nominalprose
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Comment · 11 months ago
I recently started giving my 11 year old SAM-e, available over the counter and much faster acting than SSRIs for serotonin support. He's been much happier and more regulated since taking it. I'd encourage folk to read up on the literature around SAM-e and consider it as a lower risk alternative to try first, that may in fact work better.
Comment · 1 year ago
it's not though. See the thread above about having someone else enter the screen time code
Comment · 1 year ago
You can achieve the same more easily using Screen Time, and having a trusted friend or partner enter the screen time passcode. Still possible to override with your Apple ID, but this is a significant enough speed bump that it works (for me anyway).
Comment · 2 years ago
Some years back I spent a lot of time reading these docs and playing with some core examples and corresponded some with the developer behind the project.
I think inductive, reactive, programming patterns have a lot of promise for building more composable software. This project is I think no longer maintained, but it should hopefully serve as inspiration for language designers.
LogicBlox was (is?) a larger scale commercial system based on similar ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogicBlox
Comment · 6 years ago
A short musing about time and getting what you want
Comment · 6 years ago
+1 re "lifetime-scale project" nature of the work.
> it's turned into this whole badly defined spiritual thing, instead of just being about growing as much food as possible, with as few inputs as possible, with perennial plants.
I recently purchased Bill Mollison's designers manual. From this book, it's clear that the spiritual/ethical component has been integral to permaculture since the beginning.
"growing as much food as possible...with perennial plants" is great, but it's a subset of what permaculture is or was about.
Comment · 6 years ago
Same. After about a year of using Anki the need to aggressively delete became apparent. With good culling and time to reflect, review can be almost a meditation.
How does Supermemo help you keep keep context?
> keeping organized notes that may or may not be used for active recall
I use a separate notes app (Bear) for this. Is there much advantage in your experience to integrating active recall notes with Evernote-style reference notes?
Comment · 6 years ago
Congrats on the new job in São Paulo! :)
I'd echo other commentators that it's heartening to hear these stories of real connection found via the web.
I had a similar experience some years ago; a blog post I wrote about a side project connected me the SF-based startup I still work for. I couldn't have predicted how that post, churned up by a fortuitous google ranking, would impact my life. I'd be remiss to not also credit the generosity of the blogger who shared it as a guest post.
If we're going to rediscover what the web should have been, then celebrating stories like yours seems a good place to start.
There are teams formed, love found, and minds changed for good -- all via the web. Perhaps it's in part by studying these connection stories that we'll find our way to a healthier, more human web for everyone.
Another great example of the positive web: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/97588463553510195...