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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, I know. "Ignore the bird, follow the river."
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by carapace 2y ago
> the attractiveness of these digital communities > where the connections are just as important as your connections in real life That's the problem statement: these degenerate images of real communities are attractive and they be
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by carapace 2y ago
There's no taboo, that's ridiculous. I love the US-of-A and I don't care who knows it. God bless America, and apple pie and moms. I love the people, even though we're mostly stupid and crazy. I love the land, even tho
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by carapace 2y ago
Christopher Alexander & co. have a site "Building Living Neighborhoods" about doing just that with his Pattern Language: > The tools offered are intended for the use of ordinary people, families, communities, developers, pl
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by carapace 2y ago
The whole idea is a joke, it's right there in the name. It was a recognition of the "facts on the ground" of GvR's role as the creator of Python, it was never seriously meant as a principle of project management. It&#x
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by carapace 2y ago
Don Quixote or St. George? Only time will tell. Meanwhile the code works.
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by carapace 2y ago
Exactly. Operationally, dwelling on that question is the short, wide path to Enlightenment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-enquiry
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by carapace 2y ago
This paradox in all it forms relies on the convention that a part can stand for the whole, which concept is itself trivially false (or merely conventional.) The only case where the "paradox" is not symbolic mummery is in the case
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by carapace 2y ago
No, those things are where information and reality meet. When you smell something the molecule and the information "in" or "of" the molecule are not distinct. The meaning of the molecule is itself. I'm trying to o
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by carapace 2y ago
> Information isn't made out of molecules. Oh yes it is. DNA, neurotransmitters, etc. biology is closer to information science than you might imagine (imagine with your brain molecules.)
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by carapace 2y ago
D'accord .
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by carapace 2y ago
A couple of weeks ago someone made a whole anonymous Mastodon account just to ask me a vague question about a comment I made here on HN like six years ago. It kinda creeped me out. A fan? A stalker? Just a rando with too much time on their
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by carapace 2y ago
Yep. My thesis is that this is primarily because the normals picked on the nerds up until they realized there was a lot of money to be made if you're the right kind of nerdy (or if you can fake it), around the time of the Dot Com Boom.
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by carapace 2y ago
Terrific. Do you have anything to say about the point I'm making about the difference between predictability and novelty?
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by carapace 2y ago
Oh yeah, that person should have asked to be re-tasked. The point I'm making is that that's not what makes a technician (that's what makes a human robot! Ew!) > It means that you don't need a technician at all where
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by carapace 2y ago
I don't understand what you're getting at, how does that relate to what I said above?
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by carapace 2y ago
The difference between technician and programmer isn't about predictability, it's about novelty. The technician has to know the system well enough to respond correctly (or even proactively with preventive maintenance, etc.) to un
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by carapace 2y ago
Yes but that misses the point. The pragmatic (not to say economic) motivation for type systems in the first place is to eliminate bugs in software. If you make them more complicated it makes it harder (more expensive, cost is always broug
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, good point. If you buy a carton of milk and it's gone off you shrug and go back to the store. If you're sitting in a jet plane at 30,000ft and the door goes for a walk... Twilight Zone. (And if the airline's securit
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by carapace 2y ago
Damned if that isn't the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
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by carapace 2y ago
> a type should be capable of reflecting any arbitrary rules a programmer knows about the bounds of a value That's a programming language. In other words, now your type system needs a type system.
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by carapace 2y ago
Oh that. That's easy. Here's what you do for that: Go to the store and get some loaves of bread, sliced meat and cheese, lettuce and tomato, mustard and mayo. Make sandwiches. Take them to people who do not know where their ne
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by carapace 2y ago
You and OP seem to be missing the author's point: the rich are lying to the poor. Whole families for me, broken families for thee. (I don't think there's anything in it but that's what the author is saying.)
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by carapace 2y ago
> > we have found no evidence to contradict the basic general principle that men will do whatever is required in order to obtain sex, and perhaps not a great deal more. Yes, because evolution, no? Any other situation is really weird (
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by carapace 2y ago
I'm sympathetic to your view, but I feel you're talking science-fiction or perhaps religion. By definition the Heat Death means there's nothing left to be the substrate for sapience and intelligence, eh? (If you like to dis
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by carapace 2y ago
> According to Petronius (c. 27 AD – c. 66 AD) in his work Satyricon, the inventor of flexible glass (vitrum flexile) brought a drinking bowl made of the material before Tiberius Caesar. The bowl was put through a test to break it, but i
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by carapace 2y ago
Only time will tell. But the things to do to try to avert looming disaster are the same things to do to be a better person in times of no crisis. Be kind and loving, develop compassion. That's pretty much it. The point is not to make
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by carapace 2y ago
> There is always tension between business people and engineering. Really? I think this situation (and the situation with Boeing!) shows that the tension is between ultimately between responsibility and irresponsibility. I cannot be sai
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah, what was the representation of these "data type systems" and what were the metrics I wonder.
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by carapace 2y ago
> The set of possible data type systems to choose from was very large, and to make the process more manageable I had written a program to select the competitive (Pareto-optimal) candidate systems. Interestingly, but quite incidentally, t

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