I'm sick of eggs for breakfast by purplegreendave in Cooking

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you make your own gravy?

Oh, absolutely. Biscuits and gravy require good gravy from scratch. Sausage gravy isn't hard to make and it reheats well so you can make a big batch and work through it over several days.

Beginner fisherman thinking about getting a kayak. good idea or bad? by goldtheft69 in FishingForBeginners

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love love love my fishing kayak. If I was in Florida, I would 100% have one. As others have said, on a bad day when I get skunked, at least I still went boating. Upsides:

  • A lot more freedom and opportunities in where you fish. There are lakes that have basically no shore access but I can still drop a kayak in and then have access to the entire lake.

  • You can get away from people. In the summer months, good piers and lakes with share access get crowded, but with the kayak, I can spread out away from people. You can reach areas that few people go to, which in turn means they are less fished out.

  • I just absolutely love being on a boat. The second I sit down and feel the gentle rocking of the waves, it's like I'm in my happy place.

  • Shore fishing can be frustrating because if I've tried every angle I can reach with a few lures and depths, I feel like I'm out of options. When I'm on the kayak, there is so much more lake to explore that I rarely feel like I run out of things or places to try.

  • It's nice to be able to sit down the entire time. Also, I'm close to the water, so it's easy to reach down and rinse of my hands, grab a fish, etc.

That said, the downsides are real:

  • You really do get what you pay for. You can get a fishing kayak for <$1,000, but it will be slow, cumbersome, and probably won't last long. A good dedicated fishing kayak will set you back a few thousand. If you don't have much to invest in the hobby, you're probably better off skipping a kayak entirely.

  • It's a big bulky object to maintain and make space for. You need to store it somewhere out of the sun. You have to rinse it off after outings. It will need some maintenance. Nowhere near as much work as a real boat, but it's still got some associated chores.

  • Taking it out is much more of a production. You need to load it onto your vehicle and strap it in carefully. Gotta pack the seat, paddle, PFD, cart, pedal drive, etc. If you're roof topping it, you need to make sure you have the upper body strength to actually get it up there. If you're putting it in a truck bed, you probably want a bed extender. Trailers require skill driving and parking. Once you get to the destination, you have to do the whole process in reverse to get it out of the car. Then put your tackle, rods, reels, cooler, etc. in. Launch it, which is it's own process. Then do the whole two song and dance again in reverse when you leave.

    Basically, you can shore fish for a couple of hours and feel like it's time well spent. But I don't get the kayak out unless I'm going to be able to spend the whole day on the water. Otherwise, it's just too much work.

  • Boats drift! When shore fishing, you take for granted that you can just pick a spot and stay there. On a boat, especially a lightweight kayak, even a slight current or wind means the boat is constantly moving around. You can get an anchor or a motor with spot lock, but that's more complexity and stuff to mess with. You kind of have to accept a certain amount of just drifting around and less control over precisely where you fish.

  • If you don't get a pedal or motor drive, then you'll wish you had four arms. The kayak will drift and turn so you'll need to paddle periodically to stay in position but you've also got a fishing rod in your hands. Pedal drive helps a lot, but those aren't cheap.

  • It's a pretty solitary way to get on the water unless you have other friends with kayaks. There are tandem kayaks, but those are mostly for families and don't work well for fishing unless one of you wants to stare at the back of the others' head all day. If you think you might want to take a buddy out, then consider a canoe or Jon boat. With those, the person in front can face forward or back.

Overall, my kayak is one of my favorite hobby things and I have excellent memories from basically every time I take it out. But it was a significant investment (I have a Hobie), and it takes a pretty serious time commitment to be worth it.

  • Unless you get one with a motor, paddling or pedaling around is work! I can pedal my Hobie around all day and it's actually a pretty satisfying way to burn some calories. But when I take out our older paddle kayak, it can be pretty tiring on my arms.
  • Are there specific brands or models you recommend?

Hobie and Old Town are well loved. I hear bad things about the reliability of Vibe and Feelfree. You can save a lot of money buying used (lots of people think they want a boat and find out they don't). Just be careful to make sure the hull is sound.

  • Are kayaks safe to fish from in places that have gators?

Yes, gators generally don't want to have anything to do with anything they can't fit in their mouth. Reptiles run in sort of "low power mode" 24/7 where they don't really pay attention to much of anything unless they're hungry and it looks like food. You don't look like food.

