The only thing that I feel bears repeating is that I also compared Dijkstra to Ken Iverson—a mathematician who worked in the same time period and also taught in North America—who didn’t (as far as I have seen) muddy the waters of his writings/teachings with superfluous insults.

Note that Roger Hui here foregrounds the fact that

> Ken Iverson invented his notation as a means of communications among people

(Emphasis mine) and I think that it is important that this fact of APL is conflated against one’s desire to prove a program. A fact which Hui says has little to do with the correctness of the result.

One aspect of the original which I believe you are eliding over, but which I focused on and tacitly referenced (wouldn’t be an APL discussion without a little tacit programming reference), is that in conveying one’s ideas or proofs, one can distract from their point by introducing unrelated jabs or insults. I believe this fact is present in Roger Hui’s writing.

> Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree.

It’s ambiguous, so I can give the benefit of the doubt. However, if intended as an insult, I believe that goes beyond speaking frankly about one’s feelings about a programming language in a manner consistent with one’s culture.

Due to my affinity for the language, and my wish to have worked in its heyday (would love to have an APL gig someday), I have been exposed to various writings and recordings of Ken Iverson. I've also been exposed to a few of Dijkstra's thoughts on APL.

I have to say that Iverson generally comes across as a very generous and curious individual while Dijkstra seems to have been a miserable ass. Maybe, given the lens, I've not given Dijkstra a proper chance to demonstrate a more positive attitude, so I'm open to any suggestions of writings where he doesn't seem like such a grump.

Though looks like `git history split` won't yet replace my typical workflow:

    $ git rebase -i // with e on commit in question
    $ git reset HEAD~
    $ git add -p

`git history reword` will be handy once I wire up a script to pipe the log of recent commits through fzf for interactive selection (not sure if it's just me, but I prefer interactive selection over any other form of reference to a git hash).

And I bet I'll get some use out of `git rebase --trailer`.

To my eye, the entire fascination of unsafely injecting peptides in a desire to change your being is largely the opposite of sincerity.

1: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#Documentation/git-rebase...

> One large enterprise employee commented that they were deliberately slow with AI tech, keeping about a quarter behind the leading edge. “We’re not in the business of avoiding all risks, but we do need to manage them”.

I’m unclear how this pattern helps with security vis-à-vis LLMs. It makes sense when talking about software versions, in hoping that any critical bugs are patched, but prompt injection springs eternal.

In job listings, I’ve seen salaries for Senior or Staff remain about the same as they were (thought usually edging a little lower), but adjusted for inflation, they are way lower.

If I were to insist on my 2021 salary with inflation adjustment, I’m often blowing past the listed range by anything from 15k to 30k.

With the market the way it is, how are y’all handling that?

Solar panel leases are so long (50 years on top of the decade to interconnect), so they come with additional negatives as you are often signing up the next generation for a relationship that they had no say in.

I believe this is the same tune we hear in other industries: it’s the effect of the consolidation of companies which provide the inputs (seed and chemicals) leading to a lack of competition and the increase in prices on a captive consumer base.

When farmers feel the crunch due to macro forces in the market (and tariffs), the government effectively acts as a backstop for the conglomerates providing the inputs. Think of the farmer’s hand as an open palm, the subsidy flows through it directly to the company to which they are indebted (“the money is in the ground” as I used to hear during a brief time in crop insurance).

While these subsidies may have initially began with the quaint notion of protecting against scarcity (as many sibling replies seem to believe), the reality is that farmers are being squeezed just as the rest of us. Profits are way up while competition is way down.

Slime molds are really amazing; large patches spring up overnight and they are so vibrant in color.

What is unsaid is that we need to sequester CO2 for hundreds of years—often far beyond the lifespan of the trees. Trees are short term storage, and sometimes the storage is a lot shorter than popular imagination purports.

One application I think is neat is that it’s a pretty robust refrigerant in a heat pump application.

Typically you align a pipeline like so:

     df
     |> rbind(other_df)
     |> select(...)