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by tomgp 4y ago
my feeling was that Crockford’s ‘…good parts’ was intensely pragmatic. About as far away from the academic approach you’re describing as i can imagine. A bigger, multi paradigm language makes it harder to read other peoples code as the chan
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by tomgp 4y ago
I'm not sure he did, at least not in terms of serious, academic, literery theory but you can perhaps see how it might be a useful heuristic for an author in terms of thinking about what type of story they want ot write. Vonnegut was al
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by tomgp 4y ago
Taxi services in Germany pre-Uber weren't perfect but they weren't the disfunctional rackets you see in the States. Uber "succeded" in Europe by undercutting existing farily decent service providers with subsidised fares
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by tomgp 4y ago
Me too! A lot of the recent advances in space travel/ exploration whilst techically impressive (space X's reusable rockets, starlink etc.) just don't really spark joy or wonder in the way that the Webb telscope has for me.
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by tomgp 4y ago
surprisingly excellent
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by tomgp 4y ago
Could you expand on that? To me the second quote seems to support the reading of LOTR etc. as part of an attempt to create/ codify an English myth cycle
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by tomgp 4y ago
YES! On a recent re-read the different tones Tolkien uses for different parts of the book were really apparent (I was readinbg it aloud to a child). The two main modes are, of course, the pastoral Hobbit sections (not just in the shire, but
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by tomgp 4y ago
From their FAQ I think these are the key bits of information: >What does the data company do? >The data company digitises and maintains the product information for 98% of grocery products in the UK. They’ve generously worked with us t
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by tomgp 4y ago
my wife’s family has a new year day tradition of doing a straight line walk. great fun and revealing re physical and human geography. Parts of Wales and the North can be physically difficult but are generally doable if you don’t mind crawli
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by tomgp 4y ago
I did work on the web back in those days. The situation now is nothing like it was during IE's dominance in the early 2000s, to claim it is is hyperbole at best.
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Web3 as a “Speculative Community”(maxread.substack.com)
2 points by tomgp 4y ago|0 comments
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by tomgp 4y ago
“some external aim of coordination that discourages people from just speculating”, i think the word you’re looking for might be “trust”
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by tomgp 4y ago
I think seeing a therapist sounds like a good idea. If you don't know what it is you're feeling a therapist can help with that. To you're original question I'm sure you can still learn, it's just that you can't
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by tomgp 4y ago
I had a similar experiendce on my degree course but I'd known about List before college because my father is an architect and early adopter of CAD software (we're talking 1988) and AutoCAD used AutoLISP for scripting.
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by tomgp 4y ago
There’s also the usual Peter Hitchens subtext that things were better in the old days before women and ethnic minorities and the working class ruined everything, before the communists took over (a thing Hitchens actually appears to believe
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by tomgp 5y ago
yeah, you assert your status by being able to ignore cultural/office norms.
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by tomgp 5y ago
DFW concluded that if you don’t choose what to worship it gets chosen for you. What he’s saying is that one should be conscious and deliberate, self aware. Like much of DFW there’s a strong christian undercurrent to ‘this is water’. Far fro
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Automating cookie consent and GDPR violation detection(usenix.org)
109 points by tomgp 5y ago|247 comments
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by tomgp 5y ago
Wow! We're talking about wearing a face mask for a short amount of time in very specific situations here, a tiny inconvenience which has proven benefits for a broad swathe of the population (not just the old). No one's asking you
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by tomgp 5y ago
The Mathematical Tourist by Ivars Peterson when i was 15. Years later when my wife and I combined our pretty extensive book collections it was the only tile we had in common.
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by tomgp 5y ago
Lifecoach is an odd one, he's a fantastic deeply analytical player who just doesn't seem to understand why anyone would play a game in any other way, and as the article points out is just rude about people who don't conform t
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by tomgp 5y ago
didn’t bitcoin price take a nose dive when russia invaded? the opposite behaviour than what you’d want from a store of value
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Every Layout 3rd Edition(every-layout.dev)
2 points by tomgp 5y ago|0 comments
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by tomgp 5y ago
Worth watching the short video embedded in the article to get an idea of what these hegerows look like in practice. The illustration makes them look like standard manicured garden hedges rather than the reality of impenetrable intertwined
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by tomgp 5y ago
Doesn't that video seem odd though? I don't understand what's going on here, it's just surreal. Like if I was a multi-billionaire would I hire a film production crew including a bunch of extras and Christmas themed set t
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by tomgp 5y ago
I love this idea! I have a lot of little game memories that would fit perfectly into this form. I wonder how much of our feelings about particular moments are informed by the process of playing up to that point or what comes after. e.g. the
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by tomgp 5y ago
the article is mainly concerned with body image and passive social comparison rather that ‘young girls being awful to each other’ a view which is not a universal truth and says more about the holder of the opinion than anything else.
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Scientists identify key conditions to set up a creative ‘hot streak’(theguardian.com)
2 points by tomgp 5y ago|0 comments
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One Woman’s Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia(wired.com)
4 points by tomgp 5y ago|2 comments
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by tomgp 5y ago
laziness. they could just not use a tool that generates reams of bullshit markup but that would require thought and effort to understand and work with the material of the web.

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