...and the homelab is a feminine art, while nursing is a masculine profession. Will have to read some BoJo[0] columns so I can manually do the style transfer, but sounds worth attempting. (though I still owe you lattice.ch)
SPPL: wrt https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42416615 VR says: We harbor contempt for technology that is simpler than we perceive ourselves to be (unless you’re a particular sort of mystic seeking to become one with a simple tool like a sword...) but the key is that while the sword itself is a simple tool, the behaviours around it are complex: even at the highest level on one side, there are the legs, the hand(s), and the heart/head animating them (4H is not ecchi[1]); tensor that with all of those components from the dual side of the duel, and you wind up with a (largely incorporeal) technology[2] that is much more complex than its most distal tool: a piece of metal with very distinct moments of inertia.
Come to think of it, could the reason that the Wii-swordplay minigame was ultimately so disappointing be the same reasoning the Original Greekstas were disappointed in scrolls? The lack of repartée?[3]
[0] is ABdPJ post-literate? In one Covid-era address-from-home he appeared to have shelved not by-title or by-author but by-colour...
[1] a friend once discovered that walking around Tokyo holding hands with his Harvard sweatshirt-clad boyfriend caused much tittering among the young ladies passing by; evidently a Bishie with a huge "H" was just too hilarious.
[2] much of Bruce Lee's output seems strongly influenced by western fencing, but I don't know if that's just me parochially seeing only the terrain just under the lamppost[4]. Do you have any idea what, syntactically, I might search for to figure out how the chinese martial arts discussed control over distance? (and if, like the japanese, they also used the same term for temporal gaps?)
[3] consider how many orders of magnitude Aramis covered, going between defending a line (2e1 ms) and writing a thesis to defend (1e11 ms?)
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXC4N1HXf0
EDIT: forgot to mention that SSPL might lead us to Girardian logic, in a duel between code and data: with sum types, data has the initiative, and code must be ready, beforehand, to parry and riposte appropriately for all possibilities; with product types, code has the initiative, and data must be ready, beforehand, to parry and riposte appropriately for all possibilities. Eliminating sums is a projection operator on code; eliminating products is a projection operator on data.