Hi Kris. Thank you for reaching out in this way. I am sorry about what I said, and especially so about how I said it. My undoubtedly harsh words intended to disqualify a line of thinking that I saw as logically…
> I'm an actual intellectual It is literally impossible to make fun of this website. It is, truly, beyond parody. I think that I'm being hyperbolic in saying shit like "everyone in this website believes they're the…
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What a cheap blanket dismissal. Regardless of the affiliation of the site (which I neither know nor care) it links to sources that can be trusted: https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-ro...…
That doesn't mean that the people working to _improve_ PHP are doing anything wrong. Sisyphean, perhaps.
That's very interesting. I currently live in Barcelona, and most people would be very surprised to see Rodalies held up as any sort of platonic ideal of anything. Though it is true that it could be a great transit…
Aren't the diagonals also being built? Primarily, if I recall correctly, by reusing existing passenger rails corridors and connecting their services instead of terminating them at the main stations.…
There's no rule that says that something can't be both practical and good. And it's not like it's no longer possible to write quote-unquote "bad" PHP -- if nothing else, PHP is backwards-compatible to a fault.
Agreed. I'd say the source of the problem is the lack of real third places. I like to call this "the abolition of society", but I'm a bit dramatic. While the internet is certainly addictive, I'd assume that most people…
> We have a forest in our backyard with a 2 story fully enclosed treehouse (including electricity), sports fields within a 5 minute walk, tons of hiking trails, etc. Humans are social beings. We are motivated to do…
My impression is that Node.js has to be dragged kicking and screaming into any modern JavaScript development practices, and each time, they try to support as little of it as possible as they can get away with. They have…
Not all tourists are Americans. I would expect the average person scammed by these ATMs is an European citizen from a different country. I agree the map kinda sucks, because most of the island of Mallorca is a tourist…
I agree, but that's a very generous description of what Mozilla is doing. I'd say they're less "developing a competitive browser" and more "keeping an uncompetitive browser on life support to continue to profit off it".
I'd argue that the EFF is the main organization fighting for the open web.
Some minor product manager in Cupertino, two quarters from now: "As we can see in this graph, thanks to the improvements to Feedback Assistant over the past couple years, we've reduced our products' bug rate to nearly…
To be clear, I meant "nonsensical and unrealisable" in that there's no realistic, long-term sustainable way to greater public services without greater taxation. Nonsensical as public policy for them to advocate for. I…
I appreciate your answer. It's hard to have these conversations online without it quickly devolving into a shouting match, hence my disclaimer. Not that I have any intent to defend this abstract group of people, but I…
I see this sentiment expressed often, but I don't quite get it. Is the implication that if you personally enjoy a high standard of living through capitalism, it is therefore hypocritical to advocate for everyone to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Perhaps it's not great to set the expectation that any specific approach to AI "is all you need"? (or, in other words, "Is All You Need" Considered Harmful)
The public railway infrastructure is maintained by Adif [1], which is owned by the Spanish state. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrador_de_Infraestructu...
While I hope that Spanish politics continue to be based in coalitions, this is a very recent phenomenon, with a two-party political system historically dominating the country's politics, a tradition that predates the…
In Spain, there's usually no "density gradient" between the core of a city and its suburbs. The core of the city is dense, the suburbs are equally dense, and the conurbation's edge is a street which has a five-story…
In Spain, especially after the closures in the 80s [1], the traditional rail network, which was already chronically under-maintained, also became, with some exceptions, hopelessly disjointed. Many of the remaining…
Note that any combination of two of the three "dimensions" does constitute an independent system. That is, given that q + r + s = 0, then q + r = -s, so you could use only (q, r) as your coordinates (and indeed that's…
Hi Kris. Thank you for reaching out in this way. I am sorry about what I said, and especially so about how I said it. My undoubtedly harsh words intended to disqualify a line of thinking that I saw as logically…
> I'm an actual intellectual It is literally impossible to make fun of this website. It is, truly, beyond parody. I think that I'm being hyperbolic in saying shit like "everyone in this website believes they're the…
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What a cheap blanket dismissal. Regardless of the affiliation of the site (which I neither know nor care) it links to sources that can be trusted: https://www.timesofisrael.com/percepto-to-create-fleet-of-ro...…
That doesn't mean that the people working to _improve_ PHP are doing anything wrong. Sisyphean, perhaps.
That's very interesting. I currently live in Barcelona, and most people would be very surprised to see Rodalies held up as any sort of platonic ideal of anything. Though it is true that it could be a great transit…
Aren't the diagonals also being built? Primarily, if I recall correctly, by reusing existing passenger rails corridors and connecting their services instead of terminating them at the main stations.…
There's no rule that says that something can't be both practical and good. And it's not like it's no longer possible to write quote-unquote "bad" PHP -- if nothing else, PHP is backwards-compatible to a fault.
Agreed. I'd say the source of the problem is the lack of real third places. I like to call this "the abolition of society", but I'm a bit dramatic. While the internet is certainly addictive, I'd assume that most people…
> We have a forest in our backyard with a 2 story fully enclosed treehouse (including electricity), sports fields within a 5 minute walk, tons of hiking trails, etc. Humans are social beings. We are motivated to do…
My impression is that Node.js has to be dragged kicking and screaming into any modern JavaScript development practices, and each time, they try to support as little of it as possible as they can get away with. They have…
Not all tourists are Americans. I would expect the average person scammed by these ATMs is an European citizen from a different country. I agree the map kinda sucks, because most of the island of Mallorca is a tourist…
I agree, but that's a very generous description of what Mozilla is doing. I'd say they're less "developing a competitive browser" and more "keeping an uncompetitive browser on life support to continue to profit off it".
I'd argue that the EFF is the main organization fighting for the open web.
Some minor product manager in Cupertino, two quarters from now: "As we can see in this graph, thanks to the improvements to Feedback Assistant over the past couple years, we've reduced our products' bug rate to nearly…
To be clear, I meant "nonsensical and unrealisable" in that there's no realistic, long-term sustainable way to greater public services without greater taxation. Nonsensical as public policy for them to advocate for. I…
I appreciate your answer. It's hard to have these conversations online without it quickly devolving into a shouting match, hence my disclaimer. Not that I have any intent to defend this abstract group of people, but I…
I see this sentiment expressed often, but I don't quite get it. Is the implication that if you personally enjoy a high standard of living through capitalism, it is therefore hypocritical to advocate for everyone to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
Perhaps it's not great to set the expectation that any specific approach to AI "is all you need"? (or, in other words, "Is All You Need" Considered Harmful)
The public railway infrastructure is maintained by Adif [1], which is owned by the Spanish state. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrador_de_Infraestructu...
While I hope that Spanish politics continue to be based in coalitions, this is a very recent phenomenon, with a two-party political system historically dominating the country's politics, a tradition that predates the…
In Spain, there's usually no "density gradient" between the core of a city and its suburbs. The core of the city is dense, the suburbs are equally dense, and the conurbation's edge is a street which has a five-story…
In Spain, especially after the closures in the 80s [1], the traditional rail network, which was already chronically under-maintained, also became, with some exceptions, hopelessly disjointed. Many of the remaining…
Note that any combination of two of the three "dimensions" does constitute an independent system. That is, given that q + r + s = 0, then q + r = -s, so you could use only (q, r) as your coordinates (and indeed that's…