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by troutwine 4y ago
It would have an appeal to me, because it's absurd. I'm an American and was raised up with the notion that royalty and monarchies are patently absurd, a feeling that has only grown as I've aged. Having a Lordship would be lik
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by troutwine 4y ago
Because the politics of the rich don't make good infrastructure for common use? So, BART was originally constructed for the purposes of suburban commuters heading into San Francisco for white-collar work with generous no-travel times b
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by troutwine 4y ago
At the most recent RustConf William Brown spoke about how OpenSUSE deals with Rust[1]. If I remember correctly from his talk they started doing something very similar to Debian and then eventually settled on "just use rustup". I w
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by troutwine 4y ago
Ah yeah, very fair if we’re talking “Rails” as a signifier of a big project that gives a language and ecosystem is “flavor”. For what it’s worth, I imagine Go has a broader remit than Rust even today. Go is a very good update on the pain po
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by troutwine 4y ago
Minor quibble, OTP _used_ to stand for Open Telecom Platform but that acronym was removed in the push to open-source. Ericson had hoped to sell the Open Telecom Platform to other telecoms but that didn't work out, hence the modern Erla
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by troutwine 4y ago
It’s an interesting argument. However, I’m not sure about it. Consider Rust doesn’t have a Rails per se but the ecosystem it is thriving. It seems more like an indication that the Clojure community of developers is either focused on things
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by troutwine 4y ago
After serving 15 years in San Quentin. I get the feeling you’re sharing but what would you prefer? The article does not paint a particularly rosy view of this man’s life, nor does social security amount to much money, per the article.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Much obliged.
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by troutwine 4y ago
What language(s), to your mind, would send a positive signal?
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by troutwine 4y ago
What book was that? I'd be interested in giving it a read.
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by troutwine 4y ago
You might also like William Vollmann's "Imperial".
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by troutwine 4y ago
Dang. I'd run into Tom now and again in Berkeley city politics circles, never put it together that he was _that_ Tom Lord. I hate to know that he's passed like this, all of a sudden. What a unique and interesting man he was.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Whether that’s a good definition or not of ‘mistake’, it’s extremely context specific. Considering the outcome of Abenomics and the generally used notion of ‘mistake’, still strikes me as valid to call it a mistaken program in retrospect.
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by troutwine 4y ago
A deliberate process that leads to an outcome you didn’t intend or want is one of the definitions of a mistake. > an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong
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by troutwine 4y ago
Boy, I had to have an appendectomy and I could barely stand. I can’t imagine flying for one, or holding off to get everything arranged. I suppose I may have had less time to plan than is implied here: went to bed fine, woke up in agony.
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by troutwine 4y ago
You can own a cannon today. I think you can own any type of cannon that was manufactured before like 1890 (memory is fuzzy here), a "saluting" cannon for funerals and what not and otherwise you have to pay for a tax stamp then wai
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by troutwine 4y ago
Right, well, like I said the merits of this particular idea are outside the scope of what I was trying to get at.
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by troutwine 4y ago
I think you might be responding to something I didn't write. I was trying to draw attention to the distinction between triage and the projects that go into triage versus work that addresses issues systematically. The GP's comment
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by troutwine 4y ago
In a crisis the name of the game is triage: solve enough incidental problems to buy yourself time to deal with systematic issues. This proposal, ignoring whether it's suitable or not, appears to be squarely in triage territory.
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by troutwine 4y ago
Nah, I wouldn't be angry at all, especially since conference organizers usually ask about that kind of thing. But there's also a non-trivial difference between summarizing a monologue and adapting material between mediums without
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by troutwine 4y ago
1. Oh boy, it's been five years now. I really couldn't say. A few hundred, easy? 2. Couldn't tell you. I don't track that sort of thing. 3. I am. It's an argument I still find compelling and I've had nice email
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by troutwine 4y ago
I did this once with Build Good Software[1], turning it into an essay[2]. It was... so much work. The talk was wonderful to give and while I ultimately did enjoy writing up my monologue in essay form I've never duplicated this practice
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by troutwine 4y ago
No thanks. What I'm interested in is a _structured_ program for providing feedback and going off-script into potentially legally problematic territory as an individual doesn't tip the cost/benefit ratio in the right direction
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by troutwine 4y ago
I've always had an interest in giving people feedback and have pushed for it at a few employers. What I've been told -- and I have no way to check this, considering I am not a lawyer -- is that giving post-interview feedback is le
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by troutwine 4y ago
I'm curious about the definition as well. "Cult" generally has a very specific set of behaviors associated with it as a term, where the GP could easily be describing a close-knit, large friend group.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> with no cemetery tracking FYI, if the author is here, I think you may have meant “telemetry” instead of “cemetery”.
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by troutwine 4y ago
> But people are able to learn new things every day. I don't think anyone suggested otherwise? I think the conversation might be slightly hung up on the specific example of a quill (reed stylus, sharpened bird bone, charcoal stick,
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by troutwine 4y ago
Oh yeah, for sure. The hand is certainly part of 'the tool' and variation there will make different approaches to forming characters comfortable for different people. My own hand is a small block with occasional tails between lett
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by troutwine 4y ago
> I've never understood the internet's hate for cursive. Are people who don't learn cursive not able to read the first line of a California license plate, or locate a Walgreen's pharmacy? It's sort of an outdated
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by troutwine 4y ago
> What is the current state of the web? Sure. I think the important difference here is the web has _become_ this way; the things you point out are problems to be solved. Whereas, Urbit encodes these norms as a social good.

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