logicrook

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by logicrook 11y ago
Although everyone seems to celebrate it, I feel a little uneasy about this. The whole publishing scam is not about giving (or restricting) access from research to peons, it is to justify sucking the money of public institutions. When the
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by logicrook 11y ago
I don't generate the palettes algorithmically[0], but each color is defined by its role. So if you want change the palette, for another one where the values are in roughly the same relation, it is going to work. [0]If you want to do it
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by logicrook 11y ago
No, I meant some pigments won't mix well because of other physical properties. The only example I can think of from the top of my head is in the Quiller, Color choices. It is mainly concerned with watercolors, and some colors mix unifo
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by logicrook 11y ago
>Painters don't stick to just three pigments, but all the pigments they use CAN be created by mixing three primaries in different proportions. No. Paint is not light, and has physical properties that constrain what you can do with t
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by logicrook 11y ago
There's a tendency to downvote comments that are not useful, to avoid comment threads to degenerate into a flood of snarky fourteen years-old debates. A tendency that I deplore. Also, this comment is seriously unfunny.
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by logicrook 11y ago
This triggers me. Besides having no explanation whatsoever, none of these palettes are usable for similar roles. So if you are able to pick a palette that suits your needs, it means you are able to understand what you need from your palette
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by logicrook 11y ago
>to avoid narrowing your reading to startups and web tech. Where did I try to make this point? My issue is with the quality, not the subject. As pluteoid remarked, this is not a very good article, and fairly long-winded with regard to it
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by logicrook 11y ago
I'm always surprised to see barely high-school level science articles get on the front page. An alternative title to this article could be "how spaceless numbers achieve defining space"? Like you just have a basis, and this d
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by logicrook 11y ago
'Parisian dialect' just sends to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_French .
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by logicrook 11y ago
How and where do you learn this dialect? How does it differ from 'generic French'?
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by logicrook 11y ago
What? Do you have any example? I'm not sure I could come up with ten words that are pronounced differently by different kind of French. 'Vingt' and 'moins' are such examples, because their orthographies are so nonse
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by logicrook 11y ago
Yes. VR is for porn.
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by logicrook 11y ago
That's a completely false analogy. We rely on text to represent what's best written as text. When you want to speak of a specific automaton or graph, you'll give a figure, unless the mathematical structure is really big (infi
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by logicrook 11y ago
That's great, that should be shown to all "how can you dare ask for docs when you have man pages". Although the point of RTFM is very legitimate, man pages are often well complimented by tutorials, cheatsheets and everything
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by logicrook 11y ago
I always thought very funny to imagine, say, Turing say 'let M be a Turing machine'... but in general you quickly discover that most named mathematical principles were named afterward by respect for the author. And then you have s
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by logicrook 11y ago
>Mayer's tenure at the helm of a big co like this is over, she will take a multi year hit before she resurfaces somewhere else (will take a while for her to get another CEO job) That's a shame really, we need diversity in tech,
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by logicrook 11y ago
I have a script that do most installations and configurations that I run after each Linux install. It contains the following lines: ### fix font issues sudo rm /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/comic* sud
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by logicrook 11y ago
Way to spoil the fun with thoughtful and pertinent comments.
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by logicrook 11y ago
Superb satire, it reminds me of "Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon".
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by logicrook 11y ago
Didn't think of that, but it's true that there's an unhealthy circle between locked hardware and locked software. Still a pretty horrible experience to read "now find a windows computer"... when trying to install fr
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by logicrook 11y ago
Happy to hear that! Could you comment on the account requirement? Is it still a thing?
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by logicrook 11y ago
Linux enthusiasts have had a very bad time when wanting to try a Ubuntu phone because you had, to do so, to activate an account with a valid email address. As you may imagine these Linux users are concerned by privacy issues, so it was a de
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by logicrook 11y ago
Although this is not great information, there are way worse submissions that make it to the front page. The useful thing with this article is that it tell one cannot really estimate the battery usage of a user, even knowing much of his habi
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by logicrook 11y ago
It seems that most often the pieces that try to be too literary (or too story-esque) tend to distort the facts to best fit the narrative (or rather the narrative fallacy). Doesn't that worry you?
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by logicrook 11y ago
Honestly, why? After reading a few of them, I was completely sick of this format. It appears to me as information-free fluff, written in a very generic style. What do you like in this format? I genuinely don't understand how it can sel
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by logicrook 11y ago
Basically every piece of hardware with a clock in my house is blinking, yet I'm fine with Linux. The problem isn't that it's too hard to set, but usually they will get unplugged at some point, and you have to set the clocks a
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by logicrook 11y ago
Hospital equipment is a sector where we need to push strongly for open solutions. Besides their own security, they are putting people's life in danger. An informed citizen should have a way to check the running software and that the
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by logicrook 11y ago
As much as this advice is correct for painting, it's incorrect for design. What's wrong with black text? Nothing. Ironically, the site you link as a very thin font with very reduced contrast, so it's barely legible on my scre
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by logicrook 11y ago
Not directly related, but a fun anecdote. During an art history course, the prof when at great length explaining how high art was unsuccessful, and true artists cursed to be starving, because the general public could not fathom, yet even re
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by logicrook 11y ago
There are consistently laws to purposefully remove digital rights for the people (think encryption tools). With this argument, you justify that rights should be taken from everybody for the sake of the majority, and there's no opt-in a

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