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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jun-2022 08:42:04 JST rru142
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- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
- Infected Moomin
@Moon @shmibs ...one day the young women will find this:

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jun-2022 02:18:32 JST rru142
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- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
@shmibs Using your self-built keyboard?

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 07:29:09 JST rru142
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@shmibs @p @helene Oh, he elaborated on that "familiar continuous" before the paragraphs that I quoted. The whole essay is herehttps://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jun-2022 07:06:28 JST rru142
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- p
- Hélène
@helene @p > "it might try real hard to figure out a meaning"E. W. Dijsktra is looking at you.(Imagine a bearded old cheese citing EWD1036-20 and EWD1036-21...)"[...] My next linguistical suggestion is more rigorous. It is to fight the "if-this-guy-wants-to-talk-to-that-guy" syndrome: never refer to parts of programs or pieces of equipment in an anthropomorphic terminology, nor allow your students to do so. This linguistical improvement is much harder to implement than you might think, and your department might consider the introduction of fines for violations, say a quarter for undergraduates, two quarters for graduate students, and five dollars for faculty members: by the end of the first semester of the new regime, you will have collected enough money for two scholarships.The reason for this last suggestion is that the anthropomorphic metaphor —for whose introduction we can blame John von Neumann— is an enormous handicap for every computing community that has adopted it. I have now encountered programs wanting things, knowing things, expecting things, believing things, etc., and each time that gave rise to avoidable confusions. The analogy that underlies this personification is so shallow that it is not only misleading but also paralyzing.It is misleading in the sense that it suggests that we can adequately cope with the unfamiliar discrete in terms of the familiar continuous, i.e. ourselves, quod non. It is paralyzing in the sense that, because persons exist and act in time, its adoption effectively prevents a departure from operational semantics and thus forces people to think about programs in terms of computational behaviours, based on an underlying computational model. This is bad, because operational reasoning is a tremendous waste of mental effort.[...]"(I shall, however, note that this Dijkstra entity has zapped me so many times that it decided not to care for my existence any longer, thus saving energy... And of course "it tries to put a packet on the wire", damn...)

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Monday, 02-May-2022 10:27:00 JST rru142
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- lain
- Hélène
@lain @helene A well-crafted book is something sensual IMHO...

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Friday, 29-Apr-2022 03:54:58 JST rru142
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- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
@shmibs あなたは成功する

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 09:15:04 JST rru142
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- lain
- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
@shmibs @lain Thanks a lot for this. It is probably quite a challenge for a translator. Listening to it I was reminded of reading "the price of salt"... oh well...

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 08:52:53 JST rru142
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- lain
- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
@shmibs @lain Ah, my merriam-webster is from ~1890 ...(But there is this little gem:according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "gay" has had the meaning "of loose or immoral life" since the 17th century. (For example, "The dissolute conduct of the gay circles in France..." ;1798) OED continues, "Hence, in slang use, of a woman, "leading an immoral life, living by prostitution." )

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Apr-2022 08:47:47 JST rru142
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- lain
- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
@lain @shmibs (... and it's springtime... ;-) )

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2022 01:17:11 JST rru142
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- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
- 「VRISKA」
@shmibs @vriska wordplay on "omnibus" (latin, literally "everybody") -> the bus transport that can be used by everybody -> and now with bees :)

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Mar-2022 01:06:42 JST rru142
- バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;
- 「VRISKA」
@vriska @shmibs ...Ombeebus...

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rru142 (rru142@blovice.bahnhof.cz)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Aug-2021 06:43:08 JST rru142
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- an actual bear in a hazmat suit
- Infected Moomin
@guizzy @Moon (...imagine a leader presenting his followers with a sentence like "I am not sure, I do not have concludent data."... and half of his 'followers' are ready to tar and feather him about any misstep he will do...)

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