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by asplake 4y ago
Saw the GHC announcement [1], was curious to know what levity polymorphism was! [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32436687
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Levity Polymorphism (2017) [pdf](microsoft.com)
2 points by asplake 4y ago|1 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
Seems to miss the obvious double whammy: 1) Because it burdens producers to no obvious benefit, a problem forever 2) Because progress over time in language processing makes it less and less necessary
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by asplake 4y ago
Cf the title of his (Mintzberg’s) book: The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning
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by asplake 4y ago
Walk the board right to left, closest-to-completion first. Focus on finishing!
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Ants crawl inside woman’s Kindle and start buying books(metro.co.uk)
14 points by asplake 4y ago|3 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
The replacement for 3D Touch: “If you long press (aka hold down) on the spacebar of your touch screen keyboard (which works on iPad too) you can get into trackpad mode.” I did not know that. Thank you!
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by asplake 4y ago
And the organisation that allows this is dysfunctional. Its coordination system (technological, managerial, whatever) cannot be regarded as effective.
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by asplake 4y ago
I don’t know, but maybe that particular twitterer – Armin Ronacher no less – had his reasons for trying?
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by asplake 4y ago
Wow, read Gaia (1979) in my teens, soon after it came out, triggered I think by a Horizon programme (BBC science series, still going-ish). Definitely made an impression.
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by asplake 4y ago
BBC: Whisky makers are turning their backs on peat https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61596047
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by asplake 4y ago
Seriously bad policies making making their foreign supply chains unaffordable
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School mindfulness lessons don't work for teenagers, study says(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by asplake 4y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
In the US (and Canada?). British English puts commas and periods (full stops) outside the quotation marks unless the quotation is also a complete sentence or the punctuation is part of the quotation. Source: https://www.unr.edu&#
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Learning to think well involves hearts as well as minds(timharford.com)
2 points by asplake 4y ago|1 comments
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Ten years on from the Higgs boson, what is next for physics?(economist.com)
4 points by asplake 4y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
At risk of committing a heresy, does the ending get better on subsequent readings?
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by asplake 4y ago
I’ve listened to the audiobooks right through at least three times now
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by asplake 4y ago
Coined I believe by manifesto signatory Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/articles/agile-aus-2018.html
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by asplake 4y ago
You finished in a better place than you started there. Roles are not the answer. As Bateson once said, a role is only a half-assed relationship. What quickly flattens the hierarchy is to allow the parts to which you refer to overlap, with m
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by asplake 4y ago
I’m very interested in the discipline of respectful enquiry but this passage rang some alarm bells: > Street Epistemology started life as a method to discuss religious belief in the 2013 book A Manual for Creating Atheists. Is it just me
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All AI learning is tacit learning(strangeloopcanon.com)
6 points by asplake 4y ago|0 comments
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by asplake 4y ago
Commenting on a UK-based story, not the flagged comment that I can’t read: How is emergency medicine privatised in the UK? Underfunded yes, but privatised?
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by asplake 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed...
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by asplake 4y ago
Only after an initial request
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by asplake 4y ago
What language would you expect a templating capability for Rust programs to be written in?
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by asplake 4y ago
Http to https (and maybe naked to www) upgrades specified in DNS instead of requiring redirects?
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by asplake 4y ago
While we’re at it, can we just get a list of daily mixes? Seems completely random which of them I’ll see
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Google is killing location-based reminders(arstechnica.com)
5 points by asplake 4y ago|0 comments
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CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking news”(axios.com)
417 points by asplake 4y ago|424 comments

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