Irix! When I got my MFA in '88 we had Mac IIs, Amigas, and a SGI workstation. There was a huge difference: the macs/amigas sat quietly on the work desks in their sleek beige boxes, the workstation was about 3'x2'x3' box with roaring fans that whirred menacingly from beneath the desk, and took up all legroom.
You're doing the same thing you are criticizing your straw-person leftists as doing.
As a leftist, it is quite easy to critique her ideas in good faith: she disdains anyone who doesn't confirm to her idea of "productive", abhors the poor, and deifies the upper class as being the ultimate model of humanity. And that's not even being reductive.
It would have to be somewhere near the dartboard to be reductive, this is just a weak projection. You mentioned the ease of criticizing her ideas and in the same breath, completely ignore them. The irony is lost on you.
I gave my partner an airtag as a test to see how accurate it was. After three days of daily driving around going to work errands etc, they received no warning whatsoever but I could still track. Don't know why, but it scared both of us.
Weird, I tried exactly the same thing - for exactly the same reason I assume - and it complained in less than 6 hours. I wonder if they’ve been fiddling with how soon the notifications happen?
I joined a project that used it back in 2014. What I found was that the documentation ended up being about as useful as reading the header files, and less useful once you open the code in an IDE that allows semantic browsing.
OTOH, if someone does take the time to document the header files, they blow up in size significantly.
I don't like it. Better to just keep documentation up to date and keep the two separate. Comments should be concise, documentation should be more verbose, IMHO.
I agree with your point, comments easily grow out of date, but I see competing tools like doxygen or javadoc being used. Do you have any experience with those?
I personally hate them because of the amount of noisy fluff they bring.
I soured on the idea (more work, ROI?) and never used them, but when I see pages like Webpack, Bootstrap and Python docs, I drool over their well-designed, easily cross-referenced doc system and wonder what they use. Someday...
A bit of a grandiose article, but yeah, they actually do mess with your head. Maybe not as woo-like intensity as OP elaborates.
I did one and it took me a long time to feel anything, and suddenly I couldn't tell how big my body was, or where my limbs were: my proprioception disappeared. But that was all I got. That and a bad case of the runs because I accidentally splashed some of the water into my mouth and swallowed it.
I made a spreadsheet of all of his books, and read everything my library had, which was about 70% of them. His early stuff is shlocky and gets tedious by the 10th book from that era. About 20% of his stuff is truly groundbreaking, the rest is ... boring.
Not clicking on that. I recall seeing a picture of rows of hundreds of crabs strapped to harnesses, bent in half, with needles in their backs draining their blue blood. Still can't get it out of my head.
had a friend in college who did that as his summer job. They take great care to make prevent them from dying but then they get sold to fishermen to be used as chum... go figure.
Now I don't know what "rotation" means. After reading that thread, the phrase
"rotating through spacetime" is still just gibberish. It sounds like he's trying to solve a physics problem backwards by making the units match: because the Lorentz transformation is a hyperbolic rotation matrix with a trig property applied, somehow it is a rotation? That just perverts the word "rotation".
