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by girzel 6y ago
As I understand it, "privilege" has nothing to do with income metrics and what have you. Privilege means that you can assume that society and all its mechanisms will work in your favor. Privilege means that if something horribly u
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by girzel 6y ago
What you've described is exactly what I like about it! Just nice visible text, interactive elements are very evident, your eye goes in the right direction, and there's "nothing special" about it. The tips you've pro
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by girzel 6y ago
I feel the same way, and as someone who has struggled to make his open source projects look like anything other than roaring garbage, I am perplexed, and jealous, and guess somehow a little hopeful? I can totally imagine making something li
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by girzel 6y ago
My guess is that Prolog was more of an AI thing back when people were doing symbolic AI (including Lisp), instead of the statistical shotgun it's latterly become. Prolog is very good at NLP programming, and BNF grammars, and those thin
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by girzel 6y ago
Yes, some commits, but see: https://github.com/Kozea/Radicale/issues/997
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by girzel 6y ago
This is what I've been using, but it appears to be abandoned now? I finally got the caldav part of it to work for a group of people using various flavors of Mac, Linux, and Windows -- PCs and phones. It was a huge pain in the ass, beca
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by girzel 6y ago
This was fairly useful, if not amazingly insightful. I think that "give yourself some space" is by far the most helpful tip. At any given moment, in any given state of mind, you'll only ever have an imperfect perspective on w
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by girzel 7y ago
Double nuts!
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by girzel 7y ago
I'm guessing because it's so fundamentally different from most of the other programming languages out there, which I sometimes think are just variations on the variable/function/control flow theme (and yes, I've gon
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by girzel 7y ago
Gluten development can happen through two mechanisms (usually both are in play), once water is added to flour: either physical stretching (kneading), or just time. The stretch-and-fold method balances these two. But if you're letting t
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by girzel 7y ago
If you're in Seattle (ideally near the University District), I'd be happy to share some of my very healthy starter. Leave a window open and I'll huck it in.
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by girzel 7y ago
This is exactly what I found it didn't work for. I live in Seattle, and basically gave up on it (with today's news, I'll uninstall it from my Android phone). I could look out the window at steady rain, and Dark Sky would st
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by girzel 7y ago
Cf Emacs' "windows", "frames", "kill", "yank", etc...
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by girzel 7y ago
The absolute best-tasting "regular sourdough" I've ever made came from grinding my own wheat berries. I'm not actually that excited about whole-wheat bread, but what I do is get a 25-pound sack of wheat berries from East
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by girzel 7y ago
Same here: that's the only site that doesn't work. I wonder if it has something to do with the post-login redirects: it's impossible to say "always open this site in this container", because you've already been
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by girzel 7y ago
There's also Liberapay: https://liberapay.com/
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by girzel 7y ago
All this seems very right to me. Our daughter is 18 months, and we got her a little step-up attachment to the toilet. We started with basically no expectation that any of this would work, we just made a game out of sitting on the toilet ext
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by girzel 7y ago
In my experience, a Kindle connected to wifi burns through battery like there's no tomorrow. Like a percentage point every half hour. I absolutely keep it on airplane mode to preserve charge.
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by girzel 7y ago
One of the nice things about a fully-featured email filter (I'm using sieve on my own Dovecot installation but you wouldn't have to go that far) is making your own "bulk" mailbox. I have a sieve rule that's got mayb
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by girzel 7y ago
I feel like vodka only comes in two classes: "noticeably bad" and "not noticeable".
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by girzel 7y ago
I've been reading this book to get an overview of Prolog: http://www.learnprolognow.org/ . It's much better than most of the tutorials I found out there, and provides a very gentle, very thorough introduction to wh
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by girzel 7y ago
Living in China, I was curious to discover that many people there were actually pretty familiar with IPA, I assume it's taught as part of advanced language learning, to cope with all the very different sounds in other languages. On sev
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by girzel 7y ago
A torus. Take it from someone who's slaughtered a cow.
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by girzel 7y ago
This looks like it's MacOS only, right? Surely it wouldn't be too hard to get the same stuff working for Linux?
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by girzel 7y ago
There's a nice phrase in Chinese: 过日子, literally "passing the days". It also has that connotation of being content with a regular life, wanting nothing special. The phrase is also extended into several other usages (thriftine
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by girzel 7y ago
I think home-ground whole-wheat flour has to have more gluten than pretty much any other flour out there... Are you putting a whole bunch of other stuff in there? There's a reason fat is called "shortening" -- it breaks the g
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by girzel 7y ago
Oh I don't mean the bread itself is sweet like sandwich bread, but that there's a slight hint of sweetness, which doesn't overwhelm any of the other flavors.
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by girzel 7y ago
As I understand it, the principle shenanigans going on with commercial flour is that they add enzymes (if you're doing this at home, it will be malt) to the flour before you take it home. Unless I'm quite mistaken -- please tell m
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by girzel 7y ago
I knew I'd fallen down the rabbit hole when my dad and I started going in on 50lb sacks of wheat berries from Eastern Washington (I'm in Seattle). I can't remember, I think it's like 20 or 30 dollars a sack. I have a mil
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by girzel 7y ago
Insane! But in a good way. I've been very slowly working towards refactoring Gnus to use real OO classes to implement backends, and I always thought I'd know I was done when I could implement a HN backend without too much trouble.

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