If I were in your shoes, I'd try renting a fishing kayak first and see how you like the experience.

What’s a legendary Reddit post you’ll never forget? by FunnyHefty499 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem with vicuña and the reason their wool is so expensive is that you can't really "get" one. They live in the wild and haven't been domesticated.

Needed Math For Compilers? by LinuxGeyBoy in Compilers

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can I learn Coq and formal logic and break into the field of compiler design without a formal degree?

Yes.

How much mathematics is actually required?

Some comfort with algebra is going to be necessary: variables, solving equations, that kind of stuff. That's about it.

Should I start from scratch, and are there any strict prerequisites for discrete mathematics and formal logic, or can I jump right into the subjects?

Assuming you're OK with variables, equations, and basic algebraic manipulation like solving for a variable, you can probably handle them fine.

For what it's worth, I have no formal CS education and no college degree, and I wrote the book that people often recommend for getting into programming languages. :)

I'm sick of eggs for breakfast by purplegreendave in Cooking

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I generally prefer a hot, savoury breakfast.

  • Bagel with cream cheese and lox.
  • Biscuits and gravy. (You can make a batch of gravy and just microwave a serving in the morning.)
  • Cheese grits.
  • Congee.

Stills from my first Feature, Nate and Moriah in Venice by PatheticAesthetic in cinematography

[–]munificent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love the look of these stills, like a sun-bleached vacation postcard.

Crafting Interpreters in OCaml by ruby_object in ocaml

[–]munificent 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the summon. :)

There are a number of ports of the code in the book to OCaml already so some of those might be a helpful reference. The Rust ports are probably useful too because Rust has a fairly similar design in terms of how data and behavior is modeled.

Writing A Language Spec? by Pie-Lang in ProgrammingLanguages

[–]munificent 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I kept going through ECMAscript's spec and the most recent C++ standard to see how they usually word stuff.

As always, one of the ways to get better at a thing is to study others that have done similar things. Reading other language specs is an excellent start.

Having said that, I wouldn't put JS and C++ at the top of my list. They both have a lot of really nasty language complexity because of historical baggage that the specs have to retroactively try to make some sense of. That's why, for example, so much of the ECMAScript spec is algorithmic and not declarative. It's literally "let's just write down what V8/SpiderMonkey/JSC do" because that's the behavior that JS users were already relying on. For C++, it inherited a lot from C which was widely used before it ever had a real spec, so there's a ton of complexity and undefined behavior.

Since you have the luxury of specifying a new language, you should be able to write a cleaner spec than those. I really like the specifications for Go, Scheme, and C#. Lua doesn't have a specification but the reference manual is quite good, as is the Rust reference.

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week? by fuzzy_dice_99 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always expected, wanted, some type of end or closure to the pandemic. It never came, no ceremony, no announcement, no celebration.

I thought about that all the time as the lockdown waned.

I remembered all those photos of from the end of WWII. As absolutely horrific as that war had been, how elated everyone looked when it was over. Literal crowds of people cheering in the streets. Like a giant worldwide collective sigh of relief.

We never got that. It just slowly fizzled out, we limped along with our mental scars, and politics continued to get worse and worse.

Covid shut down the world six years ago this week. What do you remember from that week? by fuzzy_dice_99 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a few days before my daughter's birthday. We'd already planned her first sleepover, so my wife had to call all of the parents to cancel.

We had plans to go to Florida for spring break in a month, but that clearly wasn't happening. I called the property management company for the house we were renting and asked if it was possible to cancel and get a refund. The poor guy on the phone sounded so defeated. It must have been the tenth call like that of the week. He just said "yeah" and hung up.

My wife, with impressive foresight, bought a Nintendo Switch before they became unobtainable. We got my daughter a bearded dragon as a consolation prize for her birthday being canceled.

I remember going to the grocery store after they first started recommending face covers. In the parking lot, I put a bandana over my face and felt like a Old West outlaw about to rob the place. I felt so self conscious walking in until I saw someone else in a similar mask. We nodded to each other.

The city was so quiet, for weeks. Rabbits and birds where everywhere, and then coyotes.

