tyri_kai_psomi
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Comment · 6 years ago
Did I place it before the early middle ages? Whoops! Not my intention. The schism took place in 1054 officially, however it was very much in the works before that. Thanks for pointing out my comment read as such. I use the term dark ages purely because that is the term the greatest amount of people will be familiar with, and I am referring to the period roughly between 1330 to enlightenment period.
Comment · 6 years ago
If you really think this, then all I have to say to you is you must read the Federalist Papers, Declaration of Independence and Constitution with quite the set of blinders on my friend. For example, consider this quotation from John Jay in Federalist No 2: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1329146-it-has-often-given-...
> the intellectual elite who were the thought leaders shaping our model of government were largely members of the Enlightenment faction that started the whole idea of anti-religious secular liberalism.
Really going to need a citation on this. Besides that point, the Enlightenment being anti-religious is a myth in of itself as well. Most standard taught US history on the events that took place basically from the split of the One Catholic Church, through the dark ages, and up to just before the founding of this country is woefully inaccurate. We are pretty good at documenting things that occurred on this continent roughly mid 1700s on.
Comment · 6 years ago
The comment is not fitting to the article, but I wanted to respond to it anyways because I found it interesting and it's not something talked about here much, for obvious reasons.
The problem is going to escape many on the left, including most people here as well, as many people here are mostly agnostic/atheistic/anti-faith and believe having faith is somehow anti-intellectual. The reality of the situation is the US was founded, both socially and politically on Judeo-Christian principles of morality, and the nuclear family and it is undeniable the evidence to support this in our laws and constitution.
We have seen more upheaval and social change in the last 10-15 years than the previous 50 all in the name of "progress" (never mind it is those very people who subscribe to that "progress" that are leading the way in unhappiness, depression, low marriage rate, low birth rate, and suicide).
There are positions now being held by major political frontrunners that are simply not compatible with any person of faith, or any sort of compromise with the opposite political party. There is simply no compromise to be had. The biggest elephant in the room is abortion. My two favorite writers on this subject are Caitlin Flanagan for a left-side perspective, and Alexandra Descantis for a right-side perspective. Both write very thoughtfully on this issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/how-democrats-purged-... https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2019/11/16/an_honest_abort...
Many people call America a Christian nation. I know this will get downvoted to hell here. I consider myself a well traveled man, and I will quote one famous professor I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture of that rings especially true to me: "The only country in the world that doesn't know America is a Christian nation is America."
Comment · 6 years ago
The most realistic founding story so far is Bezos explanation for how he founded Amazon.
It was always a business-first mindset in an area of high growth.
That one short video filmed in 1997 should be a masterclass by itself.
Comment · 6 years ago
In my thinking, I think of an endpoint as something at either end of the communication channel (NATS in this case) where it is effectively terminal. Usually this is where the application logic lies. Dereck Collison (creator of NATS) brings this up in many of his talks about NATS, but I think the source of his thinking might come from “End-to-End Arguments in System Design” by Saltzer, Reed, & Clark.
The core of it is this point:
"Functions placed at low levels of a system may be redundant or of little value when compared with the cost of providing them at that low level."
That is, in order get that message redundancy or exactly once delivery, or message persistence, you pay a high cost, and you may be better off delegating to the endpoints.
This blog provides a good overview
https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/11/14/end-to-end-arguments-in-...
Here is the original paper
http://web.mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/endtoend/endtoen...
Comment · 6 years ago
NATS is an amazing project, I just wanted to take the opportunity to highlight it for those first hearing about it in this comment. It's so brilliantly simple, yet changed the way I design distributed systems. I handle almost anything in regards to the standard messaging guarantees that a Kafka-like system offers at the endpoints now. As a result, systems are much simpler, and diagnosability of bugs or edge cases are much more straightforward.
Comment · 6 years ago
Everything is an art. Science is an art. Even "pure mathematics" can be artful and beautiful. There is beauty in all the miracle of the application of human creation, thought, and skill. There is beauty in process, in discovery, of discovery, etc.
And this is all so beautifully meta as well, because this too, is a philosophical statement.
Comment · 6 years ago
Two things:
- I buy them Apple devices. n=4 here, but it really seems when my family (mom, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and older brother who is borderline tech illiterate) made the switch from Android to iOS devices or even PC to Mac, they just had less of an issue with this. It's anecdotal, I am not a diehard Apple fanboy, but take it for what it is.
- I tell them to always close any and all popups. Point blank, carte blanche, doesn't matter how sincere it seems, or if it even is legitimate, just close it. If there's something she ends up not being able to do eventually she just calls me.
Comment · 6 years ago
Did you tell them to all turn off their phones and remove their batteries, too?
Comment · 6 years ago
Insert standardization XKCD. It's been tried. And even so, you can still use the "standard" coredump tool to analyze a Go program's coredump with decent success.
Comment · 6 years ago
Unfortunately, this is not true. Although the equality operators are a favorite bikeshedding topic, the largest source of errors in JS code bases are type errors. Using a "non-sane" equality check, such as those with type coercion would actually mask or alleviate these source of bugs you mention.
Comment · 6 years ago
Then again, even if we had sound statistics backing our policy, the facts would be dismissed in favor of the ideology backing the social policy.
Comment · 6 years ago
If the Alonzo Church model and Turing model of computing are computationally equivalent, then does it really matter? I may not be understanding correctly.