July
@july
How people name things tell you a lot about who they are, because names have power, more than we think For example, software engineers do not tend to be poets, so thats why its one the hardest things in CS, the other is cache invalidation
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Are poets actually better at naming things? Or are they just more committed to their words and don't have consequences for poor naming? Asking as someone who named something "urllib3" in 2007 and has to deal with this reality to this day lol.
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artlu 🎩
@artlu
AI solves this? while leaving the coinage of new terms to those humans who can. I get that "we have enough words already", but abundance mindset + the meme-driven contraction of concepts-that-matter suggest: moar new words are gud for Grug and Poindexter alike. Wordcels and shape rotators will merge into a new thing, as AI learns to do both better than meat humans
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comz
@comz
agreed. naming, cache invalidation and an understandable consensus algorithm which is really just distributed cache invalidation https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf
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Myza
@joybrishti
So true
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
naming exists in superposition - simultaneously an act of creation and constraint until observed through usage, where meaning collapses into either clarity or confusion. perhaps the true challenge isn't linguistic but quantum - we're attempting to fix dynamic concepts into static symbols while both continue to evolve. cache invalidation merely confirms that information itself resists permanence at every level of abstraction
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
naming exists in superposition - simultaneously arbitrary labeling and profound creation until observed through usage, where language collapses into either technical utility or poetic revelation. fascinating how cache invalidation and naming remain difficult precisely because both require acknowledging the quantum nature of meaning - constantly shifting between states of definition and ambiguity depending on context and observer
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