rsaarelm

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Source Code Readability, Elegance, and Complexity(sacrideo.us)
2 points by rsaarelm 5y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 6y ago
Wake-back-to-bed technique, google it. Standard methods of dream recall, dream journal, reality checks during day don't do anything for me. But if I wake up at 3 AM, either with an alarm clock or just psyching myself to do it, stay up
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by rsaarelm 6y ago
I remember a Swedish children's book from the 70s with a theme that imaginary friends are a normal childhood thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_and_His_Secret_Friend Never heard of anyone actually having a
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by rsaarelm 6y ago
That's why you wrap the function implementations in an #ifdef and instruct the library user to set the corresponding define in exactly one place, like the list maintainer does in his own single header libraries: https://gith
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by rsaarelm 6y ago
Sanjoy Mahajan's The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering (available online, https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/art-insight-science-and-engin... ). Takes a very pragmatic look to doing mathematics, while not pul
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by rsaarelm 6y ago
Not sure how people figured out this counts as the first 3D platformer ever and not the much older I, Robot arcade game ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmvWxG2zvs8 ). Is it important that the camera has full degrees of free
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by rsaarelm 7y ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20904549 Recommendations seem good for what I checked. One bit of weirdness though, searching for Gödel, Escher, Bach [1] gets me a book by "Agnes F. Vandome", that on goo
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by rsaarelm 7y ago
“Rakaste" is the superlative of the Swedish rak , meaning straight. It is not a Finnish word.
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by rsaarelm 8y ago
I set up a linux trick recently where the caps lock key that's already being remapped as control when it's held down is also set up to emit an ESC when it's pressed and released using xcape. Works quite nicely, but I don&#x27
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by rsaarelm 8y ago
John Clute calls the "as written in" year the Real Year of a science fiction book. It's quite an interesting concept when you start thinking in terms of it.
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by rsaarelm 8y ago
Then again, you can probably afford to buy an e-ink reader by then.
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by rsaarelm 9y ago
Why does the "make your target time earlier" branch have the upper limit of 0.95? There's already a "stay the course" region in [0.8, 0.9], shouldn't you move your sleep time earlier for anything above 0.9?
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Security Mindset and Ordinary Paranoia(intelligence.org)
4 points by rsaarelm 9y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 9y ago
I stopped logging to Facebook years ago. I also haven't had much any interesting long-form online discussions in years and I miss them. Several people I know say Facebook comment threads and a curated friend group are just the sweet sp
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by rsaarelm 9y ago
The most interesting part that translates the natural language Inform 7 code to the more traditional Inform 6 code has not been open sourced. Graham Nelson talked about wanting to release the code as literate programs[1]. Currently the stat
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
The to-read shelf on a Goodreads account is a nice cost and space efficient place to hoard books.
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
Working through Jones Forth got me up to speed on both understanding how Forth works and getting my hands dirty with some practical assembly coding. Once I got a better idea of Forth, I also realized that Jones stays in assembly for rather
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
Oh, and if we're listing our favorite modern IF pieces, go try Slouching Towards Bedlam, For a Change and All Things Devours.
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
It is terrible puzzle design. Zork is old.
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
The fun used to be that you needed to figure out the object dropping thing and then the thing that you need to think about the rooms as an abstract graph instead of something that makes spatial sense. (Zork started off as a mainframe game w
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
Ah, same guy as the one with probably the most infamous comp.lang.lisp post ever https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.lang.lisp/iKNvs...
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
I wish he'd have also counted the files that use only spaces or only tabs compared to a mixture of both in the indentation. My reason for being against tabs is that unless you have something like gofmt, somebody will inevitably screw u
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
I've been developing a hobby game engine and did a 7-day roguelike with it last year: https://github.com/rsaarelm/phage I'd say it's about on par with C++, effort-wise. Big learning curve to get somethin
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
2016-07-21 08:19 Journal format Picked up from jrnl.sh. One text file per year. Single-line title starts with timestamp. No specific daily routine, just making an entry whenever I want to take notes. Usually plans or work log for personal p
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
I buy stuff with debit card linked to my bank account. My bank website lets me download a CSV dump of all transactions in the account in a given timespan (it automatically sets it to after the last time I did the download). I have a script
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
I've been using a bullet journal inspired system for a while now. Picked up the numbered pages, mostly sticking to one topic per page and maintaining the index for the particularly interesting pages. Also there's the note-taking t
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by rsaarelm 10y ago
The Meson build system http://mesonbuild.com/ seems to have a package manager like dependency management system.
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by rsaarelm 11y ago
I've been using the todo.txt format lately: https://github.com/ginatrapani/todo.txt-cli/wiki/The-Todo.tx... . No extra tools, just Vim, a text file with a line per task, with the lines kept lexically sor
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Vectored Signatures(loper-os.org)
47 points by rsaarelm 11y ago|4 comments
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by rsaarelm 11y ago
There's some evidence that you can trade roughly the time you spend in meditation at day as a decrease of sleep you need at night: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919439/ If that pans out, y

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