jdranczewski

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by jdranczewski 9d ago
I think it's fair to say that if the wiki's intent is to share information with people, you want people (and not just the inner circle of those in the know) to be able to find it. And the way most people find things is on Google.
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by jdranczewski 4mo ago
They were originally planning to not do hot staging, aiming instead for a somewhat funny approach where they spin the ship and booster slightly so they are passively separated by centrifugal forces. A bunch of things went wrong in the first
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by jdranczewski 5mo ago
I've really enjoyed reading the Grid World piece linked at the bottom of the post: https://alex.miller.garden/grid-world/
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by jdranczewski 7mo ago
The article mentions this only briefly, but browsers already do this kind of heuristic protection! See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Defending... or https://chromium.googlesource.com&#x2
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by jdranczewski 7mo ago
On Android they've actually rolled out the 3D view in Maps recently! Took them long enough. I now have an "aerial" button in the bottom left corner when viewing Street View imagery that switches between the two.
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by jdranczewski 7mo ago
If anyone in the comments is in a similar predicament to the author and would like a book logging app, I will say that I disagree on their judgement of StoryGraph - I've found it a pretty decent interface, the search function is very g
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by jdranczewski 7mo ago
For large communities, the very granular role-based permission system of Discord can be put to some good use, I don't think Slack has a trivially equivalent feature.
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by jdranczewski 8mo ago
You can, but the heat needs to go somewhere , and now you're back to square one, with "how do I get rid of all this heat". Earth refrigerators have a large heat exchanger on the back for this purpose. In fact now you need to
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by jdranczewski 8mo ago
To add to the points raised by others, "just install LaTeX" is not imo a very strong argument. I prefer working in a local environment, but many of my colleagues much prefer a web app that "just works" to figuring out wh
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by jdranczewski 9mo ago
If you've managed to find more details about what process exactly they're implementing I'd be glad to see it - I assumed plasma-based growth, since the BBC article mentions that it's a plasma that is at 1000C here (makin
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by jdranczewski 9mo ago
An interesting use case of OpenSCAD is open source hardware with many contributors - the reasoning being that we only have mature version control tooling for text-based files (say git), and so your CAD design should be text-based. I was int
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by jdranczewski 9mo ago
The article says they visited both the US and Israel registration addresses and didn't find the organisation's offices. I was impressed by the amount of "on the ground digging" by the journalists here!
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by jdranczewski 9mo ago
Following on on the DoD example, the field of astronomy is infamous for its terrible acronyms: https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~gpetitpas/Links/Astroacro.html
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by jdranczewski 9mo ago
Yes! The ring reminded me of the Core too. Perhaps with voice processing and the infrastructure around MCP (which I haven't used myself, but Eric brings up in the blog) a fully headless, voice-based device like this is more feasible no
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by jdranczewski 10mo ago
I may be misunderstanding it, but the examples shown don't seem to be illustrative? It seems reasonably obvious that the prints will happen in this order in any language, because in example 1 we are explicitly (a)waiting for the child
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by jdranczewski 10mo ago
I think in your first point the difference is between "calculation" and "conversion". For calculations, it's generally accepted that arbitrary numbers are possible and a calculator may have to come out. For conversi
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by jdranczewski 10mo ago
I've always found the weather argument somewhat unconvincing, because 0°C being the freezing point of water is very much a useful point of reference in weather contexts - it's roughly where one may expect iced-over pavements and r
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by jdranczewski 11mo ago
I agree that having a reliable main environment for quick experiments is great! On Windows I just use the main Python installation as a global environment, since no system stuff depends on it, on Linux I tend to create a "main" en
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
https://caption.plus/ does excellent work for a couple YouTube/Nebula channels - not as exciting as the above, but they do coloured speakers, positioning to avoid in-video text, and an occasional animation to punch up
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
Ah, my bad! I did not know these were a thing, but that makes more sense! Teaches me a thing about only quickly trying things in an online REPL on mobile and jumping to conclusions - I forgot curly braces were also a way to denote a set
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I was rather confused by the dictionary comprehension syntax used there, because I wasn't aware that you could write one without the ":" to delineate the key: value pair. Turns out you can, but it just creates a dict with no
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
A very cool project, and a great resource for people with reduced mobility - I semi-regularly use Transport for London's station drawings (linked on this website) over the official accessibility map, which doesn't differentiate be
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
The description of trying to use FontForge cracked me up, I recall trying it myself a while ago and it going very similarly!
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I've taken to writing complex comprehensions like this over multiple lines (which I initially thought wasn't possible!). It's still a bit awkward, but the order of "fors" is the same as if one was writing nested for
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
Allowing mass machine translation of Wikipedia articles into other languages is a problem, because it floods smaller language wikis with low quality text. If a user wants machine translated pages, they can machine translate them themselve
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
Interesting that the description mentions a year of training! Not something I immediately think of when I see one of these daredevil stunts, but it makes sense that he'd spend a while making sure he can reliably go through an opening o
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I've had to do this to my Windows laptop recently after it started completely draining the battery when going to normal sleep. Wakes up reasonably quickly still, and no power management problems!
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
In special relativity at least it's pretty clearly the case that communication outside the light cone (so faster than light) will result in events happening in the wrong order in some frames, violating causality. I will not speak of ge
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
Long term, sure. Short term I think an unpleasant number of your parallel universe copies would observe themselves dying.
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by jdranczewski 1y ago
I've been writing a UI framework for experiment automation and small tools using Qt Widgets with Python bindings ( https://puzzlepiece.readthedocs.io ) and it still works pretty well! I like the API, and it being immediately

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