow ambiguous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes
- quesera 3y agoI really think you're missing my point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Julie
- CyberDildonics 3y agoThis is exactly what I thought you would reply. You were saying the other two were ambiguous, now are you saying that a wikipedia page means they aren't ambiguous? At some point, you just have to say "My education was cut short before a class on logic". Also: Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
- quesera 3y agoNo, I'm saying that there's nothing broadly ambiguous about any of these three references, but that of course you can find people with a localized confusion for each. Your position seems to be that Miss Julie is somehow different or something obscure, and I disagree. It's just an instance of localized confusion. Also, more authoritatively than the 'pedia: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Anyway, this is a silly conversation. Now you know about Miss Julie. I wish I could say you'd enjoy reading it, since we've spent so much time talking about it. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy the play when I read it many years ago. It is well-respected though, and perhaps I should give it another chance in my adulthood.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoHere is you before: Anyone named Riemann might hypothesize on any subject. And Kubernetes is a word in Ancient Greek Here is you now: there's nothing broadly ambiguous about any of these
- quesera 3y agoThis is silly. This is me, from the beginning: > But "Miss Julie" has exactly as much inherent context as "Riemann Hypothesis", or "Kubernetes". In all cases, a web search will return, as the first result, the correct reference.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoShow me anywhere on any tech site where someone sees "Riemann Hypothesis" and asks 'which Riemann' or "Kubernetes" and asks 'is that the greek name?'
- CRConrad 3y ago