TedHerman

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by TedHerman 2y ago
Do nothing until you realize there's something to be done but it's too late.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
I too wonder if the writing-is-thinking thesis holds. Does Han Kang (Nobel Prize in Literature, 2024) think through writing? Have I read something thrilling, funny, mysterious, spiritual, or revealing of human nature written by PG? No. He m
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by TedHerman 2y ago
c.f. https://newmusicusa.org/nmbx/eyes-wide-shut-the-case-against...
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by TedHerman 2y ago
As someone who has been programming since the 1970s, I'll have to admit that I don't get this interest in the early 80s.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Not directly related, but I suggest reading the Wikipedia entry on Knife Game. It is a marvel to watch someone skilled at this.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Couple years ago there was some news item about "peak gold", implying reasonable probability that the rate of new gold being mined will decline annually in future. On the other hand, if the price increases continue and space techn
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Far out!
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Campfire Disco(wsj.com)
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by TedHerman 2y ago
How the Wok is Winning the West.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Maintenance. I always wondered why it wasn't ripe for disruption. Perhaps the right founders never came along with the right approach?
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by TedHerman 2y ago
So back in the 1970s I had a job working on an IBM mainframe computer. Not multicore, no cache or instruction pipeline that I was aware of. A coworker had the idea of writing a timer interrupt to see what kind of instruction was executing a
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Long ago (too long for a search to dig it up) there was an article in the Wall Street Journal comparing litigation for wrongful death in different circumstances. If I remember correctly, two determinants were location (major urban center vs
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Who are the most miserable, the citizens of Cuba or those of Haiti?
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by TedHerman 2y ago
My personal bias: the golden age of graphic novels was in the late 1900s, in Europe, with sublime artistry and some excellent production. At one time "bande dessinée" was considered one of the Beaux Arts in France. Then Manga came
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by TedHerman 2y ago
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/fred-smith-fedex-blackjack...
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by TedHerman 2y ago
I mainly use Python to work with typical shell functions and external programs. I contend that Python and other similar languages are superior to PowerShell.
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Not being a user of Spotify nor other services, I can only say that I continue to find new music in each decade. And I like much of newer music better than the old classics (which is saying something because I started listening in the 1960s
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by TedHerman 2y ago
Solving everything means that technology will also solve problems of unemployment, the meaning of life, and all that.
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by TedHerman 3y ago
I first became aware of a type of "slow thinking" through the book "Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind: How Intelligence Increases When You Think Less", by Guy Claxton, published 1999. Does anyone have a comparison of the types o
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by TedHerman 3y ago
Some questions along these lines are not so easy. For example, iterated versions that take bankruptcy into account (game over) by using geometric mean instead of arithmetic mean; but that might not always be the optimal strategy [ https:&#x
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by TedHerman 3y ago
One wonders if there had been similar "How will we ultimately succeed or fail" manifests for the Boeing 737 Max and for Gemini.
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by TedHerman 3y ago
I once hosted a European researcher in my home (which is in flyover country America). He saw the utility poles and wiring stretching to houses in the neighborhood and remarked that his father had said a hallmark of undeveloped countries is
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by TedHerman 3y ago
The main objection I have to this essay is the running metaphor of religion. Cult maybe, but is it a religion? You need to study the history of religions and their hallmarks to establish the metaphor.
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by TedHerman 3y ago
The Waterfall method, Agile, ... and eventually, Inception Programming.
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by TedHerman 3y ago
Some thoughts from a mineral collector. There is considerable variety in naturally occurring diamonds. Colors, such as yellow, green, brown, black and famously a few blue and pink ones. Plus many crystal forms (Cubic, Octahedral, Dodecahedr
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by TedHerman 3y ago
Allow me to explain why at least one of them is so annoying. The roundabout is atop a hill; there is little visibility of what traffic is approaching from other directions because the hill is steep. Motorists don't bother signaling how
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by TedHerman 3y ago
Here is the thread we should continually reëxamine: https://x.com/mattschnuck/status/1590732559029194752
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by TedHerman 4y ago
It's high time software designers claimed competency in architecture. For example, what is your take on these? https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-community...
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by TedHerman 4y ago
If gratitude is transactional (seen as a way to increase likelihood of getting something later) -- is it really gratitude?
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by TedHerman 4y ago
I wonder what happened with Harel's Statecharts - not about class modeling, but another graphical description.

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