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by smspillaz 7mo ago
> December 15, 2025 Canada enacted "Bill C-3", granting citizenship to people born before Dec. 15, 2025 with ANY level of Canadian ancestry they can document. (It used to be a "first generation limit") This is mislead
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by smspillaz 7mo ago
But they do meaningfully try to address this. Almost every country in the west is tightening it's system. In the UK claiming ILR will take a significantly longer period of lawful residence, and a shorter time will require you to meet a
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by smspillaz 9mo ago
I'm a bit late to the thread, but I'll play the game this year (24.12.2026). I don't want any of these to happen, but unfortunately I think they might: - US starts a digital services trade war with the EU. It starts out with
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by smspillaz 4y ago
Location: Helsinki, Finland Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Temporarily. Immigration will be easier in US (TN)/Canada /Australia. Not an EU national (yet). Technologies: Deep learning, though I'm seeking something
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by smspillaz 4y ago
> You need to pay taxes where you reside. The key term here is "reside". We'll get back to this in a bit. > Professional athletes pay taxes to every state where they play a game. You are confusing tax-at-source with res
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Ask HN: What's up with the size of macOS/App Store updates?
15 points by smspillaz 4y ago|4 comments
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by smspillaz 5y ago
> now we have even less freedom of speech inside the country. Did anybody read this part? I see a lot of comments along the lines of "well we're at war with you" or "you'll get your access back once Ukraine stops
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Vaccine Certificate Incompatibility(sspilsbury.com)
2 points by smspillaz 5y ago|0 comments
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by smspillaz 5y ago
From the looks of it, they're leveraging a fork of a library I ported from Compiz a few years ago (called libanimation). I'm quite happy to see this, as I thought it was a dead end and wouldn't get any users, but it looks lik
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. I've added it to my list here: https://github.com/smspillaz/intuitive-math/issues/7
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Thanks! > One annoyance is that the graphs don't render if they're slightly off-screen (and they render slowly/fade-in or something) so it can be somewhat annoying to scroll back/forth between graphic examples. Yeah.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback! > There are a few grammatical errors (missing word, missing comma) that are forgivable but I find that any imprecision in language is a big detriment for a student trying to understand an explanation. I ten
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Indeed. I think one of the thing I wanted to focus on as well in this series was explaining exactly where a lot of the formulas came from. It was a great learning experience, since a lot of what I was taught was basically as you said "
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Thank you! This was exactly my motivation in making it, so I'm glad it helped you!
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by smspillaz 8y ago
It probably could be, as long as I figure out how to get code splitting to work with it being a static site. Shouldn't be too hard. I imagine its just a case of pre-rendering all the routes and then uploading the whole thing to an S3 b
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. I'm receiving lots of great links in the comments here, so it'd be great to cross link similar resources on this page too.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Actually, I think the issue here now that I think of it is that we do media query detection in on the React side to figure out which components to render. Really, we should just render a single component and have CSS to cover both cases. Ot
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by smspillaz 8y ago
> This seems interesting, but I feel like it would be way more useful if you could drag to rotate however you want, instead of waiting for the animation to get sort of close to the viewpoint you're interested in. Great feedback! I h
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Oh interesting. What phone are you using? It should enter a mobile-friendly kind of view, but I haven't implemented that on the server side renderer yet.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Indeed - this is one of the main motivations I had for creating this. 3b1b is great, but I much prefer reading than watching.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Yeah, for some reason I saw 60,000(!) requests on lambda all at the same time so I guess it had a bit of trouble scaling up. A scraper or Googlebot perhaps? Should be all fine now.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Super cool, I didn't know that existed. Clearly someone else has had the problem I experienced too. I'll have to add that with a list of other useful resources on the site.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
It is! I'll fix it later tonight.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I was a little worried that the explanations would fall back too much on formal properties, so I guess I've got a bit more work to do on the visualization side of things.
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by smspillaz 8y ago
I actually got my inspiration to do this from the 3b1b videos. And I agree, they are very fine educational materials. The gap which I'm trying to fill here is that 3b1b goes over the higher level intuitions but tends to skip over some
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Show HN: Intuitive Linear Algebra and 3D Geometry(intuitive-math.club)
402 points by smspillaz 8y ago|42 comments
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by smspillaz 10y ago
I support open borders and this is one of the points that I've grappled with for quite some time. I'm not convinced that the decision to move from developing country to a developed one is made purely on economic grounds. Permanent
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by smspillaz 10y ago
No, you're not alone. There's actually an entire page maintained by a few economists on the case for open borders: http://openborders.info
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by smspillaz 10y ago
A ballot paper that doesn't clearly indicate preference order or identifies the voter is counted as "informal" and removed from the pool [0]. I don't believe it is an offence to vote informally but even if it was the ano
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by smspillaz 10y ago
I like how the map shows the walking route as down 6th street.

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