rogress: A History of Humankind's Worst Idea

It was actually Shreddinger who formulated that idea way back in 1942 when he wrote a book called what is life?

ne of the chief drawbacks in using the Alpha-betic and Numeric systems in conjunction with asubject file is that in handling a large amount ofmaterial a great deal of cross referencing has tobe done, causing much extra labor and filling upthe files.

a broad fork, which is a wide implement that has spikes in it with long handles, and you push it into the ground and pull it backwards, and it loosens up the soil without uh inverting it or or turning it over

5. Conclusion

I use the end-pa-pers at the back of the book to makea personal index of the author's pointsin the order of their appearance

It affords an immediate step, however, to associative indexing, the basic idea of which is a provision whereby any item may be caused at will to select immediately and automatically another. This is the essential feature of the memex. The process of tying two items together is the important thing.

And why could all this not be fulfilled in the case of anorganism composed of a moderate number of atoms only andsensitive already to the impact of one or a few atoms only?

the most essential part of a living cell - the chromosome fibre- may suitably be called an aperiodic crystal.

This habit of drawing engaged one of his most important analyticaltools: analogy. Drawing from nature in detail forces the artist to understandboth underlying structure and surface detail, and this close examination ledLeonardo to make surprising connections, noting the resemblances betweenthe curls of hair and the movement of water, a sprouting seed and thevessels around the human heart, ropes and levers and tendons and bones.These connections would prove distracting – ‘lateral thinking at apathological level’, as Kemp puts it – but the result was that ‘he couldalways see further possibilities’.

But scientists have also identified at least

Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant

used to create the problem. To that I would add, can there be a new mindsetif it is necessary to use the language of the old mindset? I suspect that onewill encounter the same limitations of the old mindset. Who can build a new

PD requires that we relate to each other by moving in the “opposite direction” in which conventional discourse takes place. Rather than moving forward, moving out to you, authoritatively advancing my position on whatever we are discussing by simply and directly presenting it to you, I relate to you in a more circuitous, reflexive way, by going proprioceptively backward into myself, back into that hollow place at the center of my being

ideas of territory, population and history

“But the problem you’re confronting has incredibly high information content: It’s telling you about key weaknesses in your idea. And often, it’s giving you the clue you need to solve it.”

He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.

Coining a word that is as fitting as it is symptomatic of the urge it describes, Warburg spoke of his Verknüpfungszwang. This ‘compulsion to interconnect’ lies not only at the root of his research and working methods.

In his novel The White Castle (1998), Orhan Pamuk’s narrator says: “I suppose that to see everything as connected with everything else is the addiction of our time.”

[T]he titles noted down were those which had aroused Warburg’s scholarly curios-ity while he was engaged on a piece of research. They were all interconnected in apersonal way as the bibliographical sum total of his own activity. These lists were,therefore, his guide as a librarian ; not that he consulted them every time he readbooksellers’ and publishers’ catalogues ; they had become part of his system and schol-arly existence. [...] Often one saw Warburg standing tired and distressed bent over hisboxes with a packet of index cards, trying to ind for each one the best place withinthe system ; it looked like a waste of energy. [...] It took some time to realise that hisaim was not bibliographical. This was his method of deining the limits and contentsof his scholarly world and the experience gained here became decisive in selectingbooks for the Library. 5

Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago

Here is one from page 102: The beauty of a thought is based on an intuitive assessment of its quality. It enables a "golden link" to my Zettelkasten to the entry point "Concepts of beauty". Today I found a beautiful quote that underlines this concept: We may talk about the elegance of an equation, but we forget to find value in the beauty of a thought. — Marilynne Robinson

No obstante, y desafortunadamente, es mucho mayor la cantidad de explicaciones explorables relacionadas con temas basados en teorías matemáticas, físicas o de ciencias de la computación —por ejemplo, simulaciones de fenómenos físicos, algoritmos usados en reconocimiento de caracteres, o procesamiento de señales—, en comparación con los casos que tratan temas de ciencias sociales y humanidades8Nicky Case, «Explorable Explanations: The Plan» (Nicky Case's Blog, 2015), https://blog.ncase.me/explorable-explanations-the-plan/..

