teorema

The problem isn't who we praise, it's who we don't praise.

Maybe we live in a different world today but my sense is scientific innovation happens in a very different way from the genius model.

Sometime long ago I came across an article arguing that we've replaced the concept of a saint with a genius, as the worldview shifted from religion to science. It was very compelling.

Increasingly I feel like there's only collective recognition. If you're too far ahead of the curve or behind it's all the same. Being at the curve just means you're recognizing everything at the same time as everyone else.

Yeah the author seems to be approaching their overall argument by first establishing that there's no primary source evidence from the time of castle building that the defense theory is true. He seems to be trying to establish that the argument for it is modern and therefore just as good or bad as any other.

I wish he would delve into things more but it seems reasonable to me to first establish where the defense theory first came from.

See also Professor Pangloss.

Journals, even prominent ones, change names for all sorts of reasons. It doesn't happen often but it does happen. The meaningfulness issue can cut both ways.

I think the real problem is the centralized vs federated vs distributed nature of it. IPFS is a good example of how that could have looked; not sure if it could be moved into that space somehow (I'm sure it could in theory, but in practice?)

tbh I'm not dyslexic and realized the spaces make it really difficult to know what the filename actually is. If you just take the second example, how would you know if the file was "this is my config.txt" versus "config.txt"?

Aside from parsing errors it just seems to lend itself to ambiguity.

quinine, chicle, eucalyptus...

I can remember when a lot of widespread network platforms were niche. Twitter and post Twitter started this VC instant popularity expectation.

I don't mean to advocate for Mastodon or anything else in particular, but these things sometimes have a way of being niche until they're not.

I also think part of the parent's argument was that in encountering obstacles like this, groups of nonprofit institutions such as art museums could leverage their position to promote decentralized systems, rather than simply throw up their hands and go with a sensationalized move.

Then again we are here discussing it. But then again if they banded together to post on some decentralized platform we'd probably be talking too.

Actually I'm shocked to read this because I have the opposite reaction. To each their own — you make a good point about the accuracy of their inventory information — but to me the Home Depot website is on of the worst websites I have ever used.

It's unbelievably slow for me, a perfect example of bad JavaScript. Product menus appear at the worst possible moment, inexplicably spreading across the page after I've looked for them and given up. It's impossible to bulk edit lists you've bookmarked. I could go on and on.

It's like someone took this beautiful inventory database and layered this textbook example of bad but typical modern web design on top.