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Premature Convergence(cutlefish.substack.com)
1 points by jawns 5y ago|0 comments
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Everything is awesome: Don't forget the Lego (2018)(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by jawns 5y ago|1 comments
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Physicist creates tennis-ball towers, including one made from 46 balls(physicsworld.com)
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How to Resist Evil by Leo Tolstoy (1894)(plough.com)
3 points by jawns 5y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 5y ago
I discovered this online tool because it was mentioned on the popular YouTube channel "Two Minute Papers" by Dr. Károly Zsolnai-Fehér, a computer graphics researcher who is very excited about the underlying technology, Mixbox, whi
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Rebelle: Experimental online paint software(escapemotions.com)
85 points by jawns 5y ago|22 comments
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by jawns 5y ago
> Before the customer leaves the store, two tokens appear in her digital wallet. The first is an NFT version of her new sneakers, usable in any game or virtual world she chooses. The second is an authenticated NFT receipt, which admits h
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by jawns 5y ago
Earlier this year, I was asked to interview a man who was procured through a remote-staffing firm. He was based in Southeast Asia, and on his resume it looked like he met all of the competencies we needed -- including English proficiency.
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by jawns 5y ago
This model works well if you're a single person traveling alone and have relatively few things you need to transport with you. In other words, the current "hail a taxi" model. It becomes less workable when you need to travel
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by jawns 5y ago
The relevant line: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/ac632c504d0b881d7cfb4...
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by jawns 5y ago
The idea that you can create blocks that can easily be integrated into other applications presupposes that it's a desirable thing to have data that can be easily integrated into other applications. Which, for us as developers, seems li
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by jawns 5y ago
We hear that a book is "banned" in the media a lot, but it means a lot of different things. * Is it a ban on availability? Meaning the school won't make the book available to students (e.g. in a school library). * Is it a ba
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by jawns 5y ago
Just like we learned to live with polio and smallpox?
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Ask HN: Are there any online services that have helped your kids find friends?
6 points by jawns 5y ago|4 comments
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Marak adds infinite loop to colors.js, used by 4 million(github.com)
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by jawns 5y ago
I find that forcing developers to record and publish every little mistake they made along the way has bigger downsides than the upsides of being able to follow along with their thought processes as a branch or PR evolves. Similarly, I don&#
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by jawns 5y ago
I worked for a company where every year we'd do a developer off-site and come up with technical interview challenges. Then, during the meeting, a group of devs would have to complete the challenge under the same constraints as a poten
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by jawns 5y ago
I'm a lifelong teetotaler. Back in college, I would go to house parties and bars and do everything that everyone else was doing; the only difference is that I would have a Coke in my hand instead of a Rum & Coke. That was (mostly)
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by jawns 5y ago
> Your nemesis is not your enemy. Or, put differently, your nemesis is more than just an enemy. Rather, the nemesis is an adversary is who is like your dark twin. Even as you battle with the nemesis, you share a kind of DNA. The gaze at
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by jawns 5y ago
We passed on buying several houses that would have been perfect for our (somewhat unconventional) needs, but would have been very hard to sell. Instead, we bought a house that isn't perfect for our needs but will be easy to sell, becau
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by jawns 5y ago
You need to make a distinction between color of the shoe (under normal lighting conditions) and pixel values of the shoe in the photograph. The shoe is pink under normal lighting conditions, but the pixel values are green-gray in the photog
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by jawns 5y ago
The definition of extraversion and introversion that has felt most accurate to me is that extraverts feel energized by social connection, while introverts feel energized by alone time. It does not necessarily correspond to how gregarious or
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by jawns 5y ago
If you're willing to share your time and talents, there are organizations in some larger cities that offer volunteer opportunities with no commitment. For instance, New York Cares https://www.newyorkcares.org
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by jawns 5y ago
I'm not suggesting that Covid and chicken pox are related as viruses. I'm merely pointing out one example of how long-term symptoms are not incompatible with immunity. We know that Covid causes long-term symptoms in some people. S
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by jawns 5y ago
Is there any reason to assume that initial infection with Covid can't cause both immunity against subsequent infection AND long Covid symptoms? Think about how chicken pox works. You get infected, you deal with (usually but not always
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by jawns 5y ago
I used to work as an editor for my city's metro newspaper. As someone who wants to see local journalism succeed, I would be willing to subscribe at a reasonable rate. But the only subscription plan they offer is {ridiculously low rate
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by jawns 5y ago
Yes, for all four books, I got book deals with traditional publishers. A small number of top-tier authors -- those whose books are virtually guaranteed to be bestsellers from day 1 -- tend to have marketing and publicity teams that will con
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by jawns 5y ago
I'm an author. I write books of science projects you can perform on your loved ones. For each of my four books, I got paid a decent advance. One of the books has been quite successful and has earned back its advance, so I now get royal
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by jawns 5y ago
A few years ago, I became curious about whether it's possible to write code that generates logical-deduction puzzles. It turns out, you can -- and you can also write code that solves them. I wrote about the experience here, using the &
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by jawns 5y ago
This presumes that vices have no effects on anyone but the person partaking. Think about the secondary effects of smoking on those around you, or the societal effects of the opioid crisis, or even the effects on rescue workers who need to s

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