nickloewen

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by nickloewen 5y ago
Thank you for the lecture series recommendation, I enjoyed those.
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by nickloewen 5y ago
Yes those are fair points! At the same time, I think that when it comes to assessing whether the company is acting in good faith or not, it is important to consider not just what research they do or don’t do, but also which findings they ch
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by nickloewen 5y ago
With the caveat that I don’t know much about Facebook’s research projects… the question “If we wanted to ignore research, why would we create an industry-leading research program to understand these important issues in the first place?” set
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by nickloewen 5y ago
Yesterday I made a prototype of a very small dynamic webpage (less than 50 lines of code). I am the only person who will ever visit this page. PHP was the obvious tool to use—but I still found myself stopping to question that choice, in lar
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by nickloewen 5y ago
The article provides evidence to support the claim made in the headline, but there are important caveats included at the end: > The death rate was between three and four times that of Denmark, and nearly 10 times those of Finland and Nor
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by nickloewen 5y ago
I have a carefully designed HTML copy of this at https://nloewen.com/docs/lucas-spielberg-kasdan--raiders-of-...
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by nickloewen 5y ago
The Post Millennial story on this is quite light on details. Here’s another article with more: https://katu.com/news/local/oregon-legislature-passes-bill-t... And here’s the text of the bill (PDF): https:/&#
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by nickloewen 5y ago
How to Design Programs (the 2nd edition)—< https://htdp.org >—is more recent and more approachable, but in some ways follows in the footsteps of SICP. It's a great place to start before digging in to SICP or one of th
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by nickloewen 5y ago
Because this argues against what I see as the consensus position, I had a quick look for a review from the “other side.” Here’s one: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04052021/dissecting-unset... I haven’t looked
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by nickloewen 5y ago
Yes, her work is really excellent. For anyone skimming, she is https://haraiva.itch.io/
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by nickloewen 5y ago
This is excellent, thank you for sharing. I would love to hear which of these people have used, and found fun or useful. I have been enjoying Bitsy games and poems recently and am excited to discover more projects in the same realm. Here ar
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by nickloewen 6y ago
This reminds me of the Milkcrate sessions: https://milkcrate.com.au/sessions.html "Adventures In Homewares Featuring The Mortar And The Pestle" (2009) is quite lovely: https://milkcrate.com.au/sess
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by nickloewen 6y ago
It's true that there are differences of opinion among the many people participating in this conversation, and the reporting on it. But to be fair, this article does say: "But don’t get me wrong. We are not abandoning our communiti
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by nickloewen 6y ago
I also recommend the cutebot. It's available from adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4575 The micro:bit itself is the ideal "physical thing that is controlled by your code" and it is indeed very
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Oh superb, thanks!
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by nickloewen 6y ago
The micro:bit doesn't have enough buttons or pixels, but you can maybe go the other direction: the "meowbit" appears to be compatible with both MakeCode Arcade and micro:bit accessories—although maybe you have to use MicroPyt
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Recently I've had great fun playing with MakeCode for the micro:bit, mostly programming this little robot: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4575 Also very fun is MakeCode Arcade, which makes it super easy create l
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by nickloewen 6y ago
There have been a few paper-based storage projects... I would guess that you're thinking of "PaperBack"[0] or maybe "rainbow storage"?[1] 0: http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ 1: https://en
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by nickloewen 6y ago
This does look promising, thanks! There's clearly a wealth of information available on the web—the trick is just tracking it down...
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Great tip, thanks! Macintosh C Programming by Example suggested the shareware "Inside Mac Desk Accessory," but I'm not sure if that's available anymore; this seems like a good alternative. I've also noticed that t
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Coincidentally, I also started trying to learn C programming on System 6 yesterday. So far the key resource for me has been "Macintosh C Programming by Example,"[0] which also uses THINK C. The disk that originally accompanied the
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by nickloewen 6y ago
The Post Office can’t tell you if the recipient opened your letter—just that they received it. (And I don’t think we would want the Post Office to know which letters you read and which you junk, either!) So your old process of checking the
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by nickloewen 6y ago
I agree that the striped IBM logo can be read in that way, but it’s worth noting that it too was designed by Paul Rand—so evidently those readings weren’t entirely intentional. The IBM website reports that Rands’s aim was “to suggest ‘speed
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by nickloewen 6y ago
The copyright claim at the very end of the credits (about 28:38) says 1980.
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Ah! The folder name is still human readable, just with a date out front: “2019 open education conference” for example. Putting the year in the name is helpful because the year you did the thing may differ from from the created/last mod
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by nickloewen 6y ago
Last summer I worked at an art gallery. It was my first time working on a shared file server and it was a mess—except for the exhibition files. There was a main “exhibitions” folder. Inside of that was a folder for every show in the gallery
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by nickloewen 6y ago
I have recently been experimenting with the mac app "Buckets," which seems conceptually similar to YNAB. It costs $50, but offers a full free trial with no feature or time limits. Downsides are the data import process, which can b
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by nickloewen 6y ago
You’re right about cheap laptops, but there are still (AFAICT) plenty or WiFi-only chromebooks, which is the big thing in education. Also tablets, kindles, nintendos... I agree with the suggestion that using the cellular network is the way
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by nickloewen 6y ago
The choice to sat “WiFi” rather than “internet” made me pause too, but in this case I think it is appropriate. If you only have access to a cheap laptop or tablet, a wired or cellular connection on its own won’t help you get to the informat
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by nickloewen 6y ago
My recollection from last time I looked at this was that the point of choosing the 6502 is that it was produced in such quantity that there's still plenty of old stock available. Meaning that trust could be reinforced by having the Ame

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