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by arcastroe 1y ago
Well yes.. I agree. But my comment was addressing parent's point that pure blue and pure red are currently considered close together since they share the same greyscale values.
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by arcastroe 1y ago
It'd be better to convert to HSL, and compute the distance from there. HSL-distance preserves color similarity with higher fidelity than converting both pixels to greyscale as done in the shared link
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by arcastroe 1y ago
I kinda like sublime's approach. It only asks when I repeatedly spam ctrl+s to save the file. But never on the first save. Only when I spam it five or so times. I like to think the developer specifically targetted this "redundant
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by arcastroe 1y ago
I've considered it, but there are two Windows features I need that sound like they'd require some time investment to set up correctly on linux. 1. I use UWF on windows (Education Edition). All disk writes to C:/ are ephemeral
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by arcastroe 1y ago
Thats odd. I have none of these problems. Sleep doesnt interrupt the VM. And I regularly use the git CLI through WSL on projects living within windows user directories. Both work fine.
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by arcastroe 1y ago
https://archive.is/Oj99S
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by arcastroe 1y ago
Things with sentimental value have so because they trigger memories. I find a photo of the object triggers memories just the same. Snap a photo, place it in some memories album, and donate. It's much easier to hoard digital photos than
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by arcastroe 1y ago
"2 is the only even prime number. Therefore, it's the oddest of them all!"
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by arcastroe 1y ago
> So it is uniquely hard to approximate with a rational number. Fun fact. The best rational approximations for golden ratio are sequential fibonnaci numbers. E.g. fibonacci(n+1)/fibonacci(n) or for a more concrete example, 21/1
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by arcastroe 1y ago
https://archive.is/Ec6V1
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by arcastroe 2y ago
Especially since the only camera facing the street is the author's own! The city would have to ask the author if his camera happened to pick up the "culprit" responsible for the rogue speed bump
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by arcastroe 2y ago
> Reallocate portfolios if that makes sense Yes. This is one of the reasons 80 stocks / 20 bonds is a common strategy. The rebalancing "forces" you to buy low and sell high. When stocks dip, your portfolio might become unb
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by arcastroe 2y ago
do these friends participate in the market?
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by arcastroe 2y ago
I would've enjoyed seeing February 30th
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by arcastroe 2y ago
> this performs about the same as using Karatsuba multiplication on the entries of the matrices (instead of on the matrices themselves). If it offers improvements in both, why wouldn't one do it in both?
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by arcastroe 2y ago
1 - (999899/999999)^100 = 0.00995 The math checks out.
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by arcastroe 2y ago
I did not understand the reference. But here's an AI generated explanation. ----------- Daniel refusing the king's food is a Bible story found in the Book of Daniel, specifically in Daniel 1. This event is a reference to Daniel&#x
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by arcastroe 2y ago
woah, ty! I've been using the Dygma Defy [1], but I might switch to this! [1] https://dygma.com/products/dygma-defy
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by arcastroe 2y ago
I found it odd to base the loss-factor on the number of people you follow, rather than a truer indication of timeline-update-frequency. What if I follow 4k accounts, but each of those accounts only posts once a decade? My timeline would be
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by arcastroe 2y ago
You can at least control who your posts are visible to on some social media platforms. Not so here. Your comments are public and after the edit window closes, permanent.
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by arcastroe 2y ago
What does it mean for it to be illegal? If they cast faithless votes, would those votes stand, but then they open themselves up for prosecution? or would the votes not stand at all.
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by arcastroe 2y ago
+1. I wholeheartedly agree. That "lazy way" looks all too familiar haha.
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by arcastroe 2y ago
No. Math considers -7 = 3 modulo 5. it's a ring that repeats every 5 units. -7 + 5 + 5 = 3. Think of a clock which is a ring of size 12. In a clock, going backwards 15 hours (-15) is the same as going backwards 3 hours (-3) which is th
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by arcastroe 2y ago
> Oh please. Do you really think the people who won the nobel prize for this discovery have a grade school level understanding of speed? Of course not. My comment is a quibble on the one sentence explanation. You seem to agree with me it
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by arcastroe 2y ago
From the article, > discovering that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. They came to this conclusion by observing faraway exploding stars. These distant supernovae showed that the cosmos was getting bigger faster because the
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by arcastroe 2y ago
The way I remember it: A* can find shortest path between any two given points; Djikstras can precompute the shortest path between a single point and all other points; And Floyd-Warshall can precompute the shortest path between all possible
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by arcastroe 2y ago
I always assumed that traffic cameras were open to the public by design. Why should only the police have access to them if the cameras are public-facing, funded by the public, for the public? Seattle has a nice page where you can visualize
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by arcastroe 2y ago
> If you try to block them by User Agent string, they'll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). Instead of blocking them (non-200 response), what if you shadow-ban them and instead serve 200-response with some useless stat
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by arcastroe 2y ago
I agree, transformer models trained solely on animal language may be able to predict the next "token" and generate coherent animal "sentences", even if we don't understand what any of those sounds/vocalizations
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by arcastroe 2y ago
When I was in middle school, I had dabbled in coding but only knew how to make simple CLI applications that ran on the terminal. Then one day I stumbled on Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial and I finally had easy to understand examples

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