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by JadeNB 3y ago
That makes sense. Thanks!
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by JadeNB 3y ago
See also the lovely discussion by Baez at https://classes.golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2017/12/the_ico... .
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The previous post: [Mechanical sympathy for QR codes: making NSW check-in better]( https://huonw.github.io/blog/2021/10/nsw-covid-qr ).
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Why does the title have a "'" that isn't in the document ("'10 > 64, in QR Codes" versus "10 > 64, in QR Codes")?
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Language design is really about what you could do, but about how to efficiently express certain things. That's missing a "not", right (probably after "really")?
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I disagree. The spacing of the stylized TeX/LaTeX logo is very sensitive to the font used (especially the LA pair); most LaTeX users already don't adjust it when they use a font other than Computer Modern. Even when they can
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The La- part of LaTeX, who is Leslie Lamport ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport ), made a huge contribution to TeX, but Computer Modern, and the hyphenation algorithms, were already part of plain TeX. And, i
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Let's imagine that the consciousness field of the sun encompasses all of our minds.. so thinking about it might let us talk to it. We can of course imagine whatever we want, but what does "consciousness field" mean? (Or
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Most. Pop can't be novel. Pop, etymologically, can't be unpopular, and what's truly novel usually isn't popular, but I don't think it's true that what's popular can't be novel.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> it became clear to me how many special forms there are … and … how few there really are … I'm having trouble parsing this. The two parts there seem to be saying opposite things. Was that an accident, or were you saying that from
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I'm not the parent commenter, but no computer doesn't mean no access to writing implements, and writing something down physically can render it mentally ‘sticky’ in a way I've never been able to replicate in software.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> It’s stupidly user hostile and yet there’s no alternative other than physical media (with all its negatives) or piracy. Physical media isn't always an alternative either. Movies usually still come out on physical media, but TV sh
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Good point! (And it brings back memories of fun with Prolog, although I guess that's `false`.)
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Broadly speaking, with AD you can modify the results and the program will spit out the required inputs to get those results. I assume you're trying to phrase it in a non-technical way for accessibility, but I wonder if that might
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> What made Bridgewater a one in a million company is precisely that we all opted in to operating in this transparent and “harsh” way. I find this very hard to believe. I can buy that everyone knows, and even accepts, the risks coming i
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> It sucks to be disabled and this is why it sucks. People shouldn't be wasting lifetimes of time to so that visually disabled people can be slightly more convenienced to browse the internet or play with an app. I think that a big p
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Things like alt text is so time consuming it would be incredibly expensive to label all the images. Facebook has long resorted to using AI descriptions. > Really it shouldn't be up to the developer it should be up to the disabl
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> But my reaction isn’t “society should do whatever it takes to remove this issue I’m experiencing, no matter the cost.” I think few people have that reaction, and it's invidious to treat the statement "everyone should always t
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by JadeNB 3y ago
https://nytbee.com/ is an excellent source for historical data, if you'd like to try to track it down.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> The've loosened the rules have a bit since I originally generated the puzzles e.g. they now allow more than one vowel, …. The original Bees allowed only one vowel? That must have made it really tough to get long Bees!
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I included just the ones that were the same visual representation, U+26D4 is a different symbol. The glyph for U+1F6C7 seems to be missing in most places, I can't find an authoritative representation of it to confirm it's th
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The full subtitle is "A Survey of Skiplists and Their Applications in Big Data Systems."
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Siblings have mentioned the TV game show Lingo . I can't precisely date Bulls and cows ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulls_and_cows ), but it's hard to imagine that it (the gameplay, if not that particula
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by JadeNB 3y ago
In case you recognize the Baez address and are wondering, it's unsurprisingly not this kind of root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root , but, somewhat surprisingly to me, also not this kind of root https:/&#
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> As always, Quanta Magazine reporting is just garbage. The name for such numbers is ‘algebraic’. Any popularization is inevitably going to run into some inaccuracies—or else it's just re-publishing the technical papers—but the opin
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Mathematica user since 1988: i think it, in retrospect, might be great that it’s proprietary, in that it dampens its likelihood of trend-driven over commitment and resulting irrelevance. I think that's not really true. It's
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by JadeNB 3y ago
They're surely extremely region-specific—sourcing with native trees is a big part of their sustainability. Do you know anything about where to find local growing guides for different regions?
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The language is well over a decade, and, though my memory fails me, probably more like two decades old; the associated files were originally hosted on the creator's university web site, but he has since passed away. It was a product o
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated for deletion yet. This being Wikipedia, you can change that if you want to.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I am not in the EU but my next iPhone is almost certainly not gonna be an iPhone …. Next phone , right?

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