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by mbrock 8y ago
I like to kind of live with books rather than read them linearly. So I might go and read a chapter from a book. I consider them resources. That’s why I deeply appreciate a good table of contents; they were better in the past. Check out “How
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by mbrock 8y ago
Maybe the seduction page would seem more relatable if it actually were diaristic, talking about some real life experiences rather than “theory.”
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by mbrock 8y ago
I think one reply to your concern about the importance of businesses who accept the currency is this. Businesses will basically want to trade their goods for any sufficiently liquid asset; government currency has no special status except th
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by mbrock 8y ago
How many monitors do people deserve? Is anyone allowed to have a car? What about food processors? Are wifi routers okay, I mean wired ethernet worked just fine for decades.
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by mbrock 8y ago
They might remain a person insofar as they think in language and in other ways exist in reference to a community even if everyone else is dead—in this view, they might also lose their personhood as they become another kind of being after di
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by mbrock 8y ago
If it seems like you can get by in university without too much effort, maybe consider that you’ll be happier if you switch up your attitude, seek out professors and older students to work with, or maybe even change your major to something t
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by mbrock 8y ago
Dockerfiles as typically used are not a shining example of reproducible, coherent system definition—but they are a good pragmatic hack. I think when you combine the Docker runtime with a more principled image building system, such as Nix or
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by mbrock 8y ago
EconTalk, The Partially Examined Life, Software Engineering Daily, Track Changes, A16Z, Conversations With Tyler.
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by mbrock 8y ago
I would add the pervasive documentation built into the system for every function and variable, and the ability to find the source for any function instantly. The whole Lisp machine heritage is totally optimized for “developer experience” an
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by mbrock 8y ago
How to flatten and sharpen a chisel and plane iron...
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by mbrock 8y ago
You can also say that the desk lamp in front of me is an illusion because if I take it into parts then there's no single atomic center that is truly the essence of the lamp. That's how some Buddhist texts approach the question, ty
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by mbrock 8y ago
As a first approximation, let’s say I am my physical body. If you’re sitting in the chair across from me you can see me. If I wave, what you see is me waving. I’m a body in space with some peculiar characteristics called “life.” Fine, but w
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by mbrock 8y ago
As I see it, the basic fact of ego is something that similarly cannot be fake: my mental life has a nexus called “me” at the center of agency, being a symbol for my own body, my desires and fears, etc. It’s no more an illusion than my cat m
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by mbrock 8y ago
Well, a lot of kids lose interest in school subjects for a lot of different reasons! I remained very interested in math, physics, and computers, gained some more interest in biology, etc. But this way of looking at life can be weird and ali
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by mbrock 8y ago
I'm looking forward to observing this more closely in the near future. :) We tend to think of language as separate from the rest of life, maybe because it's so transportable, but in a way it's strange to imagine an intelligen
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by mbrock 8y ago
One thing might be to start by describing things at a less detailed level, perhaps focusing on why something is interesting, or a personal story like how you learned about this thing, or something else that lets you share your enthusiasm
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by mbrock 8y ago
One rabbit hole to go into with this thought is Hubert Dreyfus and his use of Heidegger's philosophy to explain why the early AI research program was deeply misguided by focusing on explicit cognitive symbolic representation and logica
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by mbrock 8y ago
This article and the Overcoming Bias post it links to ("Better Babblers") remind me of when I was in high school and was reading stuff like Gödel, Escher, Bach and Dawkins's The Selfish Gene (the two first books I ordered
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by mbrock 8y ago
It was also featured in the NYT's Art & Design section: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts/design/helsinki-libr... Quote from Tommi Laitio, an executive director in Helsinki city: “We
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by mbrock 8y ago
Same, but also various project computers on various WiFis that autoconnect to my WireGuard server.
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by mbrock 8y ago
I grew up in a way that didn’t involve learning traditional skills from my parents. That seems almost antiquated although I’m sure some people my age did have it like that. Divorced parents, not so much time spent with grandparents. Mom did
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by mbrock 8y ago
How does the world go on relatively okay considering the general level of security and correctness in software? Why aren’t we all completely owned, etc?
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by mbrock 8y ago
Oh wow, I didn't know about sx.el either, and I just tried it and ... I'm for sure going to be spending a lot of time in there.
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by mbrock 8y ago
Thanks for the calfw recommendation! I just installed it and it's really nice.
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by mbrock 8y ago
With Exwm you can run KDevelop or whatever editor you like inside Emacs!
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by mbrock 8y ago
Compared to Emacs Lisp it’s nuanced but compared to most other non-Lisps it’s very clear: you can connect your Emacs to the Lisp runtime and hack on the program while it runs, which is great for an interactive environment like a window mana
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by mbrock 8y ago
Cool, I’ve been using StumpWM from an old Nixpkgs tree because it was broken for some time, I guess I can upgrade it now!
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by mbrock 8y ago
If your distribution packages StumpWM, it just works. I can use it very happily with zero configuration, although I do change the font.
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by mbrock 8y ago
I've been using Ratpoison and StumpWM for almost 15 years. They really hit the sweet spot for me. I don't even need to configure them, beyond changing the font and maybe adding one or two extra key bindings. I only rarely use the
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by mbrock 8y ago
With EXWM, X windows are Emacs buffers and rendered inside of Emacs windows, so you switch between X windows the same way you switch between Emacs buffers; you use the same tiling system for both Emacs and other programs, so you don't

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