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New comment by mulberrybush in "The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry"

mulberrybush — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:55:41 +0000

Miyawaki forests have become a huge hit in Kerala, India.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfnDAEi4JY

This location is as tropical as it gets - 8 degrees north of the equator.

Now these mini forests are coming up everywhere in this city.

New comment by mulberrybush in "Newsom vetoes a proposed ban on caste discrimination in California"

mulberrybush — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 08:10:55 +0000

- Age, gender, sexual orientation etc apply to all human beings. But caste is applicable only to people from the Indian Subcontinent, and even though Indian Muslims, Christians and Sikhs all practice caste it was presented as though it was only applicable to Hindus. So this was seen as a bill that was specifically targeted at Hindus.

- The senator who presented the bill is a first generation Afghan muslim. This adds to the suspicion among Hindus that this is a Hindu-phobic action. It is kind of like a Palestinian senator pushing a bill to protect Sephardi and Misrahi jews from discrimination by Ashkenazi jews in Californian workplaces.

- The bill was based on a questionable survey by Equality labs - this survey has been challenged as unscientific and biased. For e.g. see [1] Anatomy of a Dishonest survey.

[1] https://medium.com/@rachelgotham5/equality-labs-caste-report...

New comment by mulberrybush in "Thread-per-core"

mulberrybush — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:30:59 +0000

This video [1] explaining Clojure transducers is excellent. No terminology, no analogies with category theory - just code getting built up in a repl.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaazvSJvBaw

New comment by mulberrybush in "Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video"

mulberrybush — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 08:37:08 +0000

I have found practical.li [1] to be an excellent source of information.

In particular cloning their clojure-deps-edn [2] as my ~/.clojure folder gives me ready made aliases for different kinds of repls, tools like reveal etc.

This, plus polylith [3] architecture has finally allowed me to start working in clojure and not get lost in configuration confusion.

[1] https://practical.li/clojure/clojure-cli/projects/add-librar...

[2] https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn

[3] https://polylith.gitbook.io/poly/

New comment by mulberrybush in "Copilot Internals"

mulberrybush — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:35:23 +0000

I had to disable Copilot for Clojure because of this. Structural editing relies on parens being always balanced, and gets confused when Copilot re-inserts already existing closing parens.

New comment by mulberrybush in "Building a Startup on Clojure"

mulberrybush — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:18:22 +0000

Jacek Schae's courses on reitit for the backend and reagent, reframe for the front end are very good

https://www.jacekschae.com/

New comment by mulberrybush in "Building a Startup on Clojure"

mulberrybush — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:14:05 +0000

I was lost when I moved to deps from lein, but just forking and cloning https://github.com/practicalli/clojure-deps-edn as $HOME/.clojure solved the problem - this base deps.edn contained all the aliases I needed - creating a new project, searching and adding dependencies, hooking up data inspectors like portal or reveal, testing, code coverage, benchmarking, building uberjar etc. Moving to deps also introduced me to polylith [1], which has been very useful for building large multi-component projects

[1] https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith/

New comment by mulberrybush in "Why didn't Frodo just hop on the back of one of the eagles and fly to Mt. Doom?"

mulberrybush — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 07:10:26 +0000

Lack of air superiority for the eagles until the ring was destroyed and the Nazgul along it. If Frodo had tried to fly on one of the eagles, they would have been shot with "black darts" by the Nazgul, mounted on their flying "fell beasts".

New comment by mulberrybush in "Saturated fat: villain and bogeyman in development of cardiovascular disease?"

mulberrybush — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:36:10 +0000

The idea that the Inuit had low cardiovascular disease on a high meat, high fat diet looks to be unfounded, and based on unreliable mortality data [2]. Several Inuit bodies mummified in ice from centuries years ago have been autopsied and found to have evidence of atherosclerosis

[1] This paper has images of atherosclerosis in the coronary arteries of a 45 year old Inuit woman who died 500 years ago - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC325106/pdf/thij...

