kilovoltaire

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   by kilovoltaire 3y ago

   Ah yeah faces with same color as background and low opacity sounds like a good approach. Here's an editable copy of the code if anyone sees this and wants to try adding the faces - https://jsfiddle.net/t0crk5do/
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   by kilovoltaire 3y ago

   Thanks!
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   by kilovoltaire 3y ago

   Oh yeah that would look cool… Possibly transparent faces of the cube with a particular `mix-blend-mode` that leaves the background color alone but dims letters that get behind it? (That's just a wild guess, I don't know if it&#x27
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   by kilovoltaire 3y ago

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanumycin
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   by kilovoltaire 4y ago

   Yeah this conversation feels very car-centric (understandably so, since much of the world and especially the US is currently overrun with cars, but still sad)
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   by kilovoltaire 4y ago

   Exactly, almost everyone mentions awful commutes, but if you have a short walk or bikeride through a beautiful city to start and end your work day, then I think it's pretty great. (Even then I like flexibility to only go in ~3 days a w
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   by kilovoltaire 4y ago

   I see these defaced plates quite often—there seems to be no consequence for breaking the law this way, despite the loss of revenue, and presumably more dangerous streets.
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   by kilovoltaire 4y ago

   https://archive.is/jOYaV
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   New York vigilante who fixes up defaced license plates(newyorker.com)

   3 points by kilovoltaire 4y ago|2 comments
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    > After a bull market run it generally takes 5-10 years to reach its peak again. Bitcoin has only existed for 14 years—seems a bit early to generalize anything based on the two times it has peaked and crashed so far.
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Google and Facebook are both advertising companies, doesn't seem that different to me.
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    "money motivated" doesn't necessarily lead in the best direction
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    I thought it was based on the Bush-ism "strategery" - https://stratechery.com/2013/strategery/ Or was that a later change?
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    The abstract answers this, I believe. Human-tron is 5x as massive! > ...a biomass of ∼12 megatons of dry carbon... equivalent to ∼20% of human biomass Honestly the unfathomable biomass of humans creeps me out more than the biomass of ant
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    sounds like the page should say "at least eight years" then, instead of "up to eight years"
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    If you like thinking about that sort of thing, and haven't read it yet, check out the short story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    thanks for the context! small typo - air conditioner should be 3.5kw not kwh
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Only just saw this comment, that's a great point! (Since the formula is two tetrahedra minus one triangle.) Now very curious why that shape corresponds to sum of cubes / why it's equivalent to a pyramid...
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    35€
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    I bought it for 1500€ in 2014, when nic.st had a Black Friday sale. It was the only 3-letter domain I'd ever seen for sale, so I couldn't resist.
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Yeah I agree, it's not 'visually' obvious that the combined entries are all the same. But once I started writing it I had to see where it went :p (Footnotes 2 and 3 at the end explain why the entries all end up the same. And
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Yeah this is KaTeX, pre-rendered with Jekyll. (Except for the diagrams, which are inserted by a Python script after the KaTeX rendering is done.) Source here https://github.com/hrldcpr/poole/blob/master/_
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Thanks for the nice comments, everyone! I made this but didn't expect to see it here. As people have noticed, the spinning diagrams are done with CSS, which was fun. Basically it's just an `animation: linear infinite;` from `trans
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Geometric Algebra provides a compelling alternative to quaternions: https://marctenbosch.com/quaternions/ (HN discussion 8 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29512302 )
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    “We shape our tools, and thereafter, they shape us.”
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Haha I always interpreted it as the opposite of that, but this makes much more sense!
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    I assume it's based on the UI of Instagram Stories, which maybe feels quite natural for some people (not me so much)
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    Fun to read the typo literally—it does often seem true that no one can resist predicting
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    New York Still Reviewing Public Comments for Bitcoin Power Plant(gothamist.com)

    2 points by kilovoltaire 4y ago|0 comments
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    by kilovoltaire 4y ago

    If you want an inspiring (imho) overview of the power of geometric algebra, I thoroughly enjoyed the video "A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra" https://youtu.be/60z_hpEAtD8