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by jstanley 2y ago
The menstruation one isn't researching menstruation. It's researching "the possibilities of menstruation and perimenopause tracking apps for people with diverse embodied experiences". They're not even making the app
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by jstanley 2y ago
> “I called this style “AirSpace”. It’s marked by an easily recognisable mix of symbols – like reclaimed wood, Edison bulbs, and refurbished industrial lighting – that’s meant to provide familiar, comforting surroundings for a wealthy, m
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by jstanley 2y ago
That's not how natural selection works.
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by jstanley 2y ago
"Citizen science" is kind of a demeaning term, as if the only way to do "Real science" is to work for a university.
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by jstanley 2y ago
You think materially everyone over the age of 18 who plays chess ought to be good enough to be world champion?
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by jstanley 2y ago
A person had an idea for something they wanted to do. They set about doing it. They undoubtedly ran into difficulties and had to think about how to solve them. They came up with solutions, probably some of the solutions aren't as elega
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by jstanley 2y ago
I think you're confusing an argument about violence's effectiveness with one about its morality.
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A long time coming: linear clock (2019)(woodsgood.ca)
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by jstanley 2y ago
So, it's not as decentralised as you can get, you just personally don't like decentralisation?
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by jstanley 2y ago
A lot of the time you can prevent this by prefilling the output with "```\n", and stopping at "```".
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by jstanley 2y ago
> I used to think that I overspent. That my groceries could have been cheaper. That I could have eaten out or traveled less. Then a few months ago, I went on NomadList and found out that the average living cost in Montreal is $3,750&#x2F
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by jstanley 2y ago
If your observations would be the same whether your conspiracy theory is true or not, then the simplest explanation is that the conspiracy theory is not true. A theory that can explain everything explains nothing.
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by jstanley 2y ago
I don't think remembering the meaning of icons is easier, because in order to think about it you have to be able to pronounce it inside your head. And code isn't just linear, it can be spread across multiple files in a directory t
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by jstanley 2y ago
I was inspired to make this after seeing the "markwhen" project on the HN front page. I did a first iteration using markwhen but found it was not exactly what I wanted. I didn't really want the page to allow interactive editi
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Show HN: Timeline of Discovery(incoherency.co.uk)
1 points by jstanley 2y ago|1 comments
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Become Anyone 2.0 [video](youtube.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
OK, but then what? Leave the LED on for 24 hours after you've captured a single frame? At that point the LED isn't really indicating camera usage because you'll just get used to seeing it on all the time whether the camera is
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by jstanley 2y ago
Thanks for the insightful comment! I've just been (re-)reading "Harrison Decoded", it's very difficult to know how much of the "conventional thinking is wrong, Harrison was right" stuff to take seriously. Harri
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Building a Harrison Wooden Longcase [pdf](bhi.co.uk)
14 points by jstanley 2y ago|3 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
That's fine! If it's for a rate limit, sure, use exponential backoff, and put a known upper bound on how long you'll back off for. But don't make your application wait for 50 minutes to come back up just because the data
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by jstanley 2y ago
> and where delays aren't super costly This is key. If delays aren't costly, sure, any algorithm is fine. But if you want your service up as soon as possible, why spend pointless minutes calling sleep() when you could be gettin
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by jstanley 2y ago
My view is that you basically never want exponential backoff. The only time exponential backoff is useful is if the failure is due to a rate limit and you specifically need a mechanism to reduce the rate at which you are attempting to use
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FreeCAD 1.0 release trailer [video](youtube.com)
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by jstanley 2y ago
Doesn't that mean that even the end customer is subject to liability via law enforcement? So they're actively incentivised not to bring attention to it.
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by jstanley 2y ago
You don't think you could identify yellow buses without cultural knowledge? I think simply knowing "yellow" and "buses" would suffice.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Only if you already suspect that this tool caused the problem.
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by jstanley 2y ago
What does anyone do if they have a bug they don't know how to fix? Find a way to work around it.
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FreeCAD 1.0 Release Candidate 4 is out(blog.freecad.org)
2 points by jstanley 2y ago|0 comments
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Korfhage Remontoire(my-time-machines.net)
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by jstanley 2y ago
Probably an LLM-assisted blog post.

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