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by ar-nelson 6y ago
Yes, I think the amount of chickpea taste varies based on how much the aquafaba is cooked down. (I always make it by boiling dry chickpeas; I don't use canned.) With some more experimentation I can probably get it to work.
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
I should look into this, maybe refrigerating would help. The recipe I tried was an unusual one (an olive oil dark chocolate chip cookie recipe), and I had made it successfully with eggs before, but trying aquafaba ruined it.
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
I've used aquafaba in cooking a lot, mostly to avoid using so many eggs in baking. And while I've had great results for a few specific recipes, I've also found that it's not a universal egg replacement, and it's har
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
Could you give an example (or a link) that demonstrates this higher-dimensional syntax? Are there things you can express with it that couldn't be expressed in S-expressions?
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
Tree Notation looks very interesting. It also looks like just another version of S-expressions (but with indentation instead of parens). That's not a bad thing, though! S-expressions aren't used nearly as much as they should be, a
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Show HN: A WASM port and JavaScript+Typescript wrapper for Monocypher(github.com)
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Chronofold: A data structure for versioned text [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
In theory, R7RS Large will fix the discoverability problem by picking a single blessed SRFI implementation of each kind of library, and giving each one a name like (scheme hash-table), etc. Whenever it's done. And who knows when that w
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Show HN: Schemepunk – Portable standard library for seven R7RS Scheme dialects(github.com)
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Schemepunk: A batteries-included extended stdlib for seven R7RS Scheme dialects(github.com)
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McCarthy's Ambiguous Operator(randomhacks.net)
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
This video convinced me that base 6 would be even better for simple pen-and-paper math, as well as just about everything else: https://youtu.be/qID2B4MK7Y0
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Converting CJK Fonts to WOFF Is Harder Than You'd Think(adam.nels.onl)
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
The reference implementation of SRFI 146 (persistent mappings) is a red-black tree[1]. I benchmarked my B-tree implementation against it and found that, in almost every R7RS Scheme, constructing small trees (~100 elements) and querying and
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
I guess I should have disambiguated my usage of "persistent". In this case it refers to a purely-functional data structure[1], not a data structure that is persisted to disk. Inserting an item into a persistent B-tree produces a n
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
This is weirdly relevant. I just finished implementing a persistent B-tree library in Scheme.[1][2] I don't know why B-trees aren't used more as a purely-functional data structure. Once they get large enough, they don't move
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by ar-nelson 6y ago
I'm building a language server for R7RS Scheme. I have a basic error-tolerant parser working, and it can infer the location of missing parentheses from indentation. I'm already using it in Vim, and I've been pleasantly surpri
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
I haven't used Elm, so I have no horse in this race. But I feel like I've been hearing these stories for a while, that it started out as an interesting and useful language but kept having features removed in new versions. Since it
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
I honestly expected this to be one of those sites that just says "YES" in 72pt bold.
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
When I was working as a software development contractor, I went without health insurance for a year. I'm young and I don't have any medical problems, so I could get away with this. Because I'm a software developer and I make
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
This is how the Web was originally designed, which is why we had Flash and Java applets. But it's hard to make those VMs secure, and yet somehow it's been easier to keep modern browsers reasonably secure as they keep adding feat
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
NerdFonts doesn't have it yet, but I managed to patch it myself using their tool[1]. Seems to have worked without any issues. [1]: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-8-patch-your-...
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
I like it, this might finally be the font that gets me to drop Fira Code. It's missing Powerline symbols, though, which is a strange omission for a developer font in 2020.
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
I see a lot of people saying this is unfair to content creators. I understand that sentiment when it comes to blocking normal ads, since revenue is based on ad views; that's why I don't run AdBlock on YouTube. But when it comes to
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
So... it looks like this is an RPC protocol, similar to JSON-RPC, but the word "RPC" doesn't appear anywhere on the homepage or the FAQ. And it has an interface description language, similar to Protobuf. It seems like it migh
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
Wouldn't this take thousands or millions of years? Doesn't seem like there's much incentive for a project like that.
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
The idea of developing podcasts "for Spotify" is concerning to me---I'm not sure if it means that podcasts developed for Spotify won't be available outside the platform, but that certainly seems possible. Podcasting is t
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
In the same vein: I've never seen a video site that tried to defeat adblockers by inserting ads directly into the video stream. It seems like an obvious tactic; it could even use JS to prevent fast-forwarding the ads, and that would be
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by ar-nelson 7y ago
It's an esoteric language, they usually aren't designed with any practical application in mind. They're more like art projects. Despite that, I can think of one interesting use case: steganography, to hide one program inside
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by ar-nelson 8y ago
Eastern MA is like this, but Western MA is surprisingly bike-friendly. The Amherst/Northampton/Easthampton area is wonderful for biking.

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