nagonago

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by nagonago 4y ago
Fascinating read, but I don't appreciate the clickbait title. Why not use the actual title, which is a much better description? "Memories of the End of the Last Ice Age, from Those Who Were There." There's not much in th
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by nagonago 4y ago
I got the same feeling about Japan as depicted in Isle of Dogs. it's the Japan as fantasized by Wes Anderson, not real Japan. "Weird and interesting and completely discordant but not in a bad way" is the perfect way to descri
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by nagonago 4y ago
Clever solution! It kind of reminds me of when I sometimes run sound through customized EQ and compression to compensate for crappy speakers. My approach is not quite as scientific as this though, just "tweak until it sounds good.&quot
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by nagonago 4y ago
Being predictable is good advice, but I don't think that's the point. The reality is you're never gonna get people to behave predictably 100% of the time. And even in a perfect world where everybody was acting predictably, ac
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by nagonago 4y ago
> They are almost without exception well-written and concise, and the intuition you gain for particular topics as you browse through the man pages is well worth the effort. In contrast, many developers shoot straight to googling the answ
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by nagonago 4y ago
Obligatory link to Falsehoods programmers believe about time: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b...
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by nagonago 4y ago
I'm curious what you mean by fallout, are you referring to the replication crisis?
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by nagonago 4y ago
The actual title is "Adversarial Collaboration: An EDGE Lecture by Daniel Kahneman". "People don't change their minds" is just the tagline, and he doesn't even actually say it in the lecture. The focus is much
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by nagonago 4y ago
Clearly Google was storing their old photos in a damp basement, and they got water damage. But seriously, I am also very curious. I wonder if they are playing with an in-house compression algorithm.
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by nagonago 4y ago
Fun little toy. I would love to see a responsive design version, where you need to draw "X% of viewport width" or "Xem high" (with 1em provided for reference).
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by nagonago 4y ago
Similar advice if you make electronic music: always save lossless raw audio (wav, flac etc), not just project files. Software updates break project files, hardware updates break old software, backwards compatibility is often imperfect, lice
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by nagonago 4y ago
The thing that bugs me about these "worst x since y year" articles is that the metrics are always so arbitrary. In this case, their definition of "worst heatwave" seems to be "Tokyo charted temperatures above 35C on
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by nagonago 4y ago
Not that closely related, but this reminded me a bit of the game Universal Paperclips: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
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by nagonago 4y ago
The word アーケード (akedo) does exist but is not used very often, and the average Japanese person would probably be confused if you used it. Game arcades are called ゲームセンター (game center) and shopping arcades are called 商店街 (shoutengai). Not to
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by nagonago 4y ago
I am also a Japan resident and I had to roll my eyes at the headline. Yes, there are some cool things like these in Japan, but as you say they are not widespread, and there are plenty more examples of terrible UX, especially on the web. Not
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by nagonago 4y ago
As much as I admire the golden age of science, I'm always skeptical of the idea that the past is something to revere. Society as a whole is much better than it ever has been by almost any metric: literacy, life expectancy, human rights
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by nagonago 4y ago
Besides simply being unwilling to pay, I think most people just don't want to spend the mental effort evaluating the potential value of an article they haven't read yet. When the question arises, "is this article worth $1?&qu
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by nagonago 4y ago
For me the most important feature of note taking apps is auto-sync. I want to be able to take a note on my phone and then immediately access that note without any fuss from a computer.
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by nagonago 4y ago
This article is based on quotes from a handful of people, but I wish they would include some actual data. As it is, it's basically just speculation and statements of the obvious. How many companies are requiring workers to return to th
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by nagonago 4y ago
Depends on the field. I think the main sticking point is Excel, a large number of businesses still rely on Excel-specific features.
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by nagonago 4y ago
What would a hacker possibly have to gain stealing data from smart fridges? Blackmail you with evidence that you don't buy free-range eggs?
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by nagonago 4y ago
Couldn't you just never connect it to your router? Why bother disabling it? Security risk?
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by nagonago 4y ago
Looks pretty cool, I love lightweight stuff! I am curious, what does the word "quine" mean in this context? I always thought quines were just programs which output their own source code. I suppose that's technically true in t
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The Qubit Game – A game based on quantum computing by Google(quantumai.google)
1 points by nagonago 4y ago|0 comments
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by nagonago 4y ago
Quite nice to have this up on a second monitor while working on something that doesn't need two monitors.
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Perhaps if browsers had a 'go up one folder' button like file explorers, this might be reasonable, but it's pretty disingenuous to expect users to edit the URL bar for navigation. Even the simplest Web 1.0 sites still have ba
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by nagonago 5y ago
One day I was scrolling through my Youtube Favorites playlist, and was devastated to discover 10-20% of the videos were deleted or unavailable. The worst part is it's nearly impossible to get any information about which videos were del
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by nagonago 5y ago
I built my last project in Flask. It was a joy to work with, but I quickly discovered that it's not really meant for single-page applications. I ended up mostly using it as an API while the bulk of the work was done with javascript. In
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by nagonago 5y ago
Mathematics aside, am I the only one who finds this style of cartoon caricature unappealing? I find that these kinds of caricatures often bear little resemblance to the actual person, as well as being simply unpleasant to look at. In this i