DanielBMarkham

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by DanielBMarkham 3mo ago
Popularity is not quality, and quality depends on the audience and your own value system, not internet randos. One of the signs that you're writing really great or really bad is if people ignore it. You're not popular so if it&#x2
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by DanielBMarkham 7mo ago
I just finished my third run through the series. There have been a lot of movies and shows about how tech "grew up" in the 80s and 90s, but this one feels closest to home for me. It was an incredible time to live through. Everybod
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by DanielBMarkham 7mo ago
This is quite the lament. Very well written. I'm about ten years ahead of the author. I felt this a long time before AI arrived. I went from solving problems for people to everything I tried to ending up in an endless grind of yak-shav
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Lessons from the Roman Empire about the Danger of Luxury(bigthink.com)
2 points by DanielBMarkham 1y ago|1 comments
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I Killed My Beloved Electron Beam Project(twitter.com)
1 points by DanielBMarkham 1y ago|0 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I hate to be terse, but this subject has been covered many times before. Let me phrase the contrapositive: why blog only for people to read? I see a lot of people (I'm looking at you, pg) that go on at length about how important it is
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
The generalized answer is layered curation versus tagged curation. In my VHS scenario, there are several layers involved. First, I'm taking the video because I think there's something important going on. Many times I'll be in
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I lost all of my photos (along with everything else) when growing up, so taking pictures and videos was important to me as I became an adult. I'm 59 now. In the 1990s I started taking VHS videos of family events. Sometimes I would walk
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
We're primates, we see and tactilely use physical objects. Use your strength. Put different things in different objects. Now you rationally reason about them.
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Related: People wonder why English has so many weird spellings. It's a complicated answer. The Vikings seem to show up way too often (grin). One of the reasons, though, is that several hundred years ago we all thought that Latin was th
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Related: From ~5 years ago. https://danielbmarkham.com/for-the-love-of-all-thats-holy-us... Understanding CCL is both critically important and will sink you into deep professional despair once you realize that the coding co
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I'm all for that. Sounds great. I very well might be wrong. I hope I am, since I can't of any other way to make things work.
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I feel both strong agreement and strong disagreement with your comment. Epistemology is probably the only topic that I would recommend being 30+ before you read. Before that, in my opinion most folks aren't ready for it. You need to bo
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Just to clarify, I'm asking where to host a static page that would be a modified introduction, addendum, errata, "if you like this try these", "The author died by wooden badger attack", etc Not the entire book. I wo
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Ask HN: Where to put a static page that would last forever
54 points by DanielBMarkham 2y ago|93 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Anna Karenina. Nothing mind-blowing. I didn't see a light in the sky. I read a lot, fiction and non-fiction. When I read Tolstoy, I remember thinking "What sort of dark magic is this?" He drew characters in a way I haven&#x27
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
"Most drama today sucks" --- "This is called write-to-market" Yes. I doubt you disagree, but I needed to point that out. These two, along with writing-by-formula, are intricately related. There's nothing wrong with
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I completely agree with the author and yet I have taken up the profession of writing books. There are, as we know, two different kinds of books: fiction and non-fiction. There's actually only two flavors of books as well: polemic and e
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Thank you for your essay. Apologies for being Mr. Negative Guy. I hate folks that do that. But as somebody who is extremely technical and loves tools and coding, moving to long-form fiction writing, I find that every minute I spend on tooli
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
It occurs to me that most content creation jobs don't exist anymore, that is, 99% songwriters, essayists, and so forth can't make a living. A few do very well and are promoted as examples for others to follow, but practically spea
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Songwriters are getting screwed by streaming media(variety.com)
6 points by DanielBMarkham 2y ago|1 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
My first Obsidian project was a research project for an upcoming non-fiction book. It's not academic, but I believe the synthesis/citing issue is generally the same. I just looked at it. It has a little over 1,000 files in it, so
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Happy to chat some via email or Discord. Hit me up using the email in my profile. (This thread has convinced me never, ever to write a "How to do awesome X using Obsidian!" essay)
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Yes. Add nothing, do nothing until forced to. Obsidian still does this. It's not an IDE, heck no. It's just notepad with some bells and whistles coders could use (but only when necessary.) Yeah, folks show off online. Ignore those
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I'll try. 1. What are you trying to do? If it's simple research off the web, simply copy some files and paste, or use MarkDownload and get fully formed markdown from a page to put in your vault. 2. Can you code? You don't nee
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I've been a big fan of Obsidian for years. Once I started teaching myself how to write long-form fiction, I tried at least six different tools. When you're doing zero-to-one work, "magic" tools will fuck you up every tim
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
We've fallen into some kind of long-form desert. I used to read programming books not for a laundry list of features, but to get inside the author's head and start thinking about programming the way they did. It's not as simp
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
We are in a weird internet time where if you consume something online, it's there because somebody has spent time and money -- sometimes a lot of it -- to make it that way. This is true of both brands and individual content providers.
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
We live in a reductionist world. that's not going to change. The other commenter is right, the only way out is better tooling. I can't tell the fake people from the real ones anymore, much less accurately judge information quality
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
In my opinion, might be worthy of a meta rule: If the only result of a post is to discuss the value or general opinion of a particular public person, it is, by definition, not a post we would like in our conversation.

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