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by diiq 17y ago
I bind my own. It takes some time, but the result is a notebook that has the paper I want in it, that lays flat so I can use all of every page (I'm a lefty), and that I don't spend too much money on. Moleskines are $$ for a pile of paper.
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by diiq 17y ago
Is it white on pale yellow and unreadable for anyone else?
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by diiq 17y ago
Thank you for making my day. I actually clapped my hands like a mechanical monkey and said "Yay! A giraffe!"
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by diiq 17y ago
Yeah, surely someone got a free beer out of that one. I wonder, once you've convinced yourself the idea isn't crazy, how you go about convincing someone else --- No, look at the tidal chart, and then look at this variation here. See? A
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by diiq 17y ago
Also, his prints are simply rare. There are less than 500 images in his entire body of work, as I recall. Only some of those used blocks (he also made lithographs, mezzotints, aquatints...), and only some of those survive.
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by diiq 17y ago
Theoretical science is certainly romantic --- but this sort of thing is what makes experimental science sexy. To be able to say "Ah! I am accidentally measuring the gravitation of the water in a nearby lake" --- and then compensate for it
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by diiq 17y ago
They exist in the US, just not on display. I got the chance to examine the (US) National Gallery's collection of Escher prints; they aren't on display, but stored in the library, and you can see them on request. There are hundreds of prints
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by diiq 17y ago
I suppose you could make an argument about iPhoning while driving... But time is still turning. It could be that multi-touch screens cause deadly "finger cancer".
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by diiq 17y ago
It's a little to dense to be super readable, but I do enjoy the way it looks like some bizarre ciliated life-form, crawling on whip-like appendages through ancient protoplasm. Except the protoplasm is the space of possible thoughts. And the
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Touchable Holography(alab.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
3 points by diiq 17y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 17y ago
So, it's chaos, and a lot of it is junk, but there's a good bit of good stuff in there too. If the interface were better (navigation & editing commands) that would be sweet. Privacy would be a matter of picking a distant enough location
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by diiq 17y ago
Everything said so far, and also "employee's". I mean, taking unethical advantage of a benefit is one thing, but poor grammar? In bodytext frozen in an image no less? Unnacceptable :)
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Idea: The Smiley as AP Copy Protection(ironicsans.com)
2 points by diiq 17y ago|0 comments
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by diiq 17y ago
Indeed. 'Design' should be the attentive creation of a human experience. Or is that Art? Wait, no, engineering is what I meant to say. I am an artist, I work in a research lab, I write sci-fi. But if the word 'about' applies to any of those
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by diiq 17y ago
Rather than actual critique, here is a user story. It takes place... inside my brain! diiq's story: ---------- Will there be 250 credits worth of content soon? 5-10 credits a video (maybe), 2-3 videos per month (maybe), that's... nearly t
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by diiq 17y ago
Indeed; It took me a good minute to figure out where the content was. It's worthwhile information, but does anyone else feel like this story get pulled back into the light once every two years or so? Telegraphically: "Overactive temporal lo
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by diiq 17y ago
It's certainly a shiny way of dealing with hiding password from over-the-shoulder leaks while still allowing for verification; I agree with chaosmachine, it is very worth only showing the final result, and not the intermediary steps, even t
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by diiq 17y ago
It's really frustrating; as science and physics particularly progress, the metaphorical explanations become less and less effective. Intuition isn't enough, and the public isn't willing to accept math into their lives. During the space race
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by diiq 17y ago
I second the call to SICP; it is, admittedly, very hard to deal with not using recursion after reading the first few chapters, but even outside of that, it will change the way you program. Reading SICP is like taking a freezing shower; it
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by diiq 17y ago
Oh, dear. It's so hard to turn down a challenge, but I don't think I'd really like to work for ninjas. They sound... oblong? (defun ensure-list (a) (if (listp a) a (loop for i from 0 to a collect i))) (defparameter l '(0 7 (0 3) (0 3) 7 0 7