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The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by thiagomgd »

dlivingston wrote: post #137
larntz wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this an age thing? I do the exact same thing. Every time I stop typing I hit ctrl-s between 2-5 times. I don't eve think about it anymore. My kids are getting to the age where they are doing projects on a computer and I'm constantly telling them to "save early, save often." I guess it's some form of PTSD from computing in the 90's.

A few months ago, I saw a popular meme on Reddit (ProgrammingHumor, or something like that) where the core of the joke was: "that face when Visual Studio crashes after you've been writing code for 2 hours and forgot to save." And my reaction was: how do you forget to save? That's muscle memory for me, man! Command-S gets hit five times in as many minutes.

How do you code for 2 hours without saving, considering you wouldn't be able to run/test/compile without saving?

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Post by clwk »

How dangerous is this app? I mean how much time does it give me? Is the danger that my document will be lost, or that in attempting not to let that happen I will write too much. I will write the wrong thing. I will go down paths which are meant not to be followed, ordinarily edited out of existence. This is the danger, I suspect. But the other is also. It is a double danger. This double danger models a double danger in other areas. It is perhaps a fundamental mode of danger. Dangerness. The fear of a thing which both prevents or enables, complementarily. How does that work? What are examples? Can we name a time the fear has positively (we posit) prevented manifestation? Certainly. In general, it is socially unacceptable to analyze or look too deeply past the constructs which supposedly shield prying eyes from the conclusions which would be evident if the components were scrutinized. China Miéville explores this exquisitely in The City and The City. There citizens of two nearly colocated cities 'unsee' the other by law. Likewise, we ordinarily must unsee what is meant to be unseen. The danger then is that our unseeing be threatened by the possiblity that we lose sight altogether. Backed into a corner and forced to confront complete unsight, we restrain the restrainer. We disassemble the governor so we do not accidentally edit ourselves out of existence. Through abolition of constraint we cross over into conceptual indecency.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by EMM_386 »

I failed when I got bored and copied the text, but I'm slightly proud of my random thoughts.

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On one summer night, I was staring at the sky pondering the mystery of the universe. Why are we here? What are we? What is consciousness? Does consciousness exist outside of the body? Where do we go when we die? How did the universe come to be? Is God the answer? Why are the laws of the universe set precisely the way they are? The answer can't be the multi-verse, because in that situation there are an infinite number of universes.

In an infinite number of universes, an infinite amount of possibilities exist. That means, in any given unverse, ANYTHING can and will happen.

That means, in one of them, as I'm typing this silly nonsense, a naked clown will kick in my door, but he will be killed before he attempts to strangle me by a piece of debris that crashes through the roof, which let loose from an airliner flying overhead.

If that's not weird enough, in one of those other infinite universes, he won't be attempting to strangle me, he will have a butcher knife. In another one, he will have a shotgun.

In another universe, he won't kick in the door, but will blow it up with grenades. And in one, he won't be naked, but dressed in a tuxedo. In one universe, the plane would drop an engine on him. Or me. Or it won't be an engine, it will be a large piece of frozen lavatory ice.

This doesn't seem logical, although Donald Trump did just attempt to purchase Greenland, which does seem very odd and very random.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by inflatableDodo »

clwk wrote: post #163

How dangerous is this app? I mean how much time does it give me? Is the danger that my document will be lost, or that in attempting not to let that happen I will write too much. I will write the wrong thing. I will go down paths which are meant not to be followed, ordinarily edited out of existence. This is the danger, I suspect. But the other is also. It is a double danger. This double danger models a double danger…

Can you expand on this? At length. Preferably in paperback.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by clwk »

inflatableDodo wrote: post #165
clwk wrote: post #163

How dangerous is this app? I mean how much time does it give me? Is the danger that my document will be lost, or that in attempting not to let that happen I will write too much. I will write the wrong thing. I will go down paths which are meant not to be followed, ordinarily edited out of existence. This is the danger, I suspect. But the other is also. It is a double danger. This double danger models a double danger…

Can you expand on this? At length. Preferably in paperback.

Duly noted.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by ChristianGeek »

thiagomgd wrote: post #161
dlivingston wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few months ago, I saw a popular meme on Reddit (ProgrammingHumor, or something like that) where the core of the joke was: "that face when Visual Studio crashes after you've been writing code for 2 hours and forgot to save." And my reaction was: how do you forget to save? That's muscle memory for me, man! Command-S gets hit five times in as many minutes.

How do you code for 2 hours without saving, considering you wouldn't be able to run/test/compile without saving?

I’ve coded for hours early on in a project without compiling/running/testing. But I’m old enough and wise enough to constantly save.

Re: The Most Dangerous Writing App

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Post by soupysoupysoup »

doodpants wrote: post #109
iraldir wrote: post #10

3 minutes typing: This is me writing a comment for this app using hardcore mode which right now I realise is having the text co clompletely blurred and it is quite hard indeed I can barely come back a word if I write a type. Although it doesnt seem to be based onmy typing speed so I guess if you are good at typing it's not as bad as if you are bad at it. Well I don't what to say more than that the interface is nice a…

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I am in Wallonie. We hear this a lot.
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