viggity

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by viggity 6mo ago
I am suggesting that the major causative factor for life outcomes is genetics. Not "racist" property tax funding models. You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.
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by viggity 6mo ago
The difference in outcomes isn't from funding/resources. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/06/26/why-do-the...
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by viggity 7mo ago
I took 3 years of Japanese in HS (96-99). About 2 years ago I was doing a lot of work with genai and japanese typefaces. It was wild digging into how different the japanese web is. Back in like 2005, it was common to stylize english text by
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by viggity 8mo ago
I have always been kind of hyper aware of <everything>. My wife and I only dated for 6 months before we got married in sept 2019 (second marriage for both of us, we knew what we each wanted). But I definitely felt a bit awkward tellin
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by viggity 8mo ago
Kinda like when someone said that instead of running for mayor, Bloomberg could have given everyone in the country $1M. A guest said it on NBC and Bryan Williams, nor the pundit had any intuition that it seemed grossly wrong. https:/&
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by viggity 8mo ago
Nice work! Out of curiosity, how are you deciding what the verse of the day is? i.e. is randomness weighted somehow? There are are ~31k verses in the bible, 23k in old testament, 8k in new testament. Is it 2.5 times more likely to be an old
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by viggity 11mo ago
Since the whole point of this is to limit LLM token consumption, it'd be interesting to see the results of prompts that use it. I've seen a ton of people who just paste a CSV into a prompt and expect it to work well because they d
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by viggity 11mo ago
These kinds of results seem all too common. Like, why? Are companies just too used to using their general business attorneys for it, and those attorneys are just ignorant? Hungry for extra billable hours?
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by viggity 11mo ago
I worked for a PoE lighting company for a couple of years. Yes, the ability to program your lights based on time of day, occupancy sensors etc was all nice for the end consumers. But the big advantage was that since it didn't use mains
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by viggity 1y ago
Does the second amendment apply to non-citizens? I'm against the government jailing a visa holder for their speech, but revoking their visa is not jail.
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by viggity 1y ago
In general, no. And to be clear, this is my general understanding and I don't have the time to look up the specifics, but I'm pretty sure lidar uses a "carrier wave" in much the same way old telephone modems did, or your
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by viggity 1y ago
1948 vs 2025 Jewish Population: Algeria: 140,000 -> ~0 Morocco: 250,000 -> ~0 Yemen: 550,000 -> ~300 Iraq: 135,000 -> ~0 Lebanon: 20,000 -> ~40 Iran: 135,000 -> ~0
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by viggity 1y ago
The book suggests two main reasons for this. 1. The reformation increased literacy/education in the populace to a greater extent in protestant areas, because you no longer needed clergy to talk to God, or understand the bible. Protesta
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by viggity 1y ago
The book examines this in multiple different ways, not just at the national level, but even within countries (provinces that are more catholic vs more protestant, and even within Germany, how far the city was from Wittenberg), as well as co
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by viggity 1y ago
My dad is a tax attorney/cpa, but is also a magician. My birthday parties were dope. It certainly wasn't a full time job, but he made enough money from corporate parties doing walk around magic to fund his habit, and magic is expe
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by viggity 1y ago
I feel like this is a step in the right direction, but a lot of emotive text-to-speech models are only changing the duration and loudness of each word, the timing/pauses are better too. I would love to have a model that can make sense
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by viggity 1y ago
I find that most companies find that to be a feature, not a bug. People are more likely to hit accept if they can only see a small chunk of the content.
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by viggity 1y ago
Anytime béziers are mentioned on HN, I feel compelled to share these absolutely incredible videos from Freya Holmér https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds (73 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV
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by viggity 1y ago
I work in this industry, relatively new to it. There is a mind numbing amount of work that goes into font engineering.
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by viggity 1y ago
it makes intellisense/autocomplete work a hell of a lot easier. LINQ in dotnet does the same thing.
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by viggity 1y ago
the "serif" on the "n" is called an "exit stroke". You often find lots of glyphs that get an exit stroke (the "l" and the "i" come to mind, but it is most glyphs that have a single vertical
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by viggity 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution
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by viggity 2y ago
This is mega levels of dope. Small UI/UX suggestion on your report... Take all of your table borders, and change the color from black to a light gray. The borders add value (communicate the organization of the data). But that data isn&
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by viggity 2y ago
I've posted many times about how my relationship with opioids (prescribed Rx, not street drugs) is improved when I'm good about taking my magnesium, which I started decades ago because it was supposed to help with atkins/keto
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by viggity 2y ago
Suno could do this, even with a reference melody :)
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by viggity 2y ago
Polite data viz recommendation: don't use black gridlines in your tables. Make them a light gray. The gridlines do provide information (the organization of the data), but the more important information is the values. I'd also righ
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by viggity 2y ago
If splines/beziers are of any interest to you, I could not recommend these videos from Freya Holmer enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvPPXbo87ds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw
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by viggity 2y ago
This kind of reminds me of a plot element in Stephenson's "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell". Main character dies, consciousness is uploaded to a computer where he kind of becomes a God. He makes his own world, manifesting the "f
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by viggity 2y ago
I once had an app that used a lot of colored bars with text labels on top of them, and I wanted a programmatic way to determine if a color should use black text or white text because R+G+B over some threshold was not working. I stumbled upo
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by viggity 2y ago
For most of my adult life, I was "addicted" to sudafed (pseudoephedrine, not phenylephrine). I had absolutely horrific sinus problems. Could never breathe, tons of sinus infections, etc etc. Things like sinus rinses (not a netipot

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