[2] https://www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S0021-9150(0...

New comment by mulberrybush in "US road deaths increased by more than 10% in 2021"

mulberrybush — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:35:05 +0000

"Alcohol consumption rose among adults over age 30 by 14% during the pandemic, with a 41% increase in women heavily drinking" - https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/pandemic-drinking.html

New comment by mulberrybush in "Science of Fasting"

mulberrybush — Fri, 06 May 2022 07:25:33 +0000

That person seemingly turned his health around from 456 lbs to 180 lbs. But he died at age 50. I am scared of fasting because I dont think there are enough studies on humans to understand the long term effects like gallstones and lean tissue loss, especially heart muscle.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

New comment by mulberrybush in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

mulberrybush — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 07:37:27 +0000

In 1967 Gopi Krishna wrote about the side effects of his meditation practice and how he ended up with mental health issues and suffering for decades - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071RB1FQB. This book became very popular around the world in the 70s and 80s.

Unlike modern international meditation training institutions like Art of Living and SRF, traditional eastern systems always limited what level of practice was safe for 'lay' practitioners. The hardcode stuff was always reserved for renounced practitioners who would leave everything and go live with the teachers.

New comment by mulberrybush in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

mulberrybush — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:04:34 +0000

Shouldnt consider any of it seriously - it is all LARP all the way down...

New comment by mulberrybush in "Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation"

mulberrybush — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 08:42:12 +0000

This is derived from kriya yoga, not Vāmācāra. Another similar online tutorial is https://www.aypsite.org/10.html. Real Vāmācāra by definition involves breaking all taboos - see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hiKDMsIHn8 (warning - it is pretty horrific)

Any Feedback on “Software Design for Flexibility” by Hanson and Sussman?

mulberrybush — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:57:30 +0000

Has anybody read this book? High expectations given that it is a new book written by Sussman, the author of SICP.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/software-design-flexibility

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26414706

Points: 14

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New comment by mulberrybush in "Why Learn Haskell? (2018)"

mulberrybush — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:00:05 +0000

I like Golang's convention for names - names should get longer and more expressive the wider their use is across the code. Single letter names for loop variables, two or three letter names to refer to the current struct in methods, but expressive struct and function names.

New comment by mulberrybush in "Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models"

mulberrybush — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:56:03 +0000

Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4

New comment by mulberrybush in "You're enlightened – now what?"

mulberrybush — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 23:08:47 +0000

"The mechanism, the method of functioning if you will, by which the dream operates, by which functioning occurs here in Consciousness, is the same whether it is realized or not. This is why it is said that when the Understanding occurs, nothing happens. Nothing changes. Consciousness streams, functions, operates in a body/mind organism in which the Understanding has occurred in the same manner that it operates in the body/mind organisms in which there is not Understanding. Awakening or Enlightenment does not automatically suspend the normal means and method by which the dream unfolds; there is no transfiguration into a super human being of light or some such with paranormal powers, like in some of the fanciful storytelling. Who is there to be transfigured? Who is there to do anything?"

"Someone, perhaps it was Robert Adams, once suggested that there should be a Great Gathering Of Awakened Beings, and anybody who showed up would be immediately disqualified."

quotes from "Perfect Brilliant Stillness" by David Carse

New comment by mulberrybush in "The Wetware Crisis: the Dead Sea effect (2008)"

mulberrybush — Wed, 13 May 2020 20:54:44 +0000

> Overqualified people working on a project can produce some heinous code

> You can get a lot of important if boring work done by 'average' or 'below average' developers

This is why google developed the go programming language - dumb enough that people can't build overly complex abstractions, but capable enough that average engineers can churn out productive work.

New comment by mulberrybush in "Japan to Draw Up UFO Encounter Protocols After U.S. Footage"

mulberrybush — Mon, 04 May 2020 03:53:32 +0000

Once Zefram Cochrane hits warp 1 the Vulcans will reveal themselves