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by ikesau 10d ago
Holy hell, this is great. I once made a little tool for getting more intuitive spatial scales for things in the universe at https://observablehq.com/@ikesau/scale-to-the-universe I feel like you could do something simi
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Using radiative coatings to cool buildings on the cheap(economist.com)
12 points by ikesau 18d ago|1 comments
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by ikesau 24d ago
To make the most facile counterpoint - the reason the Skyrim blacksmith doesn't care if the main character slays dragons is because they weren't programmed to. There aren't consequences either way. To the extent that this pos
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by ikesau 24d ago
Blocking recommendations is the one thing I'd add to this list. You can easily do so with uBlock Origin, and it's made the biggest difference for me. Water still finds cracks, but it's about reducing the likelihood and increa
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by ikesau 1mo ago
I'd been looking for a Soulver[1] equivalent with broader OS support and this was the best thing I found. It's not 1:1, but better than a node REPL or spreadsheet, I think. [1] https://soulver.app
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Numbat Editor: a notepad-style calculator with first-class units(numbat.dev)
4 points by ikesau 1mo ago|1 comments
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by ikesau 2mo ago
I can't think of any case where a human gets confused by some text because a hyphen character was used instead of an em-dash, and maybe that's what you mean by real value. But I see you using an em-dash to hyphenate "semantic
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by ikesau 2mo ago
You got me excited, because I've wanted something like this for a while. Obviously without the actual extortion, but everything up to that point. White hat scamming, to teach our parents what it's actually like before it happens.
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by ikesau 3mo ago
I'm real xutopia. I'm real.
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by ikesau 3mo ago
Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I've read blogs from people who I'm quite sure are above pasting AI output directly into their words w
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by ikesau 3mo ago
I'm sorry that happened to you. Sincerely. That sounds incredibly frustrating, painful, and scary. I think your maximalist conclusion of "drugs should be legalized" might have some second-order effects that might be net worse
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by ikesau 4mo ago
Ah yeah, that makes sense, but I still feel like there's room for a little more discretion. https://tonsky.me/blog/every-frame-perfect/toolbar@2x.mp4 , for example I don't think I would have to rescan the
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by ikesau 4mo ago
I'm sure a UI that had none of these imperfect frames would feel better, but now I really want someone to edit each of these clips to show what it would actually look like. At the same time, why does everything need motion? My unders
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by ikesau 4mo ago
Interesting explanation of a subject I had no knowledge of! I'm familiar with browser accessibility trees, but I've never thought about how operating systems do it themselves. From the outside view, I still wouldn't make any
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What's the next frontier for improving psychological research?(bps.org.uk)
2 points by ikesau 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ikesau 4mo ago
Ah yeah, you're right, that's a misrepresentation on my part - it's based on lines, not the file: > [absorb] splits changes in the source revision and moves each change to the closest mutable ancestor where the correspondi
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Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu(ikesau.co)
178 points by ikesau 4mo ago|179 comments
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by ikesau 4mo ago
I appreciate the pushback, but I wasn't actually saying people shouldn't do this. If a neighbourhood is being neglected because of some incentive structure they're powerless to affect, then yeah, take some action. I'm ju
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by ikesau 4mo ago
I see road workers repairing potholes, and otherwise notice that potholes get repaired over time. Presumably there is an intelligent process that leads to this. What alternative is there?
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by ikesau 4mo ago
My model of municipal maintenance is that a city's road maintenance workers have a long list of known potholes to fix which is triaged with some formula and dealt with day-by-day. Spraypainting the pothole distorts the triage process a
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by ikesau 5mo ago
Wow, awesome. There's also a few on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash_unsorted?t... (In case the OP also made you think of Teen Titans Battle Blitz for the first time in 20 ye
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by ikesau 5mo ago
Oh nice, this is way better. On finnicky engines, I think if I were to seriously implement this for a project that needed to support arbitrary images, I'd do the dithering server side (assuming it's possible to develop some heuris
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by ikesau 5mo ago
Wow, my first post that's frontpaged and it's the one I put the least effort into. I've at least fixed the noise colour bleed now. This technique does not do any file compression as it's a transformation applied to the i
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by ikesau 5mo ago
Years of digestive issues resolved by a single massage? I've never heard of an outcome like that before. Could you explain more about how it worked and what this lady's approach purported to do? Who was she? Genuinely curious!
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by ikesau 7mo ago
> You cannot require age verification on IRC, XMPP, ActivityPub, Nostr, or Matrix, because there is no single entity to compel. Each server operator makes their own decisions. A government would need to individually pressure thousands of
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by ikesau 8mo ago
> After finding out that the city council was considering a housing element that would have bowed to NIMBY pressure, we sent two letters to the city, reminding it of its legal obligations under state law to approve the upzoning — and tha
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by ikesau 8mo ago
Right, but I suppose one issue is that, depending on how concentrated the AI agent market becomes, the rent seeking could eventually potentially just shift to these agents instead.
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by ikesau 8mo ago
Nilay Patel is calling this "the DoorDash problem" and has written an essay on it here: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/823909/the-doordash-problem...
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Making a Spoonerism Generator(ikesau.co)
2 points by ikesau 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ikesau 9mo ago
i have blogged and posted sometimes-inscrutable things on this for the last 7 years https://ikesau.co

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