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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
It is much better than the expensive oils, but not as good as old fashioned 3in1. The expensive chain lubes are mostly meant for racing, they give you the least friction by a long shot but don't last and most of them do not take well t
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
What I meant is that you can reapply WD-40 as needed, it may not lubricate the chain but it will clean it. Try that with PTFE. Wax is up there with PTFE for making grinding paste in my experience, especially on long, hot, wax softening ride
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
3in1 is actually bike specific, it fell out of favor with the rise of the modern bike lubes. Wax collects dust and dirt, especially when friction or the sun cause it to soften, which turns your waxed chain into a drive train eater and will
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Bike chain lubes are mostly terrible, they are meant to work properly for maybe a few hundred miles assuming they were applied to a properly cleaned chain, properly applied and the weather cooperates. They all wear chains and chain rings qu
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>You may not think the reader should be interested or should care at all? You can but that does not mean you should. If you write under such assumptions your writing will likely not be of much interest to people who don't share your
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
If your goal is communication, isn't being well received by the masses a very applicable measurement of good writing? David Foster Wallace's contribution to the world is primarily indirect, filtered down to the masses by "bad
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
What is dying when it comes to text is entertainment and some areas of non-fiction, things which really are not the strength of written language; it is capable of these thing but other mediums are far better at it, but even in those areas i
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I don't think we need to credit him or reconcile anything, what he says is not wrong or hypocritical, it is just his view of what makes a good blog post. I disagree with him but the only consequence for him is that I won't read hi
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Assuming the poster's recollection of the quote is correct, there is nothing to be negated, coming to terms with something does not mean you overcame it, No clue how close that is to the actual quote but it sounds like Wallace's p
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>David Foster Wallace (on KCRW? Or oft-repeated elsewhere) about how he had to come to terms with the purpose of writing not being to show off how smart you are to the reader. He expands on this in his conversation with Bryan Garner (of
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I agree with your first assertion but not so much on the rest. There is more than one reason to write and for many it is about communication, they have something they want to express and you would be wise to consider your reader if that is
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I will take a more positive view, all the translators being put out of buisness will take up literary translation and we will enter a golden age when it comes to translated literature. AI still has a very long ways to go here and there is a
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Looking at the pictures brought back the smell of sharpening a wooden pencel and resulted me in ordering a couple boxes of pencils. It has probably been 30 years since I have used a normal wooden pencil other than the odd usage here and the
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
It is the same topic but not the same submission, if topics can't be repeated HN will die in short order. Are you suggesting that I am trying to revive my 20 year dead language by posting it twice within 5 months? my posting history sh
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
In what way did you carry the ideas forward? Did you create a language which builds on it or did you just help Stevan develop the ideas of XY? Curious in anything you can contribute.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
The hierarchy of writers you previously mentioned really suggests archetypes of writers, how do you feel about that last jab in that context? What about in context of the pretentious ass of AI? These are some of the things which I had issue
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
What I meant by not being sure about the point was not that he was not clear in what platitudes he was trying to convey, just that I was not sure about what he was trying to say which includes what questions he was trying to raise. It provi
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Something about that looked wrong but I just could not quite see it. To late to edit.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I did not know any of that, did not even consider if it was a vanity domain but did briefly wonder if nsl was the domain for some small country. I think the homepage does a good job of covering everything we need to know and in someways doe
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
I am not sure what the general point of this is; for a good chunk of their conversation it seems to show why AI will fail in the arts, it is incapable of understanding their frustration with the AI as demonstrated by the conversation, it mi
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Awhile ago when I logged in to my gmail account I was asked if I wanted to try AI summaries, I clicked "no" and nothing has changed in my user experience in either the web interface or mobile apps. It also told me I could that I c
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The Concatative Language XY(nsl.com)
49 points by ofalkaed 9mo ago|18 comments
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
The code and details about various versions are available on the homepage which weirdly does not really explain the language. http://www.nsl.com/k/xy/xy.htm
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Don't think I would call these hidden or little known but a nice list for people learning bash.
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news,
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
http://andrewmcpherson.org/project/mrp
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
The old cheap way works quite well for the sorts of things this complicated and expensive solution would work for; liner gloves in mittens, when you need dexterity just pull of the mitten but leave on the liner, do what you need and then pu
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Up until a few years ago my Slackware install was broken up over 4 flash drives, as Slackware grew I never bothered to buy a new flash drive big enough for it. It was a lot like the old floppy install. Eventually I realized I could just put
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
Years ago I used to make things like this, I discovered sites like 120 years of Electronic Music[0] and the Experimental Musical Instruments Journal[1] which my local library bizarrely had and went to town. Spent a lot of time digging throu
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by ofalkaed 9mo ago
My use is considerably simpler than GP's but I use it anytime I get bogged down in the details and lose my way, just have Claude handle that bit of code and move on. Also good for any block of code that breaks often as the program evol

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