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A small Haskell task
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/haskell-task/
Published: April 3, 2025 00:00
Haskell is great. And I want more people to know it, so this is just a quick overview of it’s capabilities, and of code to solve a simple task I saw on Mastodon. The task is the following: Return a list of all combinations (i.e. order doesn’t matter) of…
Why should I care? Punks are correct, old wise philosophers are wrong
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/moral-law/
Published: March 10, 2025 00:00
Last week I learned that Robert Paul Wolff, the philosopher who got interested in anarchism and marxism, died and I wanted to write something dedicated to him — this was the first reason I started writing this. The second one, was to finally finish an…
Agda
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/agda/
Published: March 5, 2025 00:00
At the Agda headquaters: “OK, guys, so our user pool consists only of folks who already know Haskell and Emacs Is there a way to narrow it down more?” “I got it, what if we allow unicode, so they also have to also know Latex ?” “Brilliant!”
I don’t want to lose the human in me
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/lose-the-human/
Published: March 5, 2025 00:00
I don’t want to lose the human in me, I don’t want to have to see the world through their ways. I don’t want to have to feel through their point of view, To be locked inside it like an alien in a space suit. I don’t have to lose the human in me. Simply…
To kill an art
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/kill-art/
Published: February 20, 2025 00:00
To kill an art, create a way to perform the utilitarian aspect of it in a way that is formulaic and efficient i.e. artless. (The art is not really dead, it is just understood by a very small amount of people (mostly other creators).) The art of…
The things you fear
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/fear/
Published: February 12, 2025 00:00
The things you fear would happen are already happening. The only way to make them seize is to stop fearing.
The Hand
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/the-hand/
Published: February 12, 2025 00:00
title: The hand cluches layout: microblog category: microblog tags: zen — The hand clutches so hard, that it does not realize it is not holding anything.
Philosophy beefs
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/philosophy-beefs/
Published: February 10, 2025 00:00
This is a list of varioust arguments, quarrels, disagreements i.e. “beefs” that philosophers have had with one another. Heraclitus vs. Parmenides (5th century BCE) Beef: A clash between Heraclitus’s belief in constant change and Parmenides’s insistence on…
Teacher
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/teacher-joke/
Published: November 18, 2024 00:00
Teacher (grumpy): “How did everyone on the class came to know this, and you are the only one who is still clueless?” Me (entusiastically): “Interesting question! In fact I myself have been wondering the same thing?”
Society
http://abuseofnotation.github.io/our-society/
Published: November 17, 2024 00:00
Society in which you step over homeless folks on your way to pointlessly click and type on the computer all day, is deeply fucked up. And you have to be veeery brainwashed to not realize that. Society where everyone’s main activity is to do a “job” that…