kilovoltaire

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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Your callback would have your capabilities in scope, so your user code would still be able to do whatever you want, even when called by an untrusted library. I.e. something like: import capabilities; import fs; import someLibr
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
This is interesting, but I personally really like that markdown is almost as legible as plain text as when rendered, which things like this sort of break. So I think I'd prefer ASCII art diagrams for this sort of thing. (In fact there
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Since there's currently an article about quaternions on the front page, it felt like a good time to bring up bivectors, which in my opinion are a much more elegant way to do rotations. Particularly, I think this part is insightful: &gt
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Came here to say this! I always felt like quaternions weren't a perfect fit for 3d rotation, and when I finally learned about bivectors my faith in the elegance of mathematics was restored :D I liked this article: https://ma
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
https://archive.md/4OzJo
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Europe Revisits Nuclear Power as Climate Deadlines Loom(nytimes.com)
2 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Meanwhile human NES Tetris is also getting unbelievably good, including a whole new method of 'rolling' your fingers across the back of the controller Here's a video of a former world champion 'hypertapper' Joseph v
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I really liked this Not Just Bikes video because it shows that it's not just a zero-sum bikes-vs-cars situation, intelligent urban design can be better for everyone!
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Why the Netherlands Is the Best Country for Drivers(youtube.com)
2 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
These don't seem to work very well for me, but I still thought it was a very interesting idea, plus it just looks really cool/crazy
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Escher Circuits: Using Vision to Perform Computation(esoteric.codes)
4 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I think you misread the code, the comparison is the opposite of what you might expect, so a[i] is always the largest element, and it is not inserted into a[1..i-1]
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Note that the comparison is backwards, so by that line of thinking it would sort in reverse (descending) order …but it doesn't
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
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The Drinker Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|0 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I was surprised I had never heard of this until today It would have been amazing to witness
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The Zanclean Flood(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|2 comments
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Exploring quantum gravity and entanglement using pendulums(phys.org)
1 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|0 comments
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Google removed our 4M user Chrome Extension(indiehackers.com)
30 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|3 comments
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Estimating CPU cache size with the memory mountain(onestepcode.com)
1 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|0 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
If you're wondering why I shared it again, I got an email(!) from HN inviting me to share it again, which is an interesting thing I didn't know existed You can read more about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I love the use of patch cables to make graphics, like a visual modular synthesizer
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The engineer preserving the last analog motion graphics machine (2017) [video](youtube.com)
180 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|37 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
In my opinion you've removed very important context from this quote. As mentioned elsewhere, the full quote is very different: “information about public voting procedures, political candidate eligibility based on age / birthplace,
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I assume any Spotify-only podcast is because Spotify is paying them to be exclusive?
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
tl;dr from the article: The http(s): gets interpreted as a label The // immediately following the label starts a comment
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Most URLs are syntactically valid JavaScript code(george.mand.is)
1 points by kilovoltaire 5y ago|1 comments
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Archived link [pdf]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210414165446if_/http://media.a...
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
Archived link [pdf]: https://web.archive.org/web/20210414165446if_/http://media.a...
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by kilovoltaire 5y ago
I recently did this too, took about a week to get in the habit but now it's great!

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