I’m only half serious :)
They are Wonderful storytellers !
My personal difficulty is the grey areas between inference and speculation.
Ie “this is the area where they made a fire” vs “they would have discussed village politics while roasting meat here”
I think he’s a historian by trade, so no
In the 70s If you weren’t licking your toy cars as a kid, you were missing out.
Fuck the liberals and their lead melting
Perhaps unknowingly, this is a rehash of an age old comic, where a boss needs to get his secretary to type up a massive report.
It’s how elephants are eaten
I’ll bite - we understand turbulence, don’t we ?
As for time, it was very well understood until physicists started their shit .
Every dev loves agile until they have to have a conversation with the users.
Bias on show : trad PM from the past .
This came up on my feed. I’m not into the hobby, but it’s a beautiful photograph
It’s that automated workflow ? With human checkpoints ?
Like, a programmer will ‘hit save’ and drop his work in version control, which automatically lands in a development environment, is promoted to test, and lands in the queue of a tester, and so on ?
Yeah - I think people do have slightly rose tinted spectacles.
They were engrossing, but sometimes obtuse - and parsing instructions was really frustrating.
Imagine there must be a payoff for them ? Wider distribution ?
No one covets like a pirate!
Any one who submits content starting with “Tesla says”’nor “Musk says” should have a serious word with themselves
Awesome - do you happen to know how it plays with a controller ?
I bet it will play on the deck . I’ll look it up
Come the revolution comrade, there will we doctorates in porn, video games and many other culturally enriching topics.
Doctorates for all .
It’s a superb book - I was being mischievous.
He’s into meditation is a big way, as was I when I read it, although I have since lapsed.
The advantage I think this gave me at the time, was to deeply connect with his writing perspective - ie not human-centric.
Buddhism cautions against human exceptionalism in various ways and invites anyone to discover this through meditation.
The quote about wheat profoundly expresses this, with great concision.
My quip was about historians being vulnerable to artistic license to tell a story !