benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
Testing your mental limits. Cheating at cards.
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by benrbray 6y ago
> In the future it would be great to have these notes sync/push to RoamResearch Or, an open-source alternative like Zettlr, Logseq, or Athens (coming soon): https://github.com/athensresearch/athens In general,
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緑のトラフィックってなに？ If you're asking about greenways, here's [1] an article with some pictures. There's an extensive network of bike-able paths throughout the entire city, If you're asking about pollution, Japanese cars are g
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by benrbray 6y ago
I'm afraid of this too--that's why I'm rooting for Athens! It's pretty clear from e.g. Roam's pricing that they're primarily targeting institutional licenses. They seem to have been pretty successful there, to
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by benrbray 6y ago
Oh wow looks great, I'll keep an eye on it as it becomes more stable! Love that it syncs .md files to GitHub. It's also nice to see it using datalog queries, I've been considering that as well for my own app.
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by benrbray 6y ago
It's great that pen+paper works so well for you! I hope you can understand that other people have different workflows, and would prefer something like a personal wiki to organize their thoughts. The recent surge in note-taking apps i
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by benrbray 6y ago
Exactly my thoughts. Note-taking should be a solved problem, but for some reason it isn't, yet. I'm loving this note-taking app renaissance, because in a few years we'll converge to something stable. It's quite similar
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by benrbray 6y ago
ProseMirror [1] has (mostly) solved that problem in the browser with an excellent transaction-based wrapper around contenteditable! I highly recommend checking it out. I'm also the author of a WYSIWYG math plugin for ProseMirror [2].
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by benrbray 6y ago
I would love to see Obsidian add WYSIWYG support, especially since my documents contain a ton of math that is otherwise unreadable at a glance. I'm normally writing and reading my documents at the same time, so when I use a split-pane
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by benrbray 6y ago
Hey, I had exactly the same frustration. I like some features of Obsidian (like backlinks), and I like some features of Typora (like math), but no single editor has all the features I want. It annoyed me to no end that I couldn't sim
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by benrbray 6y ago
I don't have time at the moment to read through 44 pages of dense economics, but can you explain why some people think "consumption" is the right choice? It sounds to me like "consumption" is approximately the same
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...and fewer accidents involving cars and pedestrians ...because more people use bicycles ...because it's safer to do so compared to bicycle-unfriendly cities ...where there are far more car-bicycle and car-pedestrian accidents (for ro
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by benrbray 6y ago
In bicycle-friendly cities, it is a common rule that bicycles are allowed on sidewalks, provided that they respect pedestrians. It is entirely possible to safely operate a bicycle on a sidewalk. Yes, accidents do happen. However, is is ex
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by benrbray 6y ago
> not being able to use the sidewalk would increase trip time by 3-4x > That's by design My point is that it is perfectly safe for me to ride sidewalks along one-way streets. Normally there are very few pedestrians. I always
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by benrbray 6y ago
Same in Japan, at least on neighborhood streets (自転車を除く signs）. Plus, unlike USA, major traffic is well-separated from residential roads. There are also plenty of bike routes, greenways, and bridges/tunnels above/below major roa
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Cyclists break rules because the rules were not written with us in mind. The tired straw man argument against cyclists has them saying "treat me like a car!" one minute and "treat me like a pedestrian!" the next. But re
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by benrbray 6y ago
I had the same experience as a math undergrad. Too many professors seem to have forgotten what it was like to be a student. They write books that are great reference material for their colleagues but which are utterly opaque to a student
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by benrbray 6y ago
Language specs are a dime a dozen. Especially when type inference is involved, it's the compiler / interpreter that really does the heavy lifting. I have an idea, let's create a new programming language! I'll be the &q
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I'm not sure I agree with this advice in its current form, since the "adjust" phase of the three-year rule is arguably the most important. My current self would be unrecognizable to myself three years ago. I'm still lea
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by benrbray 6y ago
> It’s also critical in Python to make heavy use of metaprogramming with decorators Interesting use case, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity, when are some scenarios where it's "critical" to write code this way? I most
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Python has a similar convention with args/kwargs, and I find it massively helpful when trying to become situated in a codebase I didn't write myself.
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This already does happen, c.f. coworking spaces, but it's not really a solution. Many of the benefits of an office (career-wise) only happen when one's coworkers are in the office with them. Coworking spaces where everyone is wo
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by benrbray 6y ago
Atlanta!
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Actually, the problem is that I'm stuck in Atlanta, unable to enter Japan due to their coronavirus travel restrictions. Whenever I do make it to Tokyo, I think the remote work experience will be a lot more pleasant due to the overall
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Sure, if there's evidence that the author is not really who they say they are, by all means go ahead and point it out. However, you just seem to be making vague accusations about some grand conspiracy by corporate real estate develope
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> Overall this feels like yet another hit piece against remote work...I really don't understand why these keep cropping up. Are commercial real-estate conglomerates paying for these? I appreciate the perspective you shared in the re
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As a recent graduate with an overseas job offer who has been left with no choice but to work remotely until Japan re-opens its borders to foreign workers, this really hits home. My student apartment is not equipped for this lifestyle. I do
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Violence is a last resort, but it shouldn't be the ONLY resort when government violates our rights.
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I've been reading about datalog + deductive databases recently, and stumbled across this recent ICML 2020 paper! Had to shorten the original title, which was 81 characters. The abstract: > Learning how to predict future events fro
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Neural Datalog Through Time: Informed Temporal Modeling via Logic Specification(arxiv.org)
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