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by interroboink 13d ago
I'm reminded of an old talk by Rich Hickey [1] (he created Closure, initially in semi-isolation over some years). > When was the last time that you thought about something for an > entire hour? ... Howabout for a whole day?
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by interroboink 13d ago
The article states: > The golf-ball-sized dice are now available to buy ... So, not entirely just a math puzzle. But probably dice only math nerds will buy (: I agree the math problem does not map well to a real problem players ar
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by interroboink 15d ago
I like this article, but on some level I vehemently disagree with it? The summary is this: > A writer needs readers ... Any worthy pursuit needs a mat. > ... Better to be pinned in public with courage than to train > endles
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by interroboink 2mo ago
> is literally “post death” in Latin Yes; I think what I described matches that meaning? Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done." Death does not necessarily have
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by interroboink 2mo ago
This might be terminology that's used differently in different places. For instance, in video games it is extremely common to use "postmortem" to mean "post-shipping." Example: https://blog.codinghorror
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by interroboink 2mo ago
I agree it's not a perfect parallel. But it was very much part of a movement that challenged traditional notions of what art was, and spurned similar debates and outrage as here. Perhaps a more apt example would be Duchamp's &quot
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by interroboink 2mo ago
> the concept of perceiving content gets intertwined with how content was made It reminds me also of the eternal "can we separate the art from the artist" debate, too. For instance, some people (myself included) find that their
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by interroboink 2mo ago
> Meaningful art is not mass-produced, generated content. Andy Warhol might disagree [1] (: (I realize that's not exactly apples-to-apples, but y'know.) Or there's "art is anything you can get away with," which I
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by interroboink 2mo ago
Next, someone needs to make a stereoscopic "magic eye" font. Until the LLMs get binocular vision, I suppose...
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by interroboink 2mo ago
Since you seem to know, and I am curious, doesn't CIE[1] effectively use RGB to describe its space, too? Eg: the r̅(λ) g̅(λ) b̅(λ) color matching functions? Or is there something else in CIE you're referring to? [1] https:/&
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by interroboink 3mo ago
I know someone who went to Reed College, which has semi-famously not suffered from grade inflation[1]. They send your transcripts out with an explanatory note, so that the recipient will not view the graduate poorly when they see the number
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by interroboink 4mo ago
I feel there is a balance to be struck between a project that is popular (where if you run into problems, you will get good support), and one that technically gives longer-term support (but if things go wrong, that support might not be ve
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by interroboink 4mo ago
It's a bit of an "if a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound?" quandary. Sure, maybe some aliens in a distant galaxy understand quantum mechanics better than we do. That's great, but it has n
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by interroboink 4mo ago
Short-lived branches are likely referring to "bookmarks" in Mercurial. Or they could also just be un-named anonymous heads. These are different from what is exposed by the "hg branch" command. Mercurial's "bran
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by interroboink 4mo ago
FYI: Matt Mackall is now Olivia Mackall [1], so that can make searching for things harder. Looks like they work at Valve, now? Agreed that they were a really stabilizing and healthy personality in the project, and made a lot of good early d
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by interroboink 5mo ago
A recent funny story on this topic: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231
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by interroboink 5mo ago
Indeed, the Wikipedia page on fractal dimension[1] uses the coastline paradox[2] as a leading example. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast
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by interroboink 5mo ago
> Don't laugh I laugh (: But good for you, whatever works. Personally, I can't do music with much lyrics or narrative; I find it distracting. But to each their own!
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by interroboink 6mo ago
For others interested, perhaps a more straightforward example is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGHkigtPcIA The one in the article is the same essential technique (structurally speaking), but with a lot more decorati
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by interroboink 6mo ago
> there are billions of souls on this planet. They're not a rare thing > like say, gold. They're very easily produced, by two people getting it > on. That leads to a harsh conclusion: human beings aren't tha
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by interroboink 6mo ago
I have the same problem with the mouse (little page marker overlay covers the down arrow). But using keyboard arrow keys work for me.
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by interroboink 6mo ago
Well, I wrote what I meant, but I meant to be facetious (:
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by interroboink 6mo ago
My sense is that there is a narrow slice of software developers who genuinely do flourish in a pair programming environment. These are people who actually work through their thoughts better with another person in the loop. They get super ex
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by interroboink 6mo ago
> you are back to the same problems that certificates have. Some of the same problems. One nice thing about verifying content rather than using an SSL connection is that plain-old HTTP caching works again. That aside, another benefit of
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by interroboink 7mo ago
I recently learned about the fact that Sichuan peppercorns are actually related to citrus, so was looking for where the connection is... As it turns out[1], there is a "citrus family " (Rutaceae[2]) and a citrus genus (Citrus[3
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by interroboink 7mo ago
A bit of an aside... From the article: MetaPost is written in literate programming language WEB, then generating Pascal code from it. Hence the tooling and developer experience around it is quite suboptimal. Extending it is also alm
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by interroboink 7mo ago
Does anyone know a google-able term for split keyboards that have doubled keys down the middle column (B/N, G/H, T/Y, 6/7)? I see one instance on this page of a keyboard with double "B" key ("Alice layout&
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by interroboink 7mo ago
I didn't see it on the feature list, but it might be nice to allow it to run as a cron job and send email for reminders. These days, most mobile phones have an associated email like your-phone-number@vztext.com (depending on carrier),
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by interroboink 7mo ago
I went down this rabbit hole a while back — there's a fascinating history of various scientists' investigations into the blue sky, across many decades, with some back-and-forth between Russia and Europe. Einstein eventually made a
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by interroboink 8mo ago
Django aside, I think this is a really important point: Being able to abandon a project for months or years and then come back to it is really important to me (that’s how all my projects work!) ... It's perhaps especially true

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