thirdmunky

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by thirdmunky 3y ago
When I was in high school and planning to study architecture, I came across this blog. I'm glad the author is still here and putting out high-quality pieces after all this time. The author, Kate Wagner, also writes more serious pieces
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by thirdmunky 3y ago
The parent is referring to this article [1], which features JUICE and two other satellites as characters observing humans on earth after the advent of immortality. It's a great read. It's thoroughly and wonderfully human. [1] htt
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by thirdmunky 3y ago
Source paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05537
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
This is incredible! I've wanted something like this in a notebook for a long time.
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
I recommend 17776 [1] to anyone interested in the question of what a society of immortal humans would look like. It's thought-provoking and well-put-together. [1] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
Donald Shoup, who the article credits in large part for this change, has given many talks about parking. Some are available on YouTube [1]. Well worth a listen. [1] https://youtu.be/r0gokb4rPik
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
The section on caring about people's time [0], a.k.a. prefix-competitive docs, is great. Prefix-competitiveness is widely and easily applicable and provides a lot of juice despite how obvious it sounds. It's relevant for docs, sli
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
agreed, I think everyone under the child comment of yours is talking about the verbosity coming from non-semantic stuff.
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
Java idioms are one contributing factor. There's some inherent wordiness too - for example, Hello World in Java is wordier than in most other programming languages.
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
This is a reductionist take on a complicated question. More environmental damage may mean fewer people in the future. Is more people now worth fewer people or a lower quality of life later? Also, consider non-humans: how many additional peo
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by thirdmunky 4y ago
How can I extend this version to multiple loggers, like the article does? Do I need to write in my application code: writeStringToFileAndWrappedSocket(w: WrappedSocket, f:File, s:String) = writeStringToFile(f,s) and writeStringToWrapped