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<p>> <span style="font-size: 12pt;">> [...] the shortness of posts mandates being terse and that tends to mean clear, quick, succinct [...]</span></p>
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<div>> Ha! If anything, promotes laziness. Writing clear, concise, and correct thoughts takes a lot of effort.</div>
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<div>Being brief takes a lot of effort, too, I can tell you ... ;-)</div>
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<b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 16. März 2021 16:04:16<br>
<b>An:</b> squeak-dev<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [squeak-dev] Twitter Smalltalk discussion that may interest folk here</font>
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Hi Liam.
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<div>> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">It may have been, but it was _not my question_.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Oh, it sure was. You quoted something from Twitter added something like "Is he right?". That's definitely low effort. ;-)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> [...]</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">shortness
of posts mandates being terse and that tends to mean clear, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">quick, succinct [...]</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">Ha! If anything, promotes laziness. Writing clear, concise, and correct thoughts takes a lot of effort. With more text, there is at least some chance that not-so-good writes may express
themselves somehow. Without that, what's left is often superficial rant because there are not so many good writers out there. Just my two cents. :-)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">I don't know if you saw my talk, or read the script, or anything. If</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> not, you might find it interesting, and then you would understand my</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">> position.</span>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 13px">I will do that. Thanks for sharing. :-)</span></div>
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<p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">Am 16.03.2021 14:52:59 schrieb Liam Proven <lproven@gmail.com>:</p>
<div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 14:47, Marcel Taeumel
<marcel.taeumel@hpi.de>wrote:<br>
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> Hi Liam.<br>
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> I am happy to read that there is actual interest behind your initial question, which -- to be honest -- looked rather provocative to me. ;-) Sorry, if my previous answer did irritate you in some way.<br>
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It may have been, but it was _not my question_.<br>
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> Well, countering a fundamentally negative attitude is in my experience not worth the effort if the topic-under-discussion may not even be relevant at all. Especially that thing about "malware" hints at a rather negative disposition toward people in general.<br>
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Yes and no. Up to a point I find Twitter useful for this: the<br>
shortness of posts mandates being terse and that tends to mean clear,<br>
quick, succinct. It prevents people from going on and on like a<br>
politician facing a difficult question.<br>
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> Yet, I am always happy to answer open-minded questions about Squeak and its concepts.<br>
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I don't know if you saw my talk, or read the script, or anything. If<br>
not, you might find it interesting, and then you would understand my<br>
position.<br>
The video is here: https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/new_type_of_computer/<br>
Transcript, slides, etc: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/77065.html<br>
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I am very much more on this side:<br>
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> Or are you more interested in "augmenting human intellect" (see Douglas Engelbart) through a computational system? :-)<br>
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