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by card_zero 2mo ago
It's like saying I am intimately involved in the printer's art. This is usually not true, unless you're involved with a very niche publisher who still has a box of sorts and inky fingers. Hyphen-minus all the way.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Speaking as a fucker, I think the use of em-dashes has been pretentious since the 1890s. The rise of typewriters destroyed em-dashes already. The LLMs subsequently created an accidental parody of sophisticated writing.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
That's reasonable, except "It can be dealt with by cultural understandings of any imagery shifting, and a general return to older (not unprecedented) information environments". What does that mean? Is the older information en
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by card_zero 2mo ago
It's not very goord.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
I agree that rigorous logic shouldn't be assumed to get us closer to Ultimate Objective Truth than other forms of reasoning. It just gets us whatever peculiar oddments we can discover through rigorous logic, so far, here in our local,
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by card_zero 2mo ago
This sounds kind of like unreadable code, though. So it's more than just taste.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
I know the UK has a lot of wind and solar, and then there's short transport distances: those other countries are famous for hauling goods over long distances through sparsely populated terrain, which the UK doesn't have any of. I
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by card_zero 2mo ago
The Toilet Duck brand exists in English. Canard-WC in French, even.
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Derivative works? That seems to translate as "because the books are digitized, it's strange and new and we can't allow it".
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Do you not have values, and evaluate the things you might choose to do, by light of those? Do you not seek local importance, and meaning, as you strive to do your best by those values? Here I'm deliberately conflating (1) monetary va
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by card_zero 2mo ago
It's fine, I got a conversation, that's all I wanted. Thank you, by the way. No, I won't modify my behavior. :) Re: the definition, that's exactly what I said in the first place! "Often people don't make the di
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by card_zero 2mo ago
But those describe a different thing. I use "mutual preference" carefully. Dale Carnegie described this in 1936. I don't remember what term he used for it, if any. But instead of any trade-off, which I will repeat is a lose-l
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by card_zero 2mo ago
You're saying that a definition of compromise as "concessions on both sides" is strange and original, really? Did you understand the word compromise to mean a process to which creativity is crucial, and not concessions? I&#x2
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Oh, so people are annoyed at me because they aren't getting the point, maybe? The commenter who mentioned Steven Covey knew what I was talking about. It's not just semantics ... or, wait a minute, are you saying everybody secretly
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by card_zero 2mo ago
Ohohoho. I'd say this is actually an example of a third thing, where it turns out that you didn't even disagree, except in choice of words.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
He of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I also spotted it in How to Win Friends and Influence People. I guess it is the kind of idea found in self-help books. :/ I still think it's a good one all the same.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
No it isn't (and no it isn't). I only complain because I hand you all what I believe to be a valuable idea and then somebody reacts by silently making a rude finger gesture at it, and they don't even say why, that's th
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Eh, alright, I agree. That's pretty much what I said, there's a place for compromise, because some disagreements are intractable, but compromise is suboptimal.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Compromise is a lose-lose. It originally meant a promise between two parties to follow the decision of an arbiter. Sometimes this is the best we can hope to do, and right and necessary in order to have nice things: see for instance the Wiki
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by card_zero 3mo ago
It might be a philosophical kind of "can't". You need to believe that what you do is valuable.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Not exactly, no. What is "the problem" - is there really only one problem? - and where does the creativity go? This depends on what you're doing and how you're going about it. Maybe every little mark you make on paper or
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Ha, this prize comes with a million rupees cash, which makes it worth about $8 more than a Fields medal. Correction: $292 less than the Fields, I went through too many layers of currency conversion. Still, it's nearly the same.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
If we acknowledge the problems it creates in regard of free speech, we can then return to the distinction "that's not free speech, that's harassment", and take it seriously.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
That's kind of interesting. I was thinking independent reviews would become important. But you're saying that you wouldn't want to spend any time at all reading or watching or listening to the output of an entertainment revie
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by card_zero 3mo ago
I don't even know how to make that factoid work. It must require that the bar on an f is separate and removable, so that an f can be used as long s.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
It's balkanization! We'll be Montenegro, you can have Moldova.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
If they have a coherent set of values, then that's why. Then you have a theory of mind about the admins, and they weren't behaving erratically, but it was your original expectations that were incorrect.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Time to invent regenerative air brakes, like fold-out windmills.
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by card_zero 3mo ago
It's often said that creativity involves reuse because that's clearly part of the process. It's like a warning against another narrative, where a reclusive genius outputs great works made from scratch, without being part of c
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by card_zero 3mo ago
Grot is from grotesque and implies dirty or primal, as in grotto, a cave. Sans-serif fonts were called grotesque because they looked primitive. The word grot appears in various 19th century poems as a noun meaning a grotto, where it w

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