@graydon @cstross your point is solid. it took an awful lot of free-ish dissemination of information to build the infrastructure that the money is using to build walls around all the information. each wizard keeping to their tower would lead to not many wizards and most of them terrible
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Kevin Archie (karchie@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:36:00 JST Kevin Archie -
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Kevin Archie (karchie@freeradical.zone)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 00:08:09 JST Kevin Archie @graydon @cstross When I was your age, internet was called "books." I'm not even disagreeing with you--with the internet, among other things, software is a lot more pervasive in ordinary life. still, you could get an awful lot done with not much more than K&R, Stevens, and Plauger on your shelf. Common Lisp had even better books.
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Kevin Archie (karchie@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 18:00:58 JST Kevin Archie minä kuuntelen sinua, vaikka haluaisin vain olla rauhassa metsässä. will be muttering this into my muted mic through every meeting today #duolingo #finnish
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Kevin Archie (karchie@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 18:00:37 JST Kevin Archie for all my complaints about #duolingo #finnish being tiny and excessively whimsical, there’s an urgent, irresistible truth to one of its favorite phrases: haluan vain olla rauhassa metsässä