Esta actitud ha dado lugar a proyectos recursivos en las humanidades digitales, y a un trabajo particular que realiza proyectos creativos con los recursos y los elementos limitados con los que cuenta. Sin embargo, la romantización de la precariedad puede llevar a una aceptación de las brechas y a un estado de beta permanente, de práctica parchuda y eternamente sin terminar, o de existencia superviviente entre la carencia.

la construcción discursiva de un conocimiento pedante, alejado de la vida diaria y la complejidad cultural que pretende representar, y que aún así se defiende como una gran narrativa de la humanidad completa a pesar de sus exclusiones y de la ampliación de las formas de participación y producción cultural popular que las interconexiones globales y las nuevas tecnologías han propiciado.

Siendo este el caso, no basta con la actitud de modulor moral, a pesar de su potencial creativo, porque puede llegar a ser una acción sin retroalimentación en la infraestuctura general, sino que se requiere una actitud de demonio moral, por decirlo así, o sea, una actitud de transformación del propio sistema infraestructural.

Podemos llamarla desobediencia, resistencia, insurgencia, hackeo, rebusque, otras computaciones, o de muchas otras formas más; al final, es una forma de relacionamiento tecnológico que surge del intento por desenajenar las infraestructuras, apropiarlas y hacerlas apropiadas.

la suposición de que un medio tecnológico tiene un beneficio universal no solo no cumple los efectos esperados sino que, al crear una necesidad, amolda a un grupo a una práctica idealizada, pero luego exacerba su enajenación al privarlo de los medios para realizarla.

formas de colaboración con las infraestructuras dominantes para, aunque sea mínimamente, intervenir en ellas y retroalimentarlas, si son generosas, o aprender de ellas para crear derivaciones si es suficientemente fuerte el espírtu hacker de deconstruir y reconstruir. Como diría Boaventura de Sousa Santos, "Las personas y los grupos sociales tienen derecho a ser iguales cuando la diferencia los inferioriza, y el derecho a ser diferentes cuando la igualdad los descaracteriza"42Boaventura de Sousa Santos, The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018), 10..

las infraestructuras son, en su sentido más abstracto, formas de ejercer trabajo para, en el futuro, hacer algo con menos trabajo

"Yo trabajé mucho tiempo roto. Quiero decir, jugando a dos bandas. Me tocaba seguir produciendo artículos, de estos aburridos para libros que nunca se van a leer o artículos en revistas que van a quedar ahí atrapados. Esto es Q1, esto es Q2, estas cosas que yo realmente no les veo mucho sentido, por eso estoy en lo que estoy. Me parece que es un juego absurdo, sobre todo los costos de publicación para que quede abierto. Es una estupidez. Me tocaba jugar, entonces, a la publicación de cosas 'serias' y mi trabajo con estas cosas 'no tan serias' como las humanidades digitales. Pero en la universidad, en mi facultad, reconocían que tenía este trabajo, se sabía que tenía este trabajo y hay gente que lo utiliza"52«Entrevista a Jaime Borja», 11 de marzo de 2024..

这种做法是错误的，毫不相干的项目（远程调用不叫有关系）没有理由放在同一视窗内，除了干扰还是干扰。

Es decir, la exacerbación de un conflicto entre lo subjetivo y específico y lo generalizable y objetivista que han ido construyendo discursos como el de la analítica cultural para posicionarse como postura de vanguardia con ínfulas cientificistas.

Como ha sido estudiado por Rosemberg62Daniel Rosemberg, «Data Before the Fact», "Raw Data" Is an Oxymoron, ed. Lisa Gitelman (The MIT Press, 2013), 15-40, https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9302.001.0001., el concepto de dato está relacionado retóricamente con la verdad en relación con algún tipo de fundamento (Dios, las matemáticas, la observación empírica con métodos científicos), y, por esto, que la interpretación de objetos culturales se haga a través de datos obtenidos por la objetividad mecánica de las tecnologías digitales se entiende como una derivación más sólida de esa verdad.

