scottlocklin

That's taking entirely the worst interpretation of what I said. I assume Thomas is sensitive about his appearance, took the worst interpretation possible and flagged all my posts. Which seems at least as shitty as noticing.

It's not like I'm making fun of the lady for having a big nose. She's simply completely ignorant in life experience, and even possible life experience to do justice to the source material.

I think it's also a damn shame my comments are seen as "toxic." I realize America is collapsing into a foment of witch hunts, statue topplings and city burnings, but if you really consider my writing on HN to be .... even "spicy" -the end can't be far off. God help you all.

Best of luck to both of you, Happy New Year, and apologies for rustling your jimmies.

Also "I've tortured the meaning of this to make Ray look like less of an idiot." I'm pretty sure gunshot detectors, which arguably date from WW-1, don't qualify as "Public and private spaces are routinely monitored by machine intelligence to prevent interpersonal violence.”

I'd rather write python than matlab any day (I made this choice, literally in '98): it's a statement about reading. Matlab is closer to a a math notation and python is a clunky programming language. I'd never in a million years write new code in Matlab, but I prefer it for didactics.