breckinloggins

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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   This feels like the kind of workflow that would fit me. My problem, though, is the "reviewing material I've already put away" part. I feel like I'm hoarding stuff rather than saving material for reuse. Any advice on how
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   I feel most "at home" in Common Lisp, though I agree that Scheme is more elegant. Speaking of elegant I recently had some fun playing around with Janet ( https://janet-lang.org ) and I have to say it is quite nice. If
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   > We might find, for example, that it's impossible to create something we'd consider intelligent that doesn't use Occam's razor. We might one day even be able to prove that. I have no idea how one would go about provi
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   A couple look like they were, yes.
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   Some of the comments demonstrate that there are a lot of people here who have never encountered programming in an artistic context before. That is a sad (though understandable) state of affairs.
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   The web audio platform has approaches that purport to work around this [0]. We'll see how that pans out (no pun intended). [0] For example: https://web.dev/audio-scheduling/
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   I like that this works reasonably well on mobile. I certainly wouldn’t use it that way most of the time but I waswaiting in line somewhere and was able to create a doodle with just one finger.
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   by breckinloggins 4y ago

   I'm fairly certain my life would have gone in an entirely different direction had my mom and I not decided - rather randomly - to go see this movie in theaters one weekend when I was 11.
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   by breckinloggins 5y ago

   Now that's an unexpected memory! Do you remember watching a TV cartoon by the same name?
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    by breckinloggins 5y ago

    General tips: 1. Start with a QEMU emulated device. QEMU is more forgiving than real hardware and you can study, understand, and debug the "hardware impersonation side" of the QEMU code to see what happens when you set a bit in so
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    by breckinloggins 5y ago

    I was hoping to see this announcement someday, and I'm thrilled that today is the day. Congrats, Andreas! Extremely well-deserved.
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    by breckinloggins 5y ago

    Personally speaking the answer has been mostly "practice". I realize things would suck less if I didn't let my emotions control me on topic X, so I work on that. It's simple, but it sure isn't easy.
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    by breckinloggins 5y ago

    I think we read the same book. Probably "Trading in the Zone" or one of those. I never ended up day trading much, but I sure as hell got that message loud and clear.
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    I've been on the search for the perfect Piano VST forever and I absolutely found it with Pianoteq 7. Unlike all the other ones I've tried where I get ear fatigue after a few minutes due to some issue I can never consciously identi
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Same. It's super easy to know when I am communicating in good faith, but it's not so trivial to know when you are. You know those scenes in the movies where two characters circle around each other giving the side eye like &quo
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    I've actually seen literal quotes before, e.g. a question like: "Why don't you just" get a bunch of people on rafts and row real fast to push it off?
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    I feel like we need a "why don't you just?" safe word, where the intent is to signify "hey I'm not being a smartass, I'm really just curious about why this seemingly simple solution won't actually work&quo
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    It's gotten so bad for me that I'm down to just "n". I think I have a problem.
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    > Yet, some how, can't help but feeling that something is off. Or it's just me that I'm just not getting "the thing"? This is (or will be) one of "the next big things" in this century; I'm fairly c
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    I was obsessed with this for a little while several years ago and ended up making my own version based on the same paper: https://github.com/breckinloggins/vau/blob/master/README.md It was my second try
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Thanks Andreas. I've updated my comment to reflect those corrections.
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Serenity is a great community to keep up with if you're interested in OS security (along with a whole lot of other topics that are typically buried in decades of incidental complexity). There are a number of things in this exploit you
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    The original article did have a few screenshots, if I remember correctly. The original host of the article, however, is long gone.
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    The way I found to do it is to use the account tree feature to have "virtual subaccounts" under real accounts. That way you'd have something like: - Checking - Food - Housing - Entertainment - Emergency Reserve Your p
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Agreed. I've been using envelope budgeting since college and I simply can't fathom why most people don't do it. Actually, I can fathom it: it's because no one has been willing to keep this incredible feature in an easy
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    No. In fact in one of his recent videos Andreas talked about some of the challenges he and other Serenity developers have had getting it to run on real hardware. QEMU, it turns out, is very "forgiving" even when emulating real HW
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Some other folks who are adjacent to this effort, roughly: - https://waitbutwhy.com - https://www.ribbonfarm.com You could also put folks like Jordan Peterson in this bucket, but IMO he seems more interested in resur
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Right now I’d classify it as both “a fairly good read” and “an earnest attempt at good old fashioned philosophy”. It’s clearly trying to recapture a more positive philosophical mood as a bit of an antidote to the current trend of deconstruc
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    I'm a SpaceX fan, and I hear your arguments so let me give one aspect of the other side: I think you and I are in a bet about whether progress for Starship is going to be roughly linear or exponential. Obviously I'm betting emotio
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    by breckinloggins 6y ago

    Counterpoint: I sacrificed a lot of my 30s to become debt-free. 40 now and pretty close to FIRE (well I don't know about the retiring part, but the FI part is almost there). It was totally worth it. In the end, it's a personal dec