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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Philip Monk

      102/ me: "Tlon has made a lot of decisions that make it very hard for interested newbs to understand WTF they're talking about" a Tlom emploee / Urbit defender: "yes...that's because WE DON'T THINK ABOUT YOU AT ALL" [ literal quote ]https://twitter.com/pcmonk/status/1502347522794147840 …

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      Philip Monk @pcmonk
      There's a sense in which this principle is "intentionally discomforting", but not to "the mundanes". It's just not a decision made for how it affects the learning process. "I don't think about you at all", etc
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted That Dubious Cat™

      103/ Exactly Tlon is content with some fraction of people [ 5% ? 0.5% ? ] who want to learn Hoon being able to succeed bc of selection bias: they poll among those who succeed. They freely admit (see prev tweet) that they don't think about newbs at all.https://twitter.com/ThatDubiousCat/status/1502390438866554883 …

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      That Dubious Cat™ @ThatDubiousCat
      Replying to @MorlockP @pcmonk
      Reads like there's a dissonance between getting people to program in Urbit to create lots of neat sharable things combining with "Fuck you, git gud, loser."
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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ~hanfel-dovned

      104/ great!https://twitter.com/hanfel_dovned/status/1502392182434504707 …

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      ~hanfel-dovned @hanfel_dovned
      Replying to @0x49fa98 @MorlockP
      I'm relatively new to Urbit and can't speak to the history, but drastically improving the docs and education is one of the Foundation's main goals this year https://github.com/urbit/foundation …
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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lin Manuel Rwanda

      105/ I gave up on it, because trying to contribute to a thing and being yelled at is demoralizing. (also, I had a personal snit with a related Name where I was repeatedly insulted for no reason ... so ...)https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1502403669643431945 …

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      Lin Manuel Rwanda @LinManuelRwanda
      Replying to @MorlockP @0x49fa98
      I didn’t realise it was you who was doing this project. Always wondered what happened to it…
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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      106/pic.twitter.com/iWGu9Ir7nC

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted avery

      107/ wait - what does "1" mean?https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1502406744680673280 …

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      avery @averykimball
      wood u use a binary measurement system
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted ~rabsef-bicrym of Quartus

      108/ very happy to hear it!https://twitter.com/SafePen/status/1502407383145848833 …

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      ~rabsef-bicrym of Quartus @SafePen
      The docs are really straightforward and helpful now. They deserve a review if you haven’t looked in 4-6 months. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1502314993924153355 …
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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      109/https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1502408410704265216 …

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      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      Replying to @MorlockP @pcmonk
      this is fucking hysterical "get the pedagogy right" IT'S NOT THAT FUCKING HARD pic.twitter.com/bP7EMRpal3
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      110/https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1502408526802690052 …

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      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP @pcmonk
      If you have to "go into research mode, both theoretical and applied" in order to figure out how to a) teach someone a new programming language and b) explain to consumers what your product does... maybe you shouldn't be the ones trying to do that.
      1 reply 0 retweets 18 likes
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

      111/https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1502408992366153731 …

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      Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP
      pic.twitter.com/be7bjWyJyT
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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Robin Hanson

      112/ Hot damn, even @robinhanson wants in on the Urbit thread!https://twitter.com/robinhanson/status/1502410521697390594 …

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

      Robin HansonVerified account @robinhanson
      You could either try to make (A) your own thoughts cleaner & more coherent, or you could try to do that for the writings of a (B) random college student, (C) current world leader, or (D) famous thinker in history. Whose thoughts would you rather clean & make coherent?
      2:26 PM - 11 Mar 2022
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          113/pic.twitter.com/YKbwTJSLiZ

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          114/pic.twitter.com/33xhNbYR02

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          115/ Yeah, once I figured out - despite the best efforts of the documentation writers - that the One Big Secret of Hoon was that you can't modify data, but you can clone-data-with-modifications, and then execute inside that cloned subject, it blew my mind. Very simple Very cool

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lin Manuel Rwanda

          116/ Yeah, the jets seem deeply problematic to me. No time to type now; maybe I'll add more to this thread later.https://twitter.com/LinManuelRwanda/status/1502414340284157954 …

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          Lin Manuel Rwanda @LinManuelRwanda
          Replying to @MorlockP @robinhanson
          The thing with the memory issue still bugs me from time to time at 3am. If you’re going to rely on jets to get you out of every jam, surely the “replacing all other computing” thing is completely impossible right out the gate and you’re just fucked, right?
          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted cyr

          117/https://twitter.com/cyr_actual/status/1502415662764937224 …

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          cyr @cyr_actual
          Replying to @LeonDeg37825780 @MorlockP
          It would be nice to have a bit of a cheat sheet though. I've found a couple but really I just need to dig in & RTFM
          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          118/pic.twitter.com/gKgAaIZjiD

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

          119/ I find this insanely annoying it's more "the Apple way" than "the Unix way". Shell should just accept what I type and then give me error msgs, not constrain my ability to enter input. Almost get the impression it was designed by some reactionary.https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1502416903691718658 …

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          Eric Richards @EricRichards22
          Replying to @MorlockP
          It's always fun trying to type anything into the urbit dojo or whatever the hell they call their bash shell, and it rejects keystrokes that it thinks are invalid...
          2 replies 0 retweets 22 likes
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

          120/ mic_drop.gif nuclear_explosion.jpghttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1502417437593120771 …

