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by gcanyon 1y ago
> like Von Neumann said, that life is complicated but math is simple Maybe for Von Neumann math was simple...
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Two minutes in and I have: 1. Figured out how to create circles -- sort of, by deleting and allowing it to recreate them 2. Figured out how to set the diameter of circles by dragging the point on their circumference -- choosing a ra
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by gcanyon 1y ago
California's Central Valley has subsided as much as 28 feet in the past century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence
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by gcanyon 1y ago
He should have a look at Filemaker -- it's an active product with customers that need help (last time I checked) and owned by Apple, so it's not going anywhere for at least a bit longer. The dev environment is at a similar level -
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The explosion was unexpected and (as far as I know at the moment) unexplained, but they flew the mission at the edge of the envelope, and with a variety of different materials/missing bits on purpose, to better understand where the edg
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> GenAI will never produce what they want What's your argument supporting this? Ten years ago GenAI couldn't produce two coherent sentences. We've come a long way, what makes you think it won't go further?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm not sure what to make of the fact that for the abstract matrix problem in the original post, I thought about it for a moment without making any progress, but then for the knights on the phone pad problem it took me just two moments
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Any thoughts of supporting .dot files?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
:-) Then it's going to blow your mind that CompuServe (while not founded by them) was a product of H&R Block.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The wines are from different years If you apply an arbitrary order to the bottles, the number of possible year-arrangements of the bottles is 16! Each test gives you one bit of information Since 2^50 is only greater than 16!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
If you haven't read it, The Long Ride by Lloyd Sumner is (as I remember it) an excellent read.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> [re: PRK] This regrowth can be ... rather painful I'm here to tell everyone to listen to the doctor about pain medications and sleeping after PRK. I have a repeatedly-demonstrated very high tolerance for pain, and didn't both
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by gcanyon 1y ago
As I said before, I'm just expressing my personal preference for deep simplicity rather than (again, in my view) a flawed implementation of a pokemon-esque "gotta implement them all" (the features) approach.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Microsoft adds stuff "we" don't need to everything . Think about the ribbons of tools available in Office -- Excel and Word in particular have features for pretty much anything you can think of. I'm not arguing it'
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by gcanyon 1y ago
My intuition would be that either there is an infinite game possible and perfect play produces a stalemate, or games must inevitably end, and someone must have a winning strategy — in which case I’m betting its player 2, who makes the fir
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by gcanyon 1y ago
One relatively common way to remove first player advantage is to have the first player place one stone, and then after that each person places two stones on their turn. So After player 1s first move there is one stone in the sequence. After
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Tuesday Webinar: Weaponized Intelligence – Why Big Tech's AI Threatens Us All(peaceeconomyproject.org)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
(disclaimer: my spouse organized it)
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by gcanyon 1y ago
To me the canonical example of this is meh.com. They offer one product per day, and each day there is a “meh” button. You log in, click the button, it spins and reveals a custom “meh” face tailored to the thing on offer that day. You can on
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> a small room with a shared bathroom and sometimes a shared kitchen for a price that is unimaginable today—as little as $100 to $300 a month (in 2025 dollars). This is exactly what I rented when I moved to NYC two years ago. It was a mo
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The article says nothing about whether they controlled for the associated weight loss. That would still be interesting, but less surprising.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Yeah, I'm not proposing anything new -- just that apps use what's already available: embedding the content of a PDF as JSON, similar, or even plain text.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
It wouldn't, of course.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Not at all. PDFs support embedded content, and JSON (or similar) is a fine way to store that content. So is plain text if it comes to it.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The answer seems obvious to me: 1. PDFs support arbitrary attached/included metadata in whatever format you like. 2. So everything that produces PDFs should attach the same information in a machine-friendly format. 3. Then e
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Fun fact: I was a key player in actualizing the plan for Project Jabberwocky.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm guessing that here, "contrarian" means "lying".
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I have a friend whose parents built a 48' sailboat in their yard over about a dozen years. "built" as in cast the lead keel, laid the fiberglass hull, etc. etc. This was in a traditional suburban neighborhood, but no HOA. So
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by gcanyon 1y ago
N=1, but: I read that carbs lower HDL, and I was eating a very carb-heavy diet. So over about two months I switched to an informal low-carb diet. e.g. I stopped drinking milk, I ate Carl's Jr. six-dollar burgers as lettuce wraps for
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by gcanyon 1y ago
As an anecdote, I saw just this morning plastic adirondack chairs for sale outside a grocery store, and they had a large sticker on them proclaiming in 4-inch lettering that they are rated for 350 pounds(!). That says something sad about th

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