mattbierner

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by mattbierner 8y ago
Dreams were why I started taking melatonin. Taking it before bed, combined with a dream journal, helped me remember significantly more of my dreams—many of which have been absurdly comedic or indescribably beautiful—although how much of thi
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by mattbierner 8y ago
School can create these sort of spaces, at least to a degree. University for example is many people's first taste of independence, but that independence is supported by some fairly extensive safety nets (financial, social, educational,
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There's something to be said for creating face putting safe experiences that don't feel restrictive. Stardew Valley is designed so that worst that experimenting can do is waste time. There are no items or challenges that destroy a
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How much of the reaction to this is: "isn't it neat that web standards have advanced enough that we don't need jquery anymore," vs a pile on of: "jquery teh sucks cause it's old and stuff."
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I left 25 a few days back. The closing note was shooting an erotic art music video experiment thing, and in another few weeks I'm heading to a letterpress program in Switzerland. Life takes unexpected turns. Looking forward, how can I
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by mattbierner 8y ago
To be fair, almost every leader portrays themselves as a “man of The People” when this is almost never the case. Even authoritarian dictators like Gaddafi claimed this in order to lend legitimacy to their rule. What’s really surprising is
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by mattbierner 8y ago
While good writing and artwork undoubtably can express a far greater range of emotions than emoji—and with infinitely more subtlety—if you ask me how I’m feeling in casual conversation, 90% of the time I’ll reply “fine” or “ok” or “bad”. Be
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by mattbierner 8y ago
"Discovery weekly" and "new releases" are not sorted as far as I know, but related artists may be. A key factor at play here may be that there is no "best", the variety of the recommendations feels like a posit
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Slightly different but spotify’s algorithmic recommendations have been great. I’ve found some really amazing stuff through “discover weekly”, “new releases”, and “related artists”. Same with Bandcamp. (Maybe the problem is easier for music?
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by mattbierner 8y ago
How can an outsider leverage this spirit to get something manufactured? I’ve got some stupid products that I just want to exist, things in the hover board vein, but haven’t found anyone who I can work with to take the idea to small batch ma
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by mattbierner 8y ago
It depends. Small instances are a few bucks an hour, so if you just need a GPU for like a hundred hours then it’s great. If you are running the instance 24/7 for months on end, the equation changes. The big instances are cool though be
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by mattbierner 8y ago
A log of network requests made on install would be a valuable start. Even if it doesn’t reveal anything actively hostile, I imagine there’s plenty of telemetry servers getting pinged and probably some http going on (both of which the packag
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Just to add some context: 'sandbox' will make the iframe load in a unique origin and also disable scripts (along with disabling bunch of other things). This will prevent these attacks. There's also ' frame-src' for
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Hurtling through the air, surrounded by 200+ of the most fascinating and complex entities in the universe—fellow beings who share many of my hopes and fears—I always end up watching Batman vs Superman
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I started as an iOS obj-c developer but do web development stuff mostly these days. I found it extremely frustrating to go back to Xcode and swift. It’s not about being able to write in JavaScript (or Typescript); in my opinion react native
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Fun. Follow up project idea: stack trace concrete poetry. You could even get some neat intertextuality stuff going between the program source and its stack traces
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by mattbierner 8y ago
> A pseudoscope is an optical instrument made with two prisms. As seen in the drawing, the mirrors reverse the image in each eye causing some items viewed through it to look quite unusual: convex objects become concave, things pointing t
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Make a Pseudoscope (2005)(pseudoscope.blogspot.com)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Fascinating. Ammeture question though: are there other ways to encode the images besides pixels that will ultimately be better suited to 360 content? Holograms came to my mind because they degrade gracefully as you toss out bits of the sign
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Mechanical Television(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I explicitly don’t trust influencers because all they have are their followers. They often have no credentials or real achievements or original thoughts, so why should I trust them? Especially given that their entire goal is to get people t
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A System to Computerize Advertising Composition (1966) [video](vimeo.com)
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Apple is going about AR right: incremental, shipping now, and already building a developer ecosystem. Smartphone based AR is mediocre at best but millions of users already can access it and provide feedback on it. Apple doesn’t have to conv
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Always remember this: you have different priorities than other users, than other contributors, and than the core team. I for example find import types useful for lazy loading modules, while I’ve never run into this bug in years of writing T
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by mattbierner 8y ago
Interesting. I often find that my perceived 'luxuriousness' of a product decreases the perceived value of it. Like I'm sure Rolls makes nice autos and all that, but because they are created specifically to be high-end status
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by mattbierner 8y ago
For me, the easiest type of self-criticism to slip into is comparing myself to others. What I eventually came to realize though is that I was comparing my individual skills/achievements in a given field against the most accomplished pe
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by mattbierner 8y ago
From a functional perspective, aren’t visitors just a case of ‘map’ with potential side effects? That handles composition, streaming, and so on
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by mattbierner 8y ago
I apologize. Great work though (For anyone interested, there was also compile time Tetris https://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-super-te... and although my mind never fully recovered from the descent into tem
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by mattbierner 8y ago
For a literal take on the role of luck in life, read “The Dice Man”.
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Surgical Checklists Save Lives – But Once in a While, They Don’t. Why?(nytimes.com)
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