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by myhf 3y ago
It's similar to the "burst mode" that digital cameras have used for decades to capture exact moments during fast action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_mode_(photography) Adding sound can make these
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by myhf 3y ago
In the first sentence.
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by myhf 3y ago
But that's testing the effect of eliminating ambient light, not the effect of wearing an eye mask.
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by myhf 3y ago
There are obvious benefits to having the granularity of loading and caching script files match the granularity of how those files are used on different pages or updated at different times. Bundling everything is fine for most apps, but some
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by myhf 3y ago
Negative Infinity is even, and Positive Infinity is odd.
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by myhf 3y ago
Bye Bye, Baby
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by myhf 3y ago
What would they even do with that information? “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
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by myhf 3y ago
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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by myhf 3y ago
Maybe survey classes are worth having even without performance assessment.
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by myhf 4y ago
Context: the same author created a notable flashlight app in the early days of the iOS App Store: http://files.iconfactory.net/archive/safetylight/ There are a large number of low-effort apps in this space that fl
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by myhf 4y ago
Yes, time display in the window title can be nice. I made a simple web app for a similar purpose, that demonstrates the technique: http://pclock.github.io/ based on an old flash app: https://davidseah.com/20
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by myhf 4y ago
A great book that prefigured the kinds of interactions people are now having with ChatGPT. For example: “Have it compose a poem — a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet herois
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by myhf 4y ago
Religious groups like GNU use outrageous evangelism like this to build their faith. Spreading absurd messages causes outsiders to shun members of the group, so that they can only find social/emotional support within the group.
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by myhf 4y ago
It may be rational to withdraw money from the bank (which raises risk for everyone), but it would be superrational [1] to buy 10-year bonds from the bank (which lowers risk for everyone). Yes it is dumb for VCs to not understand this basic
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by myhf 4y ago
Yeah, the language changes seem pretty minor and incremental. I think the more interesting changes in the last few years have been with engines. All major browsers now support ESM modules and custom elements.
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by myhf 4y ago
duplicate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35067619
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by myhf 4y ago
This allowed the same disk to be usable in Australia.
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by myhf 4y ago
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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by myhf 4y ago
(published July 2016)
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by myhf 4y ago
There are many ready-to-go ones in this list: https://github.com/diimdeep/awesome-split-keyboards
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by myhf 4y ago
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren’t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
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by myhf 4y ago
oh cool, it can mix matplotlib and observable plots in the same document
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by myhf 4y ago
conda can also be used to manage python packages, but its dependency solver is very slow and sometimes completely fails. Once you have created a conda environment, it is usually much more practical to install packages with pip or mamba.
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by myhf 4y ago
Recommendation accuracy was much more important for DVD rental, because of the wider selection of content and the slower feedback loop. So a good recommendation algorithm was a core competency for the business.
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by myhf 4y ago
Neptune's Brood is really good. It's set in the same universe as Saturn's Children but without the Heinlein-tribute sexpot focus. It takes a lot of concepts from "Debt: The First 5000 Years" and extrapolates them to
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by myhf 4y ago
The trouble with aphorisms is that you can never tell what an aphorism is saying until it's too late.
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by myhf 4y ago
They're working on that: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1575898595244445696
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by myhf 4y ago
the curly braces in that font are TOO CURLY
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by myhf 4y ago
There was a mandate for USB type-A cables to have a tactile USB logo on the "top" side, so that you could always feel when it was in the correct orientation. In the current generation I've seen devices with "DP" use
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by myhf 4y ago
Pinboard[1] has a browser plugin that can do that with a "save tab set" command. Searching the saved bookmarks is a separate paid feature. [1] https://pinboard.in/

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