jan_Inkepa

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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
The 道德经 was not written in the last century, and the ancient pronunciation is only approximately known. Yes it's written in Modern Standard Chinese/pinyin as "Dào Dé Jīng" but the text has existence in the western world
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
> >Yes. I think people are good overall. > Until a certain amount of sacrifices have to be made. I remember some political philosophy online course from some reasonably reputable American college that was quite nicely set up - it h
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
For the curious, this seems to be the issue: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/32383 The thread is a bit messy, but it was eventually fixed in 3.4 it seems. It's a serious engine problem, and I
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Ah, I meant the basic engine is heavy - simple games take longer to load, your game is likely to be an order of magnitude larger in file size because of the luxuriant affordances of the graphic pipeline. I'm pretty sure if you compare
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I wonder if they're trapped in a Godot/Epic sandwich right now. I moved from Unity to Godot more or less and while it's not as good, and I'd not use it for commercial stuff (similarly, the Unreal Engine is for my purpos
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I swap between programming languages a lot and copilot saves me a lot of "what's the syntax for for loops in language X again?" style friction, stuff with suggesting correct API usage patterns . It just saves on the fricti
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
ahah glad to know someone else found its secret superpower :)
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Pygame might be basic, but I remember it as being the single best/easiest tool for interfacing with (USB) MIDI-instruments - I remember it being really easy to whip up scripts to take MIDI input from a keyboard, mess with them, and pre
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Talking about his season being spring - I note JJ was born in February, is this some horoscope-adjacent belief?
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Bartok also did this in his Mikrokosmos - I used them to relearn piano and it was very entertaining to (re-)'learn' piano solely though modernish/Hungarianish music. I wouldn't personally have wanted it for my first atte
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
That just covers literary texts it seems, so you'd probably want an epigraphy source for texts like the one in question?
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I don't have an overview, but there are various databases for greek and latin inscriptions - https://inscriptions.packhum.org/allregions for example is a big one. For written materials, http://www.perseus.t
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
>“For screen displays, it traditionally represents one device pixel (dot). However, for printers and high-resolution screens, one CSS pixel implies multiple device pixels. 1px = 1/96th of 1in.” And this multiple isn't necessari
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
>EDIT: Someone linked a YouTube clip of a comedia making light of the flag situation that has apparently escalated to the point of the Italian flag being used as a symbol of resistance because someone saw an Italian flag in a Northern Ir
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I grew up in the republic of Ireland and only associated the Red hand with unionism. ( I can find an article from 1999 talking about Sinn Fein complaining about the Red Hand in the north - https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Then there're hard-to-explain-to-outsider mashups like this: https://unionjackshop.com/product/israel-ulster-flag/ The people of Northern Ireland cannot be said to be lacking a rich symbolic language...
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
> I thought "Ireland" refers to the island as a whole and "Republic of Ireland" is the non UK part. Some other posters have replied with some good information, but if you want Entirely Too Much Information this wikipe
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Hah, the site also allows you to view teeth of the world by income category in the dropdown.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Well that shows how well I read the original article. Thanks for the correction.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
I wonder if some of the "why" isn't the general turn against straws in the current zeitgeist.
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
People normally watch it with commentators from their national broadcaster talking over the host presenters, adding an additional layer of comedy or cringe depending on who's commentating. I miss the irreverence of the British commenta
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
It appears my recollection was incorrect, and I retract my initial claim. Yeah, it was more nootropic than herbal. Yes, th "neural accelerator" that is "100% guaranteed to work within 60 minutes of the first dose." (
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
His business was selling generic "herbal remedies" IIRC. Which is bad/predatory IMO. And going further to meta-hustle that this is salutary enough to recommend to others without any seeming compunction is meta-bad. (I know it
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
>Applause for the effort but I doubt that this will become popular. Music notation has been a certain way for hundreds of years for musicians around the world – a notation with the universal legibility of mathematics. This system is real
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
There's an epigram of Martial: > Ut recitem tibi nostra rogas epigrammata. Nolo. Non audire, Celer, sed recitare cupis. > You ask that I recite to you my epigrams. I refuse: you don't want to listen, Celer, but to recite you
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
>I agree the author is massively overthinking this. Steelmanning just means treating your opponent charitably in good faith. I don't mean this to sound pernickety: steelmanning from what I've seen normally is a lot more active
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by jan_Inkepa 4y ago
Design your own? Interesting! What do you mean? what did you change about them?
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by jan_Inkepa 5y ago
Yeah the acoustics of just hitting a key on a good mechanical electrical keyboard is very surprisingly loud and propagates downwards through floors quite well. I used one for years but one still has to be considerate. It's indeed not
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by jan_Inkepa 5y ago
As someone who grew up playing piano, I'm sad that it's incompatible with urban living. I know some cultures are more likely to tolerate it than others, but overall I see it as on the way out.
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by jan_Inkepa 5y ago
>What is missing in HTML5? - Audio (while in some respect capable) is a nightmare, the interface is unstable and breaks about once a year in my experience. - You can't do pixel-perfect rendering (People keep promising that you can -

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