McGann, "la memoria es cómo cuidamos lo que amamos y perdemos. [...] Creamos mecanismos y maquinarias para recordar —las artes, o tal vez los artefactos, de la memoria. Librerías, museos, entornos digitales. Familias, Naciones, Ceremonias"25McGann, A New Republic of Letters, 15..

el Humano no es un individuo particular sino una identidad general y un proyecto de largo aliento.

el trazado que dejan las marcas de las asociaciones entre sujetos. En este sentido, y como lo entendería el autor, el trazado es una estrategia de "escritura a mano" convencional —longhand—, en vez de taquigrafía —shorthand—, en el sentido en el que busca establecer matices que muestren que los sujetos no se constituyen por simples sistemas de oposición, sino que, por el contrario, para entenderlos hay que narrarlos, hay que contar cómo se transforman, cómo cambian de opinión y cómo son inconsistentes: hay que construir una especie de libro de viajes del discurso y la práctica:

Siguiendo el espíritu de Shiffman, entendí que es posible una aproximación amable y tranquila al código y a la lógica digital, y que, bien aprovechada, esa lógica puede ser útil para crear o para entender las complejidades de la cultura humana. La continuación de mi inquietud consistió en combinar mi vida en la academia con un aprendizaje desde el hacer, el error y la especulación a través del código. Y mi propio navegar en las culturas digitales me mostró que sus complejidades son dignas de un análisis sofisticado y profundo.

Así, uno de los resultados de la investigación no está consignado en el texto, sino en la estructura que lo soporta y que lo integra como un todo.

The principle is that whenever a problem is not comfortable enough, you build a tool that makes it comfortable. This can happen multiple times a day even for a single developer. To put it in perspective, in a typical IDE today, you might have dozens of extensions. When practicing Moldable Development, you can easily get to thousands of tools per system.

Only at St John’s College, where Adler’s friend Scott Buchananbecame president, was there instituted what Harry Ashmore calls a‘hundred-proof Great Books curriculum’.

in the very early 1930s, academic news;their Great Books seminar was enough of a novelty both in substanceand method that celebrities on transcontinental train trips began tostop off in Chicago to take a look. Among these were Hollywood starsLillian Gish and Orson Welles, and Eugene Meyer, publisher of theWashington Post (and father of Katherine Graham, a student enrolled inthe seminar).18 The most famous visitor of all was Gertrude Stein.

Otlet, by contrast, was strongly opposed to organizing information unitsby the alphabetical order of their index terms. In his view, such a mode oforganization “scatters the [subject] matter under rubrics that have beenclassed arbitrarily in the order of letters and not at all in the order of ideas”and so obscures the conceptual relationships between them [6, p. 380]

what we're doing is feeding in real-time data from the stock market he's making buy and sell decisions and we're seeing if he can come to have a better sense of the economic movements of of the planet

it isn't just about alleviating their own personal suffering it's also about alleviating Universal suffering so this is where the the bodh satra or the Christ or those kinds of archetypes about being concerned about the whole

Here's my setup: Literature Notes go in the literature folder. Daily Notes serve as fleeting notes. Project-related Notes are organized in their specific project folders within a larger "Projects" folder.

A small price for years ofideative connectivity.

Connections between thoughts leads to new ideas, whichreinforce what we nd interesting in the world, and what we decide tocapture from it.

Rather than appealing to communicative pressures and nat-ural selection, the suggestion is that structure-preserving map-pings emerge from the dynamics of iterated learning

So far we have considered only just the MainHeadings and the Sub-Headings. But it would bepossible, and it would be advisable, if the work has tobe carefully done, to apply the Card-System to ' Con-nexions',i.e. to write on Cards the connecting link be-tween each Idea and the Idea that follows ; and it maybe as well to apply the System even to Paragraphs,that is to say, before you write a Paragraph to write onCards the Headings for the different sections of it.

Connecting Linkbetween twoSentences orParagraphs,

Good Practice for this will be to studyLoisette's System of Memory, e.g. in "How to Remember"(see p. 264) ; in fact Loisette's System might be calledthe Link-System ; and Comparisons and Contrasts willvery often be a great help as Links.

On many occasions, I've opened up requests for support in the form of a Github pull request. This way, I am telling the author: I have found a potential problem with your library, here is how I fixed it for my circumstance, here is the code I used for reference. You get extra internet points if you open the pull request with: "I don't expect this pull request to get merged, but I wanted to you show you what I did".

he two groups making most use of librarieswere “students and housewives” (women users outnumbered men by twoto one), but neither group was well served; and among employed men,6 percent of whites borrowed books, but only 0.1 percent of Black min-ers.18 These were dreadful numbers.

The quotation of Elio’s language usage here—as well as the repetition, inversion, and changes inemphasis—places focus structurally on the actual words to represent the implications of thisutterance (the implications being that Elio desires Oliver).

It would represent a revolution in the governance of the world – and we do not have a map for how to get there.

