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Comment · 1 month ago
Sure, but it's only disingenuous until someone does it. Maybe this isn't it, ok. Better to criticize it on specific grounds of failure.
Comment · 2 months ago
the basins merge
Comment · 2 months ago
„Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen“

but if the thing can be interacted with, it can usually be mapped and defined and then named. But there will always be things which do not have names, at least in mathematics -- think of the real numbers.

Comment · 2 months ago
Meatbags can still be employed in this limited capacity, surely.
Comment · 2 months ago
"prepare founders" ... lol. founders prepare themselves.
Comment · 2 months ago
nth mover advantage.
Comment · 2 months ago
user interfaces are for users. people who deal with words may prefer an advanced TUI. Others may find graphical interfaces more useful. describe, don't prescribe. let a thousand flowers bloom.
Comment · 2 months ago
OK.
Comment · 2 months ago
So is The Pedestrian...
Comment · 3 months ago
I know what the author means, but I don't share the experience.
Comment · 3 months ago
Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.
Comment · 3 months ago
ah the packbot. I remember working on that.
Comment · 3 months ago
First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.
Comment · 3 months ago
this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.
Comment · 3 months ago
cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

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