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by blaze33 5y ago
I agree that procedures to follow, meant as a way to benefit from past experiences are usually well intentioned. However, a common problem usually arises over time as the nature of the work evolves: is the procedure still relevant in the cu
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by blaze33 5y ago
Probably the common typographic rule prescribing a space between the numerical value and its unit (cf. https://english.stackexchange.com/q/2794/40139 ).
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by blaze33 5y ago
The recent post "Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans" [1] and one of its comments asking for alternatives to the common open office plans reminded me of this documentary where Erik Spiekermann expl
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The Ideal Office: Concentric? (2012)(spaceandorganisation.org)
1 points by blaze33 5y ago|1 comments
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by blaze33 5y ago
> everyone to your left, right, and behind you being able to see your screen This always bugged me, did some research while writing this answer, so TIL it's called the audience effect [1]: when a person’s behavior changes because th
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by blaze33 5y ago
> The general mass of humanity never does things because they're "right": Ethical, Forward-Thinking, Better For Society etc. They do them because they're easy. Already in 1947, Georges Bernanos wrote: "it's
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by blaze33 5y ago
Nice work! It always amazes me how a visual display of the data can show us so much more than the simple text version. "A picture is worth a thousand words" as the saying goes :) I saw other comments talking about ISO 8601, color
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by blaze33 6y ago
On the other hand I had the pleasure to have the opposite experience with Dell almost 10 years ago: called to ask for a refund of the Windows license after buying the laptop and was quickly refunded ~140€ for Windows and all pre-installed s
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by blaze33 6y ago
Seams are actually fixed once the adjacent tiles are loaded but at first there are skirts on 2 sides of a tile.
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by blaze33 6y ago
Not yet, but the code is open to reuse so it would totally be possible to do so in the future! (assuming the necessary code gets written at some point ;) )
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by blaze33 6y ago
The scope of this library is just to render the map. But let's say you can export your strava ride in some json format, I guess it wouldn't be so complicated to display a path on top of the map using other three.js features (like
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by blaze33 6y ago
Thanks! TBH it's just me but I'm a software engineer and I have my own company, so I guess it works ;)
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by blaze33 6y ago
Indeed, I only found this post quite recently when the demo was mostly done ;)
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by blaze33 6y ago
Wow, Martini looks really interesting! I did some research about mesh simplification and had some success using https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer . Meshoptimizer is in c++ so I had to use the Rust wrapper https:&#x
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by blaze33 6y ago
Thanks! I'm not really familiar with the modern developments in game engines, though I know webgl has some big limitations regarding what's actually possible to do with the current hardware. In the meantime we have to work with th
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by blaze33 6y ago
Author here, I also made a small post on the three.js discourse with a little more background: https://discourse.threejs.org/t/map33-js-v0-1-a-library-to-b... By the way you can add missing tiles by double clicking on
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Show HN: Map33.js – a library to build 3D maps with Three.js(map33.openbloc.com)
178 points by blaze33 6y ago|46 comments
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Easy Ubuntu Hardening for Web Developers(blog.openbloc.com)
2 points by blaze33 6y ago|0 comments
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by blaze33 7y ago
Alan Watts discussed at length how modern science mainly focused on the study of things through the analysis of their inner properties, mechanisms, components, etc. Thing is, nothing actually exists in a void: what something is only tells u
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by blaze33 7y ago
I feel your pain... Reminded me how quite similar it seems to be for hospital staff: alternating night and day shifts, extra long shifts like 24hr of continuous work. When asking "but how can you deal with it and know you keep working
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by blaze33 7y ago
Nice idea, now wondering how / if I could have an alternate password that would load a decoy environment while hiding all the private stuff of my main account... Does such a thing already exists for an Ubuntu setup ?
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by blaze33 7y ago
Nice article. Having some years of experience in outdoor activities (first sailing, then many solo week-long hikes in the mountains, mostly french Alps but also once in a caribbean tropical rainforest) I got to learn some vital lessons and
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by blaze33 7y ago
Once read how the "no code" trend isn't really more than a marketing one. Went more or less like this: it will be great to build software without having to write code: you'll just have to specify what your program does.
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by blaze33 7y ago
> and NOWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE IS THIS FACT DOCUMENTED. Nowadays that I use VS code with GitLens, each line of code automatically shows me its latest commit message, just hover that info and I have the date, author and a link to the ch
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by blaze33 7y ago
> you are mostly in awe of what you experience careful there, some people had really bad trips on DMT with their deepest fears coming to haunt them. Set and setting...
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by blaze33 7y ago
I won't disagree with you but you have to consider the context of the original comment: use of psychedelics. Their effects, though I'm happy to see more and more research being done, are already widely discussed so when he said &q
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by blaze33 7y ago
I just did a google search for "Format date YYYY-MM-DD in Python", clicked the first link to stackoverflow and got several answers, 1st says `.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')`, 2nd `str(date.today())` and using `isoformat` is the 4
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by blaze33 7y ago
> where I grew up eating under-cooked meat was a serious health hazard. This is a not-so-obvious fact I only learned about in my 20s : that everyday food can be dangerous. I grew up in a very rural area and never thought our food couldn&
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by blaze33 7y ago
> they are lamps with a color profile hotter than the Sun, and we should treat them differently. That's especially true of mobile devices, where being used before sunrise/after sunset is typical. Well said! VLC (at least on And
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by blaze33 7y ago
I'll also mention the urban dictionary when looking up recently made up words. Also, learning different languages usually reveals that you cannot think in the same way when using different languages. So you may end up creating new word

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