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by gmfawcett 24d ago
LotusScript was heavily modelled after Visual Basic. I thought it was an awful language to work with. :) But LN was generally a fun platform... as long as you kept things very, very simple.
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by gmfawcett 27d ago
The model in the article has applicability problems, but not that one.
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by gmfawcett 2mo ago
> Restricting the word "insects" to hexapods is a modern convention that does not have any basis in etymology. This is one of those very rare cases in which "entomology" or "etymology" might have been chosen
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by gmfawcett 3mo ago
I wasn't criticizing the essay. I was criticizing your suggestion that a narrow concept like "competence blindness" can explain the behaviour of a system as broad and immensely complicated as "all of Western Culture.&quo
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by gmfawcett 3mo ago
Or perhaps just because it's not accurate. Reducing any complex system down to a trivial projection is very unlikely to explain anything well.
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by gmfawcett 4mo ago
Look up "perlis epigrams lisp" for the context here. :)
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by gmfawcett 9mo ago
Ostrom's results didn't disprove ToC. She showed that common resources can be communally maintained, not that tragic outcomes could never happen.
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by gmfawcett 10mo ago
"Going Postal" was brilliant. GNU Terry Pratchett.
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by gmfawcett 10mo ago
That's a fair question, but I didn't have another person read it. (If I'm being honest, I think my colleagues would have looked at me funny. We don't exactly have a culture of using TLA+ to describe sysadmin processes he
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by gmfawcett 10mo ago
I think this was more of a press release than an edict. The Purdue announcement says, "Built on recently launched AI majors, minors and certificates across colleges, and following the establishment of a working group last summer, with
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by gmfawcett 10mo ago
Delegated to the provost and deans . Who else would you expect to hold accountable for developing a graduate attribute?
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by gmfawcett 10mo ago
I've had the same intuition. I've had mixed results in this area, although I'm certainly no expert. Recently I wanted to formalize a model of a runbook for a tricky system migration, to help me reason through some alternative
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by gmfawcett 1y ago
That's pretty impressive -- thanks for sharing the link.
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by gmfawcett 1y ago
Very well expressed. That's great early-career guidance, but also a good refresher for many senior staff.
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by gmfawcett 1y ago
I've often taken inspiration from RFC 2418, "IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures" [1], a rare RFC that defines a human protocol ("rough consensus") rather than a technical one. [1] https://www.rf
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by gmfawcett 1y ago
(also, velociraptors)
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by gmfawcett 1y ago
Arguably the European churches were such an industry for centuries, and were highly effective at it.
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
It gives a cue about how many times I've probably seen the article before. Quite useful, IMO. I read this particular article when it came out in 2006... it's convenient to know we're not discussing a novel finding on the same
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
> we are free only as much as we don't have guns in our face telling us we're not. Is this actually an old saying?
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
Nice article!
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
> What very few SF writers understood "Understood?" They were writing fiction, not instruction manuals.
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
He can say what he wants, but he literally inlined the entirety of HTML into the syntax. It's delusional to suggest that this design choice emphasizes readability above all else.
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
My laconic question was downvoted. Sorry, I was on my phone, but didn't want to forget about this. I'm sincerely interested in reading the source of this research. Searching for it now, I came across this article: https:/&#x
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
It's fine if the poster above me wishes to change languages. Anyone who chooses to stick with Haskell should get comfortable with the notion that functions can diverge, and accept that this is fully consistent with the Haskell type sys
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
Reference, please?
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
It sounds cool but also like a remarkable level of scope creep for the JVM. I realize that Java ecosystem is far beyond simple these days. Nobody is spinning up a JVM implementation as a hobby project. But sad to see the deep entrenchment t
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
> in the sense that their return type doesn't fully describe what the code does Sure they do, at least in Haskell. Bottom inhabits all types.
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
I think some of the confusion is because you're referring to the type variables as parameters. Parameters and type variables are not the same thing. A is a type variable, X is a parameter in your example.
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
Yes, although the New York Public Library has had you covered since the 1960's: https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-kn...
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by gmfawcett 2y ago
I could swear that I used to install j902 from apt on Ubuntu. Am I misremembering this?

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