There is for himno royal road to order. Knowledge andright will a r e indispensable. This doesnot mean that the world will heed, andeducate its feelings and thoughts forthe sake of self-preservation. But quiteproperly, Mr. Wells should not care.He has diagnosed the ailment and pre-scribed the sensible dose. The patientis always a t liberty to pass out in self-conceit or with the aid of quacks.PRODUCED 2005 BY UNZ.ORGELECTRONIC REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED

In 1967, Samuel founded the History Workshop movement

It's an interesting position and had me rethinking things a bit, but the way I look at it, the actions themselves are negative; it's their boundary conditions which are different. Take for instance embark/disembark. In pseudo-mathematical terms, I would tend to think they increment or decrement one's embarkedness, with an upper boundary of 1 (aboard), and a lower boundary of 0 (ashore). The non-existence of values >1 (super-aboard) or <0 (anti-aboard) shouldn't affect the relative polarity of the actions themselves. I think. Looking through the rest of the list, there's a variety of different boundary conditions. Prove/disprove would range from 1 to -1 (1=proven, 0=asserted but untested, -1=proven false), entangle/disentangle seems to range from 0 to infinity (because you can always be a little more entangled, can't you?), and please/displease is perhaps wholly unbounded (if we imagine that humanity has an infinite capacity for both suffering and joy).

Adler first came into contact with the great books idea whenhe took John Erskine’s General Honors course at Columbia Universityin 1920.

It is Woodberry who bringsus to Columbia University and John Erskine.27

Those larger goals highlighted edu-cation for good citizenship; to them great books were more of anantidote than a contributor to that bland, conformist mass culturefeared by mid-century critics (left and liberal and conservative) anddescribed by cultural historians.

To understand elitism in relation to the great books idea, one mustconsider the meaning and existence of cultural hierarchies in litera-ture.

cultural democratization as a sometimes contentious process.

Adler’s communityof discourse is a crucial part of this story about the great books idea

still building the Culture Wars politicalteleology.

The “great books idea” becomes, then, a singular theoretical tool fordealing with change over time.

The phrase “great books idea” arose to capture the evident diversityin thinking about the topic—the who, what, where, when, and howassociated with the notion of a great book and great books. The word“idea” allows for the abstraction from material circumstances: lists,institutions, book production, particular debates, people, et cetera.

it's the most appropriate and necessary story of Mother's Day

Numbers of other pages in themargin: to indicate where else in thebook the author made points relevantto the point marked; to tie up theideas in a book, which, though theymay be separated by many pages, be-long together.

We’re very excited to validate that the imagined approach works across multiple layers of technology.

what little indexing is attempted can only 14be described as an unsystematic effort. The catchword methodof the catalogue has been bodily transplanted to indexing,which makes it very difficult to control our indexed informationproperly, and limits our supply of information to that whichwill fall in with the catchword method

t our index would refer us to electricitywherever mentioned in the text of our literature if usableinformation is given, and it should also tell us something more—the aspect under which it is treated in each case. Whetherand from what aspect information is usable, that we must decidefor ourselves.

It is the object of crossreferences to bring these materials together again when required.

I suppose it would be easy to make a pushshopt function like there is a pushd, and use bash arrays to remember previous option before setting them. Like pushshopt +extglob -nocasematch and popshopt

In World War IIas in World War I, soldiers classified friends and foes in terms of rel-ative cleanliness, but in this conflict they were much more apt tomake sweeping judgments about the population and to rank peopleaccording to rigid biological hierarchies. Even the ordinary infan-tryman adopted a racialized point of view, so that “the Russians”the Germans had fought in 1914–1918 were transformed into anundifferentiated peril, “the Russian,” regarded as “dull,” “dumb,”“stupid,” or “depraved” and “barely humanlike.”

Emigration meant the dispersion of the archive of Jewishlife in Germany, scattering the traces of ancestors and the signs ofcollective history. While German “Aryans” were driving their an-cestries deep into Germany’s past, German Jews were cutting loosefrom their heritage.Racial Grooming • 141

certainly indicated outrage at the brutality of theNazis but also astonishing unawareness of the generally depress-ing conditions in which Jews lived in the Third Reich. Gossiperswere basically passive, telling about but not intervening in dramaticevents.

