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by branweb 6y ago
I think it's oversimplified because there would need to be a long explanation on what is meant by "self", which the commentor very wisely put in scare quotes. To the parent: actually I think this "death of decoherence&qu
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by branweb 7y ago
Thanks for posting it! Definitely going to add a couple of those to my list.
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by branweb 7y ago
The only one on this list I disliked was the Wright book, mainly because it's not a scientific justification of Buddhism. It's really about how evolutionary psychology explains stuff like road-rage and dieting struggles and how in
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by branweb 7y ago
This is a useful concept. I also thought these lines were insightful: New features mean new sales opportunities, good for the company but not good for the user. The problem with adding features to MVP is that when we ship more complex pr
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by branweb 7y ago
It's perhaps a little ambiguous, but I understood the comment as arguing the exact opposite. I interpreted "overdevelopment" to basically mean the kind of sprawl explainted here: https://www.strongtowns.org/jo
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by branweb 7y ago
I think you're being unfair. To say Arlington and Flint differ is not to say Flint and Peoria do not differ. If anything, Flint is being used as a stand-in for similar struggling communities in the non-costal, non-urban US. Also your &
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by branweb 7y ago
Not sure about the video lectures, but I'm fairly certain the original course was taught to MIT undergrads as an intro to CS and EE. See https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/sicp.html and https://mitpre
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by branweb 7y ago
Thanks! I like your linked article quite a bit more. The photos comparing known-milton handwriting to the folio in question adds a lot.
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by branweb 7y ago
I don't think there is one, other than personal preference. It's really useful for going the other way though: <some format e.g. html> -> org.
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by branweb 7y ago
yeah but what happens when they're up for re-election and they need money again? Maybe corporate donors back a rival who they know will "play ball".
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by branweb 8y ago
ha ha I knew something felt off.
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by branweb 8y ago
I agree it's more about the harmful influence of certain types of media than about censorship. An article posted on HN a while back quotes Bradbury saying this very thing ( http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/ra
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by branweb 8y ago
Previous discussion of a similar (and IMO better) article on the book: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14992956 . The article under discussing there includes lots of quotes from Bradbury himself.
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by branweb 8y ago
Firefox reader-mode solves this problem well (most of the time).
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by branweb 8y ago
Ah hadn't heard of these. Will check them out. As to the article: good reading. I was always mildly curious why literary societies should grow around Robert Browning of all people. It's bewildering: America gripped by Browning fev
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by branweb 8y ago
ah oops. Thanks for the correction!
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by branweb 8y ago
To see a jacquard loom in action, check out this clip from James Burke's excellent documentary, Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itd-4lMoXgI The clip doesn't show it, but Burke in the documentary makes
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by branweb 8y ago
Granted DoD acronyms are insane and that CAC Card is like ATM machine, but the 12 year old in me always winced a little when referring to "my cac". To the emotionally immature (me) it's a useful redundancy.
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by branweb 8y ago
1. maybe not your intention, but this reads as quite rude 2. you mean 2.5k not 2500k. The latter would be a king's ransom for a wordpress site, even by your (apparently) high standards
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by branweb 8y ago
Thanks for following up. It's definitely a hard problem to solve. I've considered just writing whatever expression I want to learn on an ipad with an apple pencil, then figuring out some nice way to pipe that into my SRS.
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by branweb 8y ago
That's a really intriguing idea! Though even equipped with a tool like this, I think it would be difficult to use SRS for learning math or computer science concepts. The process might look something like: 1. learn the concept 2. break
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by branweb 8y ago
As a long-time SRS user, I've really enjoyed Michael's recent essays on the subject though I haven't had much luck using SRS to learn structured, abstract things, despite several attempts. These days I use it mostly for thing
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by branweb 8y ago
I mean, yeah, I agree. And it's useful to be reminded that it isn't natural lest we take it for granted. But why the strawman setup/teardown at the end: Nowadays, unsubstantiated fears of monstrosities created by genetic
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by branweb 8y ago
Will Durant? I've always liked that quote.
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by branweb 8y ago
yep...specifically, use the -d flag in a loop since all it does it exits the process when a new file is added: while true; do ls -d src/*.c | entr -d <cmd>; done
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by branweb 8y ago
As I understand it, the ever-increasing interior volume of a black hole is deduced from the equations that support general relativity theory, which itself is supported by experimental evidence, so I think that's how it differs.
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by branweb 8y ago
I wonder how those three conditions apply to intuition in software development. The only condition that seems to regularly be unmet is "immediate feedback."
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by branweb 8y ago
No genuinely thought that's what they got him for. Should read up on it I guess.
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by branweb 8y ago
technically it was for hiring someone to murder a guy. Or are you implying that was entrapment? edit: i stand corrected
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by branweb 8y ago
So happy to see this mentioned here. I was able to visit David's workshop last time I was in Tokyo. Great guy and a great artist. Really love the prints I've bought from him over the years.

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