Patrick Morrison

Follower, Husband, Father, Seeker, Programmer. Ambimousterous. All tweets reflect my own opinions, not those of my employer(s).

[Patrick Morrison @pmorrison]

@JonathanRoss321 When hardware was expensive, we rationed hardware.
When people became more expensive than hardware, we rationed people. But the core issue remains the problems we are trying to solve and the requisite understanding. Cheap code isn't increased understanding.

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@Grady_Booch In the 90's, 'cycles are free' was one way to think about code optimization in the face of rapid hardware advancement. In the 2000's, 'packets are free' was one way to think about code optimization in the face of rapid network advancement. How realistic is 'tokens are free'?

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@gmiller @bethanyshondark Do you think that people who believe in the literal truth of every line in the Bible can effectively assimilate into Western secular liberal democracies?

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@Disco_Missiles @PTraichal @DataRepublican "Much of the doubt about the effectiveness of the bomber war comes from the fact that German industrial production increased throughout the war." Williamson Murray, Allan Reed Millett, "A War To Be Won: fighting the Second World War", p. 319 {via Wikipedia]

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@Disco_Missiles @PTraichal @DataRepublican "Bombs break buildings. Regimes fall when their own pillars collapse."
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@DDFStrand Yes. “Killing a human being is always wrong because it is God’s will for man to be a sacred creature.”, “A just man may not be a soldier, since his warfare is justice itself, nor may he put anyone on a capital charge.” - Lactantius to Constantine, see 'Patient Ferment', Kreider

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@emollick Tell me how the meal tasted, preferably one featuring items from the butchered hog, and I'll credit Claude toward passing the Heinlein test. :)

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@EPBResearch Related?
https://t.co/NB7vQVDq0o

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@esaumccaulley It depends on the context. If the topic is one I'm grappling with, I'll generally listen, or add it to a long and lengthening list of things to revisit. Otherwise, I may not even listen to the clip, being pretty text-based.

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@AustinZHenley The apprentices of the Sorcerer's Apprentice?!

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@christidis Do you want the Butlerian Jihad? Because this is how you get the Butlerian Jihad.

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@NeilShenvi I've been reading the Old Testament, and it's amazing how tribal we can be, as seen in the stories scripture tells. It's the rare person who rises above that.

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@AustinZHenley I'd be interested to hear about the vibe of how the class goes.

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@elonmusk Who spends the time to read these emails?

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@AustinZHenley I'd think it would depend on what happened next. I think of impact as what one does, not what one reads (though reading can help!)

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@m2jr The point of government is to be resilient and stable. These are legitimate tradeoffs against efficiency, unless you think that the US should go out of business. And the dollars govt spends go directly into the rest of the economy. That's where 'taxpayer dollars' come from.

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@davefarley77 A, um, pointer to https://t.co/s9fFysxSlA

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@shagbark_hick I've half-joked for years that paper-only boutique law firms, doctors' offices, etc, will spring up as a counter to the digitization trend. It is less of a joke every year.
It might be worth reading Kevin Kelly's '1000 True Fans' for inspiration: https://t.co/iU8S6L1g82

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@FrankMcG @UK_Daniel_Card Ross Anderson (RIP) and Sam Ainsworth taught a course based on Anderson's 'Security Engineering' book, videos here: https://t.co/u8775vZlgR
Anderson's 'Policy - Mechanism - Assurance - Incentive' framework is the best 'big picture' view of security that I'm aware of.

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@Grady_Booch If someone's life improves without someone else getting paid for it, is ROI the right measure for 'personally-useful albeit economically-uninteresting software?'