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by mjd 4y ago
"Fortune favors the prepared mind" (Louis Pasteur)
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by mjd 4y ago
"Not guilty, Your Honor. Perl users build small tools all day long." (L. Wall)
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by mjd 4y ago
I misread this as “UIs are screaming DAGs”. So disappointed!
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by mjd 4y ago
I would like to point out that the article does not use the words “succeed” or “fail”, and makes no claim about whether SML “succeeded” or “failed”. Indeed I don't think that is a useful question to ask. My article was trying to addre
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by mjd 4y ago
If you have two types, there should be a single type that "joins" them, in the sense that you can understand both of the original types as somehow being special cases of the join type. A join is not necessarily a union, since the
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by mjd 4y ago
Original source: https://perl.plover.com/yak/design/samples/slide006.html
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by mjd 4y ago
> Monkeys usually only take one bite of a fruit before throwing the rest to the forest floor. … an important advantage when there’s such fierce competition for food. what.
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by mjd 4y ago
Thanks so much for posting this! I'm a huge fan of the Decameron but I wasn't aware of the breadth of Boccaccio's work. I am eagerly looking forward to reading his biographies.
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by mjd 4y ago
Better luck next time!
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by mjd 4y ago
https://blog.plover.com/math/recorde.html
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by mjd 4y ago
It's nice to be reminded that not everyone has good ideas all the time, not even Feynman.
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by mjd 4y ago
I'm glad I could help!
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by mjd 4y ago
I was reading that one yesterday, in connection with https://math.stackexchange.com/a/4429436/25554 . (The answer that mentioned it has since been deleted.)
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by mjd 4y ago
There is a lot to say about _Knox_; it had a very bizarre procedural history. I cut it down as much as I could and the summary still came out to be the longest one in my list. To me the interesting part of the case is the procedural histor
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by mjd 4y ago
Dattner was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a good deal of printed material about him and the adventure playgrounds that dates from that time. But it is not available online; to find it, I needed to walk into actual libraries.
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by mjd 5y ago
It's not fun. I wish we weren't like this. I think it's a real problem that we habitually think this way.
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by mjd 5y ago
> This is only true in a narrow time context. You might believe that, but I don't think you know for sure, and I doubt you could prove it. I would not know what evidence of that claim would look like, or how to evaluate it. What I
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by mjd 5y ago
Plover, WI is on my list of places to visit. Maybe next summer! I am hoping to drive through there on the way to or from Neenah to see the foundry.
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by mjd 5y ago
This explains exactly what I was trying to do. Thanks for understanding. I agree that I should have given up and just gone with “a town in Croatia”. I have corrected the article.
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by mjd 5y ago
I thought long and hard about that word and almost made up the nonceword "Southslavia" to replace it. What I wanted was a word for the southern Slavic _region_, encompassing former Yugoslavia as well as Bulgaria and other territor
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by mjd 5y ago
Maybe those people didn't make it into the book because instead of dying in palliative care, they died under bridges or gutters or something.
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by mjd 5y ago
I light my office with two LED corn bulbs that collectively deliver 24,000 lm (equivalent to 15 or 16 100W incandescent bulbs) but consume only 200W and cost $140. They were super-easy to install because they just went into the standard soc
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by mjd 5y ago
I was so disappointed when I realized it didn't say “AI-synthesized feces”.
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by mjd 5y ago
I have looked back at Kragen's review comments from 2002 and they were (as I remembered) unusually thoughtful, detailed, and helpful. I sent him a more detailed message about this but I wanted to have it on the record here. Kragen: Tha
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by mjd 5y ago
Davies has showed up on my blog a few times. It's possible you will enjoy these miscellaneous notes on _The Manticore_: https://blog.plover.com/book/Manticore.html
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by mjd 5y ago
How about people who say “I've done professional work in 17 languages but none is much like Blub. Blub looks interesting and I'd like to give it a try.” That seems like a less dubious motive.
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by mjd 5y ago
I still don't understand. Do you? (Thanks for pointing out the typo.)
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by mjd 5y ago
I don't understand. What part do you think needs to be updated?
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by mjd 5y ago
I've added this to the article. Thanks very much for the reference.
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by mjd 5y ago
I misread this as “Advanced Onion Satellites”. So disappointed!

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