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Zizek’s “Less than nothing” makes the best case for Fichte.

If you know Zizek as the media clown he presents himself as, Graham Harman’s “Tool-being” (a book about something else entirely that briefly surveys other philosophers and gives a very positive appraisal of Zizek even though they’re polar opposites) makes the best case for Zizek.

I guess the best case for Graham Harman is the edition of the journal “Collapse” on speculative realism.

I guess the best case for that journal is Quentin Meillassoux.

And the best case for Meillassoux is Ayache’s “The Blank Swan”

And Taleb wrote a cool review of the Blank Swan somewhere that gets a pull quote in the book’s cover.

I guess the best case for Taleb is made by Paul Wilmott. Ayache also wrote for Wilmott.

And presumably Wilmott made money in the financial markets.

I have a blog that doesn’t get that much traffic but is easy to find on Google (and I use the same pseudonym on GitHub which is work visible). I’d say it’s “off brand” (I’m supposed to be a business consultant on data wadda wadda wacca) but it’s kind of a negative I think.

I might as well spam it. asemic-horizon.com would you trust a digital transformation / AI project to the man in that blog.

I alias cd to pushd but half the time I forget to popd. It would be cool if there was a tool like this that would produce a menu from my pushd queue.

Android Karenina did it for me.

I find the whole dominant submissive thing misleading. I’m sexually submissive (or at least that’s what populates my fantasies) but tend to be more dominant in real life. Then: women tend to manage day to day life with me and “tell me what to do” (this occasionally crosses some wires in my head too) but I’m the one to take bolder decisions (initiatives, but my partners tend to follow my lead) like moving houses/cities, making large purchases, having children.

My dad (from an older, perhaps more misogynistic generation) always said he and mom had an equal relationship but he was Captain of the ship. This has been the rule in my life: in crises, when taking bold steps forward, when taking risks, make-or-break decisions, I’m the Captain. Even if I often tried (before kids) to have women with my play the domination game outside the bedroom too.

I’m an existential dominant, I guess.

I expected this to be about Shark Tank somehow.

I was expecting Claris…

> not trying to pull fans away from the NY Yankees

In this thread we’ve learned there’s a New York Red Bulls and a New York Football Club.

As a South American fútbol fan: the <City> <Random GRR word> is very annoying.

Just say “New York Fútbol Club”. See, it breathes already.

Also make way for teams that are just called “Sports Association Firebug” for historically cogent but difficult to parse at first.

Docker?

“the math that I know is THE math to explain inflation, political instability and more”

You’re glowing, man.

Grows more relevant each year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy?wprov=sfti1

Side question: what’s something as simple as SQLite, but more of an unstructured key-value store?

I’ve been using (locally) a Redis container for a very early prototype because it seems to be simple enough to use.

I know you can query json strings in salute but that’s not quite the same thing. For one redis offers some geo features.

Why?

The real L, as they say on Twitter now, is that we went so far on making scientific knowledge the only valid kind of knowing that fabulists must now come disguised as science (whereas in the past we all knew what Blavatsky, Gurdjieff, von Daniken etc were all about and could enjoy them for what they were).

Can you define custom syntax highlighting as easily as in notepad++? My use case was that I had one big text file for everything with some ad hoc format.

I loved “The Fabric of Reality”, but I fear (granted, from his Twitter, which can be less representative of his Good Ideas) Deutsch is at risk of going Dawkins.

Please divert all of your charity spending to archive.org

Theater classes, as a teenager. About 3/5 of the people were shy people; only 2/5 were looking to get into acting.

Context can be expresses with thin, somewhat redundant interfaces that group code around how they map to desiderata. Eg the meat in “matrix pseudoinverse” and “linear regression” is the same, but you can expose domain-meaningful abstractions. Regular OOP does “tangle and weave” without the messy text transformation mechanics.

What you describe sounds like top down development (“in the small”). When you try to use it for bottom-up reasoning, you get Jupyter notebooks.

This is a cool idea. Also so if you switch tools like WMs you know what you used to have even if it takes some work to reconstruct what that was. But have such a tangle of glued together and custom written tiling WM rice that I can never switch to anything every again.

Overloading the asterisk is always weird because multiplication is expected to be associative etc etc.

Bravo!

This comment might as well be Peak Hacker News.

Pattern clusters would be better. Like “… so you want to design a programming language, this is the Visitor pattern, the Dispatch…”

I keep having to repeat this: in my experience, fasting and food quantity restriction is seriously prodromal for mania. And a good unrestricted euphoric mania can ruin your life.

Have you read Vilem Flusser’s Bodenlos?

What I love about Musescore is the “jazz” font. My father’s a composer (and at some point did fairly elaborate symphonic type work) and used Encore, Sibelius and Finale — and I think I have some kind of musical notation dyslexia that I can finally read at ease in the “jazz” font.

All things considered NK isn’t doing that well as compared to the US