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Seems to have been on HN, but inactive since 2013: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266032 (on Guile[1]) * https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dasht [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile
There’s something sad about reading old comments and emails, knowing the mind behind them is gone.
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There’s something sad about reading old comments and emails, knowing the mind behind them is gone.
Shouldn't be any more sad then reading old books and letters of great minds past. Death is necessary part of life. Also keeps the living from idling or (arguably) should at least ;-}
Hopefully we’ll fix it one day.
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He was five years my senior. I never expected to be immortal but at my age one starts becoming aware that you have more weeks behind your back than in front of you. I like to think that living is just untangling a web that somehow fate has already set for you. So in the end what counts is living each and every moment as if it was the most important one, and loving and caring about the people that love and care about…
Interesting philosophy, I like it. It seems to reconcile self-determinism with fate. Do you believe that life ends when you successfully untangle this web?
Edit: You captured the idea, I am able to determine what will be my next steps in life, but once my life has ended it will be written in stone. So what's time, what is the future and what is the past? I do not care if it's some quantum many-worlds interpretation, or a spacetime slice of bread that moves with the arrow of time! In this way I am already dead, and I am still newborn.
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There’s something sad about reading old comments and emails, knowing the mind behind them is gone.
Shouldn't be any more sad then reading old books and letters of great minds past. Death is necessary part of life. Also keeps the living from idling or (arguably) should at least ;-}
Death is inevitable maybe, but whether it's necessary is a philosophical question without a satisfying answer.
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I don't know anything about Tom's situation, and I apologize if this in poor taste: a major preventable cause of brain hemorrhage is hypertension. If you have high blood pressure, it's not a joke. Get treatment.
And the damage is cumulative so the best time to start taking any necessary high blood pressure medication is now.
Is it this Tom Lord: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ ? It was my first introduction to proper branching/merging support, vs RCS and CVS at the time.
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Shouldn't be any more sad then reading old books and letters of great minds past. Death is necessary part of life. Also keeps the living from idling or (arguably) should at least ;-}
It is today, but doesn’t have to be: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see... Hopefully we’ll fix it one day.
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Shouldn't be any more sad then reading old books and letters of great minds past. Death is necessary part of life. Also keeps the living from idling or (arguably) should at least ;-}
> Death is necessary part of life. Death is inevitable maybe, but whether it's necessary is a philosophical question without a satisfying answer.