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by gglitch 1mo ago
Nothing will ever ruin email. A private email server, or a federation of mutually-whitelisting ones, is the ultimate social media, and not at all a bad personal information management system too. Edit: typo
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by gglitch 1mo ago
I frequently tell Claude to use "simple, concrete language and uncomplicated syntax, and avoid project jargon, coinages, and abstractions as much as possible," to good effect.
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by gglitch 1mo ago
Awesome observation. What would you consider denser?
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by gglitch 2mo ago
I don't think anyone you're calling a "shop" would do anything business-critical with it, but fwiw, Tiddlywiki fits in this category. https://tiddlywiki.com/
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by gglitch 3mo ago
See also Shite: https://github.com/adityaathalye/shite https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34486596
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by gglitch 4mo ago
Wallace was a masterful writer of short fiction, and I think IJ is best read as a (very) long series of short pieces with much that interrelates them. Past a certain point on my first successful read through, maybe ~300 pgs in, I started
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by gglitch 4mo ago
I’ve been using CC as my GTD-buddy. All the usual plaintext files in a git repo, all the usual processes and workflows and constraints; but I’ve written two skills that have taken the activation energy out of what used to be the hard parts
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by gglitch 5mo ago
There's a community and play-style called OSR or "old school renaissance," that recreates versions of the earliest editions of D&D, and encourage a style of play that's heavily oriented around few rules and the DM ma
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by gglitch 5mo ago
I’m using Jekyll for includes and so I can use Ruby to render pages from yaml data. I’m sure Pandoc can do this too one way or another but it’s dead simple out of the box in Jekyll. I mean, it’s tempting though.
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by gglitch 5mo ago
Ion Dunes is outstanding. Very nice work. I would be happy to hear more, and would very much enjoy a writeup too.
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by gglitch 5mo ago
Upvoted because it’s a thoughtful question, but honestly I think it’s just that this book and many others like it are addressed primarily to people who are going to use tools like SuperCollider or CSound or raw dsp to create their own entir
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by gglitch 6mo ago
Might just be a question of taste or personal predisposition. I’m only in Obsidian for the canvas, and I spend almost all my time in it. It’s extremely helpful for me to be able to put all of my buckets up in front of me at once, resize the
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by gglitch 6mo ago
I already commented about Expect elsewhere in this thread, so I should probably pipe down, but thought it might be worth it here as well because Expect has been handling these kinds of exceptions and control transfers/flows with the fu
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by gglitch 6mo ago
I use Expect for this, and have for a long time. It’s amazing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect
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Universal Category System(universalcategorysystem.com)
2 points by gglitch 6mo ago|0 comments
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by gglitch 7mo ago
I see the point and I wouldn't want to belabor the metaphor, but I really feel like guitar is actually extremely difficult to even get started with. Between the awkward stretching of the fingers, how difficult/painful it is to hol
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by gglitch 7mo ago
Lot of good, standard-issue advice in your replies already, so I think all I'll add is: (1) Everybody's mind is a little different, so you're likely to need to experiment with many things for a long time before you start conv
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by gglitch 7mo ago
Thanks very much, this sub-thread has been illuminating for me, and has the compelling quality of being obvious-in-retrospect. I now wonder what my MPC is doing, exactly, when I make an action at what appears to be a zero point. Thanks.
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by gglitch 7mo ago
If I had the capacity to take on this kind of modeling project right now, I'd probably lean toward Prolog or something like an OWL/Protégé ontology. Then it could just metastasize to the limits of my time and neurochemistry.
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by gglitch 7mo ago
Just doing it in Emacs is also an option. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19252952
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by gglitch 8mo ago
Any titles or resources you have found particularly interesting?
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WATMM Archive(watmm-archive.com)
1 points by gglitch 8mo ago|0 comments
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by gglitch 9mo ago
Libraries’ resources are not infinite, therefore most of them are explicitly optimized for circulation, not preservation. If they’re allocating valuable shelf space and staff time on something no one is using, they’re misallocating resource
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by gglitch 10mo ago
You're in for a treat. The quote, in case you haven't looked it up yet, is "Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts;
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The Common Business Communication Language, by John McCarthy [pdf](www-formal.stanford.edu)
3 points by gglitch 11mo ago|0 comments
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by gglitch 11mo ago
Thanks. My search found that also, but it didn't appear to have the features I need, at least not at the time. If LaTeX becomes vexing enough, I'll consider the custom workflow you're describing. Thanks for the tips.
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by gglitch 11mo ago
It's indexing with imakeidx that's keeping me on LaTeX. Does anyone know offhand the state of indexing with Typst? https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Indexing
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by gglitch 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
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by gglitch 1y ago
@dang I trust you are writing or will eventually write a book about your time here and what you’ve taken from it. I hope I hear about it!
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by gglitch 1y ago
As others have said, generality of knowledge and skills is the effect, not the cause; the cause is diversity of interests and restlessness.

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