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by mbo 5d ago
What? This is capital, on the cusp of total victory, about to cut itself free from the necessity of human labor for productive activity, to elevate itself into pseudo-godhood suddenly panicking and begging its mortal enemy, _the state_ to r
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by mbo 21d ago
you should have seen the reaction when Are.na collaborated with Dinamo on a new version of Arial ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45012995 ) - like, are we not allowed to make art for arts' sake?
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by mbo 1mo ago
reminds me of https://nyc-noise.com/
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by mbo 1mo ago
Love it! I was looking at this a little while ago, and used some of The Pudding's data on makeup/foundation shades ( https://pudding.cool/2018/06/makeup-shades/ ) and plotted it into the Oklab colorsp
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by mbo 2mo ago
Same for Bazel. It has historically been a very difficult to understand/adopt/rollout tool for a lot of engineering orgs but is going swimmingly for the organization I currently work for.
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by mbo 2mo ago
> I will say that I find even in games that do pay some lip-service to the continued existence of subordinated peoples within large empires – I think particularly of Europa Universalis, Stellaris and Imperator – the mechanics and dynamic
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by mbo 2mo ago
Given that the stock market completely crashed upon the release of DeepSeek-R1 it's fair to say that it was a negative billion dollar PDF.
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by mbo 2mo ago
the show source toggle is using https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig... (and the author is infact the creator of it)
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by mbo 3mo ago
I'm not sure this is a helpful comment. This is a common story with many medications, where someone notices their feelings are off and suddenly remembers that there is a probable root cause. It's why medications list side effects.
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by mbo 3mo ago
Another company like this is Blackmagic Design. Despite being overwhelmingly based in Australia, you'd think it was an American company based on office listing ordering on https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/company/o
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by mbo 3mo ago
It is a win-win for Photobucket users who have their images (which OP is NOT a cohort of) preserved long term and the startup who snapped up Photobucket's data and liabilities. It is fair to say that OP experienced a win-loss in this s
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by mbo 3mo ago
Yes that's exactly why I mentioned that in the first line of my comment. I quote directly: > (I do agree that it's bad that there were no images preserved and that component of the post is justifiable)
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by mbo 3mo ago
Why are we complaining about this as a corporate greed thing? (I do agree that it's bad that there were no images preserved and that component of the post is justifiable) Obviously Photobucket completely failed to properly monetize, an
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by mbo 3mo ago
Yes confirmed, I did not author the DALL-E paper lmao
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by mbo 3mo ago
Look, not to brag but DALL-E's "armchair in the shape of an avocado" was mine ( https://openai.com/index/dall-e/ ). I remember trying to convey the gravity of this capability to my friends at the time
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by mbo 4mo ago
I just messaged a few of my friends who I know are devoutly Catholic (and also happen to work in AI): 3 out of 4 are currently reading it this morning for their Memorial Day.
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by mbo 4mo ago
It's not. 100% on Pangram.
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by mbo 5mo ago
I feel like there needs to be some sort of intermediate black screen between the questions, a visual "palette cleanser" if you will. I was actively noticing the saturation of the color decline as I stared at the screen.
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by mbo 5mo ago
Could this support a native datetime type? I shipped a much worse of this for managing repeated events and schedules.
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by mbo 5mo ago
A commonly trotted out argument for continued investment in manned space flight is technological spillover: that all the money we give to NASA generates positive benefits in other sectors of the economy. I'm not so sure space toilets a
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by mbo 5mo ago
Given some system under test (SUT) with inputs (T, G...) and expected outputs derived from the inputs T', G' etc., a property based testing framework attempts to exercise the entire domain of values assignable to T, G, etc. agains
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by mbo 5mo ago
Pangram has a very low false positive rate, but not the best false negative rate: https://www.pangram.com/blog/third-party-pangram-evals
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by mbo 5mo ago
Note that this is contrary to the convention used in the Erlang community, where the number is used to disambiguate function definitions with different parameter counts, e.g. in https://www.erlang.org/docs/18/man&#
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by mbo 6mo ago
PICA-3, per https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-sp... > All this would be inexplicable enough if, indeed, AVCOAT was the only known material from which heat shields could be built. Bu
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by mbo 6mo ago
man, this cat is ranking pretty high on the feline grimace scale :( https://meow.camera/#4258783365322591678 wondering how I would contact the hosts
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by mbo 6mo ago
I'm not sure I'm understanding this workflow. Perhaps a small tutorial / walkthrough hosted on YouTube or asciinema might help people understand.
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by mbo 6mo ago
I never understood why Rust couldn't figure this shit out. Scala did. > If a crate doesn’t implement serde’s traits for its types then those types can’t be used with serde as downstream crates cannot implement serde’s traits for ano
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by mbo 7mo ago
That's the fallback font when the font that is requested is not available locally (and the license doesn't permit them to be redistributed). I wanted it to be visually obvious.
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by mbo 7mo ago
I have a little theory that a thing that makes Japanese website feel Japanese is their choice of typeface, which will almost always be something with robust CJK character support. This typeface is preserved when Chrome auto-translates the s
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by mbo 7mo ago
My mother is an international flight attendant in her 60s. I recently caught a glimpse of her Facebook and I was shocked to discover a version of the website that seemed to be the platonic ideal of exactly what all the Facebook PMs intended

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