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Another successful example of literate programming is fastHTML, and probably most of the code written at fast.ai and answer.ai. https://fastht.ml/docs/ Here's Jeremy Howard explain…

There's a healthy way to be a critic, which is helping people find and enjoy works they didn't notice. There are also unhealthy ways of being a fan, for example if you admire someo…

I asked it what are some famous squares around the world, and it gave me a list of squares "with historical significance" that included Tienanmen. When I asked what gave it histori…

According to wikipedia, it's not certain she converted to christianity. She was raised as an agnostic, so was only jewish "ethnically".

I read some of her books and it also sounds weird to me. The only thing that struck me is that she saw the tribe of Israel in the ancient testament as a nasty example of one group …

Without the shadow dom, your component can still have children. If you need several slots, there's an example duplicating that functionality with javascript in the second comment o…

It's not very surprising to find math in Perec's work, he deliberately put it there.

This joke, that the Germans or the Swiss have no sense of humor, I never found it funny. But maybe that's just because I'm Swiss.

I justs finished reading the book and the idea that a simulation universe need not have another universe simulating it indeed baffled me. How do you make sense of that? I was disap…

Ah, visual anagrams, that was exactly the idea I had for a project that would allow me to learn. I hadn't dared looking if it already existed. I will try to pretend it doesn't and …

We don't seem to have the same taste, but you made me really curious by mentioning comics. What are your recommendations for bandes dessinées that are stronger than Flaubert?

Haven't read all of that, but it strikes me that some of these authors like Freud and Levi-Strauss are perfectly understandable without much background. Haven't tried Kant but othe…

I read a few pages of thousand plateaus and I didn't get the impression he really wanted the reader to make sense of it. It's full of quotations of works you would certainly know i…

I've been using it for years on windows. Magit is much slower but still great. Some people run emacs inside wsl, and I've done that once or twice to try out unix-only modes, but th…

Their first point is that saying the values are already there. The most obvious value of science is truth, which can be reached by the scientific method, which allows paradigms to …

Which one of your resources would be most relevant if I would like to start as you recommend by learning to hear harmony qualities and then to hear them within a key?

I'm surprised to find very positive question about pushing yourself. I'm not at all into sports, and from the title I expected a psychology of competition and wanting to beat the o…

Paul Graham wrote a great essay that's related to this: keep your identity small http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

Life is ambiguous so we make sense of it with stories. Stories all have a point, life just is.

"He was a decent man" sounds like a worthy ambition. I'd be proud of "He wasn't a dick".

The swiss university had advised the student to be enrolled only China in order to make it easier for him to complete his PhD at the swiss university afterwards. The swiss universi…

The idea that you can start with the good ones doesn't make sense to me. It's the same with literature. There's no guarantee you'll enjoy the "classics". How many books you had to …

I've been using the mingw windows version every day for years. I used to spend time now and then to make new things work, recently I switched to doom emacs, and almost every new fu…

Some economists have tried arguing that advertising adds value to products, but I think it only hinders people from making choices based on the product's merit. It's a distortion o…

A good way to get started might be with a curated emacs configuration like doom emacs https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs