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901.
by hosh 4y ago
Because at the end of the day, non-fully-autonomous machinery are proxies for promises humans make to each other. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory )
902.
by hosh 4y ago
This looks like a GUI variant of what Emacs Org mode offers. Am I missing something about it?
903.
by hosh 4y ago
I have to admire this rewrite. I noticed a list of books on writing in your comment history. Was this how you refined your writing?
904.
by hosh 4y ago
I’ve been revisiting Promise Theory ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_theory ) and it is interesting to analyze this with PT: 1. Promises are not obligations 2. Promises are best-effort intentions made by autonom
905.
by hosh 4y ago
You can self-host it: https://github.com/zlib-searcher/zlib-searcher
906.
by hosh 4y ago
Back in the day, the only in-game editor for MudOS was an ed like editor. I spent many hours on that. It was a factor in deciding to learn vim over emacs at the time.
907.
by hosh 4y ago
Yeah, what you're describing with the injury is a skill I'd call empathic absorption. A rib injury is fairly dramatic and eye-opening. I know someone who did something similar with scarlet fever. It's good to see this surface
908.
by hosh 4y ago
I'd have my own share of experiences, so I'll take what you say here at face value. (Though there are a wide variety of experiences). Given your background, I think you might find Christopher Wallis's Tantra Illuminated --
909.
by hosh 4y ago
No wonder I never really got the point of Twitter. This makes a lot more sense, or why there is a concern for making sure identity -- or brand -- is cohesive. I prefer visiting among different communities and affinity groups.
910.
by hosh 4y ago
We could, you know, use the ActivityPub stream primitives and organize them like subreddits. Either an instance would host the "subreddit" and identity gets cached or proxied, or the forum topics themselves are specified and agree
911.
by hosh 4y ago
Some years ago, Google+ had this question for me as a way to populate my profile: "What are things you still cannot find on Google?". I know why they asked that question, yet I was tickled by the more interesting question: "W
912.
by hosh 4y ago
If that is how you conceive of "wisdom", sure, and I can see where you are coming from. It looks at limited notions of wholes (the whole of a chain of logical steps). However, wholes are nested. The computer you are using to read
913.
by hosh 4y ago
Yet, in the Tantric and Classical view, art was a way that ordinary people can connect to wisdom. No mystical experiencies or psychedelic substances necessary. What's amazing to me about Christopher Alexander and his work is that he&#x
914.
by hosh 4y ago
Wisdom can't be squeezed out of a rock. The experience of wisdom is individual, because wisdom is transformative. What's being transformed is not the knowledge but you, your consciousness. It's local in that sense. It's
915.
by hosh 4y ago
I said a lot more than that, namely that there are other notions of education than what you are describing: - That there is some outside agent that observes progress and "improves" someone - That such progress can be quantified, a
916.
by hosh 4y ago
Agreed. Yet many students, parents, and even teachers lost sight of this purpose.
917.
by hosh 4y ago
Before ChatGPT, there has been criticism education as we know it today. The notion of “education” has not always been about training, and putting someone in a hypothetical situation and grading progress — indeed, the measurement of progress
918.
by hosh 4y ago
In the recent weeks, monads finally clicked for me, and I was introduced to Christopher Alexander’s ideas on “unfolding” (and thus, generative patterns). ( https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/whatisanunfolding.h...
919.
by hosh 4y ago
The writing of history (historiography) is not meant to be a minutely detailed account of everything that happened. History is a narrative, a story about how we came to be here, and sees the past with a particular lens. I think this particu
920.
by hosh 4y ago
It’s kinda amazing to me that the main discussion this article provoked is the “deadness” of the language, rather than the ideas and influence these languages have. For example, buried in there were things about CLU and Argus, and got me re
921.
by hosh 4y ago
Also, reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011469 -- such as this article ( https://stefan-lesser.com/2020/10/27/how-to-adopt-christophe... ) ... I'm getting an inkling that ther
922.
by hosh 4y ago
I’m curious about their plan for paying out developers as well. I have some vague notions for “community supported software”, where features and implementation priorities are driven by the community and not the enterprise. In order to give
923.
by hosh 4y ago
https://sandstorm.io/
924.
by hosh 4y ago
It's good to see that things are turning for those who want to practice r/NoLawns, create a wildlife refuge, or practice permaculture design.
925.
by hosh 4y ago
I've been typing since I was 5, and I am in my early 40s. I have not really noticed any degradation in typing speed ... though now I am self-conscious about it, I am noticing something. Usually, when I type, my focus is on ordering th
926.
by hosh 4y ago
Though it looks like ActivityPub is push, and RSS is pull. But one should be able to construct transformers between the formats of ActivityPub and RSS/Atom.
927.
by hosh 4y ago
When I started digging into the specs for ActivityPub, it uses something called JSON-LD. Despite its name, it is essentially RDF encoded in JSON. Wouldn’t that make ActivityPub a successor technology for RSS? EDIT: maybe not — https:/
928.
by hosh 4y ago
Probably the biggest thing is where and what is being encapsulated. Ruby is inspired by Smalltalk. Objects sends messages to each other, as if the objects are autonomous. They can receive a message, but it is within the object’s discretion
929.
by hosh 4y ago
I agree that thinking in terms of this as additional benefits is an excellent way of thinking about this. However, we don’t always make decisions purely on cost vs benefit. Some types of decisions, such as strategic thinking, involves unfai
930.
by hosh 4y ago
That is usually where I used it too. When I started writing these as pipeline execution. Then I’ll use a maybe?() instead if the conditional does not need to depend on the result of a previous operation.

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