Conway should be considered the author of the LSI book.
The best things and stuff of 2020
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#32the ReMarkable has been life changing for me: https://remarkable.com/?gclid=CjwKCAiArbv_BRA8EiwAYGs23Ku05s...
For me the main benefit - less time near monitor and more focus
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not just cook with healthy fats like extra virgin olive/coconut oil?
Because a little bit of oil adds a lot of calories. (And is the evidence about coconut oil conclusive? Last I heard it may or may not be good.)
A tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories. Unless you are completely sedentary, or are using 15tbsp a day, it’s a negligible amount.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because a little bit of oil adds a lot of calories. (And is the evidence about coconut oil conclusive? Last I heard it may or may not be good.)
A tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories. Unless you are completely sedentary, or are using 15tbsp a day, it’s a negligible amount.
120 extra calories a day is an extra 12 pounds a year. Combine that with your metabolism slowing down as you age and as the years pass you might find yourself expanding.
Also, the amount of oil you avoid by moving from deep frying to air frying, depending on portion sizes, can be much more than a tablespoon.
(Obviously, metabolism is more complex than this. I'm discounting the effects of adding fat on satiety, absorption rates, etc.)
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#35Conway should be considered the author of the LSI book.
I had credited Conway but made sure that credit was given in the body of the commentary too. Thanks for the input.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Air fryers seem to be all the rage these days, so I’m curious to hear from a no-BS crowd like HN: is there a meaningful difference between a small convection oven and an air fryer?
I saw this argument over on Twitter earlier today too, and I’m not sure where’s its originating... frankly, does it matter? Buy the one that has the form factor you want and cooks the way you want to cook. When I see “counter-top convection ovens” they are large things that take up a ton of counter space, but have limited functionality and capacity. Meanwhile, the “air fryer” I bought is a lid on my Instant Pot, whic…
> “Air fryer” is a better choice in terms of capacity and time.
These are exactly the features that make it so effective for me. I love convection ovens but the air fryer is almost always more convenient with better results for the kinds of foods I'm cooking with it.
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#37Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS". That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design Analysis of HolyC" [2] inspired me to try out TempleOS for myself. I'm so glad I did, since I got hooked on developing programs in HolyC, and thus learned C in the process. There's something about building…
That is awesome. I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. Is it really productive to harshly technically criticise a man that is plagued by mental illness? Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community…
> What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability.
I do remember that kind of discussion amongst the fringe OSdever crowd but honestly I always found Terry's work motivational and technically solid. I think a lot of the criticism for him was bourn from the fact that he had a complete hand-made kernel, OS, and toolchain and almost everyone else had a copy-pasted bootloader -- and only half of those even enabled the a20 line.
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#38Now while the listed Mark I FORTH computer is pretty cool, I don't see how it relates to 2020 (last update of the blog entry is of 2006). Was 2020 beneficial in that it allowed us to dig deeper in the web?
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because a little bit of oil adds a lot of calories. (And is the evidence about coconut oil conclusive? Last I heard it may or may not be good.)
A tablespoon of olive oil is 120 calories. Unless you are completely sedentary, or are using 15tbsp a day, it’s a negligible amount.
> Unless you are completely sedentary,
This is Hacker News. Of course he's completely sedentary
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#40Two entries stood out to me. The first is the book "UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernigan", and the second the blog post "A Constructive Look at TempleOS". That blog post [1] along with "A Language Design Analysis of HolyC" [2] inspired me to try out TempleOS for myself. I'm so glad I did, since I got hooked on developing programs in HolyC, and thus learned C in the process. There's something about building…
That is awesome. I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got. What stood out to me was that it was always mainly criticism on his technical ability. Is it really productive to harshly technically criticise a man that is plagued by mental illness? Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community…
I love seeing interest in the OS!
> I've never understood how much criticism the creator of TempleOS got.
Terry Davis was very mentally ill, much moreso than I think some people realize. His schizophrenia made him think that he was married to a Youtuber, that Larry Page was watching his videos, and that he had a telepathic connection to Elon Musk. There's a good video about him and TempleOS by Fredrick Knudsen. [1]
> Instead of being elitist and shooting down his contributions, the computer science crowd could have focused on getting this member of the community the help he would have needed concerning other parts of life.
I think a lot of the CS community enjoyed seeing his contributions, especially here on Hacker News in the later days of his life. I know that people wanted to help him, but I'm not sure how much could've been done beyond what his family was doing, honestly. Some people tried to help and ended up making things worse.
> I would love to look at its source code though!
I want to make some more videos about just that, but in the meantime, the source code is included in the operating system (since everything except the boot code is JIT), and if you ever want to develop inside TempleOS, you'll be referring to it a whole lot I can tell you that :D
(Terry Davis mirrored the OS online with a DolDoc -> HTML tool, you can browse the source code / system files on the archived site [2])
1. https://youtu.be/UCgoxQCf5Jg 2. https://templeos.holyc.xyz/Wb/