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Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read(elizabethandrama.org)
104 points by lordleft 2y ago|162 comments
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For All X: An Introduction to Formal Logic(forallx.openlogicproject.org)
2 points by lordleft 2y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 2y ago
Most alarmingly, many of the fruits of SV can be used to make dictatorships even more capable in crushing dissenters and extending the aegis of state into everyday life. Technology is morally neutral, it can be used for ill as well as good,
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by lordleft 2y ago
Camus famously broke with the french left over (certain aspects) of Algerian Liberation, for the simple reason that his mother continued to live there. He famously quipped: "At this moment bombs are being planted in the trams in Algier
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by lordleft 2y ago
I will never understand how entitled or mean people can be towards OSS devs. I sympathize with this post a great deal and wish the author all the best in whatever he does next.
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by lordleft 3y ago
Compiler tampering is a species of malevolence I try not to think about so I can continue to code in a somewhat sane matter, lest I crumble like a lovecraftian protagonist
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by lordleft 3y ago
I weirdly think the inhumanity of brutalism is well-suited to churches, in part because the divine is not human : eternal, omnipotent, unambiguous, fundamental. I'm a trinitarian so I actually don't agree with this
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Nova, a Mac Native Code Editor(nova.app)
2 points by lordleft 3y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 3y ago
I was very impressed with Montreal and its decentering of cars the last time I visited...it seems to be a city that is leading bike and public transit-friendly development in North America.
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by lordleft 3y ago
Alarming how many people think that the development of AI should have…no government oversight? Are none of you familiar with history?
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A Font Book of Squiggles in Tristram Shandy(oneletterwords.com)
1 points by lordleft 3y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 3y ago
Looks like it’s time to put this on my kindle.
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by lordleft 3y ago
This is what much of Greco-Roman philosophy, in the Socratic vein, focused on: practical philosophy exploring how we ought to live
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by lordleft 3y ago
Surely news publications benefit more from Google/Facebook providing links to their content? It's a mutually beneficial relationship. I'm a bit puzzled as to why this was pushed, I'd love some context for this.
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What if two programs did this?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
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by lordleft 3y ago
"What we really seek in our nostalgic reveries, I want to suggest, is the inertness of the past." Extremely well said. I have never thought of nostalgia in this way but I think it's true.
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by lordleft 3y ago
It's funny to think that the fantasy/speculative fiction trope of "precursor civilization that has advanced tech" was probably grounded in the historical memory of people happening upon ruins, weapons and artifacts of ex
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by lordleft 3y ago
Something about this essay reminds me of a line from Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Iliad: “It was glorious to see—if your heart were iron, And you could keep from grieving at all the pain.“
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by lordleft 3y ago
Well that’s the funny thing. What defines a child laborer? Most people know that there’s a difference between a 16 year old working the odd summer job and a Victorian 9 year old chimney sweep. But the historical memory of the chimney sweep
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by lordleft 3y ago
I think that high textbook prices is one of the many little signals we sent young people, for the last 3-5 decades, that we are not interested in creating a better world for them. Isn’t it interesting how little effort has been invested in
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Numbers Station(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by lordleft 3y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 3y ago
I love John Denver's music and I am still haunted by his death, 24 years later. I had no idea his death was likely the result of poor user ergonomics. Engineering can kill.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Eliot is my favorite writer alongside Tolstoy. She was the first person to translate Spinoza to English and her intellectual prowess is so enormous and evident it bleeds out of every page of Middlemarch. She is the only author I’ve encounte
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by lordleft 4y ago
I've recently challenged myself to read more papers related to the work I do as an engineer. It was a muscle I exercised as an undergrad but have since neglected in my working life. I had imagined these papers to be much, much harder t
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by lordleft 4y ago
I love this biography because it shows how contact with the Islamic world was beneficial and generative to the West (and put the West back in contact with aspects of its intellectual inheritance that it had lost, like the thought of Aristot
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by lordleft 4y ago
Before I attended and graduated from an ivy, I attended a CUNY school for a year. I remember speaking to a classmate in my calc I class who explained to me that he was taking a full course load on top a 20 hour a week job at a local departm
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by lordleft 4y ago
Epicurus is compelling, but I ultimately reject his philosophy in favor of Stoicism / Academic Skepticism for two reasons: a) The Epicurean belief that emotional disturbance/perturbation is basically bad stymes emotional thriving.
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by lordleft 4y ago
That is incredible, I had no idea this existed -- thanks for sharing!
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Ask HN: What's the best obscure but useful CLI tool?
26 points by lordleft 4y ago|11 comments
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What Docker containers can teach us about Buddhist and Hindu thought(christopherthomas.substack.com)
4 points by lordleft 4y ago|1 comments

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