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          Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
          Replying to @MorlockP
          >It's good that the wall is so hard to scale. This should only be for the elite. It's bad on purpose to make you clique.
          2 replies 1 retweet 28 likes
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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eric Richards

          121/https://twitter.com/EricRichards22/status/1502417923054481417 …

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          Eric Richards @EricRichards22
          Replying to @cyr_actual @LeonDeg37825780 @MorlockP
          This was the most helpful thing I ever found https://blog.urbit.live/hello-world-urbit-edition/ …
          1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Eddie, Son of Richard

          122/ somewhat, yes! this is why I am not blackpilled on Urbit.https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1502419355132469251 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddie
          Replying to @MorlockP
          So, setting aside the (accusedly) deliberate lack of helpful documentation... Does Hoon itself further the ostensible "martian computer" mission of ensuring high-quality software by making the software easy to reason about and thus become confident in its correctness?
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          123/ By making networking simple and putting invariants around it, and then insisting that every piece of software (a) runs in a very very simple VM that is correct, and (b) never accesses [ potentially race conditioned ] state, but only accesses state that is modified via 'a' >

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          124/ I am far more convinced about the logical correct behavior of a given stack built in pure Hoon VM / Nock / Hoon. Now, I said LOGICALLY correct ...not code correct. You can definitely write buggy software ...but by avoiding a thousand different kinds of undefined behavior

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          125/ ...you have definitely created a much much much better situation. So this part is wonderful, and I love it. HOWEVER ... now we get to the JQ

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          126/ "the Jet Question" The Nock VM is super basic, has very few operations, and does not, for example, support subtraction So how do you calculate 999 - 3? The correct Nock approach is, IIRC, to start with 0, add 3 to it, and see if that's 999. If not, try 1, add 3 to it...

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          127/ I might be wrong. It might not be exactly that flavor of retardation ; it might be some almost identical but slightly different flavor of retardation. So, instead of writing this yourself every single time you need to subtract, you write a library function that does it.

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          128/ ...but obviously you can't writer performant code that takes 5 billion CPU operations to do a subtraction that should take 1 CPU operation. so ... Hoon has the concept of "jets". A "jet" is when you (a) write a library function in Hoon (b) add a special marker to it and

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          129/ (c) then REWRITE the exact same code in C, making use of the bare metal of the CPU / fallible Terran operating system. So... this leads us to the JQ:

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          130/ "If the premise of Hoon is that it is precise and correct because it does not depend on or touch fallible gross C code, and runs entirely in the VM...but it's so slow that now we write our code twice, and half of it is written in the fallible and gross style... WTF?"

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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          131/ I *** DO *** understand where they're coming from. I do get that diamond-hard formalizations are good. I get that optimizations can be done afterward. ...but... it's still kinda sketchy a sucking chest wound under the perfectly pressed tuxedo.

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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩  🦬

          132/https://twitter.com/VidyaDragon/status/1502423602372747269?t=7zO51wFYJb0OBsoLpM5HTQ&s=19 …

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          E. Darwin Hartshorn ⳩  🦬 @VidyaDragon
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Aha! You escape the world of messy metal and into the land of platonic forms by simply building hundreds of scaffolds from the forms to the metal and pretending they don't exist. It's okay because lies are spiritual, and our rubric is spirit = good; metal = bad.
          1 reply 0 retweets 16 likes
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        22. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Shea Levy

          133/ I don't know but at a guess? He knows it exists but finds it unsexy. Just a guess tho.https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1502424243337932800?t=7zO51wFYJb0OBsoLpM5HTQ&s=19 …

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          Shea Levy @shlevy
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I'm watching this thread in utter horror. Does Yarvin know that there's decades of work in research and applied formal verification of varying degrees of usability and expressiveness? Does he ignore that, build on top of it, think it's garbage?
          2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
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        23. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️

          134/https://twitter.com/raptros_/status/1502425562467516417?t=7zO51wFYJb0OBsoLpM5HTQ&s=19 …

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          aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️ @raptros_
          Replying to @shlevy @MorlockP
          back in the day he ignored all of it, for ideological reasons
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        24. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Shea Levy

          135/https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1502425889866399747?t=7zO51wFYJb0OBsoLpM5HTQ&s=19 …

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          Shea Levy @shlevy
          Replying to @raptros_ @MorlockP
          Ideological reasons like they have a bad approach? Or ideological reasons like they're part of academia and voted for Obama?
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        25. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️

          136/https://twitter.com/raptros_/status/1502426374300184580?t=7zO51wFYJb0OBsoLpM5HTQ&s=19 …

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

          aidan l. coyne ✝️ 🇻🇦 🏡 🔕 ☀️ @raptros_
          Replying to @shlevy @MorlockP
          more like the latter, "they're academia and everything they do is necessarily corrupt because all of academia in america is intrinsically bad"
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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP Mar 11

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Andy Wilcox

          137/ A dictator is simpler and purer than a senate. A 15 opcode VM is simpler and purer than a 60 opcode VM. ...at a guess.https://twitter.com/andy_wilco/status/1502428249766473728?t=HDhBkoI_iFlMNXtaRw6usBWoUiaVjDr-90dsDJi8amQ&s=19 …

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          Andy Wilcox @andy_wilco
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Why not take a page from the JVM? add some ops to the bytecode and add JIT for native perf on limited parts of their choice. Keeps it all inside the VM. Better than jet option which seems cumbersome and possibly dangerous. Note: I learned hoon in this thread
          3 replies 0 retweets 16 likes
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