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Sure, but it's only disingenuous until someone does it. Maybe this isn't it, ok. Better to criticize it on specific grounds of failure.

the basins merge

„Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen“

but if the thing can be interacted with, it can usually be mapped and defined and then named. But there will always be things which do not have names, at least in mathematics -- think of the real numbers.

Meatbags can still be employed in this limited capacity, surely.

"prepare founders" ... lol. founders prepare themselves.

nth mover advantage.

user interfaces are for users. people who deal with words may prefer an advanced TUI. Others may find graphical interfaces more useful. describe, don't prescribe. let a thousand flowers bloom.

OK.

So is The Pedestrian...

I know what the author means, but I don't share the experience.

Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.

ah the packbot. I remember working on that.

First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.

this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.

cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet

This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.

The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.

it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

I worked with a woman who kept isopods as pets. She had a little terrarium at work with all sorts of breeds of isopods. That's where I learned you could buy isopods online.

Except for Keith Moon. All the stories about him are true and if anything underplay the truth. :-)

Is it possible to reset the source once you've started modifying it?

General class in USA, not currently active. More interested in tech/building than conversation/contesting although POTA and SOTA hold some interest, as does field day. Perhaps when I retire those might become a thing I do.

Seymour Cray down in the tunnels, communing with the Machine Elves.

The City Fathers from cities in flight

While I think it is true that mistakes cannot be undone, it's also the case that most mistakes (even fairly bad ones) are not a sentence of doom. There are still choices to be made in the future (if you think there are choices) and you can always take the stoic route which is imo quite useful regardless of the question of free will.

what were the conclusions? I skimmed it but did not see any.

No, the high school project is talking about this.

There is no "why" -- it happened and was not selected against; it may have been adaptive and that is a kind of why, I guess. I think it would be better to be clear about this in science communication.