TimorousBestie

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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   One of the non-goals is “to be useful to anyone,” after all. I like this language, it shares my aesthetics.
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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   Mmm, she’s getting the whole border patrol indefinite incarceration oubliette treatment, it’s not going to take long to rack up more cost than your hypothetical taxes on 6mo @ <=7.25/hr. But sure, if the ‘tourists’ are working for a
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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   It would take a massive amount of labor to determine what in the existing archive is out of copyright in a legally verifiable manner. There’s nothing keeping the record labels or other corporate copyright aggregators from declaring legal wa
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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   Parent basically says it but Perlin noise tends to generate spatial correlations that don’t look uniform. Simplex noise doesn’t. On the practical level, Simplex noise is also faster and generalizes to n-dimensional noise easier.
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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   I imagine grandparent is referring to an incident in the UK where a man was arrested for “silently praying.” The additional context is that he was in a legally mandated exclusion zone around an abortion clinic. It’s become a meme (sans cont
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   by TimorousBestie 2y ago

   Geometric dilution of precision (GDOP, or just DOP) is used to evaluate the quality of a GPS satellite configuration; on the back of an envelope any moon-based solution is going to be quite a bit worse relative to terrestrial ones.