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Many years ago (like, around 1980) I read a philosophical dissertation about the concept of holes, being the defined by the abscence of "something", their existence defined by something outside themselves which is definitely not part of the hole, yet that which defines it...
You might think that this is a trivial matter, but this dissertation showed that it is certainly not.
My problem is that I have lost my copy. At least, I am unable to find it in my half a ton of old xerox copies in the basement. Does the issue ring a bell? Can anyone help me to a link, or even a reference to a paper copy of this dissertation?
(As far as I remember, my copy was a xerox of a friend's xerox, so without the copy at hand I cannot give any hint about the source.)
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Not a philosophical definition, but there is a similar concept in Semi-conductors
hole
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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I recall some science papers and tangental philosophies that were based on a reversion of Einstein's problematic "hole argument" when he was working on general relativity.
If I recall correctly, it comes down the simple fact that a "hole" in something is simply a 3D object, and that object is within another object... so if know that parent object we know about the children within, so we can determine what the hole is or is not.
But I don't have a copy of that, just some term papers I did on Einstein back in school
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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So...your paper went down in a black hole?
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Just this. I was intending the same pun.
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Nope.
It went down a rat hole!
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I don't know about your holes but I like this Holes (2003) - IMDb[^]
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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If nothing wasn't something, they wouldn't have a word for it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: If nothing wasn't something, they wouldn't have a word for it.
This is deeper than it might seem. And it's still too early in the morning for me to take that statement apart.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: If nothing wasn't something
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw in a 'sophisticated gentlemen's magazine'  . It showed a podium labeled with a large 'N', and a crowd of folks with their hands in the air, leaning toward it.
Two guys are standing nearby, looking at the scene. One asks the other, "Is Nothing sacred?"
Software Zen: delete this;
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Daughter gave us restaurant gift coupon via Amazon, for our anniversary (58).
Email gave us URL to get it, since it was not an Amazon coupon. First says "unsafe", then 404. Tried with Firefox and Chromium. Fails with both. Called Amazon, they sent another. Same thing. Fired up a W10 virtual machine and tried with Edge. Shazam, I have my coupon. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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So edge lets you be sucked in by unsafe web-sites?
Noted. Cheers!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 that piece of software is pathetic. The next microsoft browser version should be better, since I do not think it can get worse.
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I wouldn't bet
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well, they're redesigning edge to use the chromium engine. In other news, some muckety-muck at Microslop said mozilla should cease development on firefox because (paraphrasing) "having one browser is better than having multiple browsers".
Yeah. Right...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Change the browser agent to indicate Internet Explorer/Windows in either chrome or firefox, and I bet it works.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What in gods green earth would require Slack to consume 1/2 Gig of RAM? It's a f***ing messaging app!!! Or Postman, which is really nothing but an awful front-end UI for sending REST API calls and receiving responses?
Between the two of them, 1GB. Two Visual Studio instances, another 1.5GB. SQL Server + SSMS, 700MB.
And don't even get me started on Chrome. 17 tabs and almost 5GB. Close Chrome, restart with exactly the same 17 tabs, and now it uses a meager 2GB.
WTF? On a 16GB machine, I had 90% memory utilization (there are other things too, stuff consuming 200MB, etc). F***ing insane.
Latest Article - Slack-Chatting with you rPi
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Interesting. I knew it was basically a custom browser, but jeez, I had no idea how bad.
Latest Article - Slack-Chatting with you rPi
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I recall reading an article roughly 10 years ago where the guru from some tech company (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Oracle... - I don't remember) made the argument that being ultra efficient with RAM use was foolish - after all having a bunch of unused RAM isn't helping anything. His advice was use as much as you want and let the OS manage it.
Today we see the result of said advice... 
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10 news for every delete - that's the way to go. 
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Today we see the result of said advice..
It really does seem that way. All I can think is these apps load everything into memory as a distinct object and then never let it go. It's just crazy -- no lazy loading, no setting things to null after done with use. Just wanton memory eating with no thought.
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raddevus wrote: no lazy loading
That's unfortunate naming, for once. Loading everything at once IS the lazy way of achieving it. 
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