silves89

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by silves89 2mo ago
Thanks for this background! I encountered dolosse or something dolosse-like at Praia da Ilha de Tavira, in the Algarve, here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Farol+de+Tavira+Molhe+Oest...
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by silves89 5mo ago
I think this is the reason. For a deeper look at this philosophy of craft you won't do much better than The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-beauty-of-everyday-t
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by silves89 8mo ago
I'm an experienced software engineer and ceramicist and I enjoyed this essay. I have stuff to say. There are some wonderful industrial ceramic designs, e.g. Royal Copenhagen. But most of it is cold. Despite that people still become att
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by silves89 10mo ago
In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discovery, platforms, and some AI. The classic and over-used exampl
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by silves89 1y ago
That's a great question! It comes up for me a lot. I can walk through my local woods and listen very carefully but I don't think I could read a recipe book and pay attention to an audiobook! So for me and I guess for most people i
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by silves89 1y ago
Can I read a physical book when I'm running? Can I read a physical book when I'm doing house work? Or throwing pots in my studio? Or knitting? Or cooking? Or driving? Can I stay focused if I'm just sitting and listening inste
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by silves89 1y ago
The Terms and Privacy Policy links at the bottom don't go anywhere.
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by silves89 2y ago
Thank you! I'm on my 3rd draft of a novel so that's actually super lovely to hear.
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by silves89 2y ago
I was en route to St Helena and I had several days of a raging fever on Ascension, and my memories of the place on either side of my illness are suitably strange. I remember walking through a landscape of sharp, anthracite grey volcanic roc
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by silves89 2y ago
Normal firebricks wouldn't withstand mid or high fire temperatures. They'd crack or melt or both. An iron grate wouldn't fare well either. You could probably make modifications to the fireplace that could make it possible, bu
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by silves89 2y ago
It's scary for me too! And way less economical in the UK than electric. My small electric kiln costs £5 to fire. My big (perhaps 4 times the size) gas kiln costs £70-£80. I'd much prefer firing with wood. But I'm too suburban
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by silves89 2y ago
The raw clay wouldn't be vitrified, so it would be porous and would seep or leak. A glaze is a glass, more or less, and to get the silica to melt you need a flux. There are different fluxes for different temperature firings, but sudden
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by silves89 4y ago
You can eat as many fermented foods and do as much tai chi as you like, and you can get therapy and manifest and go on retreats. But nothing improves life as much as a 4-day week.
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by silves89 4y ago
I've been working four-day weeks for about six years. It's a force-multiplier for contentment. No other life change comes close. I'm grateful every week and like you I'm never going back.
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by silves89 4y ago
Another reason for using tmux: never worry about changing your muscle memory for splits and nav ever again. I've been using tmux for five or six years. In that time I've used Linux and MacOS and several different terminals. But ho
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by silves89 5y ago
I have very similar use-cases, and I also I found makefiles a bit limiting. I wrote lk[1] to make this sort of thing easier, and you can just write plain bash functions instead of makefiles. [1] https://github.com/jamescoleu
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by silves89 5y ago
I grew frustrated with the compromises of makefiles for this and over the years I wrote a couple of alternatives, run_lib[1] and lk[2]. Now I write files full of the bash functions I need and use lk to explore and execute them. I.e. it&#x27
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by silves89 5y ago
I found stdx to be a useful set of sign-posts. But it's not been updated in three years. E.g. it suggests `error-chain` instead of `anyhow` and `thiserror`.
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by silves89 5y ago
There is a way in which Rust reduces mental effort: a compiled program is more likely to work in the way you expect. It cuts out a swathe of post-compile testing and prodding, or at least, it does in my experience. I can't speak for th
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by silves89 6y ago
I actually found it a bit rough at first but it seems OK now. That took maybe four weeks. But perhaps I was motivated to persevere because many regular deodorants give me a painful rash. It might not be quite as effective as commercially so
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by silves89 6y ago
Bicarbonate of soda works as a deodorant. I have a small pot by my bathroom sink. Dab in two damp fingers, under the arms, no smell. It's more effective than any deodorant I've tried, doesn't give me an allergic reaction, is
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by silves89 8y ago
Fiction can be moving and transforming. The typeface, cover, colour, and smell of a book can work as mementoes -- when I pick up a book I read when I was 23 it might remind me who I was then, and it might remind me of the journey to where I
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by silves89 8y ago
I don't have any data but I don't think this isn't true at all. I have read at least two articles describing the extra lengths publishers are going to in order to compete. I have bought many beautiful hardbacks released since
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by silves89 8y ago
I like the look of this. Why would I use it over Taskwarrior?
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by silves89 9y ago
I develop using Linux but sometimes I have to use macOS. Mostly I work locally but sometimes I work on remote boxes. tmux means I get a consistent experience where ever I am. I'm not fully versed in what iTerm can do but tmux does spli
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by silves89 13y ago
Utterly extraordinary. Watching my daughter play in my friends' gardens made me want to move out of the town and into the suburbs, so she can have space for a paddling pool. I'll buy a bigger, duller car for her and her impending
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by silves89 13y ago
What I see when I stand outside ASDA are a bunch of normal people, and then some poor people who struggle to buy food and pay their rent. I don't see fancy clothes and designer pushchairs, I see old tracksuits and second-hand pushchairs, I
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by silves89 14y ago
The value of a university education does not principally lie in how much money you can make afterwards. Many people go to university to learn, to build a philosophy for life, to meet and engage with other engaged people. But I paid orders o
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by silves89 15y ago
I guess everyone loves a story that makes themselves special.

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