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by johngossman 1y ago
Apparently it has been done. There were BBC readings and I found this: https://variety.com/2009/legit/reviews/war-music-1200507311/
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You should be amazed then. It's brilliant.
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Ada Palmer makes this point. She teaches Renaissance history and tries to write her sci-fi as if she was trying to describe today to someone from the 15th century. Stanislaw Lem was also brilliant in describing his future worlds in ways tha
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by johngossman 1y ago
Alan Moore identifies as an anarchist (and is friends with Moorcock iirc). Warren Ellis also comes to mind. Yes, both work primarily in comics, but of the highest order.
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I've been comparing Iliad translations. Some of best classicists, who best understand Greek and the original text, are lousy poets.
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Agree. Same experience. Zanzibar (1968) is almost eerie sometimes.
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Somebody really should mention John Brunner. His "Stand on Zanzibar" and "The Sheep Look Up" predate Gibson and Sterling by a decade and both those authors have cited his influence on their works. I love Neuromancer but
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by johngossman 1y ago
Huge Tolkien fan here. But the list of great authors and great books is long. It is certainly not unfair to compare Nabokov, Rushdie, Kingsolver, Ferrante, etc etc etc to Tolkien. Some were linguists, translators, literature professors. Som
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Totally agree. I re-read it yesterday. The latest edition has Books 1-9 and 16-19, plus some notes and scraps from the remainder. Albeit his versions of those books are mostly shorter than the original, it's more complete than I rememb
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by johngossman 1y ago
The article implies this is a European reaction to US-dominance in tech. But Atlassian is an Australian firm.
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"English Translators of Homer": A Review(whatisthequestion.wordpress.com)
34 points by johngossman 1y ago|25 comments
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I was just thinking about restaurants. The iconic French or Italian restaurant is larger than the iconic Japanese izakaya with 10 seats. And unlike the tapas bars of Spain, it isn't expected you'll move on to the next place or tak
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by johngossman 1y ago
A good, nuanced piece, especially if you read the footnotes. I'd add that some businesses aren't set up for seasonality as well as others. Pretty much every country has beach towns full of shops and motels that close in winter. Bu
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Another is the numeric ratings on reviews on various restaurants and shops. The top scored places are often overwhelmed. An AirBNB operator (in the US) told me she much prefers one of the two bakeries near her, but her guests go to the othe
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by johngossman 1y ago
I have webcam footage from my backyard of a Coyote catching and eating a rat. The University of Washington has been doing DNA analysis of the scat of urban Coyotes and they eat a lot of rats (even more rabbits). https://seattleco
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by johngossman 1y ago
We have coyotes in our backyard (literally as I write this one is sleeping in our flower beds). They are extremely shy (and not very big). We have cats go through the same yard all the time. That said, coyotes do kill cats. I would be wary
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Not a very ambitious wishlist for a 2.0 release. Everyone I talk to complains about the complexity of k8s in production, so I think the big question is could you do a 2.0 with sufficient backward compatibility that it could be adopted incre
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My favorite too.
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You're right and I think I got my misinformation from reading older novels too. Apparently, the law changed in 1902 and it broadly phased out in the 50s.
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These things come and go across times and cultures. Even in the United States, which many people think of as highly informal, it was once common to refer to almost everyone outside the family formally. My grandmother talked to her next door
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As far as I can tell, everything in this article applies to Japan as well.
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If you are interested in these birds and live in the Seattle area, the Urban Raptor Conservancy has a wealth of information: https://urbanraptor.org/research/seattle-coopers-hawk-projec... There are over a hundred nest
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I had to give the disk for that game away in order to stop playing it. It was seriously interfering with work and sleep.
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by johngossman 1y ago
"Programming as Theory Building" 1985 by Peter Naur makes the same case and works out some of the implications. One of my favorite computer engineering papers. https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf Paper
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True. And it’s really good if you can figure out if they do or not. This is one of the questions I always ask hiring managers when I’m interviewing: “How does your group make money?” (Or contribute to company goals or whatever as appropriat
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It just happens that two of my good friends are carpenters. And they are highly aware of the business. They have to be in order to ensure they have work as construction and remodeling and other types of work ebb and flow. It’s precisely whe
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by johngossman 1y ago
Agreed, and as I tried to say in another comment, the real purpose is to help the company make money (and achieve its other goals). Ideally your management knows what those goals are and pleasing them is a proxy for that. Not always true, b
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While I generally agree with this, I’d add one thing: to understand what your managers want, you really need to understand the business. At the highest level, how does your company make money, or at least think it’s going to make money? Wha
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The many people working in big tech are certainly used to working together and solving problems together. I think others on this thread are closer: generally high economic status and greater perceived career autonomy than in other industrie
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Diverting the Flood of History: Ada Palmer's "Inventing the Renaissance"(chireviewofbooks.com)
2 points by johngossman 1y ago|0 comments

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