vanderZwan

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by vanderZwan 4d ago
It kind of reminds me of Clay Shirky's predictions about the influence of the internet on society from a few decades ago. To paraphrase what he said: when the printing press was invented, everyone predicted it would lead to world peace
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by vanderZwan 4d ago
Wasn't one other neat thing about Snap! and Scratch that you can translate the entire code (except for the user-named parts) to any other language on the fly without worrying about it breaking? Because in a sense the language is just p
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by vanderZwan 5d ago
Oh, so you're team IVAR? BILLY gang forever! (just kidding, I actually have both, and way more IVAR shelves than BILLYs at that(BILLIES? What would be the proper plural here?))
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by vanderZwan 7d ago
Is this an ironic "tell me you don't learn from history without telling me you don't learn from history" joke?
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by vanderZwan 7d ago
The author has a severe case of being oblivious to the fact that not everyone knows what they know, or views the world the way they do. As shown for example by their assertion that "we all stopped coding manually around December 2025&
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by vanderZwan 8d ago
Similarly, according to my mom, by the time I or my sisters were five we rode our bikes to school by ourselves. Granted, that was in a Dutch village with less than a thousand people, where everyone knew everyone by their first name, so it p
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by vanderZwan 8d ago
> Switching to the monthly view I'd hardly consider fluctuations between 2.2 million and 3.3 million dowloads "flat". Also, the metric used in the article was "downloads in the first week after a new release"
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by vanderZwan 10d ago
Also, before he got famous for inventing diagnosing everyone with penis envy, Freud spent a summer trying and failing to find the eels' reproductive organs.
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by vanderZwan 12d ago
Using personal websites read by a handful of programmer nerds that work fine if you turn off javascript to justify literally everyone else being forced to navigate bloated, broken company websites isn't particularly convincing as an
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by vanderZwan 12d ago
We live in a world where my laptop is forced to waste tons of computational power on immensely bloated websites even with ad-block, with now even having to worry about agentic bullshit that I didn't ask for, and plenty of others appa
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by vanderZwan 14d ago
> and even for your lightweight game consoles (Firefly Zero). On that note, does the "shape" of the benchmarks change on lower-powered hardware in any way? (Aside from the obvious change if memory overhead requires switching
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by vanderZwan 16d ago
Well, I can think of a couplo of reasons why a black Ghanaian man would not be likely to pursue his PhD at the University of Georgia in the 1950s, but I'm not sure if that was the question you were begging for.
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by vanderZwan 16d ago
> If blue light actually impaired vision, that would be very notable. It is extremely noticeable for me at night because I can never fully focus on signs using blue LEDs, while red LEDs give me no problem.
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by vanderZwan 16d ago
And did those studies use the same methods as this one? Because this makes it look like they didn't: > Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, which is a subgroup analysis of a large prospective trial about visual impairments
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by vanderZwan 17d ago
> Many factors, like light scattering and imperfections in the eye’s optics, keep light from coming into sharp focus on the retina, Buabeng said. > The study also found that iris pigmentation influenced how far apart the two light
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by vanderZwan 19d ago
> and hilarously, our dogs did too. Tangent to your tangent, but this is one reason why a guard llama works so well together with guard dogs for protecting livestock. A llama is much more alert to potential danger than, say, sheep. Whi
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by vanderZwan 20d ago
I know someone whose partner was murdered in an extremely horrible, brutal way. Years later they told me in a completely unrelated discussion that they have aphantasia. I always wondered if in their case it might be trauma-induced, but obvi
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by vanderZwan 20d ago
Is this presented by The Yes Men! by any chance?
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by vanderZwan 21d ago
I suspect that 50% at no risk of demonetization is quite a bit more than 55% with it for quite a significant chunk of those content creators.
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by vanderZwan 22d ago
You know, it just occured to me that technically we're all inside all of his Klein bottles. Or all Klein bottles, really.
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by vanderZwan 22d ago
I dated someone studying at a conservatory (the music kind) around that time. IIRC the Zune was quite popular with the students - even if most of them had an iMac - because it had one of the best microphones for recording live performances
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by vanderZwan 24d ago
Not everything has to be a business. Our local library has "repair café Sundays", and most of the people involved in it are volunteers. There are some "pensionados" among them (and they are cherished for their institutio
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by vanderZwan 24d ago
To be clear: I'm not against Khan Academy. I think overald it's great! It's helped tons of children by virtue of making solid learning material available for free on the internet, while also giving children a chance to learn
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by vanderZwan 24d ago
Whenever this topic comes up I feel the urge to point out that not enough people have read Audrey Watter's "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" , or her blog. We might stop repeating the same mistakes ov
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by vanderZwan 29d ago
> I had a high-end webcam that flickered. There should be switch in the software to switch from 50hz to 60hz that'd fix it but it was nowhere to be found. Similar issue, although I'm not sure if it's the Logitech webcam
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by vanderZwan 29d ago
(too late to edit my comment, but I obviously meant increasing the spool size near the end, not reducing)
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by vanderZwan 29d ago
I think the idea is that at the end the sling starts to unwind too, increasing the effective arm-length (that non-linearity is one of the reasons trebuchets are so efficient to begin with). As a result it's possible that decreasing the
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by vanderZwan 29d ago
I've never seen a NAXALT fallacy used for the concept of engagement metrics before. It's not relevant to this discussion that in certain contexts, useful engagement metrics exist that supposedly aren't toxic, because it does
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by vanderZwan 1mo ago
Are you sure that wasn't referencing "grue" from this philosophical thought experiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
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by vanderZwan 1mo ago
Perhaps the "hits like an x on a y" family is larger than any of us thought?

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