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by graypegg 2y ago
Haha thanks! I was thinking HN would remove it like it does with emoji, good to know the arrows codepage works!
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by graypegg 2y ago
Prior post from this morning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42917712 Link is different but same project
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by graypegg 2y ago
I do feel like it's made slightly more clear if it's stylized like 文<-->A Sorry for the poor attempt at ascii art. But I've seen some arrow indicating swapping/matching between the two characters. And the
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by graypegg 2y ago
Totally valid point, but I do think magic is more a property of the clever (usually reflection-based magic) things people make with Ruby, less so the language. The draw towards magic is actually because of the logically-consistent object mo
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by graypegg 2y ago
That sounds dystopian… Essay writing is not a task intended to make you specifically better at writing more essays. It’s supposed to train your ability to explain your point of view clearly and with sound reasoning.
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by graypegg 2y ago
I've had this exact same issue a lot as well! I tend to walk way faster than google assumes I should. Maybe one suggestion I could think of, would be a risk score. Given a set of segments, which transfers are the most "risky"
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by graypegg 2y ago
https://github.com/matt-auckland/retro-css Some fun ones on here!
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by graypegg 2y ago
Maybe this is extrapolating a bit too much from this, but this would be sort of neat as a game streaming compression system right? If the service only needed to send a frame every 1-2 seconds, and the interim could be interpolated locally,
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by graypegg 2y ago
I think I just dislike the framing that not investigating something = being dumb You can just ask if you aren't sure. If I welcomed you into my house, and asked you to turn on the lights, while not telling you it's wired in a thre
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by graypegg 2y ago
Playing diners advocate here, it's odd to see a knife where the curved part is not the cutting part. I know most knives I've eaten with are curved so you can sort of "roll" it thru a cut. Combine that with dark restauran
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by graypegg 2y ago
I would really like to see AP get some more implementations. Mastodon dominates most of the AP usage on the web as far as I know, so the specific Mastodon quirks on top of the AP spec are sort of de facto standard now. It's not quite l
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by graypegg 2y ago
Said OK, not perfect haha. It really is OK for a lot of materials, especially if designed with the low saturation in mind.
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by graypegg 2y ago
Spot colours (normally Pantone references embedded in the file) can be pretty expensive, and obviously scales with the number of colours you spec. The printer needs to either order or mix your inks, then run it thru a single colour print pr
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by graypegg 2y ago
Ive got Jekyll sites from over a decade ago still buildable and kicking! Hard to beat the stability of simple software that outputs static web assets.
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by graypegg 2y ago
> “freelance” retail assistants How is that a gig at this point? It's a temp agency. Temp agencies cannot do this in the UK right? A cursory low-effort google returns some laws. [0] I'm sure they have legions of lawyers ready t
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by graypegg 2y ago
Ycombinator is of course, involved to some extent with the creation of HN. So I get it. Tech leaders cultism sort of infests the space. But I do tend to find HN pretty broad in topics. I do think they end up on here because they’re good at
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by graypegg 2y ago
Good idea. Co-location does let the government's current expertise shine (energy, land access) My point is there's something there I think! This report buries the lede with AI keyword drivel, but there's an opportunity beyond
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by graypegg 2y ago
No I do agree with that! I assume doctors are working in the best interest of their patients. That includes not running arbitrary tests. But I can also imagine a bureaucrat thinking an explanation for each test to be promoting "transpa
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by graypegg 2y ago
That is my thinking, yes. Plus also simply the government has access to a lot of capital and land. Overhead from running your own datacentres is a factor, but (taking this report at face-value) it seems like there will be some modicum of go
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by graypegg 2y ago
To some extent, there is actually an incentive to have low-value paperwork in a health system. There's only so many resources, and adding friction to the process is a form of "how serious is your issue, really?" triage. It ob
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by graypegg 2y ago
It does make me wonder if some nationalized utility like "British Compute" or something would be a good idea. They could over-allocate and sell the unused resources to the private sector, AWS style. Could bring long term costs dow
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by graypegg 2y ago
I'm starting to notice that the main way for me to pick up on AI written content is the tone! No LLM will give you a heroin analogy unprompted. The AI written version of this press release is a dry desert of weak adjectives, but a bure
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by graypegg 2y ago
> Sovereign AI compute, owned and/or allocated by the public sector, will enable the UK to quickly and independently allocate compute to national priorities. [...] Sovereign AI compute will almost certainly be the smallest component
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by graypegg 2y ago
In a snake pattern, the neighbouring pixels on the left and right are related, but the ones above and below have skipped a whole row. And yeah that’s true! you end up with squares with Hilbert curves. But those squares are all « related » d
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by graypegg 2y ago
I see that bounty at the bottom, so tossing away my chances here, but this visualization is just asking to be mapped onto a Hilbert Curve. [0] When you "stripe" the data like this, points that are sorted close together could end u
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by graypegg 2y ago
Chill out, that's a bit of hyperbole isn't it? This is just a trick for doing a spot the difference puzzle. It's not exactly a daily task most people are thinking about. Most people at least understand that stereographic visi
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by graypegg 2y ago
You might also want to try Kamal, which Rails is already configured for out of the box. You'll still be spinning up a VPS, but at least set up and management is done via a very heroku-like interface from your local machine. Just get an
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by graypegg 2y ago
Your username is RubyMine... is this an official jetbrains account? Maybe just one suggestion, for the data-id attribute on the hide post button, it might be a bit better to use an action param, since it can be scoped to the controller: ht
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by graypegg 2y ago
These are newly generated images, not promoted by you, shown in your feed. That’s the true “service” on offer here, images are generated for you and put on your timeline. But the UI to sign up for this service looks like a “type in the text
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by graypegg 2y ago
It's technically opt-in. You have to use their image generator, which requires agreeing to this "images appear in your feed randomly" feature implicitly. [0] You think you're just generating 1 photo, but you're actu

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