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I didn’t like “static” and “dynamic” but they were the best words I could come up with quickly. Mostly I mean that the performative arts involve a physical skill component that wil…

The article is about the creators of “static” art: writers, composers, and artists. Having a day job would affect actors, musicians, or dancers, much like it would affect athletes.…

I'm pretty sure that having to account for segfaults, keyboard interrupts, power outages, and other kinds of 'real world' exceptions that have to be caught means that the code migh…

Education inflation is difficult to solve when assessing the value of “education/experience currency” means having to consider “exchange rates” between different fields (see CS vs …

Little late, but my two cents as someone who majored in a humanities field (although working in tech now): Our lectures were almost always intended to be heard after doing the read…

If you treat photos as pleasurable pictures, then machine-generated photos will serve fine (e.g. stock photos). What if you replace "photos" with "music", "art", or "literature"? S…

Not quite IF, but reading Ulysses and retracing the protagonist's steps around Dublin is surprisingly common. Interactive but deterministic...

There was the whole Nest thermostat debacle recently, but no legal precedent as far as I know.

Real world usage would have to be curated though, awkward sentence constructions or word choices do happen in real world usage. Or as the article shows, there can be multiple, very…

Another user mentioned stealing IP, maybe the US is involved in similar activities (not necessarily targeting China) and doesn't want to be caught pointing fingers. But politically…

Will there ever be an online "cultural institution of free speech"? Usenet was pretty close but the ISPs and government were able to tighten the clamps over illegal activities. The…

Wouldn't an FBI seizure involve a gag order?

It seems like "security through obscurity" could only successfully combine with encryption if a critical mass of the population got onboard very quickly. But security-conscious use…