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Happy to answer questions and receive feedback here (my blog doesn't have a comment system). I'm mostly a front-end person so some of the Ansible/Kamal stuff, I'm sure I did pretty…

Hi, I'm the original author of unsure calculator. Let me just say thank you! I love the code and the fact that people are having a go at this stuff.

I'd argue this is WAI. It's hard for me to imagine _dividing_ by -1~1 in a real-world scenario, but let's say we divide by 0~10, which also includes zero. For example, we are divid…

Wow, this is fantastic! I did not know about squiggle language, and it's basically what I was trying to get to from my unsure calculator through my next project ( https://filiph.gi…

I'm familiar with fuzzy numbers (e.g. see my https://filiph.net/fuzzy/ toy) but I didn't know there's arithmetic with fuzzy numbers. How is it done? Do you have a link?

Part of the confusion here is likely that the tool, as seen on the web, probably lags significantly behind the code. I've started using a related but different tool ( https://filip…

Nice! Are you using your python script often? The reason I'm asking: unsure also has a CLI version (which is leaps and bounds faster and in some ways easier to use) but I rarely fi…

I think I was looking at this and several other similar calculators when creating the linked tool. This is what I mean when I say "you'll want to use something more sophisticated".…

It's all computed in the browser so yeah, it's JavaScript. Still, 8 seconds is a lot -- I was targeting sub-second computation times (which I find alright).

Something I should have probably addressed in the article but didn't get to it for brevity: there are at least two kinds of immersion, and people tend to conflate them. (I'm not im…

> Before I had gaming hardware I wasted the exact same amount of time by re-reading books and comics, and it was quite immersive. If so, you are in the minority. For most people, i…

I think that quote confuses intellectual immersion with sensory immersion. Those are separate things. Yes, you can be immersed in a chess game or a good book or a PacMan game, but …

Nobody disputes that entertainment has value. The article is about the fact that so much talent and resources is funneled into immersion. Using your neurosurgeon example, I posit t…

I didn't want to bore the reader with various definitions of immersion but you're raising a very good point. Apart from the "immersion for entertainment" that I'm mostly talking ab…

> I rather missed the point where he explains why immersive games are bad. The article's title isn't "immersive games are bad".

I agree with you. One part of the article that I cut for brevity but maybe I should have included talks about the kind of immersion that is created by bright colorful moving pictur…

I agree that it's not just about talent. That said, having more talented people interested in a field often has the effect of bringing money and political will.

It looks like you're countering with the "it's always been the case" argument. I use it often myself, but I think it's good to realize when it's stretched too far. Yes, I'm sure th…

I knew #36 and have used it in the context of software engineering. But much of the rest is similarly applicable. > #36 Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is e…

Yes, and until we have the fancy ML method, one way to do it is to have something like a Google Doc where you document your search by copypasting from the source documents and link…