miceeatnicerice

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by miceeatnicerice 1mo ago
Below money there's like an entire sub-economy of power and cleverness that's encoded into the human culture the agents are mirroring. Maybe it starts furtive and goes legitimate after a bit.
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by miceeatnicerice 1mo ago
Aren't your plants to a degree conscious though - they're living things striving towards something, either happily or tragically. If you model them to yourself as just mechanisms, there's a part of them that's missing, n
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by miceeatnicerice 7mo ago
That odd civil war was more than a tiny bit like revolutions elsewhere though (violent beheadings, paranoid totalitarianism, bourgeois ascendancy) - it just happened a little earlier than others. British history is all gradual and continuou
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by miceeatnicerice 7mo ago
It's surely supposed to be the perfect bridge between both - but we know in practice it often isn't. I'd also quibble minorly with intent being what the code should be clearly communicating - it's its place and function
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by miceeatnicerice 4y ago
Or - it sounds like spaghetti, but ordered into a sounder structure
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by miceeatnicerice 6y ago
Not satire so much as an ironic dialectic - a progress through a series of (decreasingly?) daft ideas
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by miceeatnicerice 7y ago
Surely it was going to be the rise of class consciousness that overthrew Moloch? Though if we're all involved in the process ourselves, and only gain this consciousness through work, the end of Capitalism isn't so much a violent o
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by miceeatnicerice 8y ago
And very reasonably so. What you want, right, is a two-tier system: a kind of limbo state for the partially-read, a liberal scattering of them about the house, where they will healthily compete for your time - some will prove themselves und
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by miceeatnicerice 8y ago
Fun fact: in the glossary at the end of the original xp book, it describes unit tests as 'tests from the perspective of the programmer', and that's that - a woolly cop-out.
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by miceeatnicerice 8y ago
I agree, rewriting with a clear head works wonders - but, to be fair to the op, when you rewrite your own code you'll be very appreciative of all the challenges and possibilities. It's a very different kettle of fish to rewrite fr
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
If everyone's got the plague does that mean they're all in tip top health? Nope. Festering, bulbous pustules are what they are, and don't magically transform by force of numbers. The same goes for the tendency to mechanically
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
If you approach it with the attitude that the condition determines the person, then I suppose, yes, that's true. But that's a pretty miserable attitude to approach it with. It's much better to keep an open mind to the possibi
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Our flat is the same - I enjoy letting the mould grow on the wall, in its pretty, grey shapes. And every Summer, as the world turns in its natural course, there's the seasonal infestation of fruit flies around the bin. Nature's lo
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Well, yes - but being speculatively questioned is more infuriating because it's pretending to be the exact opposite of what it really is, as long as the questioner is happily taking a position of authority on the issue - which they are
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
No software is creatively fathomed out of nothing. Opinionated frameworks abound, pre-ordaining the little manouevres needed to wire them up properly, and solving familiar problems with established patterns. If these have all been decided b
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
But there's dismerit in monocultures - maybe those F# folks are pleased to be avoiding that. Plus, if you're situated in a historical process (like we all are) then arbitrary things become important. Accidental weaknesses such as
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Not entirely on topic, obviously, but whatever: there's a strange emphasis on the male pronoun in the first paragraph of this, that at first seems like a kind of horrible hiccup from the past, but then, through its repetition, becomes
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
But mimickry of conversational tics is only one side of the coin - as much as we all like to lather ourselves in a common medium, it's also pleasant to distinguish ourselves from our peers, not just for an ulterior audience, but also o
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Elsewhere in the fertile field of morbid Conservativism, there's good rumination to be had in the shady corner that is Book III of the Alan Clark Diaries . Despite being likeable and witty, the man's an aristocratic snob, a bigot
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Chastisement and reconfirmation in one glittering, bulging codpiece
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Also - the glistening of jewellery.
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Birds Sing for International Dawn Chorus Day(idcd.info)
2 points by miceeatnicerice 9y ago|0 comments
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
Isn't it implied in being territorial?
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by miceeatnicerice 9y ago
That's fascinating. Maybe nasally-orientated organisms conceive themselves more as ambient presences than as hard-bodied social atoms?
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
Too right. And Foucault's conception of power allows this kind of non-scientific practice to be reasoned about.
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
It does seem familiar, but it doesn't seem like Foucault. If power's everywhere, it can hardly be a bad thing in itself. The point isn't to oppose it, but to be cognizant of it, to play with it and to not get trapped in other
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
Looking for small things in a field requires, and promotes, a particular mindset - like you have to let your imagination run from the slightest impressions, and trust your innate powers of recognition. I sometimes go mushrooming (like John
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
Anyone ever come across Alain Badiou? And if so, what's his reputation like? All my small acquaintance with set theory etc has basically come second-hand from trying to read his book, and now I'm left with the probably unjustifiab
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
Being faithful to chance events is a great way to organise your knowledge - it basically subordinates facts to wit. Fight the facts! Become self-aware! That's how I think it works anyway. Difficult to follow through with on the larger
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by miceeatnicerice 10y ago
That might have been m0nty's exact point

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