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by theoh 7y ago
I'm not aware of anything that Vonnegut (jr.) wrote about architecture specifically, but that list of "other people unhappy with modernity" is supposed to be a miscellaneous grab-bag anyway. Curl's book is a mud-slinging
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by theoh 7y ago
The point Bayley is making is that there is a motley crew of people of all political persuasions who think modernization in the 20th C was a disaster. The mechanization of war was the big shock. Obviously there is everything from e.g. soci
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by theoh 7y ago
I probably can't convince you of anything, but there are definitely two sides to this story. You can choose to listen to Stevens Curl if you want to. You can choose to listen to Theodore Dalrymple as well. Like Stevens Curl he is a blo
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by theoh 7y ago
Just post links to the studies the article is based on: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.171... http://jpms.ucpress.edu/content/30/4/161.abstract I don&
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by theoh 7y ago
I'm not sure James Stevens Curl is a good person to go to for compelling images of architecture. Check out his website: http://www.jamesstevenscurl.com/james-stevens-curl-architect... He can sort-of draw buildings and
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by theoh 7y ago
20th century.
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by theoh 7y ago
OK, I'll make an effort to explain myself, even though I can see that I'm on to a loser with this line of argument. We need to forget for a moment that artists today cannot match the old masters. But what they still have in common
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by theoh 7y ago
These paintings have zero artistic value because they have no authentic connection to the person who paints them. Practicing a traditional craft is a form of self-expression and connection with one's heritage (even if the products are
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by theoh 7y ago
It's almost routine for high-end architects to produce substandard buildings. Zaha Hadid's work in Guangzhou is a good example. It's not necessarily the fault of the contractors, particularly with complex buildings, but the g
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by theoh 7y ago
Come on, as if "retail" was intrinsically a good thing. High-end shopping destinations are not part of the solution to the capitalism/consumerism situation we are in, and, most importantly, they don't even cater to the m
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by theoh 7y ago
Somehow, titles like this are acceptable (I don't see anyone asking for it to be changed). At the same time, more informative titles that people find irritating (because they seem clickbaity) apparently do warrant editing. So we'r
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by theoh 7y ago
Who knows what the future holds. Once upon a time all the power users used assembly language.
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by theoh 7y ago
OK, but beekeeping specifically— I've taken a class and had a look at the literature. Because it's such a compelling and charismatic topic (bees are a symbol of eternal life, hard work, etc.) there are A LOT of books out there. On
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by theoh 7y ago
"To complete a four year degree requires a commitment, a life-altering personal financial cost, and most importantly, a willingness to abide by the rules and procedures of a complex organization, " In many countries it really does
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by theoh 7y ago
Git is really a toolkit for version control. Linus (or some other Git proponents?) distinguishes between "plumbing" and "porcelain": the infrastructure and the UI. Linus wouldn't claim to be a brilliant designer of
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by theoh 7y ago
I'm not a database expert, but concepts like surrogate and natural keys come to mind. A unique slug is a natural key, but for most, if not all, items, you can come up with a natural key by combining a few bits of data (I've seen n
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by theoh 7y ago
OK, I know it's a 'bad' word to use. In my innocence, I think I can use it to invoke the rich, complex psychoanalytical meanings of the word. Serious conversation is what we do here, right? But more seriously, I don't ca
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by theoh 7y ago
FWIW, my reference to narcissism relates to the ideas of the true (deep) and false (superficial) self discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_self_and_false_self There isn't a hard scientific consensus
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by theoh 7y ago
More generally, it's becoming accepted that a major part of brain's function is predictive, because it's an important aspect of closed-loop control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding
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by theoh 7y ago
I think the nature of the conformity that he's putting forward is problematic, though. I don't agree that there is one right way to act, the one described on his site. There are many styles, but all he offers is conventionality. I
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by theoh 7y ago
There is something creepy about that Succeed Socially site, IMO. Perhaps it's just the somewhat inevitably bland normative nature of the advice—"white bread"—as they say. But there is also quite a high ratio of "don&#x27
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by theoh 7y ago
"Overs and unders" are still a thing in manufacturing. Up to 10% either way. e.g. https://support.discmakers.com/hc/en-us/articles/209954927-M... https://www.lumi.com/blog/expla
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by theoh 7y ago
Well, it's at least as complex as a Turing machine. That's a statement of complexity. Maybe you are asking whether it is possible for the winning strategy of a very simple deterministic game to be non-computable. In other words, m
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by theoh 7y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the article. The point is that when the game is considered as a computation, the problem of figuring out who is going to win is not computable. Like every discussion of the halting problem, this is about w
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by theoh 7y ago
The kid is good at constructing mechanical toys. But let's be clear, this is hands-on mechanics of very simple mechanisms. He is also, as far as the video shows, imitating mechanisms that he has already seen in full scale machinery. It
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by theoh 7y ago
Presumably you understand what I'm saying ("he's 'just a vain postdoc on an ego trip'"). Of course I know what his professional status is, it's the most prominent information on his website. It's a sh
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by theoh 7y ago
The "just" was supposed to apply to the whole self-aggrandizing trip. My point is that there are a lot of people with math PhDs, but Kun is in a small unenviable minority that is driven to engage in self-promotion via all these bl
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by theoh 7y ago
Butler Lampson talks about the general concept of an overlay in operating system design. It's a slightly different case, on the surface, but the possible application in this case is that if mmap fails, you probably should have a fall
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by theoh 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11899385 "I found a paragraph in this article http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/ very apt at describing what Unix signals are like:
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by theoh 7y ago
Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapshot_isolation .

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