jacobmartin

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by jacobmartin 5y ago
I have a Stanley 4 1/2 which I've dated to c. the 1890s and several wooden planes which are even older! I cherish them (and my other hand tools). In a similar vein, no rasp or file will outlast its user just by its nature; neverth
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
The Glass Bead Game (aka Magister Ludi) by Herman Hesse is more or less about a secular monastery. I highly recommend it.
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
Troubadors (buskers) existed before the advent of paid church musicians, as far as I can tell. Interestingly, at least for classical music nowadays in my limited experience, the most reliable way to get a regular gig for most ordinary music
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
It's extremely easy and quick to go >>1k blocks away from spawn looking for good territory if you want to, and I've done so now in three separate worlds. And I didn't have a bunch of resources when I did that either. Ir
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
High school students are frequently taught a highly routinized form of proof in Geometry class in the US: https://www.cuemath.com/geometry/geometrical-proofs/ That is what it seems the parent was referring to and
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
Did I read you right that you do 90 minutes of rowing a day? How do you fit it all in?
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by jacobmartin 5y ago
It is interesting to me that you didn't encounter problems with the rote geometric method before abstract algebra. I went to a so-so public school in the American South, so I don't think I exactly had a stellar introduction to mat