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by neilk 3y ago
If you use the standard way to approximate a circle with Bezier curves, it will differ from a true circle by about 0.03%. The human eye is not capable of seeing the difference, and, as the OP mentioned, most people can't accurately eye
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by neilk 3y ago
Torvalds didn't create anything like the `git` we know today in 10 days. It was heavily inspired by `monotone`, which popularized the concept of a Merkle tree. Torvalds' comments about what he liked and didn't like about `mon
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by neilk 3y ago
I agree that the labor theory of value isn't useful, and pricing signals are more responsive than any command economy has yet been able to achieve. However, overproduction is also a problem in capitalism, from a lot of perspectives. Th
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by neilk 3y ago
You're definitely right that the jock/nerd thing is more of a media trope than real. On the other hand, I just attended my nephews' football game. When I went to the bathroom at halftime, I happened to overhear the losing tea
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by neilk 3y ago
If I can get on my soapbox: physical activity is still very underrated, especially by people who spend a lot of time on the computer. I have so many colleagues with anxieties and other pathologies that would be greatly relieved by even mode
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by neilk 3y ago
This is an established theory in psychology. One model of depression is "learned helplessness". Something about your life has taught your mind and body that it's pointless to try. So literally anything that teaches you that y
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by neilk 3y ago
Yeah, and you can always tell someone's full financial position from little details like that. (eyeroll) So someone who got a benefit from the state that addresses a serious, well-proven injustice, and wasn't crawling on their kne
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by neilk 3y ago
I figured HN would want the study link. There's a press release from the university summarizing some of the results here, too: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/29/how-homeless-people-spend-the...
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UBC Study: Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness(pnas.org)
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by neilk 3y ago
> standard db or vector db lol, it's a 42MB text file from Google Books Ngrams. The format looks like this: $ head words-all.txt a 14219615690 a! 196012 a" 84 a' 47713 a&#x27
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by neilk 3y ago
Oh, definitely, but we'd also need some regulation. It's likely that we _can_ make home nuclear reactors that are pretty safe! We already pipe combustible gases into our homes in enough quantities to take out a city block. We caus
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by neilk 3y ago
I'm not sure how many people have truly lived off the grid for the past 150 years. It probably numbers in the low thousands across the entire planet. As mentioned in the article, American homesteaders were settling into so-called wilde
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by neilk 3y ago
I think we can do better than 11 characters! I happen to have a corpus which includes pretty much every word ever written in a book, including many misspelled, mistranscribed, or otherwise non-dictionary words. After eliminating nonsense, n
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by neilk 3y ago
This is a common argument that technology-focused people make: - it was possible to do this before; - and we didn't do anything about it then; - the only difference now is that it's easier; - therefore, we have n
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by neilk 3y ago
Survivorship bias. The current set of people who elect to work on web frameworks don’t want simplicity. Everyone else does, including the people who never entered the field because it is now incomprehensible.
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by neilk 3y ago
I appreciate design that stretches boundaries. But, assembled all together, most of these felt the same. I got numb. A big sans-serif claim, gradient-colored text, sometimes a big 3-D toy to fumble about with since there is no other content
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by neilk 3y ago
Yes, the idea of floating a “junk” raft is undoubtedly bitten from a much more interesting artist, Swoon, who had done it the previous year. Here’s a video about the artist from around that time, including one of the raft projects. https:&
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by neilk 3y ago
By HN standards I am very left-leaning. But I also think the clamor against capitalism and even capitalists is getting silly. There are popular memes that assert that the reason you feel like staying in bed in the morning is capitalism.
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by neilk 3y ago
Wow. Are you one of those people who posts on LinkedIn about how they'd turn down a million dollars for the chance to wait on a billionaire's table? Please. Steve Jobs is only famous because he was an asshole. He did have other
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by neilk 3y ago
I wanted to know if the author has any credentials that might support an otherwise unsourced thesis about civilization. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanknopp Accountant, developer for a few years, now bills himself a
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by neilk 3y ago
Worldcoin specifically excludes US citizens from holding the token, presumably to escape some legal or regulatory issues. https://blockworks.co/news/worldcoin-not-in-us#
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by neilk 3y ago
Nobody is commenting because if you click the link you're hypnotized for an hour
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by neilk 3y ago
I think you raise a valid point, but it was ever thus. Every time we level up in technology, we essentially give everybody some of the life possibilities - and problems - of aristocrats, 100 years ago. Everybody today lives more like the ar
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by neilk 3y ago
I was not impressed, and this is before I knew who the authors were. I think it's worth examining, but only to see how right-wing cranks cosplay as scholars. 1) They keep using passive voice, like "Scholars say..." to introdu
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by neilk 3y ago
Surprising. I had assumed it was a random future-world term, but was also meant to evoke Deckard's dilemmas - balanced on a knife edge.
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by neilk 3y ago
How did you learn DNS? And when?
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by neilk 3y ago
Jimmy Wales said that phrase in an interview, but it was never meant to say that Wikipedia itself was the only work that needed to be consulted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Prime_objective You seem to hav
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by neilk 3y ago
This is complete nonsense. If you don’t want to profit from this there is no incentive to meet anyone. Post the idea, publicize it, and hope they adopt it. If you are sincere, I have difficulty understanding how you have functioned in socie
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by neilk 3y ago
I just don’t believe the US government is interpreting these videos well. We all would like to believe that there are eagle-eyed analysts there but they have missed and misinterpreted so many things before. Isn’t it strange that these orbs
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by neilk 3y ago
That's fantastic. I have been lucky enough to cross paths with Ward Cunningham a couple of times and I am always struck by his insight. Kellan Elliot-McCrae has a similar take on technical debt. In his view there is very little technic

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