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by AlanYx 7y ago
I imagine scraping Facebook might be similar to the result in the hiQ v. Linkedin case, involving scraping public LinkedIn information. At the time, the EFF and a lot of others celebrated the ruling. For example, the EFF characterized it as
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by AlanYx 7y ago
Notion has been profitable since at least early 2019 (the company's statements have been a little unclear about when they reached profitability; it might have been late 2018).
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This is really the crux of the matter. Discussions right now seem to be one-sided -- dominated by immediate epidemiological models of human harm -- but it may well be that the long term effects of massive prolonged unemployment ultimately c
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by AlanYx 7y ago
The JPEG committee didn't believe it was patent encumbered, but Sisvel came along and put together a portfolio of patents it claims must be licensed to use JPEG XT. However, Sisvel at present is only claiming that devices with cameras
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by AlanYx 7y ago
You're not alone. Authors in the field aren't always consistent either, to the point where people have written academic papers trying to sort through the various definitions of what "UX" is, trying to give it some kind o
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by AlanYx 7y ago
>Not a lawyer, but I'm pretty sure that purely algorithmically generated music isn't copyrightable. As far as I can tell, that's not always true. For now it seems largely context-specific, provided that a human wrote the s
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by AlanYx 7y ago
I agree that Cook's Illustrated and its two sister publications, America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country, are pretty good examples of what you want. They have a lot of standardized elements that they don't always make
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by AlanYx 7y ago
I think that's the biggest lost opportunity of the iPad. I read through Alan Kay's Early History of Smalltalk [1] essay recently, and the level of applications young teenagers were developing with the rudimentary hardware is truly
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by AlanYx 7y ago
Contrast ratios likely play into this as well. I ran across some research a while ago that found that a contrast ratio of about 8:1 is ideal for readability. E-ink is pretty close to that optimum (usually around 10-15:1 these days). Whereas
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by AlanYx 7y ago
There's a whole niche of websites that track and forecast prices of old Lego sets. Check out BrickEconomy for example.
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There's usually no reason to ever put Lego blocks on the trash heap. They last forever and they're easy to resell locally by the bag when you're done. There's also a vibrant global secondary market of online used Lego bl
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The Lego Classic kits they're selling these days are some of the best generic kits they've ever made IMHO. Good mix of general purpose bricks with a well-selected smattering of interesting (but still reasonably versatile) more spe
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by AlanYx 7y ago
"Debunked" is probably overstating it, but Myers-Briggs has been shown to have fairly significant statistical deficiencies and its predictive claims are largely pseudoscientific. It's not complete garbage, but there are perso
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It looks like this has the largest x-height of any typeface meant for developers (larger than even Fira Code). While there is research suggesting a large x-height increases readability, I'm wondering whether this doesn't push the
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Minsky had been close with Epstein for years. Minsky had even organized two events on Epstein's island, a two day symposium in 2002 (not mentioned in the report) and a full conference in December 2011 (this appears to be mischaracteriz
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by AlanYx 7y ago
My jaw dropped when I read page 9 of the report, it says "Professor Minsky (who passed away in 2016) had worked with Epstein to organize an off-campus conference on artificial intelligence that same year." That's quite a char
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...it's hard to get things out of it again, too. Export is really the weakest area of OneNote. As far as I can tell, there is no way of batch exporting that also exports embedded attachments (for example, if you embed a PDF or Word d
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by AlanYx 7y ago
My main issue with this is that it makes testing/debugging of certain classes of bugs very tedious. The only way to reliably simulate what happens on a typical user machine (with SIP enabled) is to start with SIP enabled, run a test sc
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by AlanYx 7y ago
>what do I do with the rest of this can of tomato paste? If you're cooking for one, I recommend buying tomato paste in toothpaste-style metal tubes, rather than cans. Keep the tube in the fridge and it lasts quite a long time (where
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by AlanYx 7y ago
The initial OpenDoc architecture came out of ATG, but by mid-1992 it had been folded into the AIM Alliance, a shared Apple, IBM and Motorola group. IBM contributed SOM, which was architecturally very heavy/baroque. By 1996 OpenDoc was
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My expectation was that the Chinese curricula would be more rote, but that was not entirely true. There is more structured work in the Chinese curriculum, but also a considerable amount of high-level problem solving. It's a lot like th
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"...suggesting local teenagers are roughly three years ahead of the OECD average." I don't find this all that surprising. I've done casual comparisons of Chinese curricular materials for math vs. Canadian (Ontario) mater
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What you're suggesting would be amazing. For what it's worth, the popular "Skim" PDF reader on OS X stores annotations in filesystem extended attributes, so the hash of the raw file data doesn't change (but of cours
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by AlanYx 7y ago
It helps if you reframe your question. Emacs facilitates working outside of silos. If you're using Outlook for e-mail, for example, there are some built-in mini-silos you can interoperate with (decent calendaring, decent contacts datab
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by AlanYx 7y ago
Space telescopes don't do super-resolution of the type used for video, but they do something a little similar. They use a technique called aperture synthesis which combines signals from a collection of instruments so that they have the
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Another lesser-known diagramming tool that shares elements of Whimsical and Miro is Plectica: https://www.plectica.com/
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>In my case, I eventually learned that the odd hours weren't the key to his perceived success. Instead, he used the odd hours to force us to give him only work that could be accomplished alone. We were lulled into letting him make k
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Mao had an awareness of what was going on. For example, like the Soviets during the Ukraine famine, Mao's government intentionally outlawed starvation being listed as a cause of death. He was also so utterly convinced of the correctnes
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In case people don't understand the reference you're making, Terentiy Maltsev (a colleague of Lysenko) convinced the Chinese leadership to mandate a theoretical planting technique called "deep plowing" -- sowing seeds 1
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AudioKit is quite good, but it's a third-party solution that covers a fairly defined problem domain. And while the AudioKit devs are among the most experienced Core Audio developers around, even they are frustrated by the lack of docum

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