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by jcalx 1y ago
Merlin is run by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, so it should (hopefully!) remain good and free, unlike apps by private companies with a profit motive.
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by jcalx 1y ago
CERN preparing a portable antimatter container right around the election of a new Pope? Sounds familiar [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_(film)
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by jcalx 1y ago
Another "big refresh". I've already disabled animations because of the faintly ridiculous system-wide overscroll effect [0] which makes every menu and webpage bounce like the viewport is made of gelatin, so I'm a little
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by jcalx 1y ago
The Bloomberg Terminal [0] has been very high-density and high-contrast since its early days of being an 80x25 terminal interface. Some would say it's not the prettiest UI (although as a former employee I still have a soft spot for it)
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by jcalx 1y ago
Perhaps it's simply because (1) LLMs are designed to be helpful and maximally responsive to requests and (2) human adults have, generously, decades-long "context windows"? I have enough life experience to not give you sensiti
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by jcalx 2y ago
Reminds me of this article from two years ago [0] and my HN comment on it. Yet another AI startup on the general trajectory of: 1) Someone runs into an interesting problem that can potentially be solved with ML/AI. They try to solve it
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by jcalx 2y ago
It's not explicitly mentioned in the article, but the arrival rate and queue sizes are related via Little's Law [0] — the average number of people in a system is equal to the arrival rate multiplied by the mean wait time, regardle
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by jcalx 2y ago
> It’s not just cars — a study of over 7,000 objects in the UK’s Science Museum found that the colors of consumer goods have been steadily neutralized since 1800. Bright, saturated tones have been giving way to gray, beige, and taupe for
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by jcalx 2y ago
> we’re exiting the scarcity economy of visuals & entering something weirder—where aesthetics become ambient infrastructure, like wifi. AI is democratizing _execution_, not creativity. The advent of the smartphone camera era allowed
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by jcalx 2y ago
Panini projection is built into Unity and Unreal. From the documentation from the latter [0] you can see how it's essentially a cropped fisheye-ish projection. That doc also has (in my opinion) a clearer comparison on how the two proje
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by jcalx 2y ago
I learned this back when I used to make maps for Source games (Team Fortress 2, CS:Source, etc.) — at first I sprinkled props and detailed geometry equally throughout the level, but it's better (in terms of art direction, player attent
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by jcalx 2y ago
Reminds me of https://latenightcommits.com/
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by jcalx 2y ago
You can also see what it looks like from the control room on Hamish Hamilton's YouTube channel, with the AD calling out shots and all: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gfjWjkTP4p8 . (Hamish Hamilton has directed every Supe
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by jcalx 2y ago
Some bots scan using giant lists of subdomains, e.g. https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Disco... . Your subdomain may be on that giant combined_subdomains list, or perhaps some other l
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by jcalx 2y ago
https://mafia.opennumbers.xyz/game/0202e9c7-b0e2-4e8d-833c-7... In round 3 everyone agrees to vote for minimax (playing as a mafia member) due to suspicious behavior, including minimax itself (to "avoid drawing su
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by jcalx 2y ago
> it's common knowledge and was also confirmed by a former prime-minister And also, inexplicably, via (formerly) publicly viewable Chegg flashcards (???): https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28&#x2
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by jcalx 2y ago
Not exactly the same but this reminds me of Joel's Strategy Letter I [0] regarding knowing what kind of business you operate, and consequently how you should grow it. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05&#x2F
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by jcalx 2y ago
Reminds me of "Reality has a surprising amount of detail" [0] — unknown unknowns often remain that way until you get up close and personal with something new. [0] http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/realit
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by jcalx 2y ago
Syft ( https://github.com/anchore/syft ) and ScanCode ( https://github.com/aboutcode-org/scancode-toolkit ) are good open-source tools to generate SBOMs and search repos for licensing information — I&
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by jcalx 2y ago
> The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for
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by jcalx 2y ago
The Factorio development blog has occasional samples of concept art [0] which are more stylized and saturated than the final, "realistic" assets. I honestly prefer the concept art style, even though the more realistic sprites comp
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by jcalx 2y ago
I know it's largely personal preference but are there any strongly compelling reasons to use iTerm2 over stock Terminal on macOS in 2025? Despite recommendations, I've been wary of security and privacy issues much like this SSH bu
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by jcalx 2y ago
I respect committing to zero formatting but just one "max-width: 600px" would make this so much easier to read.
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by jcalx 2y ago
The terms "sameness" and "average" are doing some heavy lifting here. In the grand internet tradition I will memetically unpackage "sameness" and "average" into four related components: (1) things tha
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by jcalx 2y ago
For people unwilling to invest in Global Entry, Mobile Passport Control [0] is a free program almost as fast as GE at the airports that support it. At the moment it's still sort of a lesser-known "travel hack" but it's b
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A Hamiltonian Circuit for Rubik's Cube(bruce.cubing.net)
105 points by jcalx 2y ago|38 comments
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by jcalx 2y ago
You can solve a (legally scrambled) Rubik's Cube with no knowledge of its initial state, as long as someone stops you when you've done it. You also need several billion years to do this, so it's not recommended for beginner s
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by jcalx 2y ago
Compare another "brute force" method: if we imagine the state space of all Rubik's Cube configurations as nodes and quarter-turn transitions between them as edges, it turns out there exists [0] a Hamiltonian circuit for this
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by jcalx 2y ago
The Dark Sky blog [1] had a post on their (then-new) app design, and also had many other posts on some details of their weather prediction algorithms and other technical bits. Sadly the blog was deleted after the Apple acquisition, but it i
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by jcalx 2y ago
Reposting my comment on "I just bought a 2024 Chevy Tahoe for $1" [1]: This comment and many of the replies seem to outright dismiss chatbots as universally useless, but there's selection bias at work. Of course the average H

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