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by pjmorris 2y ago
> The sound of a guitar string plucked by Mark Knopfler can't be mistaken for any other guitarist. I'd say there's only a mild risk of hyperbole; he really does have a unique sound.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
On the topic of music, I first learned of shipbreaking from Mark Knopfler's song, 'So Far from the Clyde.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9OIucgb_4Q
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Have a look at government, academia, religion, all instances of immense power acquired through convincing text. There are probably other examples.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
> However, it's not an up-front design doc, it has clearly been written after the bulk of the work has been done, to explain and justify rolling out a big change. Shades of Parnas! [0] [0] 'A Rational Design Process: How and Wh
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Church-Turing Thesis (~1939)?
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This off-topic and it isn't your fault, but 'I Zimbra', first song on 'Fear of Music' by the Talking Heads, just popped into my head and it's not going away. I'm expecting others to come up with the Bond r
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My mid-90's boss often repeated his old bosses' sayin "No oh," as in never depend on an initial release, wait for the patches.
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> Financial GDP captures the ability to produce or purchase the upstream resources, manufacturing alone does not Sure, manufacturing depends on its inputs. My take is that the material economy (manufacturing and all its inputs) is the a
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My read of each of your points is that they are about manufacturing capacity (1. in the past, 2. in the present, 3. its inputs.) rather than about finance. All of these things are valuable or necessary independent of their financing. In a w
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What do you think of the notion that hard power is measured in manufacturing capacity rather than in financial terms?
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"Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers." [0] [0] https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
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> It also has the added benefit of uplifting others - it transforms their idle thought into something that actually happens. Hearty agreement, from the experience of both the receiving and offering ends of that gesture.
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I think they were referring to the shell companies that own the chickens.
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Not a film, but 'Apollo: Race to the Moon' by Murray and Cox is a book covering the engineering and management efforts that went into Apollo, and is the closest, most interesting and entertaining thing I've found that is simi
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[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/
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A new tulip mania, but with robots? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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Matt Taibbi: "Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism"(nakedcapitalism.com)
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What everyone else says about talking with people is the best advice. But if you don't already do this, try watching your local nightly news in English. It'll give you examples of vocabulary, grammar, and things to talk about with
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by pjmorris 3y ago
From the graph at the end: 13.8% of issues resolved. Devin may need some additional help for awhile.
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> But it is definitely not true that source code would have any use to most computer users (smart phone users, really) today. They simply would not have the ability to do anything with it. It seems like GitHub and other sources of open s
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"What does society need? It needs information that is truly available to its citizens—for example, programs that people can read, fix, adapt, and improve, not just operate. But what software owners typically deliver is a black box that
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by pjmorris 3y ago
This reminds me of 'Code Retreats' [0], "A coderetreat is a day of deliberate practice, far away of the pressure of getting things done. A space for you to try out Test-Driven-Development and other practices." [0] https
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by pjmorris 3y ago
When I was young, I worked in restaurant kitchens. One dish we made, Coquilles Saint-Jacques, was essentially this. Of late, I've only seared scallops or wrapped bacon around them, but it was delicious and you may get me to go back to
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by pjmorris 3y ago
Consider taking up backpacking as a hobby (e.g. follow the /r/appalachiantrail subreddit,) or maybe volunteer with a scout troop that keeps an active hiking/camping schedule.
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Tenacious reference.
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by pjmorris 3y ago
> If you would turn it around and imagine a world without paper passports and government issued id's - what would you use as unique identifier for a person? I'm not sure... but I'm also convinced that 'private corpor
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I am picturing a Braveheart-style battlefield with warriors face-painted in the brand colors of choice, roaring and brandishing various battery-powered implements of destruction. I am a member of House Ryobi, but only out of accidental conv
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by pjmorris 3y ago
Fair. I'm a big fan of 'Our Band Could Be Your Life', Azerrad, but I've only read it. It sounds like you, or people you know well, are living it out.
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If an old punk ethic was 'Do It Yourself' (DIY), maybe the modern punk equivalent would be 'Do It Offline' (DIO.)
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“ The interaction of two programmers looking over a program that either one of them could have worked out is entirely different from the interaction of two programmers working on separate parts of a whole which is too great for either one t

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