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Re:What does it mean to listen on a port? by michael_nielsen on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:02PM (#30325048)
As others have pointed out (e.g.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324567 ), the style in this article is not what I had in mind when I coined the phrase "discovery fiction". It also has nothing to do with spaced repetition or having a "more natural flow".
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Re:What does it mean to listen on a port? by paulgb on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:09PM (#30325126)
Sorry to drag you into this! I meant “inspired by” in the literal sense, not as a claim that it would fall under your definition. I mentioned so when I tweeted it, but not in the post itself https://twitter.com/paulgb/status/1492923557801869318?s=21
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Re:What does it mean to listen on a port? by michael_nielsen on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:34PM (#30325374)
No worries. I'm glad you're experimenting!

For myself - and I know others respond very differently - I usually want everything in an essay to serve the overarching point. So I find fictional asides pretty distracting. There are exceptions: Imre Lakatos did it well in "Proofs and Refutations", and Douglas Adams did it well too. But it's tough to pull off!

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