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by cwmoore 4y ago
From: https://docs.geodesk.com/core-concepts "GeoDesk... [stores] coordinates as 32-bit integers, using an artificial unit called imp (integer, Mercator-projected). This allows for a coordinate resolution of roughly 1
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by cwmoore 4y ago
Legitimately though, the act of smiling whenever you can pull it off, will elevate mood. At times it isn’t possible. Similar with choosing instead of discovering what you can excel at and flow with.
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by cwmoore 4y ago
This illustrates the beginning of use cases for computing/ML on the edge. The total power of all the phones and their sensors is mindblowing.
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by cwmoore 4y ago
Isn't that datapoint an exception that proves the rule? I note that a homeless person receiving acclaim and the issue of homelessness receiving attention are orders apart.
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by cwmoore 4y ago
Make millions of them and some will last outlier timespans. One low-power lightbulb that has been illuminated for over a hundred years: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-b...
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by cwmoore 4y ago
Because investing in everything else is suboptimal and the new business can be ready to make money when the market inevitably returns to strength.
907.
by cwmoore 4y ago
Since I typically find short urls suspicious and frightening, especially in text messages from short phone numbers not in my contacts, this headline illustrates a third form of idempotentcy.
908.
by cwmoore 4y ago
To replace that with saying 383.512 seconds would signal confidence in the time of a future event, but not in a speaker who is scheduling a meeting with another human.
909.
by cwmoore 5y ago
"It seems to have optimized for reruns of Breaking Bad, and exhibits markedly elevated energy consumption during the car chase scenes."
910.
by cwmoore 5y ago
This one gives a better idea of why this might have happened, in the direction of travel, the white back of the sign is easy to miss with a white-sided box truck behind it: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.4902551,-121.9
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Management told her she had to share the tips with other staff, the tippers insisted it was for her alone, managers handling brought bad juju. As a former cook, this is all hard to take.
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by cwmoore 5y ago
The fanfare is the point here--film the ecstatic waitress. Tipping the kitchen staff could have happened instead, specifically did not.
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Since the plural of ouruboros seems relevant, here if almost nowhere else: https://www.ouruboroi.com
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by cwmoore 5y ago
> lacquer is the perfect adhesive for Japan’s humid environment because it dries or hardens by absorbing moisture from the air What's old is new.
915.
by cwmoore 5y ago
Or this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000533
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by cwmoore 5y ago
I appreciate this effort. Not sure where the initial confusion came from, but you don't take it lightly, and that matters.
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by cwmoore 5y ago
So it happens that we can hear several octaves in sound, via pressure waves, where a note an octave higher or lower is defined as twice or half the frequency, and when the "same note" in different octaves are played together the s
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Another point this raises is approximately identical to the headline question, so that if there is such a thing as good judgement there is also good taste and vice versa, and they will fail in similar ways related to subjectivity. I feel th
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by cwmoore 5y ago
If you would like to engage further with these ideas I heartily recommend the comments related to and sources mentioned in [1] above and others in this page. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229456
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Summarizing my comments with the conclusion that "some art is better" and you, Paul, or anyone else can reliably judge which it is, does not come anywhere close to my meaning. I have to conclude that we are not in disagreement, be
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by cwmoore 5y ago
To disabuse you of an apparent misunderstanding, I do not at all find art to be crass. I enjoy it immensely and it enriches every aspect of my life, even elevating the ordinary. The judgement of merit by a non-artist of an artist's wor
922.
by cwmoore 5y ago
With respect, to me that stance seems both incomplete and absolute, and falsifiable in about nine ways, so surely, while you are entitled to hold that opinion and are not alone in that judgement, you are both wrong. But so am I. EDIT: anoth
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by cwmoore 5y ago
I wonder whether you think this essay is "great" mostly because you agree with it? That one must judge art, to enjoy art, appears fundamentally exclusionary, itself to my tastes, and to use PG's word, "crass", but i
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by cwmoore 5y ago
What you call "garbage" others might label "recycling" ;)
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by cwmoore 5y ago
As a painter and hacker[1] myself, I understand the message, believe the answer to the headline is "yes, but you can't have it" and I (as surely too would you) understand the vast gulf between my artwork and Rembrandt's,
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by cwmoore 5y ago
If this doesn't clear it up, at least someone tried: Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 42 The Tao begot one. One begot two. Two begot three. And three begot the ten thousand things. The ten thousand things carry yin and embrace yang.
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Sounds like a healthier, although very expensive, dopamine dependency.
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by cwmoore 5y ago
Clear writing, nice tight shell script to streamline git tags on the command line, I can use this.
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by cwmoore 6y ago
Eddie would go.
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by cwmoore 6y ago
Lacking rigor, but some elements of this remind me of Moire Patterns: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern

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