danwills

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by danwills 5y ago
I see, thanks. I'm wondering if there might be any good examples of cyclic systems in the natural world too? Both of those devices are complicated, and you'd need to know the operation in detail to be able to connect it with the p
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by danwills 5y ago
Thanks, had a read and I think I understand approximately. I am still wondering whether biological systems should count as cyclic in this sense too? I think that they seem to, in the returning-to-the-same-state thing, at least across the ge
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by danwills 5y ago
I was keen to explore (even if it's a bit dated) but unfortunately the combination of mobile-browser and dark mode makes a bit of a mess of things.. (making it quite a bumpy ride) I wonder if there are any 'translations' to o
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by danwills 5y ago
I think if you put more newlines in your code example (at least two per code-line) it might come through the HN formatting thing better?
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by danwills 5y ago
Which yeast you use could be very important too!: Different yeasts "pack up shop" during fermentation at different levels of ethanol. It's their own waste-product, that humans love, that stops them, but some types of yeast ca
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by danwills 5y ago
Massive tracker music fan (and quiet author, hardly anything released) here, my main exposure was as the PC-scene arose (from ScreamTracker onwards). I'd like to recommend some mostly-pc tracker-music authors that are perhaps not neces
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by danwills 5y ago
Mod Archive has an in-browser player! Another comment somewhere in here links https://modtu.be which seems to be a fairly awesome in-browser player too! Blurry lines between amiga and PC tracker scenes hey? there was a lot of ba
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by danwills 5y ago
I would have to agree and I love Elwood too (so much!). I think we should note though, that Elwood's main contributions were during the PC-tracker-scene 'era' (FastTracker2) and not so much an Amiga thing.
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by danwills 5y ago
I completely second that (we are moving well beyond the Amiga tracking scene now but hey, it's all AWESOME!!) Some of Radix/Mosaik's later work I think is absolutely stunningly beautiful too: Leandi, Aerials (On bandcamp) etc
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by danwills 5y ago
Thanks for the link! Great stuff! I was slightly surprised to find the site at the article link doesn't seem to have playback built-in, but this looks like a really awesome web-player! ModArchive also has in-browser playback available
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by danwills 5y ago
I do accept what you have said (indeed it's chaos theory dogma that I am mostly still on board with!) but I also think reality is quite far from binary in whether chaos-theory concepts apply-to-it-or-not, seems a bit like it's mix
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by danwills 5y ago
Ah whoops! It sounds like we're in a very similar boat indeed! All good, nice to meet a like-minded soul on HN. I completely know what you mean about the complex numbers and Hamiltonians etc. A lot of the time I think I could even have
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by danwills 5y ago
Fascinating! I would love to gain more of an intuitive grasp on how subatomic particles all work and fit together, i'm not a physicist though. Could you suggest any good introductory reading?
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by danwills 5y ago
Great answer! I'm still left wondering exactly what it is about the behaviour of an electron in the lowest orbit that is stopping it from getting closer to the nucleus. Maybe even thinking of it as 'stopping' at all is my pro
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by danwills 5y ago
Is that 256 weights per-cell per-layer, or 256 in total? Is "how many cells in each layer" a valid question too?
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by danwills 5y ago
I know it's a joke but I don't really agree that this area is cursed! It just delves way deeper into syntactical terseness than many programmers will tolerate.. even compared to assembler it's quite a different beast. I think
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by danwills 5y ago
Hooray!! I totally love the way 'Brassica' vegetables provide such a vivid illustration of the amazing variety that some selection-pressure can yield on the development of essentially a single type of input organism. Makes you won
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by danwills 5y ago
Sure, I've heard the name around HN a fair bit and had a brief look into it in the past, loved the idea but didn't get very far yet. (Gentoo linux user here, not helpless) Do you have any recommendations for docs about getting sta
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by danwills 5y ago
It's not part of the public internet, that's probably the main problem, but I also have quite a strong aversion to things run by large corporations. At the moment I let google in, but that's it. (and they completely ruined my
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by danwills 5y ago
I want to share my recent fractal renderings, that I think are valuable, here's a fun example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AT9bcRZygdcCiMs5TvRXK50iik5... Despite it being where-everyone presumably-is I d
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by danwills 5y ago
Thanks I did not know about that! Works heaps better I reckon!
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by danwills 5y ago
Yeah! something like this as a regex-writing helper could be super useful! And it could have uses such as a mini-editor/plugin within an appropriate larger editor framework? Cool idea!
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by danwills 5y ago
Ah derp! Works great with "request desktop site" turned on.
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by danwills 5y ago
This is the first time I've been totally prevented from reading something on Reddit by the pop-up, it used to let me through eventually! Now it seems to just ditch the url I wanted and goes to 'popular' instead! (Opera mobile
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by danwills 5y ago
Agreed, although this particular type of bin also gets called a "Wheelie Bin" (or perhaps "Wheely Bin"? not sure how to spell it actually..) a lot, at least in South Australia.
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by danwills 5y ago
Yeah, totally! The first thing after bigbang/origin that implemented Universal-capable computation? It could be spacetime itself since still as far as we know that's it? (there's nothing outside spacetime that we know of, yet
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by danwills 5y ago
Vaping yes, and I guess I wouldn't also use flavouring if it were 100% for the nootropic effect, but it's still the main reason. To me it's similar to why ppl (like me) drink black coffee, mostly for the nootropic effect (des
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by danwills 5y ago
Aah whoops! thanks
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by danwills 5y ago
Yes nicotine is toxic, I tried to compare it with caffiene, and it sounds like 5g of caffiene could kill you, whereas it might only take 0.5g of Nicotine.
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by danwills 5y ago
Yes! nicotine by itself at normal dosage is a fairly mild nootropic (with cognitive 'benefits') similar in ways to caffiene or theobromine (in chocolate).. I don't think anyone should have to explain why they might use any of

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