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Simon Sarris
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simonsarris
Amherst, NH
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🕯 In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
🕯 Alchemist. Sacred things, making things, 📸 , kalopsía.
🕯 The map is mostly water.
🌟 I make: gojs.net
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Simon Sarris
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When you have offered
your libation and have prayed, as is right,
hand your comrade the cup of honey wine,
so he may pour out his libation, too,
for he looks like someone who offers prayers
to the immortals. All men need the gods.
— Peisistratus
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This is why I try to talk of ritual. The gods are ignored, not lost.
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Our greatest works and rituals manifest a way of life. That is real religion. I think it is what the people who created Notre Dame knew.
Modern religion, I fear, mostly gets itself lost worrying about what's literally true or not, bowing to rationalism. So it loses the work.
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For example the cathedral of Notre Dame works on us. When we witness it, the creators are still there working, we are there iron and stone and they wrought and shape us still. They shape our mood, inspire our genius, so it is with all works of art and all rituals.
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Our rituals are older than poetry, writing, even thought. They are a wilder form of thinking and doing.
We created rituals and art, I think, to honor the divine nature of the world. Both are things you enact, when they are right they "work", have this active effect.
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Every thing in this world contains statements, images, metaphors, stories. Like poetry, the world cannot be summarized or paraphrased, to do so would be to miss most of it.
Our wonder is a kind of collective inheritance that we build upon. I hope we keep building.
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In Adwords, you can put your own name as campaign wide negative keywords (although I have done this and STILL they show!)
But sometimes cos do it on purpose because competitors bid on your name so you better also (an arms race that ad people win). Like shown. pic.twitter.com/q2cDawbQLx
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There needs to be questions at the end of every school design RFP that firms have to answer like
WOULD THIS DESIGN FLY IN 1850 WHY OR WHY NOT?
WHATS MOST INSPIRING ABOUT PRISON SHAPES?
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE APPEAL OF HOGWARTS TO KIDS (and certain adults) IN LIKE TWO PARAGRAPHS?
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This PDF has the new school design proposal, from an architecture firm. Note how there's nothing about what the school will look like!! Only floor plans.
The platitude on every slide is insulting. It announces the firm's intent to lie to us.
nashua.edu/cms/lib/NH5000… pic.twitter.com/V5enFOOlBQ
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Nashua New Hampshire's 3 middle schools. Guess which one was made back when we were poorer.
Last month city officials approved $118 million to construct a new middle school and expand and "renovate" two existing middle schools. Guess which one isn't going to be used anymore. pic.twitter.com/yvZlPzM23v
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Simon Sarris
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There should be a lot of information that comes out of the auto-generated API, for every class:
* What it is
* The most common way to use it
* How it and different kinds of classes interact
* (Often) Where to go next
Ideally, every page of documentation can be story-boarded!
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It's *crazy* how much software documentation doesn't try to preempt the answers to common questions, give examples that are a kind of "here's why this method is here at all, here's why and when you'd want to use it"
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Great documentation will also do that.
Aside from API we found writing a lot of "intro" pages on different concepts in a library greatly reduces support load bc common questions get answered fast with a link full of examples
I should write up our documentation process sometime twitter.com/shl/status/122…
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I think this is hard to answer context-free since there's lots of considerations based on climate, vernacular, and VERY different definitions of "effective daily life".
I started documenting my own project here:
medium.com/@simon.sarris/…
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Right now, we can only support the world we inherited with technology. At current tech levels, there is no tech-stagnant utopia.
Oil has its price. It is a moral imperative and good to create new technologies. Belief in technology is a belief that the distant future matters.
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Ammonia/Nitrogen: Half the food on the planet grown with fertilizer synthesized by Haber process
Oil: If born in a hospital, hands lined with petroleum byproducts were the first thing to touch your skin. Oil held you before your mother did.
Result: population 1.7b -> 7.7b
[1/2] twitter.com/eriktorenberg/…
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Sources
History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad by Stover, p 59-60
Worldwide History of Telecommunications by Huurdeman p 61
Also this may have been the first time the US Congress paid out to support private research, unless you count Lewis and Clark: maryannfeldman.web.unc.edu/files/2011/11/…
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He tries again: string the cable on poles. Much faster!
April 1st, 1844: Work begins laying poles and wire
May 1st, 1844: Over half done.
May 24, 1844: Incoming message from Baltimore to the Supreme Court chamber: "What Hath God Wrought"
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(that's $900K today's dollars)
Fall of 1843 Morse contracts someone to make custom plow to dig a trench besides train tracks to lay cable. Poor insulation, it fails by the time it reaches Relay (which was named after horse relays not wire ones!). He spent half the money.
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