Criticism of the disruption of publicorder was widespread, but should not be taken completely at facevalue. It undoubtedly veiled deeper moral objections that were oth-erwise difficult to articulate in Nazi Germany

But the rapid and uni-form responses by local Nazis indicated a basic readiness and desireto carry out anti-Jewish actions

Public humiliations such as these depended on bystanders willing totake part in the spectacle. They accelerated the division of neigh-borhoods into “us” and “them.

It was along this circuitry,in which Germans imagined themselves as the victims of Jews andother “back-stabbers,” that “self-love” could turn into lethal “other-hate.”

part of a larger struggle to protect what so many Ger-mans regarded as the wounded, bleeding body of the nation.

the Nazis considered theJewish threat to be “lethal” and active, a perspective that gavetheir assault on the Jews a sense of urgency and necessity that madeGerman citizens more willing to go along

The idea of normality had become racialized, so that entitlement tolife and prosperity was limited to healthy Aryans, while newly iden-tified ethnic aliens such as Jews and Gypsies, who before 1933had been ordinary German citizens, and newly identified biologicalaliens such as genetically unfit individuals and so-called “asocials”were pushed outside the people’s community and threatened withisolation, incarceration, and death.

one of the key purposes of popu-lar entertainment in the Third Reich: the creation of a commonlyshared culture to define Germans to one another and mark themoff from others.

Millions of people acquired new vocabularies, joined Nazi organi-zations, and struggled to become better National Socialists. Whatthe diaries and letters report on is not simply the large numberof conversions among friends and relatives but the individual en-deavor to become a Nazi.

The rou-tine intervention of the police in the corners of daily life of Germancitizens explains why the Gestapo assumed the “almost mythicalstatus as an all-seeing, all-knowing” creature that had placed itsagents throughout the land to overhear conversations in order toenforce political conformity

However, crime could be reduced by removing the dan-gerous body, either by isolating “asocials” in work camps or bysterilizing genetically “unworthy” individuals. In the Nazi legal sys-tem, genetics replaced milieu as the point of origin of crime

heNazis responded to an intense desire for order in Germany in 1933.Fears of Communist revolutionaries mingled with more generalanxieties about crime and delinquency.

The consciousness of generation, and the assumption thatold needed to be replaced with new, undoubtedly opened youngminds to the tenets of racial hygiene, which were repeatedly parsedin workshops and lectures.

It was the modern, scientificworld of “ethnocrats” and biomedical professionals, not the anti-communist Freikorps veterans of the SA, who devised Ahnenpässeand certificates of genetic health and evaluated the genetic worth ofindividuals.

But it also made demands on ordinary Germans, who neededto visualize the Volk as a vital racial subject, to choose appropriatemarriage partners, and to accept “limits to empathy.”

In other words, biology appeared to provideGermany with highly useful technologies of renovation. The Na-zis regarded racism as a scientifically grounded, self-consciouslymodern form of political organization.

thousands of“ethnocrats” and other professionals mobilized to build the newbiomedical structures of the Third Reich. They oriented their ca-reers and ambitions toward the wide spaces that Nazi Germany’sracial vision had opened up.

Race defined the new realities of the ThirdReich for both beneficiaries and victims—it influenced how youconsulted a doctor, whom you talked to, and where you shopped.

Family archives, racial categories, and individual identitiesbecame closely calibrated with one another over the course of theThird Reich

all the humor about Jewishness in Germany, the fear of stum-bling upon Jewish grandmothers and the relief when only a “Jewishgreat-grandmother,” “who cannot hurt you anymore,” turned up,did not dispel the suspicion that Jews were different.

Whereas an Aryanidentity opened the way for a future in the Third Reich, a Jewishone closed it down.

By 1936 almost all Germans—all who were not Jewish—had begun to prepare for themselves an Ahnenpass, or racial pass-port, which laid the foundation for the racial archives establishedin all German households

the sheerforce of the imagery and the busy schedules of national acclamationmade dissent politically risky; but even more: dissent also appearedto be futile.

Germans even went to warwith preprinted diaries that left space for snapshots. All this was anacknowledgment of the desire to be part of and to share the Ger-man history that was being made.

Radio helped to create the collective voice of thenation.

However, Germans did not want the war Hitler was determinedto wage in order to gain living space and empire.

“People looked to Nazism as a great and radical sur-gery or cleansing” and therefore saw “the movement as a sourceof rejuvenation” in public life.

