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by kqr 9mo ago
I get a couple of cold emails a week and I like to be as helpful as I can when people have entrusted me with their opinions/thoughts/concerns/questions. I also often don't find the time to respond until weeks or months l
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by kqr 9mo ago
"Turning urban areas into obstacle courses for pedestrians" was an excellent way to phrase that problem!
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by kqr 9mo ago
That seems like a surprising enough statement to be backed up by data. What is your source? Everything I've read points toward larger margins of safety (longer distances, slower speeds) being safer. See e.g. https://publicat
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by kqr 9mo ago
Not only are you less likely to crash -- you're less likely to cause a crash ten cars behind you. This diagram changed how I think about following distance: https://entropicthoughts.com/keep-a-safe-following-distance
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by kqr 9mo ago
I had never considered there is a difference between the two words, but Wikipedia backs it up: > The word street is still sometimes used informally as a synonym for road , but city residents and urban planners draw a significant moder
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by kqr 9mo ago
The box by Taschen.
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by kqr 9mo ago
You get used to it very quickly. If you're actually interested, give it five minutes and you'll read it like normal. If you're not interested, the long s and the ligatures are not the problem.
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by kqr 9mo ago
Isn't this just Berkson's paradox? If you filter for either exceptional childhood or exceptional adulthood they will appear negatively correlated.
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by kqr 9mo ago
The reprint of the Byrne edition of Euclid is the most beautiful book I have, and I have more shelf-metres of books than I have fingers and toes. It will always have a prominent place in my home. This website day have been what got me into
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Ask HN: How to read out loud articles with equations and code?
5 points by kqr 9mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 9mo ago
As one of the people who don't know how to cut the ends off correctly, how do I do that?
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Oh my God that is so clever. Thanks for sharing!
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by kqr 9mo ago
I smilarly use the HP 12c. There is nothing more convenient for solving simple compound interest/discounting problems.
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by kqr 9mo ago
But if it is equally skewed for everyone, does it really matter?
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by kqr 9mo ago
Interesting. I'm at 18,176/392,187 ≈ 46 millikarma per word. I did not expect any of those numbers to be so high. But at almost 90, I have to ask: do you have a blog I should follow?
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by kqr 9mo ago
Other such examples include confusing Monte Carlo for Monaco and saying Bohemia when talking about Czechia. During the cold war, the word Russia often got to stand in for the entirety of the Soviet Union.
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by kqr 9mo ago
I have been using Termux to SSH to other machines for quite some time, but only relatively recently did I have a flash of insight: I can use Termux to write applications for my phone in Perl (!). A year ago I used it to solve Advent of Code
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by kqr 9mo ago
If you want to create an adventure game but your visual skills are lacking, I recommend looking into text adventures! There are great tools for making them these days: - Inform 7 has annoying syntax but an amazing IDE; - Inform 6 is somewha
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by kqr 9mo ago
> I also have to admit that it’s really not the best for small knots or when having to knot with limited lace, mostly due to the required finger setup. On the other hand, when the length of lace is limited and you need to maintain tens
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by kqr 9mo ago
At the time, 16 years old.
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by kqr 9mo ago
Even if they required it that's no guarantee people actually do it. I have lived for a couple of years at an address different than the one I was registered at. Illegal in my country, but easy to conceal. (I had to because the apartmen
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by kqr 9mo ago
This was a point Deming often emphasised: there is no true population count in a country. What we call "the population count" is really just whatever number falls out of the method we have chosen to perform the count. For any co
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by kqr 9mo ago
This was the reason I switched from Windows to using Linux full time back around 2006. Windows used to be somewhat peaceful bu around then it increasingly started interrupting me instead of me generating interrupts for it. I gather Windows
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by kqr 9mo ago
Awesome article. If anyone wants to learn more about wildfire firefighting from the boots-on-the-ground perspective, I can warmly recommend Matthew Desmond's On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters . It taught me
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by kqr 9mo ago
Oh, wow, thanks! I've only been using Midjourney but the other models you showcase really do adhere much better to the details of the prompt. Do you know how I can get them to adhere to style suggestions better? They seem to be biased
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by kqr 9mo ago
Paper airplanes do not have barndoor wings, though. Most of them have stepped camber through the way they are folded. It's not finished but I started writing this to clarify: https://entropicthoughts.com/paper-airplane-
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The Lost Art of Windows 95 Pranking (2023)(mordenstar.com)
1 points by kqr 9mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 9mo ago
> Never use out-of-the-box images of CRT computers Thanks for the feedback! I'm very new to GenAI imagery and still finding my feet. Seeing the results, I definitely considered compositing a real photograph of a computer with the re
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by kqr 9mo ago
This mirrors reflections I've had recently as well. I have been, for the most part, focusing on what you would call "content for acquisition", i.e. easily relatable, somewhat shallow, extensively researched articles that show
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He's been doing this since he was a child, much of it without TV and social media. But this specific tower? Doubt it.

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