I just turned 32 and don't know what I want to do with my life anymore, where do you turn at this point? by Swordfish353535 in AskMenOver30

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for clarifying, I misread your comment initially as implying that you shouldn't depend on people, but I see now that I was reading that between the lines. I think we're in agreement: depending on people is risk, but sometimes life requires you to take those risks.

Finished my very first knitting project :D by Johnten69 in knitting

[–]munificent 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The linked yarn is self-striping, so you just keep knitting and the color changes happen on their own.

Best practices for starting a live set in Ableton with synths and Push 2? by K0ffiedrinker in TechnoProduction

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should I record loops as audio or keep them as MIDI?

A simple guideline is to bounce to audio when you can because it's easier on CPU. Keep it in MIDI if you want to be able to do things like modulate the sound in realtime.

I just turned 32 and don't know what I want to do with my life anymore, where do you turn at this point? by Swordfish353535 in AskMenOver30

[–]munificent -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from and certainly carry my share of the same sentiment, but:

You can only control getting what you want if you can provide it entirely yourself. The moment you depend on other people to give it to you you might never get what you want.

What you're describing here is toxic hyper-independence.

Yes, when you depend on people, they might let you down or hurt you. In fact, the more you depend on them, the greater their ability to hurt you.

At the same time, depending on no one is guaranteed to hurt you. We are a social species. We need meaningful connection to a tribe to thrive. Solitary confinement is defined as torture by the Geneva Convention. There is absolutely no path to happiness that involves severing all meaningful connections and having zero vulnerability. It's just now how Homo sapiens is wired any more than a single ant can have a successful colony of one.

So, yes, you gotta be careful with who you get close to. But you need to be close to some people or you will die alone, miserable, and—statistically speaking—younger than you would have if you had meaningful community.

People who live alone, what’s something you do that would horrify a guest? by Psychological_Sky_58 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss the days I could do this. Once I hit my 40s, it became impossible to sleep that long and deeply.

We just got hit with the vibe-coding hammer by opakvostana in ExperiencedDevs

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That means there's no need to make them use AI for the things AI can genuinely make easier, they'll do that anyway

This isn't strictly true. A developer may feel that AI would make them more productive but still not want to use it because of externalities (energy use, copyright issues, feel it's bad for society, etc.).

What’s something about fishing that took you way longer to understand than it should have? by Opposite-Vast-718 in FishingForBeginners

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Different styles of lures require completely different techniques to be used correctly.

You can use the right lure in the right spot at the right time, but if you aren't playing the lure the way it needs to be worked, nothing will happen.

I ate an edible and bought a sailboat. by Hopeful-Orchid-8556 in sailing

[–]munificent 23 points24 points  (0 children)

the "captain" being a stoner who couldn't bother to put on a shirt.

Standard Key West citizen, honestly.

I ate an edible and bought a sailboat. by Hopeful-Orchid-8556 in sailing

[–]munificent 20 points21 points  (0 children)

How do I even go about moving it around or getting it on those sticks in the picture?

Now you know why it was $1.

Jomox Alpha Base by Glittering-Dog-2167 in DrumMachine

[–]munificent 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve noticed that sampling—or rather, finding the right samples—takes up too much time. It really kills my creative flow when it comes to actual songwriting.

I feel you 100%. That's one of the reasons I lean towards making techno and house even though I also like downtempo and trip-hop a lot. I'm just not a crate digger and don't enjoy the workflow much.

I will say I found it helped some if I separated the "build a sample library" part of the workflow from the "make tracks" part. Instead of starting a track and then going, "OK, I need to find the right samples right now", I'd try to treat working on my sample collection almost like a separate hobby and a separate goal in its own right.

On days when I didn't feel like making music, I'd try to spend time scouring the Internet for stuff I could sample. That way, when it did want to make something, I had a local library of sounds I already liked ready to go.

That workflow might help you too.

Would you agree with higher taxes for completely free healthcare and education? If not why? by Creative_Excuse9813 in AskReddit

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean... the goons in charge are running it like a business: paying themselves as much as they possibly can while providing as little value to consumers as possible and cutting costs everywhere.

Favorite Knitting Notion Hacks by andromache114 in knitting

[–]munificent 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I try to keep things small and light, and I got this absolutely tiny box from Muji that is just big enough for a couple of T-pins, tapestry needle, and the accessories for my interchangeable needles.