Note that roads are not neutral in the “net neutrality” sense, since emergency vehicles are prioritized. There’s a cogent argument against net neutrality on similar grounds: i.e., prioritizing traffic with prioritized purpose, especially in the face of congestion.
As far as I can tell, reading documentation - not in snippets, to remember the details of something you know how to do, but top-to-bottom, to learn capabilities you didn’t know existed.
Art must be distributed to be appreciated. There will be demand for it: customers, each furiously waving their cash offer.
Someone is going to render that art for consumption in exchange for that cash. My conviction is the artist should have right of first refusal to grow rich with that cash. I confess this conviction is a moral conviction, driven by a sense of fairness, not efficiency. “The suckers compulsively produce it for free,” doesn’t find much purchase with me.
If you went this route, I’d push it out farther and make the cut steeper. Maybe after 20 years you start doing X%, where X is (Years - 20)*2.
I really don’t want to make it harder for people to survive on their creative output for their whole careers. But that’s the focus: providing for a family, maybe even fabulously, but for one generation only.
The vim integration piece uses the same concepts as the gdb integration. The rest uses some (very ugly) local scripts, cobbled together in 10-minute snatches of time over years. Hopefully, the functionality of the pieces not included here can be inferred from the names.
Fzf can be a tremendous time-sink because its credible promise to improve your quality of life in the terminal.
One of my most-frequently-used pry customizations is a keybinding that opens the current backtrace in fzf, with the preview window showing the selected location, allowing me to quickly walk up or down the stack, with tons of context. `enter` takes me to that frame, and `ctrl-v` opens that file location in vim.
> Calling to silence others (that is, encouraging them to take your view of not giving them an audience) is fine as long as people have a choice on how to respond.
The urge to preempt what an audience hears is suspect.
When some civilization becomes apparent, wouldn’t game theorizing say there’s a free rider problem? Wait for someone else to poke their heads out to handle it, save us the trouble, and maybe learn how we rank in a battle royale?
It’s driven by the nature of jokes in a long-running medium. Jokes both require and create context; this joke’s punchline is that joke’s setup. If the setup isn’t rooted in the current context, it’s nonsensical. If the punchline is in current context, it’s boring.
It’s easy for this process to feed back, especially with large casts of characters. I heard a writer once talk about “protecting” characters from some jokes, I believe to prevent a process like this.
Just a little bit of trivia for other Stephenson fans: Anathem’s narrator is named “Erasmas.” This is a phonetic representation of the Greek “ήρωάς μας,” meaning “our hero.”
> People are pretty susceptible to passionate speech by charismatic figures; much more susceptible, in fact, than they are to facts. This just seems like an opportunity for racists to win hearts and minds.
The unstated assumption of this premise is that some people (never us, always others) cannot be trusted to make good decisions, and thus need to have their decisions made for them, for their own good. It advocates for human subjugation.