myth2018

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by myth2018 2y ago
Thanks. I found experiments like this [0] helpful to visualize reflections and standing waves, but, like a sibling comment said, although these are similar phenomena and show what happens with the energy inside the wire, I couldn't see
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by myth2018 2y ago
Thank you very much for sharing this. I've been trying to form a mental model of why reflection in transmission lines is a thing and never found a theoretical foundation that satisfied me. I've read a number of publications that j
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by myth2018 2y ago
I agree, and it's sad that, despite all those pitfalls, some companies and CEOs will keep pushing the idea that human programmers can be replaced by AI. But well I guess there's a bright side to see here: those LLMs applied to sof
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by myth2018 2y ago
> I get bombarded with premature growth and commercialization concerns That general mindset was a major source of pain for me. I used to say I had founded a startup just to get along with the other entrepreneurs, but in fact I couldn&#x2
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by myth2018 2y ago
Same in Brazil. And users love them.
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by myth2018 2y ago
Indeed. CTA buttons and everything. Instead of simple, readable text-based menus, icons everywhere because they are "more intuitive". Navigation aids because, otherwise, "users get lost". Useless animated pictures togeth
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by myth2018 2y ago
Theoretically, I agree. UX shouldn't be about making systems look good. In practice, though, this appears to be the main concern (maybe because it's the easiest one to grasp?), leaving all the other ones subordinated to it. Hence
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by myth2018 2y ago
> you're essentially telling users: "We know better than you." That arrogance doesn't go unnoticed. Respect your users' autonomy IMHO, that assessment and corresponding answer applies perfectly not only to Moment
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by myth2018 2y ago
It is. That doesn't disallow mesh networks, but Gemini would be off-limits due to TLS. Gopher would be OK.
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by myth2018 2y ago
> Even people who know about the solution might find it drops out of their brain in a moment of panic. I agree. During a period of huge storms in my region I kept mentally preparing for getting caught in a flood: engage first gear, press
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by myth2018 2y ago
> The only way to get an honest electronic vote is by giving realtime visibility on who voted what and where publicly. The secrecy on individual votes has a good reason to exist. Votes are already bought based on per-section public resul
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by myth2018 2y ago
Also worth noting that Twitter's terms of use themselves also prohibit the very same sort of content that motivated the Supreme Court order.
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by myth2018 2y ago
Mine too. I've worked for a shop adopting this practice some time ago. A very common pattern was to declare a relatively large Python dictionary with function calls and list comprehensions nested deep in the dict [sub]properties. Nice
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by myth2018 2y ago
> and there were multiple order of magnitude less options to choose from So true. I remember downloading a bunch of stuff to do some Perl development on Windows 98. About 3MB of files IIRC that took forever to download on my dialup conne
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by myth2018 2y ago
Indeed, and this seems to be pervasive in UI design as a whole. Until not long ago, designers created palletes of styles and components to be used by programmers. Now they draw entire screens and deliver the drawings to the programmers. Thi
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by myth2018 2y ago
Those are reasonable arguments, which I've heard previously indeed. But, truth be told, although the pandemic had an impact, all this mess started to become visible at least a couple of years before it — maybe even earlier.
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by myth2018 2y ago
I visit Germany more or less regularly. The deterioration in the overall experience with DB is very noticeable. Last time I was unfortunate enough to take an ICE, they started an informal poll with the passengers to decide whether to cancel
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by myth2018 2y ago
> particularly if your userbase often has literally decades worth of muscle memory My experience from informally inquiries shows that users value fast TUIs regardless of the experience they amounted. Even the young mainframe and (rarer)
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by myth2018 2y ago
> I would like to see the original quote from the judge here. I doubt the original talked about 'Black people' the same way that (translated) phrase would be understood by an American audience. I'm not sure I understand wh
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by myth2018 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. And do you know where I could read about the underlying theory? I'd like to implement the most I could from scratch, for learning purposes.
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by myth2018 2y ago
Btw: I'm looking for efficient ways to represent numbers of arbitrary precision, and performing mathematical operations on the them. It's for a toy financial calculator I'm writing in my spare time. My knowledge is really lac
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by myth2018 2y ago
First time I hear about that book. Interesting. I've reflected already about such "Mr Nice guys". This guy in particular, who I have in mind now, I could never determine whether he was being manipulative or was simply extreme
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by myth2018 2y ago
Thank you. These times labeled with the timezone name only are very inconvenient
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by myth2018 2y ago
AFAIK, astronomers use Julian DATES. It's related but not the same as the Julian calendar.
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by myth2018 2y ago
> with his own money Could someone confirm that? SpaceX raised money last year [0], however I couldn't find how much of this money (if any) went to the Starship program. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/02&
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by myth2018 3y ago
> My father called me in exasperation last night after trying and failing to book a plane ticket I've been going through really infuriating experiences with airlines' software too. Web apps, totems for luggage dispatching, ever
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by myth2018 3y ago
Hi, but I meant allegory indeed. According to Wiktionary: - (rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences. - A picture, book, or other form of commu
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by myth2018 3y ago
That's an interesting insight. I didn't notice that Charlie's trajectory also works as an allegory for the regular mental decline of the average person
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by myth2018 3y ago
Did you read the book? (Spoiler Alert) Basically the only thing remaining with Charlie after his regression was the memory of his friend Algernon. A "mere" laboratory rat, like himself. That's a message about what things real
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by myth2018 3y ago
On the other hand, Esperanto is one of the languages featured by Radio China International ( https://esperanto.cri.cn ), and there's also an official support for the El Cxinia Popolo magazine, and maybe others I'm not a

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