HappMacDonald

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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I am almost 50 years old and I struggle to imagine anyone younger than I am being any more familiar with what cash is than with what a landline is
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
For one of my projects the important advantage was "lossless compression similar to Webp and Avif (far better than PNG)", while ALSO supporting > 16kpx dimensions where Webp and Avif appear to max out
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
File explorer support, thumbnails, local image viewers and editors, import into other media software like slideshows, video editors, 3d modeling software, etc etc.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Rolling the clock backwards toward the big bang, it is not matter which is directly compressed, it is the fabric and metric of space itself. Matter being compressed is merely a side effect of the fact that "all of the locations that th
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Once you pass the event horizon, every direction leads to the singularity in your future. Directions "away" from the singularity may still visibly show what things looked like outside of the event horizon before you fell in, but t
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Where I live in the Pacific Northwest we all have garages but nobody parks their cars in them. Cars wind up parked in front of the garage or on the street, garage winds up being filled with storage junk.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
As long as I have reliable climate control I prefer not having windows or "natural light". I presently live in a townhouse triplex with like 5 huge windows to the outside world and everyone in my household has them permanently bla
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Looney Toons / Merry Melodies also bear out this connotation quite well
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Time to steer my horseless carriage onto the Information Superhighway! :D
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I would posit that the null hypothesis should be that uncoerced human sleep patterns and historical sleep patterns are similar to A: modern human sleep patterns, and B: the sleep patterns of a majority of diurnal mammals and especially thos
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Not allowing theft would be a form of regulation, though ;)
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
The go-to example of a failure state in the golden rule that I am aware of is "thirsty person wants everyone else to jump their bones, thus the rule suggests that they should jump everyone else's bones". The take-home being,
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I know it's off topic: but I am curious and this sounds both challenging to search for and likely to not get a straight answer from an LLM. Do you happen to know if this means that water may tip from neutral to slightly alkaline or aci
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Yet it remains relevant that "being liable for one's editorial decisions" is a good idea, and that differentiating between platforms which do and which do not exercise autonomy over how information gets prioritized and sorted
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
> Let's say I build a product that is better than others in the market. This sounds like the same song as Evolution: the winner is not "the best", the winner is "good enough" and dethroning "good enough&quot
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
> There is a good language buried underneath C++ somewhere Well.. "C".. though I wouldn't go so far as to call that a good language, either.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
But it may have been after amortization. The conceit is similar to "ordinary plates vs paper plates". Nobody is arguing that a single ordinary plate is "cheaper" than as single paper plate, but one can still argue about
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Genuine question: but are there still people eating meals in a home dining room in the 2020s? Or is this just inertia of expectation from the 20th century from folk who expect "well that's just what you do" even though their
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
it's ~~delivering on~~ jumping on the bandwagon of the promise of all those scripting languages that were supposed to help office drones.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I don't suppose that the webpage could have a toggle to optionally tone down or eliminate the dynamic visual effects? I keep HW accel disabled on my web browser, and just viewing the page pegs my CPU. Well.. unless this is also a crypt
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Honestly power isn't even the biggest problem with desalination, it's the spectacular volume of brine commensurate with the volume of clean water you are trying to extract: figuring out both how to dispose of it without creating
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I always get "Belt and suspenders" from Fable, so I can't tell
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I mean `printf("printf(\"Hello World!\\n\")");`, so...
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Which in practice would only be executed by the same crowd of people who would have opted-in to the security features on the first pass.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
Crab has entered the chat. For.. for like the eighteenth time now.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
"It has gotten warmer" could imply a desire to return to homeostasis.
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
In that case how about "Federation" at least?
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I love how Carter blows up a star system, and then later McKay blows up 5/6ths of a star system which it turns out is deeply more complicated to pull off. On the other hand Carter did what she set out to do while McKay fscked up and
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
All I heard was "compression is intelligence"
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by HappMacDonald 2mo ago
I'm curious how heavily you have test suites built up as guardrails while doing this, to prevent regressions and such?

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