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by kqr 8mo ago
This is great! The project that prompted me to submit TFA becomes ever so slightly better in OKLab (from early experiments using CSS color-mix) but I thought it would be more complicated than CIE Lab. Seems like it's not? Will try to i
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We are definitely not. Point at a problem, and measure the cost of solving it. That's developer productivity. We only avoid doing it at scale because it's expensive. In particular if we want the measurement to generalise out of sa
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by kqr 8mo ago
I'll also plug my no-nonsense guessing game tutorial for getting started with Ada quickly: https://entropicthoughts.com/guessing-game-ada-style
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In my experience it is trivial to call out to C libraries from Ada. You run a tool to convert the header file to Ada syntax, you link in the C library, and then you call the C code as if it were Ada code. That's probably why you don&#x
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by kqr 8mo ago
If, by chance, there are any fans of Morrowind here, there are shaders for the OpenMW source port that add volumetric fog and the game becomes absolutely stunning with them. I'm sure that was what the original developers intended but
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Does productivity increases with AI or it just feels like it?(newbeelearn.com)
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From RGB to L*a*b* color space (2024)(kaizoudou.com)
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Erratic ILS Signal Causes a Missed Approach(boldmethod.com)
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I suppose they really only have to be good at knowing what sort of thing the audience would believe a great thinker would say. As long as the audience does not consist of great thinkers they also cannot know for sure what a great thinker wo
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Correct. Line 10 does not have the same mistake.
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I agree. I met Knuth briefly after a guest lecture at my university a few years ago and although you could tell his body was getting old, his mind was incredibly fresh. Although I'm not as bright as him, I can only hope to be as intell
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What prompt do you use for the letter-to-self? I've been trying that technique myself to manually reset context without losing the important parts (e.g. when it has barked up the wrong tree and I'm sensing that misstep might influ
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Everyone updates their belief in hypotheses based on the perceived strength of evidence they observe. That's just science. Frequentists and Bayesians differ in which sets of statistical tools they prefer for measuring the strength of e
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These days computers compete along with humans in forecasting tournaments on Metaculus. They don't quite beat the top humans yet, but they're up there. https://www.metaculus.com/futureeval/
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Both kph and mph sort of follow a pattern of the first letter of each word in the unit being spelled out, but kmph reads ambiguously as k(mph) or (km)ph. Of course, anyone caring about correctness would use the SI unit symbol, which is m&#x
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SRGB↔XYZ Conversion (2021)(mina86.com)
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Experts' nebulous decision making can often be modelled with simple decision trees and even decision chains (linked lists). Even when the expert thinks their decision making is more complex, a simple decision tree better models the exp
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... if they are privileged enough to be able to take time away from family and jobs. The current crop of LLMs are subsidised enough to make this learning less expensive for those with little of both time and money. That's what's m
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Nothing at all could be worse! One of the issues with Iraq was that Rumsfeld didn't want to acknowledge that it takes more personnel post-toppling (to rebuild infrastructure and institutions) than during invasion. It seems like the c
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Because > all known minefields have been cleared When clearing minefields, one does not miss mines, because that would be lethal! Every cube inch is carefully mapped. It is extremely hard work.
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I don't know anything about laboratory uses of agar, but I do use it in cooking. Something that baffles me is that so many recipes (at least in northern Europe) use gelatin when agar works just as well or better. Agar is cheaper, easie
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> The best solution I have come up with is to use Google maps to find the actual address and then copy that into the other app This is what I do. > but at that point I might as well just use Google maps. I disagree. OSMAnd is so much
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by kqr 8mo ago
I realised I never shared this with HN! My first proper Pico-8 project was a minimalistic arrival air controller game, where instead of vectoring planes you assign them to routes. Early versions of the game were extremely challenging and la
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Show HN: Arrival Radar(entropicthoughts.com)
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Thanks for accommodating for unregistered play. This was fun! It took me a surprisingly long time to break out of the tetris gravity mindset and start attaching pieces to the bottom of existing blobs, rather than on the lowest possible posi
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Do you have an RSS feed for your blog?
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I agree. Including the unit in the name is a form of Hungarian notation; useful when the language doesn't support defining custom types, but looks a little silly otherwise.
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The charitable reading of "better sleep" is "sleep habits that allow for a healthy amount of sleep". A lot of people have habits that give them insufficient sleep.
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In the case of Git, I can warmly recommend Magit as a TUI. Not only does it make frequent operations easier and rare operations doable -- it also teaches you Git! I have a draft here about one aspect of Magit I enjoy: https://ent
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I have long thought about ways to make the board game of go (baduk, weiqi) more into a real-time srategy game. I found this game while doing research and it isn't quite it, but comes close. I figured HN might be interested because it i

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