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> Restricting the word "insects" to hexapods is a modern convention that does not have any basis in etymology. This is one of those very rare cases in which "entomology" or "etymol…

I wasn't criticizing the essay. I was criticizing your suggestion that a narrow concept like "competence blindness" can explain the behaviour of a system as broad and immensely com…

Or perhaps just because it's not accurate. Reducing any complex system down to a trivial projection is very unlikely to explain anything well.

Look up "perlis epigrams lisp" for the context here. :)

Ostrom's results didn't disprove ToC. She showed that common resources can be communally maintained, not that tragic outcomes could never happen.

"Going Postal" was brilliant. GNU Terry Pratchett.

That's a fair question, but I didn't have another person read it. (If I'm being honest, I think my colleagues would have looked at me funny. We don't exactly have a culture of usin…

I think this was more of a press release than an edict. The Purdue announcement says, "Built on recently launched AI majors, minors and certificates across colleges, and following …

Delegated to the provost and deans . Who else would you expect to hold accountable for developing a graduate attribute?

I've had the same intuition. I've had mixed results in this area, although I'm certainly no expert. Recently I wanted to formalize a model of a runbook for a tricky system migratio…

That's pretty impressive -- thanks for sharing the link.

Very well expressed. That's great early-career guidance, but also a good refresher for many senior staff.

I've often taken inspiration from RFC 2418, "IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures" [1], a rare RFC that defines a human protocol ("rough consensus") rather than a technical…

(also, velociraptors)

Arguably the European churches were such an industry for centuries, and were highly effective at it.

It gives a cue about how many times I've probably seen the article before. Quite useful, IMO. I read this particular article when it came out in 2006... it's convenient to know we'…

> we are free only as much as we don't have guns in our face telling us we're not. Is this actually an old saying?

Nice article!

> What very few SF writers understood "Understood?" They were writing fiction, not instruction manuals.

He can say what he wants, but he literally inlined the entirety of HTML into the syntax. It's delusional to suggest that this design choice emphasizes readability above all else.

My laconic question was downvoted. Sorry, I was on my phone, but didn't want to forget about this. I'm sincerely interested in reading the source of this research. Searching for it…

It's fine if the poster above me wishes to change languages. Anyone who chooses to stick with Haskell should get comfortable with the notion that functions can diverge, and accept …