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by markc 5y ago
Overtone is a music toolkit in Clojure. One of its source modules similarly captures music theory: https://github.com/overtone/overtone/blob/master/src/overton...
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by markc 5y ago
Burglaries isn’t even remotely a proxy for “lives saved”.
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by markc 5y ago
>Easy-Bake Oven You can buy a Panasonic FlashXpress toaster oven and get the Easy-Bake experience. Great toaster! Fast and very predictable. It starts cooking immediately and every toast cycle is the same duration. In a regular toaster o
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by markc 6y ago
Ha. I assume this is tongue in cheek. (You actually have to buy a movie ticket. Once you're in, the gallery is simply a room in the basement past the restrooms)
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by markc 6y ago
I've been frequenting the MoBA for 8 years or so, since moving to town. We love the Somerville Theater, and can't wait 'till it can safely reopen. The MoBA has mostly been a place to stroll around with a beer/wine to kil
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by markc 6y ago
I still have my VT100 "Keypad Condom" - a rubber overlay for the numeric keypad for the EDT editor. A great editor it was too!
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by markc 6y ago
Thanks for the reply! I know I'm not hydrating enough, getting enough sun early, or exercising, so I'm going to give those a go! I've only ever half-assed the intermittent fasting thing, so maybe I'll give that a real
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by markc 6y ago
>just as I fell asleep I started awake because I wasn't breathing. Uncanny. Me too. Also tried every airflow device I could find (breathe right, nose baffles, chin strap, and many more) to no avail. CPAP was a total fail because if
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by markc 6y ago
Interesting. I've been interested in anti-inflammation unrelated to the sleep stuff. Sad if there's not much to it, since it seemed like a hopeful no-drugs way of improving health.
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by markc 6y ago
Skinny guy, no obvious source of airway obstruction. Maybe that's why the cpap doesn't work. I think I literally hold my breath (some variant of so-called "central" apnea?) and foil the cpap that way. I'll consider
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by markc 6y ago
I had not heard of this. Reading now - thanks!
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by markc 6y ago
Good read, really interesting. Thanks!
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by markc 6y ago
It's literally at 3oz a day though, so "cutting" would effectively be zero. Maybe I could try decaf since I seem to need a bit of coffee for, ahem, regularity.
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by markc 6y ago
I wake up after about 4.5 hours of sleep "no matter what". Bedtime of 10pm or 2am, exercise or no, light exposure or no, late eating or no - always the same result. Then I'm awake for a few hours, then get my "second sl
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by markc 6y ago
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart
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by markc 6y ago
I think this nails it.
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by markc 6y ago
I think there was a giant gap between expectations and reality. He wanted to program so he could make video games, but learning to program starts out text-based. The gulf between learning to code and learning to make video games like the on
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by markc 6y ago
Didn't work: - BASIC, Ruby, Python, Java setups + intros, tutorials. - LEGO Mindstorms - Scratch, Squeak - Coding classes / camps Note that I "made these things "available" but never pushed. I'd s
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by markc 6y ago
I've read lots of SciFi over the years, some of it challenging. I can read hard books. Back in the 80's I started seeing so many raves for TBotNS that I went out and bought them all at once. About 80 pages into the first one, I wa
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by markc 6y ago
TIL: Escher got the visual paradox in "Ascending and Descending" from Penrose.
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by markc 6y ago
I'm not in the camp of saying all corporal punishment is abuse, but IMO it's quite limited in the ages and situations where it's applicable. Has everyone on this thread forgotten about non-physical punishments? These should t
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by markc 6y ago
You thought wrong. The term is neither universal among developers, nor obvious without clarification.
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by markc 6y ago
Agreed, I looked for Kleppmann and didn't find it. Red flag.
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by markc 6y ago
Back in the day (early 80's) I remember using a VAX 780 @ 1 MIPS via time-sharing with 60 other simultaneous users. Editing with EDT felt quite snappy. Amazing.
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by markc 6y ago
Clojure Koans: http://www.clojurekoans.com/
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by markc 6y ago
T.S. Eliot
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by markc 6y ago
This Skynet? https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34 https://siasky.net/ Looks promising!
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by markc 6y ago
Question (perhaps naive): Given the decimal expansion of 1/89, is there any way to directly retrieve the Fibonacci sequence from it? (that is, not using any knowledge of the sequence itself) I'm assuming it can't be done beca
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by markc 6y ago
>Read really good writing Any favorites? I like the writing style of some authors in your study books (Pinker, Le Guin, Zinsser) but what books really inspire you in terms of sheer writing genius? (in both fiction and non-fiction)
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by markc 6y ago
I despised running as long as I was doing under 3 miles per session. Once I pushed to 5 miles it was a very different experience. No more oxygen deficit, almost effortless, with all those lovely endorphins telling you you're awesome.

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