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by fouronnes3 1y ago
I want to write Structure and Interpretation of Geometric Optics. I have an outline already in my notes and I'm convinced that the computing-first approach would benefit the field immensely. I've been learning optics for a while a
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Obviously we can't break backwards compatibility, but why doesn't css have opt-in "use version" strings that could tell the browser: I want this set of defaults. Something like "use-defaults: system-ui;" or &qu
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Is there, somewhere, a list of theorems that were considered proved and true for a while, but after attempts at formalization the proof was invalidated and the theorem is now unknown or disproved?
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
> It doesn't generate 5 bloody files when compiling This was a question [0] I asked on stack overflow more than 15 years ago, and is to this day the most up votes I've gotten on SO. I still get notifications from it occasionall
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
This is one of those things where both extremes of madness and genius wrap around to infinity and meet again.
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Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals(victorpoughon.github.io)
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Interval Calculator(victorpoughon.github.io)
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
The mess has ended thanks to uv.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Unfortunately home to grindadrap [0], one of the most cruel traditions in the world where hundreds of white dolphins are hunted with high speed motor boats and painfully slaughtered for sport. [0] https://www.seashepherdglobal.or
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
> Yes the metric system is better You're changing the definition of "better" so you can have your cake (admit X is better than Y) and eat it too (prefer Y over X). It's ok to like fun things! It's ok to like Impe
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
duolingo x snake
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
In firefox: history -> snake game -> forget about website
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
I cooked cacio e pepe a few times over the past few months specifically because I saw it on HN there! It's delicious. Try it!
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
The road to hell is paved with 40 years of backwards compatibility requirements.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
This is a good article but it only scratches the surface, as is always the case when it comes to C++. When I made a meme about C++ [1] I was purposeful in choosing the iceberg format. To me it's not quite satisfying to say that C++ is
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
If you consider the fact that only half of Earth is experiencing summer while the other half is experiencing winter, there's an obvious madlad solution to instead of storing power, transfer it from the summer hemisphere solar panels to
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
I mean why does the laptop need to have that sensor?
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Ok but why?
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
There's something that's always been deeply confusing to me about comparing the Jacobian and the Hessian because their nature is very different. The Hessian shouldn't have been called a matrix. The Jacobian describes all the
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Thanks, now I want to read a sci-fi short story where LLM usage has gotten so high that human-to-human language has evolved to be like LLM prompts. People now talk to each other in very intimidating, very specific paragraph long instruction
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Why drive? Go all-in and wingsuit fly through a pylon [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRJ2o27gGTM
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
When are we getting a GPLv4 that's AGPL + no LLM training? This is overdue.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Free startup idea: An appliance brand that makes every home appliance with the following features: * Absolutely never any beep or sound * Direct controls, no "programs" (i.e. microwave has two knobs: power and time, etc.) * No net
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
AGI is when model names become weirder than user agent strings.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
I guess it's those two same groups arguing about vibe coding. How many of group 1 say LLMs are too low quality when they really mean that it's diminishing their love of coding? And how many of group 2 say LLMs are the best thing e
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Or a straight up fork of CSS that removes the legacy stuff and fixes wrong defaults so that tips like this are unnecessary in the first place.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Does having experience implementing a web browser engine feature change the way you write HTML or CSS in any way? Do you still google "css grid cheatsheet" three times a week like the rest of us?
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
This does not undermine chamomeal's argument. The whole point is that back in the N64 days, they could not possibly have had that experience. There was no way to even make it happen. The fact that today it's a real possibility whe
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
Very cool project. I don't use tailwind but I have been thinking that the color palette part is great. Love that you can export it all to a big list of CSS variables.
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by fouronnes3 1y ago
> clandestine reverse Solar Oberth Manoeuvre is now my favourite xkcd 2326 example.

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