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by mbrock 6y ago
Hubert Dreyfus in his 1986 book "Mind Over Machine": > The digital computer, when programmed to operate by taking a problem apart into features and combining them step by step according to inference rules, operates as a machine
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by mbrock 6y ago
It's pretty nice but doesn't play so nicely with editor indenting modes and stuff like that, so there are some reasons to use normal JavaScript function calls instead.
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by mbrock 6y ago
Funny to see because I do the exact same thing down to the parameter names, almost token-by-token identical. I usually just name the function "tag" though.
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by mbrock 6y ago
A lot also depends on your climate, bulk fermentation is hugely variable on temperature and humidity. Now that our flat is warm and humid, I can easily overferment if I leave the dough standing during the day.
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by mbrock 6y ago
Yep, I bake sourdough bread a few times per week using something similar to this method: https://www.culturedfoodlife.com/recipe/overnight-sourdough-... Basically just bulk ferment from night until morning. I bake in a
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by mbrock 6y ago
Rex Krueger is worth checking out too. The series he’s been making now is all about getting started with real woodworking using minimal inexpensive tools. There’s some craft-historical topics too especially in his approach to workbenches: h
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by mbrock 6y ago
The way it deals with async/await also seems pretty tedious.
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by mbrock 6y ago
“This is how to contemplate our conditioned existence in this fleeting world:” “Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream; Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud, Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream
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by mbrock 6y ago
Speak for yourself
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by mbrock 6y ago
Are they wrong?
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by mbrock 6y ago
"His hair is a flat-top; his mouth frowns in near grimace. He strides to my seat, looks down and says in a Texas drawl, 'and the key is simply this: Abstractions. New and better abstractions. With them we can solve all our program
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by mbrock 6y ago
She's the CEO of Hamilton Technologies: http://www.htius.com/
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by mbrock 6y ago
I use dark mode at night and light mode during the day.
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by mbrock 6y ago
Chrome can load FLAC.
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by mbrock 6y ago
Emscripten supports SDL so it might be easy.
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by mbrock 6y ago
I think you need to see it as something like, the idea is that immutable data structures and purity are considered an excellent base layer for defining code, like also in math where integrals and differential equations are "purely func
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by mbrock 6y ago
Download a pleasant language distribution with a capable base library and documentation, like Racket. You might not need to do everything in the fastest or most scalable way. Like how a writer in a cabin will produce something that later ne
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by mbrock 6y ago
Nix does allow general recursion, no? I haven’t seen any limitations that would prevent it from Turing completeness.
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by mbrock 6y ago
Have you also read Alasdair MacIntyre's "After Virtue" from 1981? As I understand it basically revived Aristotelian virtue ethics as a viable philosophical theory, indeed by thoroughly criticizing modern (post-Enlightenment)
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by mbrock 6y ago
I'm thrilled to see this, because I have been experimenting with using async functions that directly render their own DOM trees in between awaits, and I recognize a lot of the sentiment in the "Introducing" blog post, but I d
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by mbrock 6y ago
Hopefully the Emacs is also configured to not leave tilde backup files everywhere!
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by mbrock 7y ago
I make pour over the very first thing early in the morning, usually while an 8 month old baby is crawling around chaotically. I just put the ceramic dripper on my mug, pour a bit of water for the bloom without "timing" it, then po
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by mbrock 7y ago
That book mentions a baby whose first word is “Toyota.” Probably somewhere in the world a baby’s first word will be “Corona.”
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by mbrock 7y ago
Why?
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by mbrock 7y ago
I don’t even have a concept of an “old” book or of “reading” a book, I just keep them around for inspiration, going back for some quote, rereading, showing someone, etc. I mean I also almost never finish them, or even try to read them in li
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by mbrock 7y ago
The Britannica there shows how a professionally edited and authored encyclopedia has a greater liberty and authority to make simplifying claims that are nevertheless accurate, like this prose which you would rarely see in Wikipedia: “ Vienn
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by mbrock 7y ago
Wikipedia prose is very disorganized, strange, and hard to read. Pages are like school assignments cowritten by dozens of authors. There is no professional editing. This can make you feel stupid—how come I read and read but somehow fail to
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by mbrock 7y ago
Mostly they are just not relying on Git for conflict detection and resolution, but bringing it up into the Unison system itself, in order to deal with it more gracefully and intelligently.
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by mbrock 7y ago
They’re going to a monthly subscription model when they get out of beta. https://twitter.com/conaw/status/1214855473876201472?s=21 “Still working out specifics Right now looking like it'll be $30/month -
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by mbrock 7y ago
I mean, I just bring some bags to the store and fill them up! And bottles for laundry detergent, oils, etc. Several of these zero waste shops opened in my city (an eastern European capital) the past couple of years.

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