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by katabasis 4y ago
As a kid I remember playing an old MS-DOS game that was kind of similar to MoO but may have predated it. You were in command of a new government on a resource-rich planet called Harmony and you had to steer your society through a star clust
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by katabasis 4y ago
> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years https://longnow.org/about/ The current year in Long Now parlance w
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by katabasis 4y ago
I just started using this service. My partner and I just had a baby and we wanted a way to share periodic updates with friends and family that was not dependent on social media. The simplicity of the service is a real breath of fresh air an
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by katabasis 5y ago
I'm not sure that human "general intelligence" is a thing in the first place. Human behavior and cognition is driven by biological and cultural processes, which are the result of millions of years of evolution and billions of
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by katabasis 5y ago
Amazing design, thanks for sharing!
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by katabasis 5y ago
You can still just use Vue as a runtime view library and leave it at that – no build step, state management, routing, etc. It's not a bad way to work if you have a smaller project; I've done so myself more than once. React has mor
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by katabasis 5y ago
Not an economist either, but lately I've been enjoying Piketty's "Capital in the 21st Century", and he describes how England and France saw very little inflation for most of the 18th and 19th centuries. This monetary reg
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by katabasis 5y ago
I own a Remarkable 2 and really love it, but I agree that the lack of some kind of integrated ebook marketplace is a missed opportunity. I would love to be able to just buy a bestselling book through the device (or it's accompanying ap
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by katabasis 5y ago
If we continue to move the goalposts of what defines intelligence into mystical/ineffable territory, we may find that humanity no longer qualifies as “intelligent” either.
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by katabasis 5y ago
Human-caused climate change creates feedback loops leading to mass extinction events, eventually making the planet unsuitable for complex life.
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by katabasis 5y ago
I think that humans (all of us) are significantly less rational than we like to believe. We all make bad decisions and act irrationally from time to time. For people with resources, good support networks, etc. the occasional screw will (hop
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by katabasis 5y ago
For anyone interested in this topic I highly recommend Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time", a beautifully written and up-to-date discussion of the physical nature of time. The book is written for a general audience (there is
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by katabasis 5y ago
This person uses a Fuji digital camera, but they don't mention what software they intend to use for photo editing. I shoot with the same camera and do a lot of hobby photography; one of the things that keeps me from seriously consideri
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by katabasis 5y ago
In Rovelli's book he talks about going to Anton Zeilinger's laboratory to see the experiment in person. I assume you'd need a proper lab with carefully calibrated equipment for something like this, but I'm not a physicis
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by katabasis 5y ago
Unless you have a light source that can emit a beam consisting of only a few photons (and precise enough detectors to see them on the other side) you won't see the effect. Otherwise, the quantum interference demonstrated by the experim
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by katabasis 5y ago
This is also good: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-relational/
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by katabasis 5y ago
If "zero worlds" means there is no unified single reality that all physical systems relate to (just like there is no universal frame of reference for motion according to relativity) then I think we're in similar territory. I&
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by katabasis 5y ago
Carlo Rovelli's book Helgoland[1] is a short and accessible account of the various philosophical interpretations of quantum phenomena, along with their shortcomings. Highly recommended to anyone interested in the topic. Rovelli is a pr
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by katabasis 5y ago
In a previous life I used Leaflet in some digital art-history publications for the Getty Museum in LA [1]. Leaflet was the MVP of our static-website software stack ("JAMstack" before that was a thing). We used Leaflet to provide m
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by katabasis 5y ago
That's the idea. Various tools and power-user features benefit from the things that modern JS frameworks give you. But the basic experience of reading articles should support the lowest-common denominator. Most JS frameworks consider t
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by katabasis 5y ago
That currently lives here: https://github.com/wikimedia/wvui/tree/master/src/components... . This is WVUI, the component library created to serve the needs of the Desktop Improvements case study ment
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by katabasis 5y ago
Various teams have been using Vue on a more experimental basis over the last year. The new Media Search tool on Commons is Vue.js-based, for example: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaSearch But this anno
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by katabasis 5y ago
Is "misleading content" going to be determined on a per-country basis? Will Google ban activists in Hong Kong from distributing "misleading content" about the PRC? How about people in Hungary sharing "misleading&quo
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by katabasis 5y ago
For fans of Miles' later period, this project is releasing every live tape of his performances from 1969-1975, in order and with commentary: https://theheatwarps.com/ Some real gems here, most of which are free to do
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by katabasis 5y ago
The simulation includes this assumption: > Technology persists in a given settlement for 100 million years before dying out Seems wildly speculative to me. Our own civilization has only been around for a tiny fraction of that time and fu
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by katabasis 5y ago
This is my experience too. I used to keep a stack of notebooks around, and I never seemed to have the right one on hand. Now I just have to keep track of one notebook that will never run out of space. With the most recent updates the e-read
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by katabasis 6y ago
I have a Remarkable 2 (and love it), but one downside is that it only takes DRM-free books for it's e-reader. I wish the company would partner with some publishers so that I could buy books to read on the device. At least we have Stand
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2020: The Year in Vue(techblog.wikimedia.org)
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by katabasis 6y ago
I just made the switch for exactly this reason! Still getting the hang of the UI but seems promising so far. I shoot with Fuji cameras which seem well-supported here.
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by katabasis 6y ago
At this point I consider the Adobe suite to be basically the same as malware. Their apps seem to want to take over your system, install all kinds of "helpers" that run in the background constantly doing god knows what, etc. And th

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