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lichess is not one guy either, there's a whole community of developers, moderators etc.
- natural and necessary, e.g drink, eat
- natural but not necessary, e.g sex
- not natural and not necessary, e.g smartphones
Epicure advised to fulfill only the first type of desires, that is, drink water and eat bread, period.
As a sidenote, the goal of his philosophy was not to experience pleasures, but instead to avoid pain, which is quite different.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/menurc/about-...
The 'reality' is the top level context.
You dive down to level 2 context by falling asleep; that would be the recursive function call.
In that dream, fall asleep and enter level 3 context. You are now recusrsively falling asleep.
In the movie, the characters wait for a signal to wake up and going one level up. This is the 'stopping condition' of a recursive call.
You can also see that as Matryoshka dolls.
Regarding the 'Inception' movie that's funny, because it popularized the '-ception' suffix to describe a recursive phenomenon [1]
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception#In_popular_culture
I find it really impressive that desktop applications can now run quite smoothly in a web browser. In like 15 years we've made it from phpbb forums through 56k modem, to this.
Congratulations
[0] http://example.qt.io/qt-webassembly/widgets/richtext/textedi...
[0]https://lichess.org/qa/6/how-does-the-rating-system-work-on-...
[0] http://www.smh.com.au/news/big-questions/we-breath-in-oxygen...
I think he means that wether nano is derived from an email client or not is not important
In what pretty terms these thoughts are put!