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by vram22 6y ago
Another well-known long-running (20+ years) successful permaculture / regen ag farm in India is Krishna McKenzie's Solitude Farm, Auroville, Tamil Nadu. Again, mixed crops, herbs, fruit and other trees, multi-layer. On-site farm c
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes, Richard Perkins knows and has done a lot of good stuff over years in this space, at his permaculture mixed farm in Sweden. I mentioned him and a few other successful people in the regen ag space, like Gabe Brown and Geoff Lawton, with
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by vram22 6y ago
> and usually there are other ways to deal with it: using less or similar tools, or just running your massive single-line JSON thing through jq first Older Unixen at least (SVR3-based) had a tool called bfs - big file scanner. Used it so
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by vram22 6y ago
> Bengali is very much a descendent of Sanskrit Yes, that is nearly same as what I said above, except I said "likely", because I was not sure, not being a language expert. And that "likely" applied to the other langua
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by vram22 6y ago
Reposting comment from thread about youtube-dl's RIAA issue, of 8 days ago. It started with: "As a technical aside (to the main topic of this HN thread), I had written a blog post some years ago, describing some uses of youtub
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by vram22 6y ago
On a brief look, Esperanto seems to be mainly Western-influenced.
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> and I have no idea where to begin explaining that it's nothing like that (I have studied Sanskrit and Hindi in school for multiple years, and can understand a good amount of Marathi and Tamil.) You can say this - I think it is tru
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Right, I think it still may be a de facto standard from MS. It was so then.
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sidpatil answered (sibling comment). The RTF spec was freely available (on MS's site and/or MSDN CDs then) and should still be around, at least on some sites, since RTF is still used a lot as an exchange format between word proces
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by vram22 6y ago
You are right, it is just ASCII text. Probably a brain fart there, sorry. I may have said that (hex editor) out of sheer habit of using one to inspect various formats. Or I may have used a text editor, if so TextPad, IIRC, since the projec
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by vram22 6y ago
I don't have an opinion on how good a format RTF is, but I kind of like it. As part of a Java project (a while ago), I studied the RTF format, partly by reading the spec, and partly through reverse engineering - by creating multiple in
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by vram22 6y ago
Interesting. >Is this what you're talking about? I'm not quite sure, since I don't know much about phonetics / linguistics, as I said above. Something like this, the French sound from near the top of your link above:
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by vram22 6y ago
> One of my favorite Unicode oddities is in the cyrillic block. Some books used to use the letter "ꙩ" when writing the word eye (ꙩко). Interesting. That "ꙩко" looks phonetically (if that's the right word, I'
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by vram22 6y ago
> Nevertheless, as with many frameworks, it gets awkward when you move too far away from the 'intended use cases' Right. And that probably applies to many, if not all frameworks, by virtue (vice?) of their design. I don't
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> with a code generation feature Pun unintended :)
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by vram22 6y ago
> and many other forms of no-code solutions Yes. Also CASE tools, those with a code generation feature. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided_software_engi...
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by vram22 6y ago
>With each step, you get closer in time to when you will stop. You don't know, at any step, how far you are from a solution, until after the last one. Still think the logic is wrong or at least farfetched, but not going to argue it
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by vram22 6y ago
>Successive approximation does not imply optimal successive approximation. A random walk that gets there qualifies: a succession of steps. Your first sentence (quoted above) is right. But IMO, the two sentences quoted above, together, ar
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> so programmers who code by successive approximation, ... > making more or less random changes until something works can get there quickly. ??? First clause doesn't logically match second.
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by vram22 6y ago
Thanks. > plug and chuck Did you mean plug and chug? https://www.google.com/search?q=plug+and+chuck+meaning
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>In general life, I would say strong knowledge about statistics is helpful. It helped me accurately assess the covid threat where I live. It also taught me to ... and have used statistical/chance-based thinking ever since and it h
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by vram22 6y ago
Yes. IIRC, Rob Pike or someone else on the Go team even said something like "it's hard, so we are taking our time about it, may implement it later". Edit: see [1] below. Also googled and found this: http://lambda-t
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by vram22 6y ago
Agreed. It's also good because of this: :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24860432
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by vram22 6y ago
And here are a few other posts about youtube-dl or YouTube on my blog: pafy - Python API for YouTube: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2014/06/pafy-python-api-for-yout... youtube-dl, Python video download tool, on fron
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by vram22 6y ago
As a technical aside (to the main topic of this HN thread), I had written a blog post some years ago, describing some uses of youtube-dl, and some commentary giving an overview of what its source does: youtube-dl, a YouTube downloader in Py
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by vram22 6y ago
Another such farmer like Gabe, JM, Richard etc. above, is Krishna McKenzie, Solitude Farm, Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. Englishman who studied as a kid in a J. Krishnamurti school in England, came to Auroville ~20 years ago, started Solitu
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Indian yoga has claimed that both parts of that are true for centuries.
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by vram22 6y ago
Ha ha, sounds like a cool app idea. Will check it out. I had blogged about my own favorite music for working by: Music video: Sitar - Vilayat khan - Rarely Heard Ragas: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/10/music-vid
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No, that is not the only core goal. Pranayama has many breathing exercises with many different goals. And cronopios is right: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumbhaka
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>It's aimless, but still good for the mind. It's because it's aimless that it's good for the mind. Or rather, good for you (because you are not the mind), because you get a break from your "crazy monkey mind

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