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by theoh 7y ago
The scenario I'm talking about is not synthesising a RAW file from scratch, but being able to freely edit it and save the result back into a RAW file that looks "original". I don't think you've made any statements t
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by theoh 7y ago
Interestingly, some major photo competitions require 'original' RAW files to be submitted along with processed jpegs. The idea is that they can check that the image hasn't been modified in a way that breaks the rules. Of cou
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by theoh 7y ago
Just the other day someone posted something here about defunctionalizing continuations. That's the way to go: whatever amount of state the server has to hold, you have to hold anyway, and clever defunctionalization will let you just ho
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by theoh 7y ago
The paper is literally about doing away with the inversion of control.
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by theoh 7y ago
The concept of continuations is well-established and they have their uses. They have been part of the landscape for years. They can be confusing, and that's impossible to separate from their power. The inversion of control that this pa
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by theoh 7y ago
This comment is like a red rag to a bull for me, because why wouldn't some artists want a basic grasp of calculus? Bear in mind that a secondary education, for most people, involves learning the basics of calculus. You might be thinkin
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by theoh 7y ago
No, as the voiceover says, it was a much less powerful Class 46 (46009). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_46
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by theoh 7y ago
I don't know the Observable folks personally, but I've been watching what they post on Twitter. It's not snobbery to say that the level of polish and sophistication present in what they put out (in terms of the reactive archi
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by theoh 7y ago
See this article for an in-depth look at implementing these conversions: https://research.swtch.com/ftoa
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by theoh 7y ago
That particular example is discussed here: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/02/nyregion/authors-seek-mus... Apparently one had to have a publishing contract to be admitted. I'm not sure how elitist t
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by theoh 7y ago
There was a proposed system back in the 90s which involved multiple decryption keys. https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/heraclitean-tr9...
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by theoh 7y ago
To describe the article as an application of modern control theory is an exaggeration; these rules (proportional navigation and proportional pursuit) are extremely simple and ancient. It's difficult to imagine a time when humans didn&#
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by theoh 7y ago
Aeronautics is (still) an incredibly glamorous field, and fighter jets and aviation disasters are a stereotypical topic of fascination for male engineers. HN is all about the "cool", charismatic side of engineering, and it doesn&#
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by theoh 7y ago
You haven't taken into account the difference between mean solar time and apparent solar time. The system you describe is essentially the old local mean time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_mean_time .
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by theoh 7y ago
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ngemodell https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettenlinie_(Mathematik) NB, the line taken by the cables of a suspension bridge with a deck of uniform weight is
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by theoh 7y ago
Thanks for the characteristically rude HN assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about. I know all about Chipperfield, at least to the extent of having seen him lecture about his work in Berlin. He was inspired by Dollgast&
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by theoh 7y ago
The standard interpretation of this is something like the following: If you replace an element (e.g. a brick) with a new brick, you should aim for it to blend in discreetly and convincingly with the existing structure BUT you should not try
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by theoh 7y ago
This is like the argument that comedians who make funny jokes about human nature must therefore have good insight into politics. Anyone who watches comedy knows that the ability to be funny doesn't equate to having a good analysis of t
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by theoh 7y ago
I think you are exaggerating the expertise of both men. Gates was successful, but that doesn't mean he had rock-solid knowledge of all aspects of business and technology. Pratchett wrote humorous fiction, but that doesn't make him
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by theoh 7y ago
Where did this title come from? I usually can't stand HN's fussing over titles but this one really seems tendentious.
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by theoh 7y ago
This is an unsatisfactory discussion, because you are attacking straw men. Samuelson was a genius and a once-in-a-generation thinker. I specifically avoided excluding the existence of such people who can take on the incumbents of the theo
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by theoh 7y ago
That's all fine. I think you will agree, though, that engaging with Marx's writing, however critically, is not the same as offering an explicit correction to Marx's theories or putting them to the test. It's more of a ca
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by theoh 7y ago
I think you are essentially dismissing philosophy in general. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability "Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary professional philosophical dialogu
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by theoh 7y ago
I think Deleuze (who described some of his work as belonging to the genre of "generalized anti-Hegelianism", which I take to mean a kind of inversion of Hegel, i.e. a materialism) would just have laughed if you said his ideas were
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by theoh 7y ago
They might be seen as iffy because of the damage that has been done in the name of each of their theories. Marx obviously has a lot to answer for if you consider him responsible for everything that went wrong in the USSR; Freud's influ
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by theoh 7y ago
To be clear, though, the type of things Labour and Wait sells are selected based on criteria that have more to do with fashion than practicality or ecological sustainability. It is totally a hipster fetishization of a certain idealized time
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by theoh 7y ago
That Chimera was pretty nice, all right: http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/chimera-www In a similar category, but using Gtk, was Ralph Levien's gzilla https://www.levien.com/gzilla/
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by theoh 7y ago
Nothing but respect? The word "hobbyist" suggests otherwise.
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by theoh 7y ago
This article seems a bit misguided in its dismissal of the significance of historical fact. The last paragraph seems to me to get unnecessarily snotty about somebody making a very precise best-guess reconstruction of a historical value&#x2F
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by theoh 7y ago
He is referring to increasing economic inequality. This information inequality helps the rich get richer.

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