Matthew Mathias

I will believe in anything.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@iwasleeg I’d like a good definition of fair.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@chris_bail I love the walk and talk format of the video. I felt like I was watching an episode of the West Wing!

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings Well maybe less ‘why’ and more ‘what.’

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings Cool! I think putting things like this into the type adds precision. Talk about the type, and you’ll have information about the why and the what.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings So when talking about the call back you could instead just list out the type signature of the block/closure.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings Okay if the latter I’d say that they’re both just callbacks. Some languages make things clearer by forcing you to declare that a callback escapes scope or is a deferred thing or whatnot.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

Also how do you even matchmake? It cannot be random as I’m literally always last. I know I’m now good, but random would suggest more spread.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@DestinyTheGame What is wrong with your control matchmaking? Too many matches end early because of imbalance.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@nickteissler I’d love that. Let’s dm to find a good time and appropriately distant place.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

This is some real shit.

https://t.co/RRiZg62zwh

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@alexisgallagher Okay! Fast food and delivery here I come!

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

We got an air purifier during the wildfires so we could breathe easier indoors. It has a sensor and turns on as needed.

It turns on basically every time we cook.

Is cooking bad for us?

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings @griotspeak IMHO, common knowledge needs to extend beyond some horizon of temporality. If everyone knows that a one-off thing is going to happen on a date, then it is an incidental calendar event. It isn’t something persistent and pervasive, which is I think the operative concept here.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@elliottwil @slava_pestov I had this problem in college.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings No! But it’s an informal concept as currently described and used here. I think your example of coroutines works well.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings I think behavior at a rally like this is similar to how pseudo-spontaneous celebration occurs at a sporting event. Everyone is there for similar reasons and has an idea of what is supposed to occur. A collective conscience so to speak.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings I actually don’t think this is a good example of common knowledge. Needing to see something in real time undermines the spirit at work in the idea of common knowledge.

[Matthew Mathias @matthewDmathias]

@billjings “...Well, take a riot for example. You can't have an asynchronous riot, or a blindfolded riot. The whole reason a riot works is that everyone can see everyone else breaking the law together. That's common knowledge: the shared fact of the riot is what makes the riot possible.”