drpossum

ugh

Did the International Journal of Research in Human Manipulation and Subjugation think their methods were too weak to get published there?

Not sure why that is in any way relevant, but thanks.

"Worth" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

If the title is bad I'm not going to waste my time reading the article to see if it has merit. It destroys the credibility of the author before anything they have to say is out of the gate.

This NixOS cult think garbage and specious reasoning that it is somehow a holy grail to solve all software issues is what keeps me away from NixOS.

Yeah! Didn't you know? Europe doesn't have elected leaders.

Then do it for Russia too. I also don't care if I get "dragged" for suggesting it. Capitulating to poor leadership is enabling poor leadership and the world is in a bad state because of it.

Literally the only reason it doesn't happen is because there's too much money to be made for people who are not you and me.

Frankly if it did happen, someone would bridge it and I'm sure that rogue bridge ain't gonna be poisoning anything. They'd be a hero and a broker.

Do you use it exclusively yourself?

> Clojure seems to be a more widely used and active version

This is a pretty gross oversimplification and it's also a mischaracterization to say it's "a more widely used and active version". I wouldn't even put it in the same catagory as traditional lisps since those will compile down to executables and clojure run in the JVM

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This was actually very popular with offshoring and the results spoke for themselves. I made a lot of money cleaning up those dumpster fires and it's hard for me to not encourage more of it.

Thank you for clarifying.

I enjoy a good heckling probably more than most people, but this is just mean and thoughtless.

> a free and consensual transaction

lol. I don't think you understand any of those words

> I’m noticing more and more politicians using this as a way to simply gather more votes with a "cause US bad"

You typed that like they're wrong

> I don't have anything of substance to say

Thanks for saying something anyways. I wish more people would follow your example.

This isn't fair because you can claim that any force that isn't EM since that's the primary interaction any of our sense work on.

Your ideas aren't clever or useful. They are just adding noise to any productive discussion. You might as well just say science isn't real because our senses are unreliable or God could have made whatever happen or a wizard did it.

Wow, I guess that whole gravitational wave thing and anything with cosmological neutrinos are just hoaxes if I listen to anything you have to say.

Why even do automated testing too? Devs should just test their code. If they were doing their jobs there would be no bugs./s

Your opinions are so regressive you really should consider going into management.

That doesn't validate your assertion that particles are just "an approximation". Just because it's used in perturbation theory doesn't mean it's exclusive to it.

You're also manifestly wrong on "the free particle is the only system we can exactly solve".

Very timely.

I'll bite: Explain yourself.

Also, for context, my question was posed because the idea of "particle number" as well as "quantum states of particles (which are countable) represented in a Fock space" and in general the idea of particles are, like, page 2 of any QFT textbook. It doesn't approximate anything in the theory. Creation and annihilation of particles (and hence the well-defined concept of a particle) is fundamental to the construction of the theory itself, perturbative or not.

Maybe your judgement about your developer friends or your trust of in the ability of the industry to evaluate developers is wrong.

So in a non-perturbative QFT calculation which has a well defined particle-number operator, that's just "an approximation" within the theory? What is it approximating?

If only all these people who spend their lives and jobs studying this in rigor and have all heard of Bohmian Mechanics WOULD ONLY JUST LISTEN TO YOU.

So what do you refer to all the other stuff that is accepted as "the internet" but is not websites?

No, the iterative improvement is to go back to letting communities develop the services and interactions they need rather than it being dictated to us by a monoplatform. It was like that with Twitter and now happening again with Bluesky.

If you don't see how this ends you're not paying attention. If you support this you're the problem.

keming

While I agree with the sentiment, Bluesky is not the answer to fixing social media.