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basilisks··on Lex Fridman Podcast #309 – John Carmack
Shouldn't he not assume that the audience knows everything about the subject already?
basilisks··on After Obsidian and Logseq, I give Dendron a try
I agree. PKM apps are nothing but an ADD sink for me.
basilisks··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
hello
basilisks··on Tmux lets you select and copy text with your keyboard
This sounds terribly convoluted compared to turning on mouse mode and selecting the text with your mouse. It should copy immediately after you release the button, and you should be able to paste with your standard shortcut if you set up tmux to use the clipboard of your choice.
basilisks··on Len Sassaman and Satoshi
If it was Andressen, why wouldn't he support the claim that Satoshi is someone besides himself?
basilisks··on Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78
I’ll agree with Chomsky’s stance on pornography.
basilisks··on Qutebrowser 2.0
If anyone has any hints on getting qutebrowser to not suck up battery and CPU on macOS Big Sur it would be much appreciated. Maybe things will smooth out in 2.0?
basilisks··on Urbit Precepts Discussion
I don’t understand how it’s obscurantist. I’m a novice and am having fun learning the language. It’s open-source.
basilisks··on Urbit Precepts Discussion
As a beginner programmer I did not have any more trouble understanding the Hoon tutorial than I do C, Go, or Haskell tutorials, for example.
basilisks··on Urbit Precepts Discussion
I'm a non-programmer who is just skilled enough with computers to do some damage. Completely clueless about mathematical and information theory concepts, etc. Here's my measly two cents:

I've been running my own Urbit for a few years that I've connected to broader communities, and have found it to be a really exciting and fun platform. It feels like when I first found Usenet and MUDs as a teen in the 90s, except people are nicer. What I understand about its essential purpose sounds great — a decentralized identity that I own and can make communities with.

I am mostly a tech outsider, but I find it strange to see such a normally open-minded community (hackers) shut it down with such vehemence whenever it comes up

basilisks··on Cell Signaling Technologies – Detailed 3D model of human cells
The title is misleading—Cell Signaling Technologies is a company. This appears to be Digizyme’s portfolio of work they have done for their client, Cell Signaling Technologies.
basilisks··on Colorize Your CLI
`ls -F` is good enough for me
basilisks··on Having Kids
That’s great to hear. Believe it or not, visual impairment usually leads to delay in speech and other development, so I get a sense of where you’re coming from. All the best to you guys.
basilisks··on Having Kids
Thank you for this. My son is 2 and legally blind, so needless to say we have no life outside of him for now, but he is a joy. I would trade none of this for nothing.

Often I feel like I will never again be able to have a life, read a book, finish a project, have an idea. I know that it gets better and that I should cherish the moments we have while he is so young (and I do), but it’s hard to see more than a foot in front of you, so to speak. Thanks.

basilisks··on Urbit
Weird post. I am running my own Urbit, happily learning FP and network concepts along the way. I’m not even a programmer or an engineer, so it can’t be that obscurantist, and it certainly isn’t vaporware.

I’m very interested to know how an operating system can be racist.

It’s a purely functional operating system, and it’s pretty neat. It’s also open-source. The author’s naughty blog posts play absolutely nothing into this.

basilisks··on Urbit
Can you back up this claim?
basilisks··on Urbit
It’s an open-source project. Anyone can work on it or fork it. If you’ve got technical criticism, let’s hear it.
basilisks··on OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
Do you have the source somewhere public by chance? Sounds like a fun learning project.
basilisks··on Moving towards a faster web
Blue checkmarks but for websites. A merit badge for playing by the biggest boys’ rules.
basilisks··on An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
I think it's high time they extended the Blue Line north, at least to Lynn. Green Line coming to Somerville is welcome but far past due.
basilisks··on An interactive exploration of Boston's subway system
>I wish the MBTA was more transparent with this type of data and visualization. If they themselves charted things like this for the public, and then made commitments to improve (or at least not get worse) based on metrics that the community agrees are important, then I think that would be a significant move forward.

On a related note, what Somerville is doing right next door: https://data.somervillema.gov