thirdmunky

When I was in high school and planning to study architecture, I came across this blog. I'm glad the author is still here and putting out high-quality pieces after all this time.

The author, Kate Wagner, also writes more serious pieces on architecture and housing for The Nation. I recommend taking a look!

https://www.thenation.com/authors/kate-wagner/ (warning: paywall after a few articles)

The parent is referring to this article [1], which features JUICE and two other satellites as characters observing humans on earth after the advent of immortality.

It's a great read. It's thoroughly and wonderfully human.

[1] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

Source paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05537

This is incredible! I've wanted something like this in a notebook for a long time.

I recommend 17776 [1] to anyone interested in the question of what a society of immortal humans would look like. It's thought-provoking and well-put-together.

[1] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

Donald Shoup, who the article credits in large part for this change, has given many talks about parking. Some are available on YouTube [1]. Well worth a listen.

[1] https://youtu.be/r0gokb4rPik

The section on caring about people's time [0], a.k.a. prefix-competitive docs, is great. Prefix-competitiveness is widely and easily applicable and provides a lot of juice despite how obvious it sounds. It's relevant for docs, slideshows, emails, and communication in general.

(I wish that section came first.. :p)

[0] https://github.com/hackergrrl/art-of-readme#care-about-peopl...

agreed, I think everyone under the child comment of yours is talking about the verbosity coming from non-semantic stuff.

Java idioms are one contributing factor. There's some inherent wordiness too - for example, Hello World in Java is wordier than in most other programming languages.

This is a reductionist take on a complicated question. More environmental damage may mean fewer people in the future. Is more people now worth fewer people or a lower quality of life later?

Also, consider non-humans: how many additional people would make destroying the Great Barrier Reef worth it? If clearcutting the Amazon rainforest would increase the population cap by N, for what values of N would you do it?

H̶u̶m̶a̶n̶ life is beautiful and good.

How can I extend this version to multiple loggers, like the article does? Do I need to write in my application code:

  writeStringToFileAndWrappedSocket(w: WrappedSocket, f:File, s:String) = writeStringToFile(f,s) and writeStringToWrappedSocket(w,s)

If this is written in the library, that is 2^n combinations of file output functions - even worse than the n*m the article complains about.