fogus's comments

On: The Onion buys Infowars

[fogus]

This isn't the 18th century anymore where the dissemination of arguments barely traveled outside of the immediate vicinity, this is the globally networked firehose of disinformation blasted right in your face 24-hours a day. Relying on better arguments to win hearts and minds in this environment is hopelessly naive.

On: Meteorologists get death threats as hurricane cons...

[fogus]

If you can establish a base of support populated by the easily fooled then you can grift them indefinitely.

On: Rust wont save us, but its ideas will

[fogus]

No programming language is more important than its best and worst ideas.

On: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

[fogus]

https://blog.fogus.me

Programming posts, some gaming talk, and occasional random ramblings.

On: Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspect...

[fogus]

> Clojure REPL-based dev is better for me personally

me too! Morse is complementary to your normal REPL-based workflow. it is designed to not get in the way of that.

[slifin → fogus]

Is it fair to say a user of rebl isn't going to notice much difference between morse and rebl?

But replicant seems important overall for the ecosystem and probably worth highlighting?

[fogus → slifin]

REBL wanted to be your REPL but Morse uses the REPL that it's hosted in or remotely connected to.

On: Morse, an open-source interactive tool for inspect...

[fogus]

there are so many lessons that we need to understand and leverage in our modern tooling, languages, and systems that Smalltalk and Lisp got right decades ago.

On: The Last Man (Mary Shelley novel)

[fogus]

It's unclear if Walpole's Castle of Otranto is the first horror, but in any case it predates Frankenstein by 53 years.

On: The best things and stuff of 2022

[fogus]

i'm struggling to understand the question.

On: The best things and stuff of 2022

[fogus]

The early 1900s mystical fiction is a rabbit hole for sure. Voyage to Arcturus is a very good recommendation! Others in this vein include, but are not limited to:

Armed with Madness by Mary Butts

The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser

The Stone Dragon by R. Murray Gilchrist

and so many more.

[TedDoesntTalk → fogus]

> The Golem by Gustav Meyrink

I read this more than 20 years ago, and it still comes to my mind frequently. It’s haunting. Keep trying to read it again.

[Jun8 → fogus]

Great suggestions thanks! This is a great podcast that covers some of these and other interesting obscure works: http://www.holdfastnetwork.com/sherdspodcast/

On: The best things and stuff of 2022

[fogus]

Agree, but keep in mind that the sf list was posted in 2012.