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by masswerk 3y ago
From an aesthetic perspective, I actually like the Cornel West site. It's a blast from the past, as in a website actually trying to articulate anything. Especially, how West isn't just featured as a bystander in his own campaign (
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by masswerk 3y ago
Well, it may well be that, as a European, I really don't understand how far that kind of mindset may go. My point was really that, when it comes to an individual blocking communal efforts to preserve a city as an expression of personal
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Please mind that this is about fire fighting. There is reason, why they have the right of way, as this exceeds any individual concerns: would you really rather have another Great Fire, as a single car blocks critical efforts in the name of
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by masswerk 3y ago
This may not work out, as the fines may be lower than the costs of development to address the underlying issues, while it's at the same time all about basic safety of the community. (The fines would have to be higher than the cost of &
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by masswerk 3y ago
A somewhat concerning observation: there seems to be an inverse law of probability for a hallucinated answer for a (very) small number of authoritative sources. E.g., if there's something stated in a manufacturer's manual (which h
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Also, it's not only newspapers, but also small, independent publishers. Once, there had been a thriving blogsphere, sustained by online advertising, and there were professional bloggers, much like there are now professional YouTubers.
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by masswerk 3y ago
Yes, my experience was definitively European, as in PAL. It was rather neat, until the image panned… (The problem being, apparently you still have to alternate between fields in order to maintain the illusion of interlaced video, so you get
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by masswerk 3y ago
Regarding CRT flicker: for monitors, you don't want to drive a CRT below 90Hz (120 Hz is pretty stable), even TVs were at the end 100Hz (refreshing frames multiple times). The problem was "cost effective" office PCs with grap
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Regarding underestimating qualitative methods: I'm actually all for them. It may turn out, it's all you need. (Maybe, a quantitative test will be required to prove your point, but it will probably not contribute much to a solution
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> The more mysterious question to me would actually be whether that disorientation also leads to people not ordering. This is actually the crucial question. The disorientation is an indication for a fundamental mismatch between the inter
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You really have to be able to build samples based on the first part of the hypothesis: you should test 4 groups for a crosstab. (Also, homogeneity may be an issue.) Transitioning from qualitative to quantitative methods is really the tricky
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Ad 7) > Good hypothesis: User research showed that users are unsure of how to proceed to the checkout page. Changing the button's color will lead to more users noticing it (…) Mind that you have to prove first that this preposition
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by masswerk 3y ago
This is one of the best ROM listings, I've ever seen: the comments are informative and detailed, making it easy to follow along! A great source for anyone interested in Z80 code or eager to learn.
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by masswerk 3y ago
Thank you! As a continental guy, I wasn't quite sure myself, when and how the UK joined this madness. In all fairness: adopting metric on the one hand, but also US billions on the other hand, is a bit odd, not to say, confusing… Is thi
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by masswerk 3y ago
There's also a notable ideological split, a schism, in this amazing instrument combining both the aspects of a positional indicator and a navigational device in a single widget that we call a scrollbar. Namely, it's about the ques
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by masswerk 3y ago
I think, there were similar samples from Barcelona, as well.
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Now, everybody knows that gigahertz is a generic unit for fast used by the Gig Economy, when they rent a user's processor for free by making them pay for a subscription! (More correctly, it's a rating scale for user processors, li
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by masswerk 3y ago
Also mind: > Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke. That said it is also an interesting intellectual exercise to consider whether it’s remotely possible to achieve >=2MH
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by masswerk 3y ago
Also, a certain corrective factor is required to make the "because" in this argument work.
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The problem being that many of our big corporations and institutions are much like an Imperial Army, but without the culture of seppuku. They have overrun considerable territory and established the Greater Welfare Zone, including its glacis
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by masswerk 3y ago
I, on the other hand, enjoyed a well written piece. It's both and argument and a narration, which sets about the right mood for a critique of narratives. (Also, there seems to be a tactical side to this: as we enjoy the story, spend ti
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by masswerk 3y ago
There's a scene in the Cryptonomicon, where Goto Dengo's (a lieutenant in the Japanese Imperial Army in WWII) convoy is sunk by a US air attack. This involves a new weapon, which also requires a crucial change in tactics – and h
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by masswerk 3y ago
Knowing that the data is unreliable is something already. Then, you can apply heuristics. And, if there is a systematic error, you should be able to detect this, eventually. (E.g., what is the unreliable series, what is the bug and when is
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by masswerk 3y ago
Which might be exactly, why nobody wants to talk about this. (This may be especially nasty where archives had been digitized and then the analog originals were disposed of. What can you even do about this?) PS: In order to have learned anyt
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by masswerk 3y ago
Maybe, these – the demise of Xerox not happening and the size of the players involved – are related? As in: none wants their archives and data bases put in question? (Meaning, in order to claim damages, you'd have to admit that there i
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by masswerk 3y ago
BTW, BBEdit has a `hard wrap` scripting command with a limit option (page guide, window width, character width). And, no, GPT is not a tool for factual verification, it creates probable chains of words that are likely to be found impressive
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I'm an ardent user of BBEdit since 1996, and it's the single solid piece of software, I've seen in all these years.
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Aren't there copyright concerns involved? When I'm publishing an image, I invest some time into presenting it just as I intend it to be seen, including the orchestration of sharpness. My intent that this is exactly what I want to
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by masswerk 3y ago
Bit of nitpicking: This is, because `my` doesn't declare a local variable (you do this with `local`), but a lexically private variable, which is something different. Expressing that something "belongs" to a private scope by `
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This was not in the version I was seeing. (This was only the first 4 paragraphs.)

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