armagon

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by armagon 6y ago
Where does one find good information? [Omitting rant on how to find truth on the internet these days, and how sad it is that has been a huge breakdown in trust in our leaders.] Similarly, is there a good place to, say, find Covid data scien
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by armagon 6y ago
Dang, but this sounds distressing like the conspiracy theories my mom keeps telling me about -- the bug was manufactured, but not killing enough people, so expect variants to be introduced, with a goal of keeping people isolated and in fear
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by armagon 6y ago
And it is different for every skill (for Alexa, anyway). And a command that worked yesterday may not work today. (Gah!)
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by armagon 6y ago
This one looks good: https://www.craftstorming.com/2020/05/introduction-to-using-... There's also a facebook group to help people: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProjectorsForSewing&#x2F
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by armagon 6y ago
This is so interesting. I got a book on making costumes some months ago, and have started to learn how to sew recently, as a middle-aged man with no prior experience (aside from maybe sewing a button back on). It's all new to me. My wi
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by armagon 6y ago
I wish I could use a (Mac) desktop application to talk to my Fitbit. It looks like there was one years ago. (First and foremost, I'm at my computer all day long. If it has trouble syncing, I'm right there and not going anywhere. I
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by armagon 6y ago
Ooh, these are nice. I love using a proportional font for coding. As an aside, anyone know of proportional fonts with coding ligatures (or a way to generate them/create a mash-up)?
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by armagon 6y ago
I really wish I could use 1080p with a 1.5x scale factor. It is worth noting that when Apple was initially developing this feature, around the time of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), they had fractional scaling. I thought it was awesome. I can only
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by armagon 6y ago
The book that immediately sprang to mind is one I hesitated to share here, and will only devote a paragraph to. It is "The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ". I believe it truly is a record of God's dealings w
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by armagon 6y ago
> > Our bodies were never designed to sit in chairs 8 hours a day for forty years. > Your body wasn't designed to do anything. It's the result of random mutations that survived better than other random mutations. Fair eno
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by armagon 6y ago
The browser debugger is still helpful, but it isn't able to link together the cause and effects (because the code in the system was designed that way -- it doesn't matter who fires off an action, it will (eventually) make certain
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by armagon 6y ago
When working with React and Redux and Redux Sagas, I wish I could more easily figure out causal chains for what happens. When I previously did work as a game programmer, for most things (except, say, debugging why things rendered a certain
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by armagon 6y ago
I wish I had a way to do knowledge work but also use my body. Right now, for working purposes (as a software engineer), I'm a disembodied head that can move a pointer, type words, and voice chat. Our bodies were never designed to sit i
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by armagon 6y ago
I live in Alberta, Canada, which is heavily reliant on resource extraction -- namely, oil. With all the lockdowns (and people voluntarily staying at home), demand for oil has tanked. If there weren't lockdowns (and people were travelli
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by armagon 6y ago
This is curious. It sounds like a huge problem, and ends up by saying that production will go down 5 to 10%. I'm not saying that's trivial, but it doesn't sound as awful as the article made it seem up to that point.
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by armagon 6y ago
The reason google is evil in this case is they wouldn't deign to provide any information when it was requested to resolve the problem.
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by armagon 6y ago
"For many organizations [upended priorities] included responding to the social justice movements... "2. More companies will adopt stances on current societal and political debates.... Gartner research shows that 74% of employees e
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A world without news: Papers publish blank front pages to highlight struggles(globalnews.ca)
8 points by armagon 6y ago|1 comments
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by armagon 6y ago
I hesitate to ask -- do we really think people are stupid enough to gamble away lots of money they can't afford to lose? I'm hoping that instead there are hundreds of thousands of people who only bought a couple of stocks, underst
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Ask HN: Proportional Coding Fonts?
2 points by armagon 6y ago|0 comments
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by armagon 6y ago
Such a great movie! I keep wondering what would happen if Disney were to do a live action remake. I don't think it can be improved upon, though. Shame about Sting, though; really feels like he got the short end of the stick.
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by armagon 6y ago
I'll agree, this is one of the things I don't like about macOS. It looks like in the past there were hacks to do this, but Apple broke them. (Similarly, I'm so glad there's a hint of colour in the sidebar in the Finder a
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by armagon 6y ago
Here's the google cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uWlJlr...
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by armagon 6y ago
"FB, Twitter, etc. were bending over backwards to allow speech in violation of their policies because they thought that public access to the speech of elected politicians in rule of law democracies was important." I think that was
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by armagon 6y ago
From an optics point of view, if it looked like they were handling all users the same way, there'd be so much less of a problem here. But right now, it is like selective law enforcement -- action will be taken if we don't like you
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by armagon 6y ago
"They keep making bank." I guess it's only been a few months since I've realized that it is mostly people in near San Fransisco who are making huge amounts of money, and people elsewhere in the world make good money, but
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by armagon 6y ago
I love Vivaldi. I'm using it as my daily driver now as I just don't trust Google. (I did use Firefox as my daily driver for quite a while in the past few months, and it's really good. I'm afraid it doesn't debug the
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Ask HN: How to run a remote election for a society?
1 points by armagon 6y ago|1 comments
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by armagon 6y ago
What is a 'federated learning framework'? At first I thought this was something a Leaning Management System like Moodle, maybe one that is distributed sort of like a torrent so it can't be taken down. Seeing the example talk
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by armagon 6y ago
The article was interesting, but is certainly biased differently than my outlook on the world is. Here's some thoughts I had: 1) I really wish they'd given some stats from other countries. With the pandemic raging, what are mother

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