garfieldnate

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by garfieldnate 2y ago
I've had a heck of a time filling out forms on Japanese websites in particular. Insert name here No no, roman letters not allowed No no, katakana are fine but half width only No no, spaces or separating dots not okay, just ram your fir
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
1) Does this require that the atmosphere forever stay at the current CO2 concentration, or will it continue to work well if we manage to clean the atmosphere properly? 2) Does this also pave the way for more permanent CO2 cleanup of the atm
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Reddit has lots of niche content that is extremely valuable the one time you use it, and I'm sick of seeing sites with valuable user-generated content dying off because the incentives of the owning company are misaligned with their com
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I really miss Japanese duvet/futon covers; the corners have holes for the duvet to stick through, and the duvet has velcro straps that attach to loops on the cover. Every duvet/cover I own lacks this totally basic thing that preve
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Maybe it's good for GitHub, GitLab, etc. to be as open and liberal as possible with its definition of open source, but I think there is definitely an argument to be made that businesses making source available without actually open-sou
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
This looks amazing! Also, I had no idea that tutoring was over $100/hour, but it makes sense, being a specialized skill that's employed on a freelancer basis (meaning half or more time is spent traveling or finding clients). I&#x2
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
By "your favorite books" does this mean that I can take a picture of a book, or upload a PDF or something? For IP reasons I'm certain your app can't come with any of my favorite books.
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I don't see this in the demo so I'll ask here: what does the UI look like for identifying unknown faces? In Picasa there was a tab somewhere with unknown faces grouped together by what it thought were the same person. It had a rea
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
There have been several really good episodes of Oxide and Friends discussing the danger to open source posed by license proliferation, the danger of copyright assignment, the danger of conflating downloads or FOSS project popularity with
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
The part about musculoskeletal issues really hits home for me. Can anyone recommend a book or site to learn to diagnose and fix musculoskeletal issues where possible? For example, I've had one leg longer than the other for most of my
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
The gold rush scene is the most captivating to me. The film style looks like it's from the 70's/80's (reminds me of Little House on the Prairie), but the footage is from a drone standpoint. I find it magically immersive
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Steven Pinker's _Better Angels of our Nature_ is a great read on the subject, as well. Essentially a history of the decline of violence, but also including economic aspects that support humans becoming better.
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Quick google search of the AZ law says it will tax solar energy exported to other states and divide the proceeds among the local residents, which sounds a bit more nuanced than your summary. Not saying it's positive, but it's no
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Reminds me of the TiVo creator interview in "Programmers at work." There's a line somewhere that you should not cross, lest involved parties take action. The line for TiVo was making it possible to skip commercials. This feel
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
The readme says that I can convert Jupyter notebooks, but to what extent does this actually work? What if I've imported custom JS to render mathjax or added custom CSS? What if I've added inline graphics or videos?
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Honest question, is this not something that people can bring a class action lawsuit for? It's malicious and wanton property damage for the purpose of profit. I don't think they have a legal right to do that just because they have
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I'm pretty sure my two-year-old still thought we could have giraffes and aligators as pets at that age XD
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Duolingo is cool, but I really think that having students produce something other than answers to multiple-choice questions would lead to higher quality learning results. It should be much more possible now especially, with all of the AI ad
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I guess maybe I can appreciate the candor used here, but holy smokes! Telling the entire world that you fired the CEO because you think they are a liar is really unprofessional, in my opinion. You just don't do this. You come to an agr
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
What's most surprising to me there is that she actually recognized Snoopy as a dog. He's a pretty abstracted drawing, walking on two feet and pointing with human hands. There's something interesting to be said about perceptua
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I haven't listened to Oxide & Friends, but I absolutely love On The Metal. The guests are eminent and extremely interesting, the hosts are passionate and fun, and there's always a wonderful chemistry among the hardware geeks o
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Couldn't you still game that by choosing the starting side? If you want heads, and you start on heads and get a tails for the first round, you could start on tails on the second round to try to get another tails and reset to step 1.
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
What's the point of having a separate codepoint for the Angstrom if it's specified to normalize back to the regular "capital A with ring above" codepoint anyway?
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Related: I wasn't in the US at the time, but I think a close 6) would have to be the intense polarization and ongoing "culture war," wherein one side was already being told that something else coming out of their mouth was li
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I hope I don't regret asking, but I'm genuinely curious about the details here. What religious/political implications are there (in the US, I presume?) for babies and mothers dying a lot in the old times? I've never seen
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Can anyone say how FDLIBM improves protection against fingerprinting? They sort of gloss over this completely but I bet it has a very interesting explanation.
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Back in 2013 or so Quora was absolutely amazing, flowing with content so fascinating and enriching that I had to unsubscribe from updates because I would just spend my entire day reading there. I was sad to come back many years later and fi
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
But being able to request it and having a built-in backdoor for anyone with a key are different things. It has happened before that the Chinese government figured out network equipment backdoors that were put in for the US government. All y
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
I wonder why GitHub never implemented "does this other existing ticket already cover your issue?" suggestions like StackOverflow. That would probably help in a lot of these situations.
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by garfieldnate 3y ago
Reading some of the other comments that say that Functional Programming in Lean is a good enough introduction and a learnxinyminutes is unnecessary, I feel I need to clarify that y should be somewhere between 5 and 15. Functional Programmin

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