ZenPsycho

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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
The justification frequently used for western colonialism/conquest is the principle of “Terra Nullius”, in short, the native peoples with their primative technology are not fully utilising the land, and we’re doing them a favor by conq
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
how does this interact with TLS, particularly DNS over TLS? An OS level http proxy would have to MITM the TLS stream.
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
To some degree every country engages in propagandising history lessons for elementary school children. (e.g. Japan depicting itself as morally right in WWII in its curricula), but the USA takes it to the next level: Post civil war, the US g
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Characters from legacy computers and teletext were just accepted into unicode(twitter.com)
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
Maybe it's difficult to get the actual light out into the open air, but there's nothing stopping view dependant parallax from making an image appear "in front" of the display, with the annoying limitation that your objec
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
FYI You can get gamma correct resizing (and other operations) in recent versions of photoshop by first switching the image to 32-bit colour depth mode.
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
http://dwitter.net has rad minimalist christmas trees every year. best bit is it’s easy to remix them!
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
manipulating JSON (really, just plain native language objects) is way more straightforward than manipulating the XML dom. The purpose of formats like this is to make inexpressible the kinds of documents that result in difficult to untangle
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Not that I agree with the article but that is literally the opposite of what it said. The article says the voice is NOT the observer.
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Nobody is talking about editing the JSON directly. They are talking about programming a wysiwyg editor to the JSON data model.
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V8 does actually check if the outer variables are referenced by the inner function. There's a misconception amongst a disturbing number of programmers that it's impossible to memory leak in a garbage collected language. For some r
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
the abacus that they are based off of was in fact, base 10, positional. See my other comment.
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
Romans used a device called a "calculator" which was a flat plate with vertical channels cut or pressed into it. It resembles what we would now call an "abacus". get rid of the subtractive rule, and roman numerals are ju
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
thanks for letting me know- I’m not a physicist so I knew I was probably putting my foot in my mouth somewhere. maybe some day we’ll find the grand unifying theory of the universe.
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Right, so what was ground breaking about General Relativity, is that it challenged the newtonian axioms (assumptions) that there's a single universal clock, and that all objects within the universe are effectively rigid and exist in so
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
Yellow and magenta are also generally fugitive. Meaning that, over time, due to UV exposure, the yellow will completely fade, followed by magenta, and all you're left with is cyan and black. You'll see this in shops with advertisi
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
related: https://github.com/cyphar/paperback
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General relativity holds that the universe has no “center”, either earth or sun. even more surprising, is that unlike newtonian physics, general relativity says the universe doesn’t even have a single “clock”, and what you observe in astrop
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
A far more sane approach, if you want to have this kind of API, is to use a PARSEC inspired parser combinator library instead, such as, for instance: https://github.com/jneen/parsimmon
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Such "easy to use GUI drawing libraries" would still need to be written in javascript. If you want actual things to appear in the browser you still need to interact with the DOM, which is actually harder with WASM, not easier. A
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There have been forks and attempts at rewriting bits of it since it "died" https://github.com/ivanpopelyshev/shumway/commits/master there's also this thing https://github.com/op
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
technically for primatives too, since they are interned, immutable and their value is their identity?
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Salvador Dalí is a notorious troll in this regard. Many of his works are extremely well known by their reproductions. but he plays with scale- the originals are often absurdly smaller or larger than you imagine from the reproductions.
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
in Australia, yes a photographic reproduction of a 2D artwork is copyrightable. this was a point of conflict between the wikimedia foundation and a gallery i used to work for, which made a significant income from licensing photos of artwo
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by ZenPsycho 8y ago
if you want to release images as public domain, you might also wish to release them with a CC0 license since I have heard (but don’t know any specific examples) that there are some situations/legal jurisdictions where use of a public
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toy story 3 had totoro in it as a toy character.
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if you’re talking intergalactic, you have relativistic time shearing effects to deal with as well.
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I wonder if CSS could be translated/compiled to sets of linear constraints? Obviously just the parts that affect layout would be relevant for this translation. But I wonder if it's possible to come up with a formalised mathematica
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The main point I was making here was also that there's actually TWO DIFFERENT ESCAPING MECHANISMS at work here. percent encoding AND html entity encoding. If this was a javascript property assignment, I might even need to add in backsl
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though i resisted for a long time, bootstrap brings back some of the old ways. <div class=“d-flex justify-content-center”>centered</div>

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