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by mo_42 3y ago
As the author mentions PNG to SVG conversion, there is Potrace [1]. I think you need to convert to BMP before. It's a pretty nice tool. I have used it a couple of times. [1] https://potrace.sourceforge.net/
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by mo_42 3y ago
This rating is just an opinion of some organization. I have an opinion too: I think the US government has a credit rating of AAA. Why? - The US government can produce as much currency as it needs to because it's a sovereign country. He
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Two comments: First, I take your claim seriously that it’s an either-or decision. Then, clearly I'd hire the "proactive" one. As a manager you simply don’t have time for micromanaging or you should be doing something else. Se
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I remember we were doing something experiments with electricity and the teacher asked some question. I just answered that it’s a stream of negatively charged particles. The concept of electrons or charged particles wasn’t introduced yet. So
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When I was ten, I was accelerating myself quite a bit in physics. There wasn't a physics camp at that time. So probably I also misunderstood quite some things but I also was ahead of most peers (I was ten). I think physics is even more
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I think this is a somewhat natural consequence of Google being a powerful corporation. And, I don’t think we (somewhat loosely defined group of people who like free software and information and have a user-friendly computing environment) ca
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Padding in tree maps lets you extract the exact tree structure from the visualization as every layer is shown in a visible box. So it makes the visualization more useful. I found an example of such a tree map here [1]. [1] https:/&#x2
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> Sadly, I mostly dislike tree maps. At large, I never actually see the tree structure that they are supposedly helping me see. I think the tree map examples in the article are missing the padding that you would add to every layer. Appar
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I think compression is a subset of understanding. When your child starts to speak grammatically correct, they compressed all the language patterns they were exposed to into the grammar rules. I say subset because understanding is more gener
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Based on what I want to accomplish in my document. For example, I want to type a math formula. I could search for math or formula (or both) to get an overview of all related functions. Results don't need to be presented as a list neces
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I don't have any opinion on for either side as I didn't use any such UIs much. Is it possible that this is just nostalgia? Both screenshots look fairly similar to me. Also, I don't understand why UI developers don't try
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I fully agree with the idea of the text. Also, I like the idea that investment advice only helps few open minds. Usually, people just want to stay in existing thought patterns. I'd add one thought: There are many semi-professional inve
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think tech debt can be a useful analogy in software development. We use the term every now and then to point out pieces of code that we want to rewrite. However, we should not stretch the analogy. I think the author goes way too far. Talk
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> It's almost like the idea that language shapes how you think. Frameworks are kind of like subsets or dialects of programming languages. If you actually know the framework well, you can often do stuff that seems like it would need
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> Every person on the planet should have their own website Seems a bit of a too narrow perspective. Many people just don’t have time and money to have their own website. Just because some thirteen-year-old has it doesn’t mean everyone sh
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I think we need to take into account profits and careers of people producing news. Mostly, news is a business. It will inevitably distort reports to make more profit. Even the most well-intentioned editors and journalists will be outcompete
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This is really an excellent text about special relativity. Physicists might consider this too imprecise and informal. But I think it’s exactly right for an introducing. So if you have a 15 year old who is interested in that topic, this migh
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That’s what I have in mind. Currently, customers are subject to obscure internal rules of banks. Given a governmental approach, this would be subject to the Fifth Amendment and other laws. Also, there’s always the freedom to not choose this
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I'd like to know more about the technical implementation. For society, this is really important. Basically everyone needs a bank account. In some countries, the government even forces people implicitly to have one in order to pay taxes
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I agree with the general intention of the post. > Natural language is an unnatural interface However, I think the title is misleading. Maybe I am too much of a technical person and take interface too broadly. But natural language is prob
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Technically, the companies guess the price elasticity of a product. This tells them how a price change influences demand. Then, it’s a simple calculation to choose the right price.
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I do since a long time. At least 15 years. I was using an add-on for Firefox where I could control to which sites a page could connect. Some years ago this was a pretty good way for browsing ad-free and without being tracked because both re
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> If the universe is deterministic, how can punitive justice be justified? Determinism doesn't necessarily mean that organisms always act in the same way. They act in the same way given the exact configuration of them and the world.
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> What field, if I may ask? It was in CS actually. So writing in social sciences doesn’t seem too appropriate. Thanks for the other hint though. Seems quite interesting and seems similar to: How to write a great research paper [1] [1] h
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I guess Venice is the prime example: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/apr/30/sinking-city-...
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I like the article as it kind of reflects my thinking about traveling. I used to joke about people who argued in favor of traveling that nature's laws are the same everywhere. So there’s no need to go somewhere else and experience some
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I'd rather do the opposite. I'd start with the intuitive high-level idea and then introduce technical terms and formality to the prepared mind. As they say every rule has its exceptions and I think all three variants can be suitab
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When I was doing my PhD, I was really in love with such guides. There is also the book Bugs in Writing by Lyn Dupré. Looking back I'm not so sure about the utility in scientific writing. Every research community has its own jargon. If
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Because we cannot accept a certain piece of software as finished. It doesn't mean there aren't any updates. However, in the iOS store I can update some apps every week. On the other hand, I very much like the F-Droid store. There
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Maybe some clarification: strictly speaking, there is no passive investing. Every investment requires some form of action. Also, investing in an MSCI ACWI is active in some sense because the shares of shares change over time. I accept passi

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