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by whacked_new 4y ago
Thanks for the vanilla-extract recommendation, I'll be using this! In my case, tailwind was useful for providing a handy set of vocabularies for simple and common stylings. But once customizations start to pile on, we're back into
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Perhaps John Bardeen, to date the only person to receive 2 Nobel Prizes in physics, could be considered a "normal" genius? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bardeen
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Learning the soroban (Japanese Abacus) as an adult, 1 year review(hippocanvas.com)
2 points by whacked_new 4y ago|0 comments
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by whacked_new 4y ago
I used to use Jupytext a lot for this problem, and think it does a decent job. The main problem with Jupytext is its reliance on BYOD (D for discipline), which is a poor (but possibly best available) solution for human systems. IMHO the Jup
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Is it just me or are most responses here made without reading the linked tweet thread? I'm wondering how much signal there is in the years in his excerpts. For example, he shows an excerpt from 1981, then jumps to 1999. Is this simply
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Braille I can understand, but bar codes is wild! How fast can you read them?
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Learning Braille(hippocanvas.com)
3 points by whacked_new 4y ago|3 comments
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by whacked_new 4y ago
in my experience, for things like static configs, jsonnet has been superior to TS for constraints, if you pair the configs with a json schema (also generated from jsonnet, of course). TS's types are easier to use at write-time, but jso
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by whacked_new 4y ago
jsonnet is my go-to language for anything related to configuration, after having tried json, yaml, TS, edn, and tasting dhall and toml. It addresses all problems in the article and more. the composition model strikes a good balance between
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by whacked_new 4y ago
Kovid Goyal, the author of calibre, has this in the official developer documentation [1] Using print statements This is Kovid’s favorite way to debug and he's gotten really far with it. Granted, he is not the average devel
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by whacked_new 5y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but just as food for thought, I think this is an interesting angle: 1. many people are able to host their content on github now (or gitlab or otherwise) 2. github (et al) provides a simple way to add
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by whacked_new 5y ago
do you think what you're envisioning can be bootstrapped through github actions?
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by whacked_new 5y ago
Long time (mostly ex-) org-mode user here. Org-mode is incredibly capable, but it's often not the best tool. The last time I used active code blocks in org-mode, it was for reading headings from the org file's TODOs to create an a
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by whacked_new 5y ago
We're generally in agreement, and at the risk of exposing my biases... nevermind, my biases are already exposed -- I discovered that wrapping the aliases inside a shell.nix expression to be activated by running `nix-shell` has the adde
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by whacked_new 5y ago
Yeah, guilty as charged, and not acceptable. I don't yet know how to interact with the reader mode, but there's my weekend now. Thanks for the advance feedback and I hope you remember to check back as well :-)
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by whacked_new 5y ago
Valid criticism, agreed, and thanks. I'll be fixing that soon, apologize for the inflicted suffering, but hope on balance it was good!
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by whacked_new 5y ago
OP of the article here. The content here is hosted in a little app meant to experiment with an alternative kind of commenting model where all comments are pull requests. I don't know how well it works. Feedback welcome.
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How did I run that code again? Tools to help recall(hippocanvas.com)
54 points by whacked_new 5y ago|62 comments
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by whacked_new 17y ago
Effect reproduced. Very interesting. If above isn't clear (wasn't for me), read article on BBC (clear for me). Or to rephrase it: Put arm on desk, palm facing up is convenient -- don't move this one. With hand from free (other) arm, point a
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by whacked_new 17y ago
In some ways I feel bad for the kid. A typical symptom of a third culture kid is lack of the feeling of "home" anywhere. This kid will be a TCK to the extreme.
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by whacked_new 17y ago
Good call. The speculation isn't unfounded though, although it isn't appreciably strong here. Word choice comes substantially faster when the most efficient expression can be chosen without any self-monitoring. It's quite plausible that in
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by whacked_new 17y ago
> I have resorted to filler sentences or repeating myself as my brain searches frantically for that right word. I have gotten into the habit of first declaring what the word starts with, sounds like, and approximates. This lets the list
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by whacked_new 17y ago
This is why rapid switching between two native languages is the easiest way for coordinate bilinguals to talk (listen to Latin American folks on the NYC subway). No tip of the tongue there, and always the most apt expression at the right ti
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by whacked_new 17y ago
Physically I would say yes (air purifiers). Central AC that is. Not sure the efficacy. Also, particulate matter is much more volatile outdoors, because it's outdoors. And, the downmods, two in a row, make zero sense. Else, explain it please
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by whacked_new 17y ago
There is a negative feedback loop in crowded cities. It is polluted outside so walking is actually bad for your health, and then, you want to spend as little time as possible outside so you use whatever is fastest. Thought experiment: suppo
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by whacked_new 17y ago
I recently learned the great utility of beans and I asked why they aren't pouring over the streets. Apparently: culture, agriculture, and subsidies. A culmination of broken links.
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by whacked_new 17y ago
I can't tell if my comment was disagreeable or weak. It looks rational to me.
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by whacked_new 17y ago
Laziness? Is that based on opinion or data? This is an unbiased question. I am further interested in how widespread this sentiment is. I heard a story about a McDonald's closing in a poor area. There are at least two effects of this, the se
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by whacked_new 17y ago
A few semi-questions. Structures that become relatively fixed after five? This seems suspect. There are two major prunings of overgrowth of neurons: once soon after birth (where your case stands), once in puberty (where your case falls). I'
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by whacked_new 17y ago
This, after 6 years of waiting since I started disregarding any laptop that cannot accommodate an internal SD slot, finally gives me a reason to look at the 13"! What took them so long?

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