dorkwood

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by dorkwood 6y ago
> Stripe's founder mentioned that the internet is probably going to trend back toward "dinner party" type apps rather than "town square" type apps I've always been more inclined towards dinner party type exp
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by dorkwood 6y ago
My parents (who have both never played an instrument in their lives) signed me up for piano lessons when I was a child. I'd regularly be sent home with homework that I didn't know how to complete, no one taught me how to practice,
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My job isn't necessary, but I still have it.
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> No need for any interpretation like "clear sequence of events". Your nose is fully blocked yet you can breathe through. Dreaming! Most people I try to explain this to look at me like I'm crazy. I'm glad the internet
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Sorry, I meant visually indistinguishable. There's other ways to convince yourself you're in a dream. The one I found worked best for me was blocking both nostrils and trying to inhale through my nose. If you're dreaming, thi
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Me too! I was quite obsessed as a teenager. People don't believe me when I tell them that a lucid dream can be indistinguishable from reality. I think to most people, a dream is a fuzzy unrealistic thing. While reading Richard Feynman&
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Parallax occlusion mapping is quite heavy itself, though. Transparent layers stacked on top of each other are also quite expensive due to overdraw. Probably the cheapest way to add a little bit of 3D-ness would be to write the fluid sim to
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by dorkwood 6y ago
How old are you, and when did you start saving?
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Let's say that it was in fact intended as a user experience optimization, as you suggested. If you were Facebook, and you now had access to the camera's feed when it wasn't in use, would you really be able to restrain yoursel
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by dorkwood 6y ago
What bothers you about the new one? The reading experience feels very similar to me, apart from one being on the left and one being centered.
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Oh, right. That makes sense.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
Today I learned that Twitter has 4,600 employees. What are they all doing?
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"Roughly speaking, you should identify what type of outcome you want and then work backwards to identify what skills you might need to get there." I've tried this logical approach. It tends to make me miserable, since I lack
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I've seen different messaging spread around. With Australia, for example, I've heard people say they did a great job "squashing the virus", so I think there's definitely surprise from some people that cases are surg
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I'd recommend watching the "1 minute presentation" video linked at the top of the page. It mentions generating the model from a single image. https://youtu.be/-1XYTmm8HhE
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Make sure you use a long focal length, too. A normal wide angle photo from your camera phone won't produce very desirable results. This guy on Twitter did some of his own tests and they came out pretty good. https://mobile.t
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It's funny, I was making a running tally in my head of the things I was confused about in the article, or the threads the author started that they never wrapped up. For example, I was ready to come here and challenge the author on this
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> selling or using insider information, blackmail, shorting Tesla, taking out politicians, etc. Can't it just be that they're not that knowledgeable about stuff outside their domain? The things you mentioned require knowledge o
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by dorkwood 6y ago
You touched on an important benefit to working from home that I hadn't really thought about until now, which is that the quiet people at my workplace are now able to be heard much more easily. I work with several quiet people, and when
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> My main mistake was putting too much in my 401k Can you expand on this? I recently moved to the US and people keep telling me to get a 401k, but I haven't yet.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
This is one of my main pet peeves with modern life. I've never seen it discussed before, and no one I've brought it up with seems to share my annoyance. It's currently the middle of the day, and my microphone has a visibly br
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by dorkwood 6y ago
"Imahara plans to take the Baby Yoda to children's hospitals to cheer up young patients". Heartbreaking.
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I think my interpretation was a little bit different on the first read. But looking back at the original quote, it does say "playing small" -- as in, pretending to be smaller than you are. I agree with you that that shouldn't
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> My feed is almost entirely filled with people who use Twitter as something like Deviantart or Pixiv to upload original artwork and only use the character count for writing a description or title Me too! If I discover an artist I like,
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The retweet is my favourite part of twitter! It means a relatively unknown artist or developer can have their work massively amplified and shared around despite having only a small number of followers. I don't know of any other service
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. Is this really true? I've always felt that people are more likely to open
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I got the opposite impression regarding the list. To me it seemed to be trying to illustrate that he was not always working on grand ideas (one of them was a theory of how to fold paper to make a children's toy, after all).
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by dorkwood 6y ago
I didn't feel like I had anything worth sharing until recently. Something I've discovered is that it's often the stuff we consider "basic knowledge" that is the most useful to others. I think that perhaps one of the
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Houdini. It has so many uses: procedural generation of 3D geometry, as a learning tool for understanding matrix transformations, as an FX and simulation tool. It's the most powerful piece of software I've ever used. It feels like
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by dorkwood 6y ago
> But it’s not just energy. You have to be able to motivate yourself to spend large quantities of energy on a problem, which means on some level that not understanding something — or having a bug in your thinking — bothers you a lot. You

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