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by qubyte 2y ago
This is really interesting to me. It could imply that an ugly theorem is less valuable. What if a theorem is ugly but useful vs a beautiful but esoteric one?
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by qubyte 2y ago
Yup, I can reach all three keys in each thumb cluster without a stretch. It's actually only a slight movement because my digits are quite long. My middle and ring fingers rest on the columns which are shifted up.
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by qubyte 2y ago
I designed my own for similar reasons, and it's interesting to see a somewhat similar position for the thumb keys. I optimised for hand/wrist position with minimal movement. However, I messed up the column stagger (off by one). He
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by qubyte 2y ago
I stopped by the Mokuhankan shop when I was in the area last year. David Bull was carving a block on the left as I came in, so I didn't see him at first (my eyes were drawn to the prints, which are arranged into bins like records on th
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by qubyte 3y ago
Yeah, I get that too. Fortunately the floaters are per eye, so I can eliminate them as a migraine thing using a sequence of winks. This looks in no way peculiar to people around me.
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by qubyte 3y ago
The general shape is the same as in these pictures for me, and it expands in the typical way and direction, but for me it's like shards of broken glass strobing various colours. When I first got migraines I didn't even realise I w
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by qubyte 3y ago
I used to be a regular in-person attendee here in Brighton pre-pandemic. My site is statically generated with some IndieWeb enhancements (webmentions in and out, micropub, posse, etc.) I mostly use it as a hidden log of my study sessions an
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by qubyte 3y ago
Yup, it’s definitely best when the rice has cooled and dried a bit, but take care to avoid food poisoning! You only make _that_ mistake once…
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by qubyte 3y ago
Luckily we had an excellent fume hood. Kimchi was far from the smelliest thing cooked on those hobs!
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by qubyte 3y ago
Do some rice in a rice cooker. When that’s done, slap a good helping of kimchi in a hot frying pan (no need for oil). Let it sizzle for about thirty seconds, then crack an egg in and muddle it up some. When it’s nearly done add the rice. Ad
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by qubyte 3y ago
https://qubyte.codes Going since late 2015. I post long form (/blog) and short form (/notes), mostly on programming, maths, (bad) generative art experiments, notes as I learn Japanese, and of course about the blog itse
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by qubyte 3y ago
I think you’d struggle to convince an elephant to get into the trebuchet though.
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by qubyte 3y ago
Someone already snapped up torment(dot)nexus.
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by qubyte 3y ago
I did a write up of how I use import maps to avoid bundling JS on my static site and cache modules more effectively. I mostly use JS for little experiments and generative art and such, so I have a number of utility modules. These get hashed
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by qubyte 3y ago
With all the shiny floors and glare, at least they’ve found a cure for migraine.
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by qubyte 4y ago
I'm mostly angry at Netflix because most of the kids content on there is absolutely dire. A lot of it is low grade CG with no dialogue to make it cheap to produce and put out in any region. I find myself having to ban the worst of it.
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by qubyte 4y ago
While Safari doesn’t support importmap, it’s possible (and not too hard) to use them as a progressive enhancement so that it’ll still work, and safari users will get the benefit with 16.4. I did a writeup: https://qubyte.codes&#x
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by qubyte 4y ago
https://qubyte.codes/ It’s built with my own static site generator (my favourite thing to tinker with). I author posts in my own flavour of markdown. Page templates are good ol’ handlebars. It’s built with indieweb ideals i
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by qubyte 4y ago
My personal static site has a custom implementation of dispatch and receipt of Webmentions using netlify functions. I’m sure there are many more folk quietly coming up with their own ways to do it as well.
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by qubyte 4y ago
Same. Eon blew my mind when I first read it, coming from coffee-table sci-fi (which I still love too). Eon is my favourite of his books.
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by qubyte 4y ago
A number of comments here are along the lines of "at least they're open about it!" No. The problem is that crunch culture selects for people in a position to put in that time. What of people with more complex home and persona
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by qubyte 4y ago
Probably the most common comment from me in code reviews is about code being prematurely DRY’d out. Fortunately, I’ve found that mentioning the Rule of Three is usually enough to correct it, and it tends to stick in the mind. Waiting that l
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by qubyte 4y ago
I got $550 so I think it's split evenly (they state it's shared between 900 folk in the blog post, which I assume is rounded). It's a one off as you say. Even if they do this next year, this event will have prompted a lot of
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by qubyte 4y ago
Same here. I'd completely forgotten that I'd even set sponsors up. At the time I was just sort of hoping for coffee money now and then. That never happened of course. Most of the stuff I write is a bit too niche. I got the email a
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by qubyte 4y ago
I also write mixed language notes in markdown and arrived at a different solution. It’s a little heavier (it uses curly braces as delimiters), but the payoff is that you can mix content. For example, a paragraph can have more than one langu
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by qubyte 4y ago
Comparing with REST(ful/ish) APIs... From the consumer side I really enjoy using it. Queries can avoid lots of network chatter and mutations embrace procedural thinking (REST has answers CRUD, but not everything a server needs to do is
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by qubyte 4y ago
And I misread it as McBorker and now I can't stop chuckling.
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by qubyte 4y ago
This is untrue. Symbols provide no privacy. They provide a mechanism to avoid collisions. You can even ask an object for its symbol properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe
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by qubyte 4y ago
https://qubyte.codes I blog about things which interest me (mostly JS and creative code related), but also take Japanese language notes as I learn. Also part of the 250KB club! It's built with my own hand-rolled static site
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by qubyte 5y ago
Always good to see a .codes blog! Mine is qubyte.codes.

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