augustusseizure | 1 year ago | on: In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules
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augustusseizure | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Nice! It's cool to see that other people had the same issues I did, and solved them the same way (though you're much further along than I am). How are you hooking into the environment container? Are you running an editor in the terminal, or maybe something like tramp or vs code dev containers?
Have you considered adding an option to "virtualize" the container's home directory? It's probably pretty niche but I've found it to be useful when I'm doing something more exploratory, like testing out a new editor config, where I don't want to commit to anything.
Great idea to expose the host docker instance to the container btw (if I'm understanding this correctly). I didn't think to do that but it seems like it could be really useful.
Did you end up incorporating dew into your workflow? Sorry for the jumbled response btw, this is mostly stream-of-consciousness as I read through the repo.
augustusseizure | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
Thanks for the suggestion, this looks great! At a glance LXD seems to be a much more robust version of what I've built. Time to learn something new I guess lol.
augustusseizure | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
I just started working on a cli tool to easily create, manage, and spin up dev environments in docker containers. The
initial impetus for starting the project was to try out Doom Emacs without messing with my current Emacs setup, so an
example session could be:
dv new emacs dev-img-emacs:latest
dv start emacs
dv conn emacs
The first line creates a new "development environment" named emacs, based on the docker image dev-img-emacs:latest. The second line starts up a docker container based on the saved image. The third line connects to the running image via mosh (or ssh).
Mostly I just meant to use it as a learning experience, but it's actually been really convenient in a lot of ways, so I think I might develop it further.
augustusseizure | 6 years ago | on: Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control in Houston
A couple weeks ago someone posted a link to a real time re-creation of the apollo 11 mission. It's amazing watching videos of everyone in that room, listening to the chatter on all the radio channels, and seeing pictures scroll by from the moon, all in real-time. It does an amazing job bringing you behind the curtains, almost like you're a part of the actual mission.
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Isaac Asimov wrote a couple books that follow the narrative of science from the beginnings up until the 80s or so, which I highly recommend. One is called Atom and is more focused on how we got to our “present” understanding of particles. There’s also one that takes a broader view, it’s something like History of Science (? not at my bookshelf right now).
There’s several books in this genre for math as well. IMO it’s a much better structure for pedagogy since we can piggy back the education on our natural wiring to care about narrative and mystery/puzzles.