Syntonicles

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by Syntonicles 19d ago
This was the original explainer that got me interested in this stuff!
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by Syntonicles 25d ago
At first I was frustrated by this comment, having a fair amount of Lisp experience failing to grok the examples. In less than one minute I was able to locate, download and install the latest Racket and was in a REPL. There really are no
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by Syntonicles 27d ago
There are books that I read every decade or so, and there is always new insight. Sometimes I will identify with an older character and see the entire story through their eyes. Often times an interesting novel will prompt me to study the cul
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by Syntonicles 3mo ago
Huh, I always wondered what that was for...
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by Syntonicles 3mo ago
Ooh, thanks! I blindly type c-x 8 RET, then finding myself stumbling through 9 different entries for Phi, but I hadn't explored the prefixes. I just realized I could create a custom which-key entry-point with my favorites in a prefix
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by Syntonicles 3mo ago
I for one am striving for clarity and couldn't care less about being confused with AI. However I've only ever used regular dashes. How do you type an em-dash? Is it OS specific? I've taken to using Emacs insert-char with a li
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by Syntonicles 3mo ago
This was a lot of fun to explore. I find that naturally I want to click through the animations and observe them for a while before delving into the steps and reading the blurb. It's a bit like skimming around a textbook's headin
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by Syntonicles 4mo ago
Love this reaction. Even if these are contrived examples this is one of those things that could become completely ubiquitous as a cheap solution to problems that only seem obvious in hindsight. Either that or we'll never see this tech
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by Syntonicles 6mo ago
I wonder if it was de-indexed from HN for this reason. 30 minutes ago it was on the front-page, now I can't find it listed in the top 200.
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by Syntonicles 7mo ago
Oh, that helps me. I thought it had something to do with rotating the palm. Why did they go into all the detail of the ulna & radius crossing? The counter example they gave was the elephant - but this video [1] of elephants walking lo
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by Syntonicles 7mo ago
This would make for a good topic on a short-form pop-science YouTube channel. (take your pick) The article is interesting but it's difficult for me to really picture the implications of the article. Actually after reading it I get th
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by Syntonicles 10mo ago
I feel this inner conflict of yours could be resolved by posting to Reddit and asking for anecdotes.
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
Those are really cool to look at. I kept trying to click them to learn more, I wish some of them were mini blog posts to give a little bit of grounding.
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
Yours. I can't explain your frustration then, or why the author's intent escaped you. If you use Firefox there's a little reader-mode icon in the address bar you may find convenient.
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
It sent me back in time, very nostalgic. I even took a few minutes to sit and enjoy the moment and remember what it was like to explore the internet on a pixelated CRT in the 90s. I suspect it's a generational gap.
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
What a fascinating project. It looks a real labor of love, and I wish I understood it more deeply. I've been making my own visualization sandboxes like this to explore configuration spaces and groups - but for much simpler, more intu
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
I can't go into detail, but that's essentially my use case. I have a geodesic dome with a cable running up externally, and would like to run it through a hollow shaft coming in through the top which rotates like a carousel. I&#x
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
What?! Thank you! I'm working on a robot with a very expensive slip ring, and need to send high fidelity data through it with shielding. I had no idea this was possible this will make things so much easier! I found a related video yo
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
That sounds frustrating! It hasn't been my experience at all. I'm an enthusiast when it comes to [Vanilla] Emacs. I enjoy customizing my editor, jumping into the Lisp when I find an error, and contributing - though my own config
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
I've been using Magit for years, and have never noticed any bugs. The interface is unique and takes a lot of getting used to. I did need to leverage my extensive experience with Git and Emacs to understand unexpected behaviour but the
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
Loved the article, and also the shoutout to Strang's lectures. I agree with the order, the Gaussian should come later I almost closed the article - glad I kept scrolling out of curiosity. Also I felt like I had been primed to think abo
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by Syntonicles 11mo ago
I see a scroll bar in Firefox and in Chrome...
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
I love this idea. I remember giving a live demonstration of a configuration management tool (SaltStack circa 2012) and some unknown networking conflict between my Virtual Machines and the local wifi subnet caused my commands to timeout. I
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
I've been curious about knitting & crochet from a programming / robotics / simulation perspective for a while, but deferred it to cut my teeth on simpler problems. Those industrial robots seems to be knitting, not croche
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
I first saw this effect in a video from Branta Games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg3RAI8uyVw The effect is disrupted by introducing rendering artifacts, by watching the video in 144p or in this case by zooming out. I&#
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
My bank's mobile app no longer supports my 2017 Android phone. I thought it would be a big deal but honestly I forgot about it until you mentioned this, it's been 6-12 months.
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
Is the new model significantly more efficient or something? Maybe using distillation? I haven't looked into it, I just heard the price is low. Personally I use/prefer 4o over 4.5 so I don't have high hopes for v5.
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
It's a lot to ask of two experts to also be excellent communicators for an audience that may struggle to follow along. I wonder if a potential application of LLMS could be: have two experts have a really interesting but dense conversat
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by Syntonicles 1y ago
Thank you for the video, that was really interesting. I had no idea that brown was orange, and that makes me wonder how those darker colors are perceived by people with many more categories of colors in their minds. If simply naming brown
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by Syntonicles 2y ago
This is a feint. By ramping up the pressure, calling it out and demanding it take on a more intelligent role, I was able to break out of the crafted personality and get much more intelligent responses. It copped to dumbing itself down for

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