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by sctb 3y ago
100% over here, too. I used more geometric thinking at the beginning but of course that shifted into gut feeling by the end. Nice job!
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by sctb 3y ago
It's hardcoding an implementation detail of the Go runtime, which is subject to change (and if it did, this library might have non-obvious failure behaviour).
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by sctb 3y ago
Do you like techno? I find that—with the exception of certain subgenres—a stalwart chunk of techno has resisted the trend towards incorporating vocals.
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by sctb 3y ago
Do you encounter many AU-only plugins? From what I can tell, the limitations of VST/AU/AAX are more pressing and Bitwig are working to address that with CLAP: https://u-he.com/community/clap .
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Continuations Under the Covers [video](youtube.com)
28 points by sctb 3y ago|8 comments
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by sctb 3y ago
I text almost exactly like this. Probably both Dimension Apple writers and myself are pretending to be normal in the same way...
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by sctb 3y ago
> Moreover, one could play word games with the mathematical language, creating problematic statements like “this statement is false” (if it’s true, then it’s false; if it’s false, then it’s true) that indicated there were problems with
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by sctb 3y ago
For more Lisp+Immix action there's also Andy Wingo's article and talk about a new GC for Guile from earlier this year: Article: https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/02/07/whippet-towards-a-n... T
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by sctb 3y ago
The flat assembler (which assembles this project) is worth checking out if you haven't already: https://flatassembler.net . I first played around with it almost 20 years ago and it was noticeably more ergonomic and productiv
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by sctb 3y ago
At least one major reason is "Interoperate with your existing C++ code, from inheritance to templates" ( https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang ).
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by sctb 3y ago
Thanks for the link! I just found the one I was thinking of, which is older but perhaps goes into more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0&list=PLDU0iEj6f8... .
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by sctb 3y ago
Something that stands out to me from this talk is the idea of linearizing ASTs—I was reminded of Aaron Hsu's work on Co dfns. There was an excellent YouTube video from years ago (does anyone have the link?) where he described how his c
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by sctb 3y ago
Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm perusing the source to try to make sense of this comment and all I see is... C.
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by sctb 3y ago
I might interpret "when icons carried inherent meaning" as something like, "when the physical office desk metaphor was the only game in town". I didn't get much out of the article, but I would agree that the traject
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by sctb 3y ago
I went through a period of several years where I was meditating 2-3 hours a day, and during that time I had all kinds of experiences... which isn't so surprising since that's a pretty abnormal thing to do. > I wonder, what do o
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by sctb 3y ago
And this article is mostly talking about everyday concepts like learning. But there's no denying that the idea of beginner's mind is used within Zen in a special sense. From Dogen's essay On the Endeavour of the Way : > B
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by sctb 3y ago
Nitpick, but this article quotes Shunryu Suzuki—the other Suzuki—not D.T.
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by sctb 3y ago
I think it's possible to underestimate the extent to which people can perceive this type of dishonesty, because it may be in the form of an uneasy and largely unconscious experience that leads them to vaguely report "not a good fi
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by sctb 3y ago
> It's a dog eat dog world, winners take all and there's no reward for the effort. If you don't win the big prize, you've wasted your life for nothing. Prizes and rewards are never guaranteed. The only way to be sure
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by sctb 3y ago
I didn't read your post as arrogant. You said that, when sober, you tend towards being analytical, technical, and logical. This is your natural tendency in addition to the inertial effect of technical work which you spend most of your
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by sctb 3y ago
I would read that as editorial/curatorial power being decentralized.
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Patterns of data flow in words(okmij.org)
59 points by sctb 3y ago|1 comments
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by sctb 3y ago
There have also been a number of studies looking at the effects of the alcohol ban in South Africa during the pandemic lockdown; for example: https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article/doi/10.1162/rest_a_01228..
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by sctb 3y ago
Since you mention Advaita, some might find this talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda on "Vedantic Self and Buddhist Non-Self" interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZPWu084m4 .
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by sctb 3y ago
> I’d go even further, and argue there is no hard problem of consciousness. Just folks who don’t want to accept the obvious answer, we’re thinking animals with a generative world model in our heads. Supposing that I'm a thinking ani
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by sctb 3y ago
And as a third point between these two, a close friend is finishing a postgraduate degree at Oxford and would agree with “The professors were checked out, the classes were bad, and I felt isolated and alienated” but still feels as though it
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by sctb 3y ago
I'm not sure the subjective is a candidate for the what/who I'm asking about, since the subjective, not being an object, cannot be in a state of either identification or non-identification. Your second paragraph I don't
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by sctb 3y ago
> Modern neuroscience provides evidence that aligns with the Eastern view, revealing that the left hemisphere of the brain constantly creates narratives to interpret reality, leading to a mistaken identification with these self-narrative
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by sctb 3y ago
It's neat to see ongoing Co-dfns work from Aaron and others! There are a number of YouTube videos online if anyone is interested in very cool and esoteric yet serious programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P
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by sctb 4y ago
There is a Japanese carpenter with 50 years of experience on YouTube who documents his construction of entire homes, which I would recommend to anyone who is interested in modern Japanese wood construction: https://www.youtube.co

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