Michalis Famelis/Φαμέλης / is on Nostr

Associate professor in software engineering. He/him.

Professeur agrégé en génie logiciel. Il/lui.

Member of the GEODES software engineering research team at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal.

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2024-10-20 17:06:03

University of Toronto’s environment school cuts financial ties to fossil fuels | Higher education | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/20/university-toronto-financially-dissociate-fossil-fuels
Big applause for @npub17q0…je6u 👏👏👏👏

2024-08-06 14:09:49

Me: Is it possible please to have one with both cheese and tomato?
Confused teenage waiter: sir, it comes with chicken, bacon, cheese, tomato, lettuce and egg.
Me: Oh? Oh, god dammit. Yes. You see, I'm a computer scientist, and "|" means a choice...
Internal monologue: that's when I realized that taking a vacation was the right decision.
#truestory
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2023-10-21 13:34:13

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I mean this in the sense of framing public debates.
Individuals have of course strong feelings about what justice and morality dictate should happen. And I have my own.
The question is how do people with different, sometimes radically different, views of the situation can have reasonable discussions.
Finding "solutions", I think, is not how.

2023-10-21 13:34:13

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2023-10-21 13:30:32

A common theme I have observed in discussions about Gaza is that when someone points out that bombing civilians is not an acceptable way to combat terrorists, they are asked to provide another **solution**.
This is a clear case of solutionism. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict generally and Gaza in particular are **wicked problems** par excellence.
So looking for a "solution" is counterproductive to begin with. There is no "solution", there are only incremental steps to make things less bad.

2023-10-21 13:30:32