lwerdna

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by lwerdna 1y ago
On the past being a ghost, the best treatment of it I've encountered is the short story Truth of Fact, Truth of Feeling [1]. It's so worth the complete read, so I hate to reduce it to a quote, but the critical bit is: > We rewr
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by lwerdna 3y ago
I don't follow. In a secretary problem, you have multiple offers, but can consider only one at a time, and cannot revisit past offers. If there only one company can unlock, then it's just a 1:1 negotiation. If there are multiple c
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by lwerdna 4y ago
You're not alone. I've even tried to dream up ways to "humanely" vaporize them so they wouldn't suffer being at the bottom of a trash heap with old food and what not dripping on them, their innards squeezed out, whi
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by lwerdna 4y ago
I too have benefited recently (since 3 months) from rowing, and started by simply emulating Dark Horse rowing on a laptop set to the front/side of the machine. I really like Rowalong channel now, because he gives effort instructions in
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by lwerdna 4y ago
Yes I am. Though I'm not sure it's quite as bad as the countless Wordle headlines from a couple years ago.
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by lwerdna 4y ago
> The most interesting result from this study was the change in the spread for HRV. Did your HRV increase, indicating better health? How are you measuring it? > I was able to break an 8 minute 2k row when I did it with cyclic breathin
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by lwerdna 4y ago
What's the make/model of your hearing protection?
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by lwerdna 4y ago
I'm interested in this bit: > ...lets me write codeblocks in my notes and turns my note taking system into a literate programming environment. So I have for example a self-written plugin that applies transformations to existing page
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by lwerdna 4y ago
Related: https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...
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by lwerdna 5y ago
This is very relatable :) A workmate and I have fun making variations of "A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors!" and sarcastically suggest the other tries OCaml, Haskell, or Idris when something isn't goin
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by lwerdna 5y ago
- How type theory can prove mathematical theorems. I can limp through the first exercises of Software Foundations, but eventually realize I'm just "making it work" instead of knowing how it works. Only made it halfway through
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by lwerdna 5y ago
Amen.
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by lwerdna 5y ago
Reveddit is great, thank you!
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by lwerdna 5y ago
Thank you. I'm also looking for a tool which will find when one file contains a scaled image in another file, or is a crop of another.
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by lwerdna 5y ago
> I've found that the greatest benefit of cloud storage is not as a backup, but as our primary place to keep and look at photos. We started uploading and organizing everything in Flickr a few years ago, and now we spend more time en
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by lwerdna 5y ago
Every time our phones reach capacity, I download all pics/video to my laptop. Then I plug in a portable SSD and copy them there in folder name "media until <current date>". When I get to work next, I copy them to an ide
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by lwerdna 5y ago
I use graphviz probably weekly and it's actually become a bit of a productivity hack. If there's something I don't want to do, I can often convince myself to just DRAW it instead, usually with graphviz. Once drawn, the actu
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by lwerdna 5y ago
This has worked for me too, especially when combined with some leisure activity. "I won't do X now, but I will stop browsing and walk around the block while thinking of X." "I won't do X now, but I'll sketch so
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by lwerdna 5y ago
> Throughout the day I have reminders set to step back and examine what I am doing at that moment. How does it work? Does an alarm sound and you've resolved to stop whatever you're doing and reasses? What is a success story?
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by lwerdna 5y ago
I've been pleased with dreamhost, both as a host and registrar.
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by lwerdna 5y ago
4,9,11,12 No tablets or phones. A PC in the living room with a loose ask before use policy. The older two got PC's in their rooms during pandemic remote schooling. Switches on weekends with friends.
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by lwerdna 5y ago
I use a python script that shells out to adb for what I want. Photos for example starts with a an "adb shell find /sdcard/DCIM/Camera -name .jpg -o -name .mp4" to collect a list, then iterates over that list with
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by lwerdna 5y ago
They are different problems. Stripping the final character from "3.14159" does not produce the same result as rounding to 3.1416. The first action concerns a syntactic property of PI's decimal representation while the secon
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by lwerdna 5y ago
When you accuse someone of being wrong, it's helpful to provide justification, not insults. Y: How do I strip unnecessary symbols after a decimal point? X: How do I round a number to a desired precision? It looks like the perfect examp
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by lwerdna 5y ago
Thanks for articulating this. I call them XY inquisitors. We had a couple at work a few years ago and any question directed at them was met with a somewhat derisive "What are you trying to DO?". Of course there are cases where the
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by lwerdna 7y ago
I tried and failed to fully follow those, but it set me on a path to where I am today. Thank you, late 90's crack tutorial authors!
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by lwerdna 8y ago
I pirated frontpage around 97,98 and used it to make garish homepages with all the elements we consider sins today: frames, lens flare, flame gifs, and background music. This was a formative experience that contributed to my career and life
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by lwerdna 8y ago
You posted something inaccurate and chasing offered a correction. Instead of e-pretending to miss the point, accept the correction as you did with ramblerman .
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by lwerdna 8y ago
Really well done, I like the tags and organization. Here's a low-tech alternative for .bashrc: snipc() { local fpath=$HOME/workspace/snippets.c if [ "$1" == "vim" ]; then gvim $fpath
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by lwerdna 9y ago
Here's a poor man's version of dnote in my .bashrc. It's the only thing I've used consistently: notes() { local fpath=$HOME/notes.md if [ "$1" == "gvim" ]; then gvim + $fpath eli

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