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Re:Borges Labyrinth in Venice reopens to the public on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:48AM (#49521991)
I am taking this as a reference to "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Menard,_Author_of_the_Q...

Re:Tangled – We need a federation of forges on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:28AM (#47948960)
Reading that - I'm really not sure that AT Protocol has a much better story there either.

(as I understand it) the data has to live in a PDS, PDS are keyed by accounts, so you are similarly stymied for collaborative projects? I guess AT Proto is still a real work in progress so maybe that story has improved since the last time I checked it out.

Re:AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel on Friday April 10, 2026 @04:25PM (#47723247)
You might be being too pedantic :)

https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-only.html It's a specific GPL license (as opposed to GPL 2.0-later)

What did you need to fix! And what did you need KKP for? are you running emacs in eat?
You might be sort of interested in the Emulate-A-Terminal (EAT) package: https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat which provides a very fast terminal emulator entirely in emacs lisp.
Re:How Ancient People Saw Themselves on Thursday October 30, 2025 @10:00AM (#45760126)
This is a very flat view - the Roman empire is born in a period of civil war, and after a relatively brief period of peace in the imperial core starts imploding and rebuilding itself in different configurations.

The art and culture was very often echoing an imagined past of yeoman landholders + citizens.(very similar to the invocation of 'Real America' today). And their foundation myth imagines that they are a continuation of the trojan civilization.

For everyone who was not at the top of the imperial hierarchy it's pretty easy to imagine that they thought civilization could be improved! Aristotle writes a defense of slavery - which implies that someone was attacking the institution. It's not a big leap to think that enslaved people could picture a world where they weren't enslaved, or that women could imagine having political/civil/property rights.

I think maybe something you are getting at is that those structures felt indestructible at the time, that in christianity associating the end of the roman empire with the apocalypse. Needless to say we aren't posting this in latin.

Re:Abstraction, Not Syntax on Monday October 13, 2025 @05:09PM (#45573355)
I also think that a lot of the problems with yaml specifically are overblown, but this post is actually not about that!

It is specifically saying the same problem exists in JSON/YAML/TOML, etc, which is that all these configuration languages don't have any real means of abstraction, and ultimately aren't expressive enough do to the job we require of them.

as soon as you are templating config files with other configs, I agree, I have sorely felt this limitation with helm charts

I think this might underestimate how gambling + kids games can reinforce destructive behavior.

There are lots of similar tools that casino owners/game designers/sports betting apps/social media/&c use to build addiction into their products, all while offloading responsibility onto individual consumers.

A really interesting study of this is the book 'Addiction by Design' by Natasha Dow Schüll examines this in the context of slot machines/video poker/casino games, but you can see the same process at work basically wherever you look.

Re:RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer on Monday June 23, 2025 @03:19PM (#44359094)
It seems very similar to an earlier paxos optimization called 'pig paxos' https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452834
Re:What the hell is a target triple? on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:10PM (#43697157)
I think the meaning is that the idea that compilers can only compile for their host machine is an ananchronism, since that was historically the case but is no longer true.
Re:What if your website had business hours? (2022) on Thursday April 10, 2025 @05:01PM (#43647981)
I guess they are willing to take that risk to fulfil their religious obligations - If you aren't allowed to do business it doesn't really matter if that business is online or in the store.

But I think that if you are familiar with B&H this wouldn't really be a surprise and it's pretty rare that you find yourself unexpectedly needing a new SLR on saturday morning in my experience

I think this really underrates the 15 years of work that has gone into creating interlocking systems to generate geography, civilizations, people, artifacts, emotions, poetry, &c, &c. Especially because you can see, often, what specific historical events or personal events are impacting your dwarfs frame by frame.

So on the contrary I DF is an example of how creative & human generative algorithms can be, you can't get anything as rich as DF with LLMs (currently at least, I guess)

Re:Half of Japan's LDP lawmakers had ties with Unification Church on Thursday September 08, 2022 @03:10PM (#32770531)
This really misstates an important point - the Unification Church is not "believed to be behind" the assassination, it was a man holding a grudge against the Church. Pretty much the opposite meaning. I don't think this comment is useful for discussion.
Re:How you could have come up with Paxos yourself on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:18AM (#24907639)
I think it's interesting that Lamport chose this style for Paxos Made Simple[0] Which iteratively goes through a process of proposing a solution for a problem (proposal 0: accept the first value the acceptor comes across) and then reveals the problem with it, and amends the proposal to fix the problem

[0] https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/paxos-simple.pdf

Re:An Archive of a Different Type on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:47AM (#24293623)
It's a pun! :)
Re:Barbecue: America's Most Political Food on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:54AM (#14139862)
The specific event (i.e. having a barbecue) is a direct descendant from the Caribbean practice. It actually goes over this in the article, along with a very brief description of how barbecues have been used a political events since the founding of the country.
Re:Barbecue: America's Most Political Food on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @11:42AM (#14139778)
Regional BBQ joints are afraid customers will forget their white supremacist past?
Re:Functional Geometry on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:38AM (#8752145)
In a similar vein, on of my professors is describing stringed instruments in scheme (based on the picture language) http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~mairson/Papers/ICFP062-mairson.p...