The dreamof the Volkswagen seemed to promise “a new, happier age” thatwould make “the German people rich and Germany beautiful,” asHitler put it. Indeed, the Volkswagen functioned as a symbol for thenewly won capacity to dream about the future: in this fundamentalsense, the Nazis appeared as “men of the future.”

Interweaving economic opportunity with the dangers thatmight prevent it, whether it was the threat of air attack, the pres-ence of “asocials,” or the power of Jews, Winter Relief and air-de-fense campaigns made the premises of the people’s community tan-gible and persuasive

Moreover, the impression thatGermans were assembling behind the Nazis reinforced itself. Moreand more people adjusted to the “new direction” when they sawthat others had done so.

The Day of Potsdam and May Day indi-cated that there was considerable desire among Germans to partici-pate in rituals of national renewal

these auxiliary organiza-tions gave Germans semiofficial responsibilities as they collecteddonations, distributed coal, or trained as air-raid wardens.

The SA, Hitler Youth, and Reich LaborFront worked the same way, striving to identify a new generationof leaders drawn from all social classes;

citizens found the constant donations of time andmoney onerous, but they gradually accepted the new practices, andthe slew of regulations, advisories, and prohibitions associated withthem, as the best way to manage collective life. And they expectedneighbors to comply.

Themedicalization of politics pulled thousands of new professionalsinto state service as nurses, teachers, health-care administrators.Newly opened public-health offices dotted the cities and country-side, building on the social-welfare accomplishments of the repub-lic.

Coordination was a process of disso-lution and affiliation.

National Socialists assaulted the “alternative culture” of work-ing-class socialists in order to coordinate it, but they also attemptedto overcome the very idea of “alternative,” which structured the so-cial divisions typical of Germany’s neighborhoods.

Working-classchoirs had a better chance of survival if they rewrote club statutesto exclude Social Democratic activists from leadership posts.

Coordination, or Gleichschaltung, hit working-class as-sociational life especially hard.

The ubiquitous fundraising made it possible for poorer peo-ple like the Dürkefäldens to participate more fully in public life:dinner or snacks were served at party events and entry fees lifted atsport competitions.

This is thesignificance of the Day of Potsdam: the images of unity were madeavailable for national consumption. The growth in radio ownershipespecially in 1933 and 1934 indicates how great the desire was topartake in Nazi spectacle, although the fact that radios remainedmuch less common in rural areas

the Nazis recognized only Volkskameraden, people’s com-rades, and Volksfeinde, enemies of the people, whom they sub-jected to deliberate and refined cruelties in a “willful transgressionof norms.

The state of permanent emer-gency declared by the National Socialists helps explain the tremen-dous efforts that they and their followers made to reconstruct thecollective body and the satisfaction they took in images of unityand solidarity. It also helps explain the violent exclusions they ac-cepted as part of the rebuilding process.

National Socialism offered acomprehensive vision of renewal, which many Germans found ap-pealing, but they combined it with the alarming specter of nationaldisintegration.

. It was the experience of conversion, which left peoplelike Dürkefälden and Ebermayer isolated, that was new and pro-vided the Third Reich with legitimacy and energy.

the desire to be part ofnational unity was so strong that it pulled even an anti-Nazi such asErich into the new political community

Only reprints (without any alterations)retain the original call number, all revises or new editions howeversmall the alterations should be given a new call number, butdecimals may be used with advantage.

Board view Subtasks are shown slightly indented from the main task Subtasks can be dragged out of the parent task to a new list to indicate their status. For subtasks with a different status to their parent, it displays a dummy parent (ghosted), above the subtask in the list, with the parent's status label visible against the dummy. Dragging the parent task to a different list changes the label of the child tasks as well, and any sub tasks already in its new list are re-organised under the parent and any dummy removed

A user wants to comment on a single parameter name in a function. It is highlighted as a unique part of the syntax tree, and they're not happy with the particular name the author of the MR chose. Problem: The user can only comment on the entire line, because "lines" are considered the most fundamental building block in our Diffs UI.

Connecting Changes Everything

Building blocks encode a useful trait. A building block note encodes an idea.Building blocks are atomic. You want your BB-notes to be as small as possible, but no smaller. This maximizes combinatorial surface area.Building blocks are composable. BB-notes are focused on composition too. Big ideas are composed from smaller ideas, through hyperlinking and transclusion.