VyseofArcadia

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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
> There was nothing on vine that was addicting Well that sounds like a selling point to me.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
> human-readable > sytacticly similar to Rust Choose one. I kid, I kid, but Rust is not the easiest-reading language out there. It has the same problem as C++, with a syntax that's not terribly straightforward to begin with, but
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I feel like the actual big difference between social media when we were in high school (hello age cohort pal) and social media now is the algorithmic feed. There was a time when you'd have a couple dozen friends on Facebook, who were p
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I've been wondering for the past couple of years, why did Vine fail but TikTok succeed? Based on my increasingly fuzzy memories of Vine and my rough understanding of TikTok as a non-user, they appear to be pretty much the same app.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
The underlying tech is a little different, but Livescribe has been doing this for almost 20 years.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
Assuming you can in fact buy it DRM-free. Otherwise it is just an indefinite-term rental.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
A single (very large) sheet of (unusually thick) paper.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
For some reason there is this pervasive attitude that it's ok to not be good with computers, the same way it's ok to be bad at math. It is a socially acceptable thing to be bad at, even if you use computers for work every single d
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
> asking them to perform actions they don't understand is a terrible idea both in terms of usability (because the process is difficult, intimidating and error prone) and security (because you're training them to follow instruct
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I will admit I forgot that Python is not installed by default on Windows.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
> However, since MarkItDown is a Python program, it might be challenging for non-technical users to use. Am I alone in thinking it is perfectly acceptable to ask a non-technical user to open a command line and type something? It's n
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
How would that work? Valve implements a bunch of kernel modules for each of the different KAC libraries an arbitrary game might use? Both Valve and MS have been making moves to steer game publishers away from KAC. I think the problem will s
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I was a console gamer for a long, long time just because I refuse to use Microsoft products, and Linux gaming was fraught except for Battle for Wesnoth and Nethack. Many hours just messing with Wine vs I turn on the machine and the game jus
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I ended up working mostly on features that architects could use to present projects. Stuff like renders and walkthrough animations of the building. I've moved from CAD to computer-aided engineering. I work on the backend of a compiler
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
Never quite understood the hate for Bing. I despise Microsoft, but Bing is fine. It's one of the least shit Microsoft products there is. It definitely wasn't competitive on release, but it's fine now. To be fair I think this
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I reproduced in both Firefox on Windows 11 and Firefox on Debian.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I think it's Finland where if the punishment for a crime is a fine, the fine scales with the income of the perpetrator. I like that system.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I quite enjoyed my experience at VW! It was (and probably still is) a wonderful place to work. I have frankly never been more productive in my career. My team (and I got the impression that this was also the case for most teams) was very ha
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
My prediction is that at some point in the next 50 years the problems of SO2 will be considered an acceptable tradeoff for the cooling. At least one major world government (or perhaps sufficiently wealthy oligarchs) will begin intentionally
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I was suprised parent had not heard of them as someone who used Revit for 5 years.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
> With that said, Revit does a lot of things well and there are no realistic alternatives. Vectorworks? Archicad? I'm really only familiar with the former, full disclosure I used to work at Vectorworks, and we certainly considered o
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I'll take the money. I've got a bajillion things I want to work on and not enough time because I have to spend 40 hours a week at my day job. Give me enough money to live on passive income, and I will just work on self-directed in
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
Wake up, brush various things, get dressed, make thermos of tea, pack gym bag, go to gym, breakfast at work cafeteria, work. It works for me, but it'll be nice when I reach my goals and I can drop down to maintenance mode and go to the
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I think I see the disconnect. "Practical application" here does not mean "doing a scan". Don't let the word "bit" lure you into thinking we want to do something on a computer. This is using bits purely as
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
6 trillion * number of configurations of each cell * number of configurations of interactions between cells = (very very large) finite number. The thing about numbers is that they go on forever. There's not a cutoff for "ok, this
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
"Compression" here is nontechnical, and I was using it by analogy as an aid to intuition. I didn't want to throw out the E word (entropy) unnecessarily.
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
A bit is the fundamental unit of information theory, and has nothing to do with digital logic in this context. No one is saying "ok use one bit to encode male or female". No one is saying "ok 101 means serotonin, and 110 is d
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
I believe the domain name is a reference to this anecdote https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by VyseofArcadia 2y ago
...you think tenured professors are bringing home six figures? Maybe at Harvard.
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Academic papers aren't for mass consumption. You can't replace the depth of consideration and knowledge needed to write an academic paper with hosting a podcast or self-publishing a book. Writing for an audience of leading exper

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