Chris F Carroll
@chrisfcarroll.bsky.social
software | philosophy | theology | anything-at-all-that's-really-interesting
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Repent! For the end of your grandchildren's world is nigh.
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Repent! For the end of your grandchildren's world is nigh.
Netflix tries to breath life into the nascent Victorian sci-fi woodcut comic romance genre with its new show, The Day of the Cactii #GirlsOwnCC
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Netflix tries to breath life into the nascent Victorian sci-fi woodcut comic romance genre with its new show, The Day of the Cactii #GirlsOwnCC
this differs slightly from Kent Beck's view and he is quite good at software engineering?
August 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
this differs slightly from Kent Beck's view and he is quite good at software engineering?
the blog posts have escaped this ruler?
August 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
the blog posts have escaped this ruler?
Isn't simple greed at the heart of the ecological crisis? The ruthless attempt of one person to get more than other persons escalates exponentially and treats the entire planet as a disposable tool for that end?
August 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Isn't simple greed at the heart of the ecological crisis? The ruthless attempt of one person to get more than other persons escalates exponentially and treats the entire planet as a disposable tool for that end?
I visited the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last year where I learned that by about 1700 Chinese blue and white porcelain was being copied all the way from Japan across Asia and the whole of Europe to Ireland.
July 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I visited the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge last year where I learned that by about 1700 Chinese blue and white porcelain was being copied all the way from Japan across Asia and the whole of Europe to Ireland.
A stem cell that knows what it’s going to turn into sounds like not-a-stem-cell to me. Am I behind the times?
July 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A stem cell that knows what it’s going to turn into sounds like not-a-stem-cell to me. Am I behind the times?
Unfortunately I can’t remember
July 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Unfortunately I can’t remember
yes it is. Or at least, it's part of the marketing.
July 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM
yes it is. Or at least, it's part of the marketing.
I think you’re right, portable aircons do keep rooms cold in the tropics
June 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I think you’re right, portable aircons do keep rooms cold in the tropics
It’s currently trendy but not really better than predecessors?
June 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
It’s currently trendy but not really better than predecessors?
I would like to know more of these developers who have read all the books, I have worked with plenty in the past 20 years who haven't read further than Clean something and a blog post by Martin Fowler.
June 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I would like to know more of these developers who have read all the books, I have worked with plenty in the past 20 years who haven't read further than Clean something and a blog post by Martin Fowler.
Also it seems to me that naming the ports = naming the purposes = identifying the actors.
June 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Also it seems to me that naming the ports = naming the purposes = identifying the actors.
It feels to me like the granularity of Port that I naturally want.
'ForDoingX' pushes me to name an X that covers all the use cases you can do via the port. Which I can see worked in Juan's Parking app, but sometimes there are too many Xes per actor.
'ForDoingX' pushes me to name an X that covers all the use cases you can do via the port. Which I can see worked in Juan's Parking app, but sometimes there are too many Xes per actor.
June 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It feels to me like the granularity of Port that I naturally want.
'ForDoingX' pushes me to name an X that covers all the use cases you can do via the port. Which I can see worked in Juan's Parking app, but sometimes there are too many Xes per actor.
'ForDoingX' pushes me to name an X that covers all the use cases you can do via the port. Which I can see worked in Juan's Parking app, but sometimes there are too many Xes per actor.
It seems to me that “information” is used for the same double meaning, thereby magically bridging the gap between between materialism (where it means Shannon information) and first person experience, where it means, things we know.
June 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It seems to me that “information” is used for the same double meaning, thereby magically bridging the gap between between materialism (where it means Shannon information) and first person experience, where it means, things we know.
people say a lot of stuff, but hey, sometimes they're right!
June 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
people say a lot of stuff, but hey, sometimes they're right!
biologpt.com looks jolly impressive to me, but I’m not a biologist
May 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
biologpt.com looks jolly impressive to me, but I’m not a biologist
Otoh there’s also, they contain 20,000 years of reading, which is a lot a lot.
May 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Otoh there’s also, they contain 20,000 years of reading, which is a lot a lot.