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solomonb
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About solomonb
I also like compost.
and radio.
blog.cofree.coffee www.kpbj.fm www.kchungradio.org
ssbothwell_at_gmail_dot_com
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Comment #49200064
Now I want a hat with the Agnostic Front logo but that says Pareto Front.
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Comment #49114937
I agree that Lean or any of the other languages I listed would be a better choice then Idris and despite how I wrote my original post I wouldn't recommend Idris to someone who expl…
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Comment #49112957
Idris has pi and sigma types, dependent pattern matching, view patterns, totality checking, proof search, interactive case splitting, etc, etc. It is orders of magnitude better the…
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Comment #49112074
Correct. There are awful tricks to write [1] dependent Haskell but even then it isn't powerful enough and has a significantly worse user experience then a proper dependently typed …
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Comment #49045170
I find that claude rarely uses its memories.
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Comment #49028878
My experience talking with high level mathematicians is that they tend to know their subjects so well and are so excited to share it that they can and will scale their explanation …
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Comment #48959934
Thank you for creating Recurse! I had an incredible experience at RC in 2019. I still have friends from my batch. I deeply wish I had time to do it again.
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Comment #48959917
They offer recruiting services.
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Comment #48917031
I'm reading The Drowned World right now. Incredible book, highly recommended.
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Comment #48705035
To be fair the original commenter was incredibly snarky.
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Comment #48702169
The integer `1` can mean whatever you want, it doesn't need to be a cent. Haskell's `Fixed` type is a good example of this: https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/base-4.22.0.…
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Comment #48679988
Getting to discover Oleg Kiselyov's work for the first time is such a treat. His web archive is incredible! I'm envious of the author and anyone else discovering it today. https://…
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Comment #48653223
There was another project I saw years ago that this reminds me of. It was a guy who had been running a simulated city/community for like 20 years. The whole thing was done on pen a…
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Comment #48641003
The modern equivalant is the all-in-one karaoke machine :)
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Comment #48577614
The current tenants will see the listing for the vacant unit.
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Comment #48560814
You're absolutely right!
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Comment #48542389
They don't make them like they used to
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Comment #48532148
Messing around with my Lambda Calculus tutorial repo. I just did a total rewrite of Nominal Inductive Types. https://github.com/solomon-b/lambda-calculus-hs
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Comment #48451316
Interesting! The rules for AM carrier current appear to be more similar to the FM rules, that is they are based on field strength readings that result in a roughly 200ft range. The…
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Comment #48450750
To my knowledge there is no legal way to do unlicensed carrier current transmission. Do you have information otherwise? I've always wanted to try it.. The Part15 regulations for AM…
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Comment #48448951
I run a LPFM radio station here in Los Angeles. https://www.kpbj.fm/ There are many more LFPMs out there too!
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Comment #48448929
You could take it to the next level and build a part 15 compliant FM transmitter kit.
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Comment #48440891
I respect you for taking the time to review this codebase. Personally I don't want to do that. It sounds like a mess.
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Comment #48436963
Personally I don't want to read the codebase AND book of someone 3 weeks into a mania focused on a subject it is unclear they have any prior experience with. Its disrespectful for …