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by ajarmst 5y ago
Looks like someone else mentioned PAIP. I’d add “The Art of the Metaobject Protocol” as well.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The author's about page reports that he is a former physicist with experience in automotives and law enforcement. It also contains the statement "I have a particular dislike of self-anointed 'experts';" with no a
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by ajarmst 5y ago
If they're so easy and obvious, why hasn't the author done it, at least as a demo? The article also reeks of "this doesn't work for me, therefore it won't work for anyone" I doubt I'm the only one who abs
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Which episode has a crash that (1) they failed to find a primary cause for and (2) would have been solved had they had video?
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
It would be less useful than you’d think. Pilots are trained to articulate what they are doing and generally follow very well-practiced procedures. Another pilot can quite accurately reproduce what a pilot is doing just from the transcript,
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by ajarmst 5y ago
There’s an interesting aside in that neither a CVR nor a FDR would have been helpful in figuring out the cause of the Comet disasters. The way they did was brilliant.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The article is interesting, but that lede is incoherent. Many mathematicians accept computer proofs the way chess grand masters accept computer players. Computer “assistants” that generate proofs that humans cannot follow or understand will
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by ajarmst 5y ago
When I teach coding, I used to have a similar lesson around commenting code: "don't tell me you're creating a variable. I can read the code. Tell me what the variable is for." I still mostly abide by that, but I've
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Felleisen is an ACM Fellow with a senior tenured position at Rice. American, white, middle-aged. Doesn't have a presence in social media. He'll be fine.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
That seemed like an awful lot of words to describe the entirely predictable fact that the job market will pick up significantly as we shed pandemic restrictions and that workers in low-wage service jobs tend to quit a lot. A few anecdotes a
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Why would I use this and not Pandoc?
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by ajarmst 5y ago
"nor are the skills of writing good documentation even vaguely similar to those for writing good code". I disagree. Vehemently.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I always liked the way he responded when asked (many years later) why he did it. Paraphrased, it was along the lines of "It was so obviously the right thing to do, but it would have been nearly impossible to push through the bureaucra
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The only problem here is that the author perceives a need to apologize, or to even feel regret. If the only compensation for starting and maintaining an open source project is the work itself or personal use of the product, then you are you
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by ajarmst 5y ago
"No one would go to a restaurant where each dish requires a paragraph of text to really appreciate the taste and texture..." One assumes that you've never eaten with a 'foodie' or attended a wine tasting.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The author has a pretty good CV, but as his Wikipedia entry notes, there is a concerning history to some of his publications. The WP entry cites several expressions of concern, which are worth a read. See, in particular, the note at the li
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I bet you hate Elizabeth Holmes. I wish your sex wasn't relevant, but unfortunately it still is. I genuinely wish you well. We've seriously needed more (hell, any ) diversity in our leaders and decision makers for a very long
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The part I found interesting was that the author notes that it is well-known that the quality of the work has little to do with its odds of acceptance even when the system is 'functioning' as designed. Is it cheating to game a sys
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by ajarmst 5y ago
However, his Doctorate is in Chemical Engineering and what field and area for his postdoc research isn't identified. A postdoc Chemical Engineer wouldn't normally be working on the theoretical foundations of quantum mechanics. I
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by ajarmst 5y ago
More evidence that, no matter what horror finally consumes us, we will thoroughly deserve it.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I don’t think you can meaningly disentangle “information” and its representation without doing violence to the underlying theory. Nor is a discussion of “symbols” coherent without a reference to the information encoded. Grounding the idea o
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I was a backer for their previous project: Turing Tumble. It was a very positive experience, with timely informative updates and ultimately a high quality product.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
The link to the cm-unicode project cited in the article is broken. Interested browsers can find it at https://cm-unicode.sourceforge.io/
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by ajarmst 5y ago
Well, now I’m embarrassed. I had been operating (apparently for decades) on the assumption that Hobb was male. Which is pretty bloody sexist on my part. I apologize to you and M. Hobb. (I interpreted the “he” correction as a reference to my
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I believe Hobb identifies as male.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I’ve just been assuming that Sanderson will step up to finish those series when the original authors pass.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I’m waiting for the news that PETA activists have captured and euthanized Robin Hobb to end his suffering. After spaying him, of course.
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I agree completely that you shouldn’t be digging into that stuff unless you have a reason to and possess the appropriate competence. But the reasons for doing that is the same everywhere: (1) complex systems are difficult and subtle, and
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by ajarmst 5y ago
I find this to be a bit of an oversimplification. It's certainly not the case that there's only one type of storage, at least from a hardware perspective: there will always be storage that is faster than other storage, and managi

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