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by jezzamon 2y ago
To be a bit pedantic, that video is incorrect in its use of the term non-euclidean. The folks behind hyperrogue made few videos that show actual non-euclidean geometry: https://youtu.be/yqUv2JO2BCs?si=AutaqS5unvT7cDjw Compa
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by jezzamon 2y ago
very well put together article!
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by jezzamon 2y ago
Depends what you're trying to do, but some glitches used in speed runs literally depend on the exact values of pixels on the screen https://youtu.be/0B095eHBrCg?t=24m40s Not saying that supporting glitches like that is
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by jezzamon 2y ago
Awesome, I've been sort of stuck in the limbo of doing courses that taught me some theory but missing the hands on knowledge I need to really use RL. This looks like exactly the type of course I'm looking for!
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by jezzamon 3y ago
If we kept tails both the tails and our sense of what is attractive would be under evolutionary pressures so they probably would be normal to us!
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Very related: Doom rendered via checkboxes https://healeycodes.com/doom-rendered-via-checkboxes
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by jezzamon 3y ago
That's not true. As someone who is slightly invested just because I hope to see governments make logical decisions, I would like that to be the case but no the US is still making pennies
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by jezzamon 3y ago
One basic reason to support artists you like is just because you want them to make more stuff.
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Ah! Thanks for correcting me. I only did a short amount of Google searching
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by jezzamon 3y ago
For context: The US's debt to GDP ratio was 96% in 2023 China's debt to GDP ratio was 288%
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Generally things at Google are built on a stack of private libraries and infrastructure, such that open sourcing something requires a complete rewrite. Unfortunately.
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Disclaimer: I wrote this, but it's a little more from an engineering POV than a Math POV, and covers some applications: jezzamon.com/fourier Hacker news folks seem to enjoy it :) Another thought on the "why": many things
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by jezzamon 3y ago
One minor note: From my experience when studying, if a lecturer used a powerpoint I immediately knew the lecture would be less engaging compared to if they were writing directly on a chalkboard/white. Powerpoints are just... Bad. But y
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Filtering the app store for paid apps is a pretty good way to get a list that looks a lot like this. A lot of goods cross platform games are also on mobile.
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Ooh, this is my first time seeing white nationalism ideology referenced on hacker news. (And to clarify, I do not remotely support the ideology... Just curious as to what types of people use this site)
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Another fairly high profile one is Taylor Swift re-recording all her old songs and re-releasing them. When someone asks Alexa to play "Love Story" should they play the one that gives more royalties to Taylor or to some music publi
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by jezzamon 3y ago
I worked for Google Play at this time. Was interesting. Note that the significant thing is not really the 10% deal but the fact that Netflix has to stop using their own in-app payment system with 3% fees (a rule Google Play previously did n
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by jezzamon 3y ago
If you want the "assuming good intent" explanation it was to be able to detect spam and bots which apparently are a significant problem now and are no longer stopped by captchas. One online community I'm part of literally tur
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Unrelated to the general direction the comments are taking here, it's apparently not toooo hard to modify pants to extend their pockets. You'll find tonnes of videos by women on how to do that. So if there are pants that are other
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Looking at the comments here, fairly clear to see hacker news' gender imbalance / biases...
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Yes, it's still possible. Unity has a lot more mindshare though. I think what made flash work was everything was made with flash, so there was a community around it
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Take a look at the recent Australian referendum (disclaimer: like most young people I voted yes, but the outcome was no): Although people were voting, there was a lot of political parties "advocating" fairly hard for different vie
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Short answer: No
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by jezzamon 3y ago
In practice, it's also a programming language :)
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by jezzamon 3y ago
If you want a domain name, it was never possible to host your own webpage without involving someone else who owns the domain/name server side of things
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Having done it myself, I would recommend it! Though I suppose it speaks to my personality type that I didn't find moving country and leaving everything that scary. I was moving to a job, so didn't have the dwindling cash reserve
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by jezzamon 3y ago
"Society cares for the childless" - across lots of different cultures, and for a lot of human history, that is/was not the case.
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by jezzamon 3y ago
You hold your phone like a lightsaber handle, when you swing it, it makes a light saber sound effect. (Bonus: when you accidentally drop it while swinging, you get to buy a new iPhone!)
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by jezzamon 3y ago
Anti aliasing would be turned on / off, that's the difference
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by jezzamon 3y ago
That's why the pay rates are different, but that doesn't explain why the pay rates should increase by different percentages

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