I've made a website that does very rudimentary simulation of transmission electron microscopy diffraction patterns, as a tool for myself and other researchers. Was a big leap for me learning how to do so, but it's been fun (and frustrating) to learn about Flask, Docker, cloud instances, HTTPS etc. along the way!
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#632I fell into a sorta wikihole and now I have no one to present my findings to. North Korea has an animation studio, and there's a good chance you've seen some of it's work. It's called SEK (or Korean April 26 Animation Studio). The things they were outsourced to work on were The Simpsons Movie, and Futurama: Benders Big Score. There's also an episode of Avatar, and Teenage Mutent Ninja Turtles(2003) in there too. Whic…
> These two entities would collaborate on something of titanic portions. Of course it'd end up sinking into obscurity.
Amazing sentence pairing.
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#633Hello guys, it's my first time posting here ! Actually, I'm passionate about Lisp dialects, I always been fascinated by languages, when I was a kid, I used to try to learn new languages (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, ...). When I was 15, I found out I had a leukemia, a severe form of blood cancer, I had so much free time that I decided to learn programming languages. It was really like a revival, the idea that you c…
> make my own toy programming language, probably a Lisp dialect
I've learned a lot from the "Make a Lisp" project. If you haven't seen it, I'm sure you will enjoy studying it. https://github.com/kanaka/mal
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#634I spent my morning working on a science fiction novel. (I won't post more here, but you can find it through my profile if you're interested.) Are there any other writers in the house? On a completely unrelated topic, one of my earliest "internet" memories was wandering into open source communities and trying to figure out this CVS thing and connecting it to GNU Savannah so that I could download some code. Those were…
I'm very (very) slowing writing a book, a kind of biography of a local teamsters chapter from Rhode Island which my grandfather was part of. I've given up on it a couple of times, only to come back to writing again, and maybe on a good day cranking out 5,000 words that gets edited back down to maybe half that. What are you thinking about in terms of publication? After reading on the kind of fees traditional publisher…
let us know when you publish it; would love to read it.
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#635Thanks so much for posting this, I love the spirit of it. I'm passionate about my sobriety journey. I just got home from a dinner party of ex coworkers and friends. Being the only one not drinking is hard for me and a huge change. I used to lead the charge with booze, it was the thing that took my crushing anxiety away. It made everything more fun. Well, that can only last so long when you abuse it so much and it fuc…
If only the booze was the problem.
But I think I would be remiss if I didn’t leave this here. Victories are nice but it a long journey…
If we are painstaking about this phase of our development, we will be amazed before we are halfway through. We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness. We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it. We will comprehend the word serenity and we will know peace. No matter how far down the scale we have gone, we will see how our experience can benefit others. That feeling of uselessness and self-pity will disappear. We will lose interest in selfish things and gain interest in our fellows. Self- seeking will slip away. Our whole attitude and outlook on life will change. Fear of people and economic insecurity will leave us. We will intuitively know how to handle situations which used to baffle us. We will suddenly realize that A higher power is doing for us what we could not do for ourselves. Are these extravagant promises? We think not. They are being fulfilled among us - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. They will always materialize if we work for them.
Written by an anonymous recovering drunk…
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#636Mexican food! I've spent the past 3 years learning to recreate good tortillas. I live abroad in Amsterdam and miss it so much after living in California for decades. I even worked in the best Mexican restaurant in Amsterdam for a month just to learn some of the subtle techniques. I'm finally at a place where I can make tacos much better than what I would get here and even back in California. I'm currently working on…
What's the deal with corn tortillas outside of the US and Mexico? I've found quite good flour tortillas in Central Europe and also in Thailand. But in 25 years of searching I have yet to find a decent, "proper" soft corn tortilla like I can buy in just about any non-fancy grocery store in California. I keep telling myself there must be a shop in Madrid or Barcelona considering the size of the Mexican expat communitie…
Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas.
I haven't found good flour tortillas, curious what your source is here!
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#637I have been having a lot of fun lately telling bedtime stories to my kids (ages 5 and 3). It's a collaborative improv effort with my 5yo since he likes to chime in with suggestions. The fun part for me is incorporating various mathematical and programming concepts into the storie like functions and boolean logic. Last night's story involved a subtraction function that would spit out negative M&Ms if too few regular M…
This is great and something I do with my kids as well. I’d suggest recording them on your phone (or wherever) for posterity. It’s so much fun to go back and listen to them!
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#638Hello from Bangkok, Thailand! I have always been, and hope to always remain, passionate about art. Mostly visual art in the "fine art" and "Art World" sense, but also any and all creativity that channels the human spirit to create things (even just ideas) that never existed before in the world. Yesterday I organized a group of 23 people to see a hotel art fair named Hotel Art Fair[0]. Some were art nerds like me, som…
Hi from the eastern half of the US! I too am working my way deeper into visual arts. I’m excited to go see the Edward Hopper exhibit at the Whitney in NYC soon. His ability to light imaginary scenes is very impressive, I hope to learn a lot by seeing his paintings in person. Do you have any favorite artists or works? And I see you paint as well from your bio, what sorts of things do you make?
I’m American and for me, Hopper captures a uniquely American way of seeing, as well as subject matter. I hope younger generations can see that too. Even if it’s a bleak view it holds important truths.
I have more favorites than I could list but just to name a few from older to newer and not just painters: Max Beckmann, Nam June Paik, Cecily Brown, Cannupa Hanska Luger. These are worth your time!
I am mostly a painter, thanks for asking, and mostly abstract with a lot of abstract-figurative. But I have done multimedia stuff and have a lot of plans.
Don’t want to self promote here but my email is my username at Mac dot com and my Insta is biztigram, always happy to talk about art stuff.
Enjoy the show, and when at the Whitney spend some time on the roof!
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#639Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can say you prefer tea, but when people notice you don't want any alcohol, they get upset and want to know what's wrong with me. Which is surprising because it's basically poison.
When I deny offers of tea in Europe I feel the host is offended. Is there any truth to this or am I stuck in my head?
As a Yorkshireman: We understand and acknowledge that people do not all have good taste when it comes to tea.
We therefore either assume you don't want to kick anything off (start a fight over tea), or that you acknowledge and are working on your failings in the tea department...
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#640Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the deal with corn tortillas outside of the US and Mexico? I've found quite good flour tortillas in Central Europe and also in Thailand. But in 25 years of searching I have yet to find a decent, "proper" soft corn tortilla like I can buy in just about any non-fancy grocery store in California. I keep telling myself there must be a shop in Madrid or Barcelona considering the size of the Mexican expat communitie…
Mostly trouble sourcing the corn from Mexico I believe. https://taiyari.nl/ serves most Mexican places in The Netherlands. It's still not as soft as you'd get from a really freshly made one, although they sell the raw masa as well. The best hack I've found is actually cooking the corn tortillas in a bit of oil to soften them up quite a bit. Works great even with older/frozen tortillas. I haven't found good flour tort…
If you’re in Europe, I would vouch for Nuevo Progresso from Czech Republic but their web site is… not helpful. Don’t think they produce much but you can get their flour tortillas in Budapest at Ázsia Bt. You want the simple, white-label ones.
In Thailand, Danitas. Don’t know if they export but they should. They also make tortilla chips that are basically crack, but their corn tortillas are the same dry catastrophe as elsewhere.
For corn, I usually wait until I can bring a hundred back from the US every six months or so.