fnordsensei

12 ms·

91.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Comes off as abrasive IMO. Someone might as well reply "I don't care that you don't care" then. You're more likely to get a good response from cutting all of that out and just leaving the meat: "I want to know
92.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Right, it might read as "Musk's bullshit" or "the bullshit aimed at Musk." Either way, the ambiguity doesn't help. It might tick off both Musk-huggers and Musk-whippers, depending on how they read it.
93.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
I agree, for the purpose of scholarly dissection of the subject, it’s perfectly fine. My point was that lining it up by calling it “BS” invites counter arguments, which is what happened here. If you’re not happy to implicitly accept the “BS
94.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
The “BS” label is important though: that hints that GP does indeed think it can be ignored/doesn’t exist. A retort to this isn’t unwarranted if you believe that Musk’s actions does impact ad spending.
95.
A year-end recap of what's new in Automerge(automerge.org)
3 points by fnordsensei 3y ago|0 comments
96.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Sustainable here is with regards to the model as a whole (politicians stay away; unions and companies settle things amongst themselves), and in the economic and political sense, not eg. the environmental sense.
97.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Even if we disregard the history of the labour market in the country, it’s far from the whole point. There are also several other points, some of which I mentioned along with the statement you took issue with.
98.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Sweden's stance has been that there’s no reason to believe that politicians will do a better job than the parties involved that have an actual stake in the particular situation. A union that operates lucidly will optimize for the longe
99.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
It’s been sustainable for Sweden for a century. Tesla needs to adapt to the Swedish model if they want to do business in Sweden, and otherwise they are free to not do so. This is true for a Swedish company that wants to do business in the U
100.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
They also host more or less the entire PC gaming market.
101.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Is there any reason to think that non-profit governance somehow makes this more likely? It seems that there are plenty of well-functioning non-profit software around. Heck, the world runs on Linux, doesn’t it? The specific mix of profit and
102.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
“Trillions of functions” is a metric that’s hard to know whether to be impressed by or not. I don’t think it’s impossible that my laptop runs “trillions of functions” every day. But the callers on this platform are likely remote, and theref
103.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
A lot of Clojure projects choose to stick with the LTS releases though, so it might take a while before this problem disappears on its own, even if fixed in the JVM.
104.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
> It hovers around what I see as an essential truth Yeah, and it opens with basically saying "look, we know that we're going to talk about things ill suited to be captured by language, so keep that it mind"
105.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
This is a blog post by one Clojure company, interviewing another Clojure company, with a tech stack focus. It’s not unusual within any language stack to have these kinds of blog posts - they’re obviously by and for people who find the techn
106.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
In your hypothetical scenario where a trillion dollars spring into being without any other consequences: you’re not. If you want to sprinkle some consequences into the scenario, how about you lose your job, and the supply of positions for s
107.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Coined? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect
108.
YAMLScript(github.com)
2 points by fnordsensei 3y ago|0 comments
109.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
They don’t need to describe aspects of reality, they just need to describe something analogous that’s useful enough when applied. I’m no physicist, but I understand that Newtonian physics aren’t strictly true as such, but they are a good en
110.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Paraphrasing I-don't-know-who: State machines are not optional. The only difference is whether you're going to have an explicit one, or a crappy, accidental one.
111.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
As someone who’s been involved in both, it’s not like the language you pick doesn’t make a difference, but I’d say that there are other factors that vastly overshadow it. For example, one thing we were told when choosing to write in a lisp
112.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Many people have had experiences that fall into categories that make them difficult to speak about. Because they may not be universally shared experiences, there's not much of a common vocabulary that feels adequate. To me, a large par
113.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Buddha approves of this message
114.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
The PC gaming market is expected to be worth something north of $200bn in 2023, and (despite ongoing insanity among graphics cards manufacturers) is expected to keep growing in the coming years. Apple has been doing their usual thing, with
115.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
To what end?
116.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
It’s highly custom, and clearly engineered not to compromise on the vision they have for it. Early adopters will foot the bill for the R&D required to create the non-“Pro” version of this, hence the price. But there’s always going to be
117.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
It used to be something specific, coming from the heritage of HCI and usability engineering. Then every UI designer decided that it sounded cooler on their resumé, and now the concept is completely pointless. The poor usability of modern in
118.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
Either way, it's immaterial who does it, only the results matter. Though I agree, it either isn't done, or it's done poorly, with little rigor, or dubious research methodology. The field of UX is very, very guilty of this as
119.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
I worked as a UX designer and researcher for about a decade starting at around 2007. First of all, I don't fully recognize TFA's description of what a UX researcher primarily does. It almost sounds like user testing, which shouldn
120.
by fnordsensei 3y ago
I guess this is true of all formal languages, then. Since we sit in front of text editors most of the time, the fundamental truth of all languages is that they are strings. This is not even true of natural language, which has a vocal repres

More ›