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by jacobolus 8y ago
Yes, you can develop a good intuitive understanding if you spend 15 years or whatever painting full time (the first several years mostly bumbling around under various misconceptions making lots of mistakes) as an alternative to reading a fe
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Like many resources about color, this one has an output-medium-centric followed by early-20th-century-experiment-design-centric viewpoint, presumably because that was where the author started and what he read about. But however perfect the
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> Does this strategy really work for cigarettes, where they use photos of lung cancers? From my understanding these have a measurable impact reducing cigarette purchases and motivating smokers to try to quit. A web search turns up htt
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by jacobolus 8y ago
The airport in Las Vegas is one of the most depressing places I have ever been. There are slot machines in the waiting rooms, placed there so that people who have just gambled away big money over the weekend get one final chance to throw a
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> We either stop believing in free markets or we let everyone play. The people who “believe in [unregulated and unaccountable] free markets” and the ones who don’t want to “let every [plutocrat] play [at unlimited anonymous propaganda
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by jacobolus 8y ago
I agree this is incendiary, for the reason that it cuts to the heart of these groups’ deeply contradictory self-image / self-proclaimed values. Nobody likes being told publicly that their actions have led and will continue to lead to s
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by jacobolus 8y ago
You are mixing up two different groups of people. > money is speech and there are no values higher The people (Federalist Society, etc.) who make this argument are the ones who want Saudi/Russian/Chinese/Israeli/.
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Electron apps are also horrible on the Mac (and probably everywhere else too). Buggy, bloated resource hogs with nonstandard and limited UI and incredibly high input latency for simple actions. As a Mac user, when I hear “Electron app” I th
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> Mathematics and physics both began with the advent of astronomy Arguably mathematics began with accounting and surveying and trade, and more generally with counting and measurement.
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by jacobolus 8y ago
For folks developing or analyzing new applied math techniques (for solving differential equations or function approximation or whatever), it is helpful to make formal proofs about their behavior and bounding their error etc., and from the p
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> Infinite sets exist, and are described by a known set of axioms called ZFC This is the assertion of many mathematicians, but the justification for it is “this is convenient” and/or “we take this as an article of faith” (or often
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Nobody says color doesn’t matter, or that final designs should not use color. If your intense orange button has nearly the same lightness as its intense blue background, it’s going to look like a headache-inducing blob instead of like a but
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Removing color is not arbitrary. It is based on the physical features of human color vision. The human eye has three types (“L”, “M”, “S”) of cone cell light detectors, but the raw data from these detectors never makes it to the visual cort
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by jacobolus 8y ago
I would still recommend that people start with black and white pictures, or at least spend some serious time on it sometime early in studying to make photographs. Darkroom skills per se have little to do with it. I would also recommend that
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Not only this, but: When making a full color photograph, it is often (though not always) most effective to get the lightness right first , then worry about hue/chroma afterward. Sometimes it is helpful to hide the color altogether and
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by jacobolus 8y ago
An economist’s prediction about the impact of new technology 8 years out is not comparable to an economist’s prediction about the near future of the economy or the effectiveness of government intervention. Dragging this quotation out anytim
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by jacobolus 8y ago
For IEEE floats, the range [1, 2) has uniform absolute precision. Not so for [0, 1), which spans many values of the exponent. There is uniform absolute precision on each interval among [0.5, 1), [0.25 0.5), [0.125, 0.25), &c., but as yo
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Ants, termites, wasps, bees, cicadas, grasshoppers and crickets, beetles, beetle larvae, moth larvae, caterpillars, ... have a very wide range of appearances, textures, flavors, habitats, diets, .... I don’t see why Trypophobia would have a
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by jacobolus 8y ago
There are many parts of the world where bugs are considered to appear and taste palatable. Some are delicacies. The idea that all bugs are gross is largely due to unfamiliarity. Most unfamiliar foods are considered gross the first time some
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Or OMeta http://tinlizzie.org/ometa/ or Ohm https://github.com/harc/ohm or the like
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> feel the exact same way (s)he does about node.js [...] can already do everything I need to well with what I currently have This is a provincial take. That is, “do everything I need to” is strongly limited by what a person currently k
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> they should stop complaining about the size of their departments and actually go out and find a way to encourage the general public Do you have any suggestions? Many historians write popularly-aimed books, make media appearances, giv
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> Notebooks are very much based on linear order and side-effects Try https://beta.observablehq.com/
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by jacobolus 8y ago
There is no purple in the spectrum. Purple is the color you get when you take white light and put it through a filter which blocks the middle part of the spectrum, or when you combine a red and a blue light source. Really the named rainbow
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Cyan is the color of a colorful medium-lightness pure blue, possibly very slightly greenish in hue, as seen among the primary inks on a 4-color printing press. E.g. the color labeled C in https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped
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by jacobolus 8y ago
The color of the sky varies dramatically depending on weather conditions, time of day, and which part of the sky you look at. Even if you limit the discussion to cloudless skies between an hour after dawn to an hour before dusk, there is ex
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> color between yellow and green In English this is often called chartreuse or pear. (Ignore the web/CSS color “chartreuse” which is hilariously terrible, like pretty much all of the named web colors.)
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by jacobolus 8y ago
Yes there are very rare rapes and even stabbings in transit stations, and that is terrible. Just like the same crimes are terrible on the street, at stores, in public parks, at offices, or at homes. There are also 400 traffic deaths and 200
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by jacobolus 8y ago
I said “Getting rid of most of the cars and putting people on trains does wonders for peak throughput.” That is clearly an entirely different proposal than “congestion pricing”. The context was another comment criticizing congestion prici
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by jacobolus 8y ago
> I don't believe you You don’t believe that I travel by bus/subway/etc. and don’t feel unsafe? There are people of all ages, ethnic groups, social classes, occupations, etc. riding transit throughout the Bay Area every

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