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by osullivj 1y ago
Feyerabend: the only rule is "anything goes"
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by osullivj 1y ago
Would be great to know which pubs have gluten free beer. I recently became gluten intolerant, and it's ended my 40 year beer career!
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by osullivj 1y ago
I've said this myself as Java's reification of mid 90s OO and poor interop via JNI are not to my taste. But I've spent 25yrs in banking with JPMC, BoA, Barclays et al. Done lots of interop with Cobol on S/390, AS/40
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by osullivj 1y ago
So my imperfect understanding is they formalised Escher's shading tricks. And so systematised making the impossible look possible. Which is what magicians do by gaming our perceptual firmware. Which is the reverse of what we do when de
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by osullivj 1y ago
If you want to learn to like country music, listen to Margo Price, not Garth Brooks.
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by osullivj 1y ago
Yes, I believe the Internet is destroying the intersubjectivity humans require for socialisation.
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by osullivj 1y ago
One consistent red flag I look for after the hire is a refusal to learn anything outside their own narrowly defined scope.
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by osullivj 1y ago
I'm now a post kids greybeard; two nats, two steps, both flavours. Yes, girls under 10 are easier than boys. That flips on you in the teen years!
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by osullivj 1y ago
Would love to hear Carmack's thoughts on render cost...
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by osullivj 1y ago
Zachary's Showstopper book is a great account of Dave Cutler and WinNT.
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by osullivj 1y ago
UK too, and concerned. I agree that amendment 1 and 2 provisions effectively underpin individual freedom in the US due to founder perspicacity. My fear re US constitutional provision is on separation of powers, and transfer of power. Fortun
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by osullivj 1y ago
Written code is an auditable entity in regulated businesses, like banks. Fowler suggests we get more comfortable with uncertainty because other eng domains have developed good risk mgmt. Cart before horse. Other engineering domains strive t
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by osullivj 1y ago
I leaned heavily on my own meta cognition recently when withdrawing from a bereavment benzo habit recently. The combo of flu symptoms, anxiety and hallucinations are fierce. I knew O was seeing things that were not real; light fittings turn
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by osullivj 1y ago
The sound a crossplane V8 makes is especially delightful due to the [necessarily] asymmetric firing order. Crossplanes fire every 90 degrees, flatplanes every 180. Flatplanes produce a metallic yowl, crossplanes a fruity burble. Beats and t
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by osullivj 1y ago
Good points from Omar on the ergonomics of build systems and optimising for the most prominent scenarios. Wondering what OP motivation for cmake comes from? Does OP have some other codebase in play that mandates make?
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by osullivj 1y ago
And the gauges are just as important. Obligatory ref to Brad Cox seminal 1990 paper, Planning the Software Industrial Revolution, and it's compelling analogy with Eli Whitney.
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by osullivj 1y ago
Many people do not have mind. That's why they stab each other with blunt instruments due to "disrespect".
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by osullivj 1y ago
Yes. Love is mammal behaviour. I know my hind brain is telling me to love my kids. Do you know your own mind?
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by osullivj 1y ago
Perfect explanation of why love and reason are often opponents. We are humans, we have emotion, but alas not all are aware of their own minds.
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by osullivj 1y ago
I'm not an idiot. But I know when I've worked with better people. I'll shout two; Jeff Vroom and Alexei Zverovitch.
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by osullivj 1y ago
I agree. From 1st hand experience. Social media counters the socialisation and other awareness we grew with in the late 20th C
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by osullivj 1y ago
Amyloid plaques are my greatest fear. One parent. One GP. Natural intelligence is declining. When I arrive at dementia in 20 years the level of empathy and NI in the general population will be feral. Time to book the flight to CH.
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by osullivj 1y ago
We humans are in huge misalignment. Obviously at the macro political scale. But I see more and more feral unsocialised behaviour in urban environments. Obviously social media is a big factor. But more recently I'm taking a Jaynesian vi
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by osullivj 2y ago
Standards consolidate. Business differentiates. How will openui resolve that fundamental tension?
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by osullivj 2y ago
Yes; failures generate data. But you need devs who can understand why something fails....
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by osullivj 2y ago
Same for dairy cattle: males are redundant. My grandfather was an AI pioneer in the UK in the 1940s. AI being artificial insemination of dairy cattle....
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by osullivj 2y ago
My mind was boggling over a JMW Turner connection to Hofstadter!? Guess I don't know CS ..
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by osullivj 2y ago
My father taught HnD computing in the 70s and 80s at Trent Poly. One of his industry contacts did time for shipping DEC Vax VMS kit to Bulgaria in crates marked "tractor parts"...
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by osullivj 2y ago
I got hold of the FIG UK 808O listing, and ported to Z80 to run on my Camputers Lynx.
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by osullivj 2y ago
Yes, no extension points as you would have in a template style framework which executes canned imperative functionality around blocks of app code in a pre determined manner. ImGui is compositional, and you can compose render funcs in any or

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