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by carapace 3y ago
That essay/software/discipline is awesome!
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by carapace 3y ago
Years ago I read a well-reasoned comparison of a handful of markup languages and the author made a strong case for Creole (which I had never heard of before or since. I use markdown just like everybody else. ;) Unfortunately, I can't
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by carapace 3y ago
Gemini isn't a competitor to HTML, it's an alternative .
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by carapace 3y ago
Markdown is, uh, not so good, it just won a popularity cintest. E.g. Creole is much better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_(markup)
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by carapace 3y ago
I haven't been down to the Civic Center in ages, I just checked it out on the Google st. view and it looks like they already cleared it out.
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by carapace 3y ago
I've lived in SF for about half a century. I've also read up on the history of SF. What you're saying about "Urban homelessness is ... not even a new phenomenon to San Francisco!" is very much true, at least since
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by carapace 3y ago
FWIW, the site presents a variation of the origami design of Prof. James M. Sakoda of Brown University "winner of the origami award in the First International Paper Airplane Contest" in 1967 as published in that book.
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by carapace 3y ago
1) Take something that you don't take seriously. 2) Compare the submodalities of that to the submodalities of something you do take seriously. 3) Change the submodalities of the latter to those of the former. You will no longer
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by carapace 3y ago
Cuba. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
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by carapace 3y ago
Well, I have no particular insight but I heard something about a compiler-to-native code project that might be taking up core team time, or maybe Evan is just burnt out from all the static. I just wish there were fewer people crapping on t
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by carapace 3y ago
I think A) Elm is done, not dead. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (The JS folks should take a note.) and B) the natural next step is to make Elm-to-native compilers, which is now happening. I think a lot of programm
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by carapace 3y ago
Ah, cheers. Yeah I went to public school in San Francisco and the consensus among my friends (in high school) was that fully half our teachers were quite literally insane. Like "should be in an institution (not a school)" crazy.
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by carapace 3y ago
> there's very little evidence that teachers matter at all What kind of childhood did you have!? (Are you just trolling? If so, bravo! You got me!)
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by carapace 3y ago
The main drawback of Python is that it ruins you for other languages. Python is a scripting language, it's great for scripts and one-offs, etc. But once you get above, say, 100K LoC it starts to get out of its sweet spot and into mo
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by carapace 3y ago
> I don’t know Knuth. Well you should before taking unwarranted potshots at the man. He's done more for humanity than you or I ever will, eh? Anyway, you do sound like you know about LLMs, so apologies for that bit. > People loo
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by carapace 3y ago
It sounds like you profoundly misunderstand Knuth, and LLMs. I recommend a dose of Mickens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k
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by carapace 3y ago
> most people have a hard time making really good soil Isn't it strange? I mean, that's literally what life does: make really good soil, eh?
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by carapace 3y ago
s/lose/loose/
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by carapace 3y ago
Years and years ago, before the Internet, I saw a lady being interviewed on some gardening show who had been gardening organically for a billion years or something. At one point she sticks her arm into her garden bed up to the shoulder, an
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by carapace 3y ago
That was one of the most interesting developments in the already fascinating saga of Elm. Czaplicki gets a lot of flak, but it's almost all about how he keeps tight control of his language & ecosystem. No one duns him for brains,
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by carapace 3y ago
To me it seems like pretty good breakdown from a seasoned professional. I'm a bit taken aback by your take. For one thing, one of the points he's making seemed to me to be "be language agnostic".
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by carapace 3y ago
I really don't want to argue about this (so I don't know why I'm arguing about it. Like I said, I think I'm just cranky this morning.) > I don't think they need telemetry. Go is clearly a successful language a
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by carapace 3y ago
(Maybe I'm just cranky this morning, so please ignore this comment if it fails to please you, but uh... I think the "real WTF" is getting into a position where you need telemetry at all. It's hard to describe what I me
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by carapace 3y ago
I mean, yeah, duh, the word "robot"... > The word robot comes from the word robota. The word robota means literally "corvée", "serf labor", and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in C
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by carapace 3y ago
Not to be snarky but to me it sounds like OP just described 'zoning'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoning
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by carapace 3y ago
I used to feel bad about how much of my career was waste. Then one day I met a retired hardware engineer, a old hand who had rubbed shoulders with Shockley, who told me that 80% of the projects he worked on never even made it to producti
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by carapace 3y ago
It snows once, maybe twice, in Seattle every Winter, and it's like no one's ever seen the stuff before.
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by carapace 3y ago
I just want to take a moment to remind everybody just how insane car travel is as a mode of transportation. Sure, it's convenient , but at what cost!? Air pollution, tire particle pollution, covering the Earth with asphalt, etc. Also,
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by carapace 3y ago
> I'm already familiar with the Engelbart paper Excellent! I hope I didn't come off too patronizing? It's hard to argue this point (that the machines will rapidly become empirical, aka scientists) because I don't kno
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by carapace 3y ago
Cheers, well met. > thought that your epitaph was premature. It's possible. I gave up prognostication when I didn't predict Twitter. I recently checked Craigslist for jobs in my line and it was empty... > the symbolic cal

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