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by zvmaz 3y ago
I haven't noticed, but now that I've read your comment, I can understand your irritation. Just shrug it off if you can.
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> Project Oberon is an amazing piece of computer science and amazing tool for teaching. The book and the code demonstrate, without any tiny amount of doubt, that it is possible to build a usable computing system small enough to fit in th
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> Tayloresquece methodologies like Agile are great for getting mediocre results for mediocre projects using mediocre developers (if they are not mediocre to begin with, certainly they will become so) in a repeatable and reportable fashio
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> These days, I’m much less worried about this admission, in part because the alternative I have gravitated towards has given me greater personal satisfaction and, I hope, insights: history. We have been taught the history of colonialism
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by zvmaz 3y ago
You can posit the existence all sorts of entities as "hypotheses that have not been disproved". See for instance Russell's teapot [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
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Documenting has not only tremendously helped others in their work, but also myself. Furthermore, I do not want to remember from memory how I debugged a particular problem, instead I check the documentation, and get it over with.
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by zvmaz 3y ago
I really liked reading the README. It shows that you are passionate about Project Oberon and the book. This in turn motivates me to read it. Thank you for your work.
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> The largest chapter of the 1992 edition of this book dealt with the compiler translating Oberon programs into code for the NS32032 processor. This processor is now neither available nor is its architecture recommendable. Instead of wri
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The tone and aesthetics of the video feels like I am watching a "conspiracy theory" video made to elicit all my psychological triggers and biases towards believing in a "grand conspiracy" to control us (paradoxically, th
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Sure, but in this case, we don't know.
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> It’s worth remembering that there is not one single shred of evidence that life has ever existed anywhere in the observable universe but Earth. It is hard for me to believe that in the mind boggling vastness of space and time, we are t
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"Deleuze's work is characterized by his emphasis on difference and multiplicity, which he saw as fundamental to understanding the world. He developed a philosophy of becoming, which emphasizes the importance of change and transfor
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> I would recommend FreeBSD to anyone wanting to jump out of the Linux bandwagon As a desktop OS?
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Time magazine: Cultivated meat one of the best inventions of 2023(time.com)
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Journalists put in labor, as you probably do to put food on the table.
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Dualism does not necessarily entail theism or atheism. David Chalmers is an atheist [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p0BjA8mvU4
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Whether we know what "living" is or whether we solve the hard problem of consciousness is logically distinct from atheism (or theism, for that matter). Unless you think that our ignorance justifies theism, in which case you commit
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> However, I've never grabbed onto Dawkins atheism as much as come to believe that the ways things "live" is much more diverse and amazing than we can even imagine. What has atheism to do with the "ways things "l
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by zvmaz 3y ago
I have read that many security innovations [1] get implemented in OpenBSD soon, like W^X [2]. But I don't know enough about OpenBSD and I would like to hear as well if any organization uses it for mission critical applications. [1] ht
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Twain's Advice to The Youth is delightfully funny [1]. "Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than y
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> A surprisingly large amount of all human economic activity is around exploiting other people's psyche/biology. There's a book I am reading about evolutionary psychology that posits that a lot of human behavior has uncon
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I am inclined to the think that the internet is more and more filled with patterns that exploit the "weaknesses" of the human mind. My Youtube suggestions often include video shorts of scantily clad women in very suggestive postur
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Is it ill-intentioned? If so, why? Has anyone any idea?
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What is a good book on statistics that one can use for self-learning?
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Are the people who profess to be animal lovers eat meat? There's a certain hypocrisy in caring for pets and disregarding the animals we kill by the billions for our palates, and cruelly [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com&#
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by zvmaz 3y ago
What is a "third place" for introverts who are not very keen on socializing?
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I wonder if there's anyone who uses Emacs defaults and only that.
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Is James Bond the fictional character realistic? I always felt that he is an exaggerated persona that appeals to the male fantasy of hyper competence, boldness, and hence sexual appeal.
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> I'd actually argue that despite all the downsides of paywalls, paywalls are at least in principle up front with what's happening. Incentives and costs are clear. There are also working people behind the articles we read that
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There is still worse: > Sometimes this devolves into me talking about wave/particle duality as a crucial metaphor for getting through a rebase intact [...] Wave particle duality as a crucial metaphor for a functionality of Git?!

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