AlanYx

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by AlanYx 3y ago
There are a few others well-known fractals apart from the Buddhabrot that resemble real-world objects. My favourite is the burning ship fractal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Ship_fractal I found these sorts of
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by AlanYx 3y ago
I'm on the same page. I convert all my ePubs to PDF because I want to keep my handwritten annotations in-place alongside the text I'm annotating, including things like circled words. Recent Kobos (Elipsa and Sage) take a decent st
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Europe has a fairly blase attitude towards compliance costs in general. For example, the official EC report on the cost impact of the EU AI Act finds that, for businesses who already have a Quality Management System (QMS), "An enterpri
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Portugal introduced mandatory treatment along with decriminalization; that's the component that diverges quite substantially from North American policy.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
There isn't really an equivalent of things like emacs text overlays and text properties in VScode, which makes it difficult to build complicated functionality in the main editor. You have to use a web view for most nontrivial things.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Does anyone really script VScode in the same way as emacs? It's trivial to knock-off a little function in emacs to scratch an itch, but in VScode there's so much boilerplate to create an extension.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
There is a lot of cognitive science research confirming the point you're making. Cognitive scientists draw a major distinction between working memory and long-term memory (there's also a third "sensory memory" that appea
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Finland also leaned heavily into purely constructivist/inquiry-based teaching methods over the last 20 years. There is significant evidence going back to Project Follow-Through that these are not the best way to teach average and below
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by AlanYx 3y ago
There are some good, versatile Classic buckets. The recently announced Creative Vehicles (11036) comes with instructions for 8 vehicles and instructions for another 10 vehicles will be available on the website. It'll be fantastic for k
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by AlanYx 3y ago
They did recently produce a set loosely based on the F-35 Lightning ("Blue Power Jet").
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Even as an adult, Duplo is underrated. It's a lot of fun to noodle around with creating things in Duplo because there are more constraints and you can build a rough simulacrum of something in only a few minutes.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Mark Bernstein has written a bit about this. He used to call it "neovictorian computing" but now uses the same "artisanal software" term, e.g.: https://www.markbernstein.org/NeoVictorian.html
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by AlanYx 3y ago
Are there any serious books written on the "prevent catastrophe" definition of AI safety written by people like Hinton or Sutskever? (Not necessarily them specifically, but people with technical chops rather than people whose &quo
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That's the perennial debate about the song. Does Bush want to swap places with her ex-lover, or does she want to swap places with God so that God can feel the pain of continually running up that hill? My take has always been the latter
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by AlanYx 3y ago
My guess would be that it's from Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) , which leans on the story of Sisyphus. She never actually uses the word "war", but does use various war metaphors ("see how deep
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by AlanYx 3y ago
It depends on the corporate bylaws, but the most common quorum requirement is a simple majority of the board members. So 4 is not atypical for quorum on a 6 person board.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
The effect I'm referring to is extraterritorial. It's sometimes a surprise to foreigners because there can be a mistaken belief that specifying a particular non-US datacentre for cloud services places the data stored therein under
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by AlanYx 3y ago
You're misreading it, but the reality goes further than you're imagining. Section 702 allows data collection for non-US persons, regardless of what they're communicating about. Sometimes those collections also vacuum up names
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>Red paprika is way better source for example, then any fruit. Not to be pedantic, but red paprika is literally dried and powdered fruit (at least under the botanical definition of fruit).
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by AlanYx 3y ago
>In China, beggars asking to be paid via app has been a thing for years now. This is true -- street beggars in China typically have printed and laminated QR codes to make contributions easier.
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That's not a surprise. But I'm specifically asking about a comparison with RLCD, which has no backlight.
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One thing I'm curious about... with the hinge closed, is this monitor functionally equivalent to an RLCD display (like SunVision's products or the Hisense Q5), or is there still a discrepancy in brightness versus an RLCD display i
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by AlanYx 3y ago
It's not a practice run... it's a hearing-within-a-hearing to discuss admissibility. i.e., What evidence can be placed in front of the trier of fact (the jury).
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by AlanYx 3y ago
I'm curious -- are there laminates that wear naturally? Looking at the photos in your second link, I think the laminates would look more natural and less overtly plastic if they did show a little wear similar to the oak.
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The odd thing is that PDE5 inhibitors have also been shown to be associated with increased risk of sensorineural hearing loss (both short term and long-term).
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Take a visit to an educational supply store... there are a lot of tangible math games for very young kids. One that works well at very young ages is a physical balancing game. You get a balance and a variety of tokens (some that look like b
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by AlanYx 3y ago
They're not the same pens though (extra fine v. ultra fine). I can understand why the FTC is concerned. This has the potential to be worse for competition than MFN agreements, because it forces any supplier whose products might end up
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by AlanYx 3y ago
That first example is eye-opening for me. I always thought that when Amazon doesn't show a buy button on the product page, it's because that product is not currently available to be shipped from Amazon.
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I'm curious... how far does Amazon's MFN policy extend? For example, let's say I independently decide to import an item from company X and sell it only on a Shopify site for a lower price than company X's items listed
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Also, I'd imagine that coordination would probably leave them vulnerable to their own set of anticompetitive allegations (i.e., some variant of cartel behavior/price-fixing). To the extent anyone acts, it would probably have to be

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