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by npunt 5y ago
I think you mean Content Restriction Access Protection (or Permission), as CRAM just doesn't have quite the ring to it :)
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by npunt 5y ago
Worth noting this article is almost a year old now (Feb 2021), prior to Flutter 2.0 which supports web-based apps with CanvasKit. Flutter was only officially (1.0) launched 3 years ago.
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by npunt 5y ago
If you're interested in the subject, I'd recommend the Fall of Civilizations podcast which digs into various civilizations and their decline: https://www.patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast
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by npunt 5y ago
Space Debris is peak nostalgia for me. I've been transferring my little library of amiga mods from one computer to the next since 1991 and Space Debris is one of the best tracks of the format. I remember even trying to use Space Debris
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by npunt 5y ago
Since 1993 SAT no longer stands for 'scholastic aptitude test'. It had its roots as a sort of IQ proxy but that has fallen out of favor because it doesn't reflect the full purpose of schooling (e.g. advancement from given mea
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by npunt 5y ago
Great read. Images aren't loading on that link but wayback machine to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20150323222119/https://priceonom...
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by npunt 5y ago
Crazy fact: the Bering Strait is only 100 to 165 feet deep (~45m). 45m x 88km length = 4,000,000 m^2 times whatever thickness. Makes sense the strait is shallow given the whole prehistoric migration, but in my mind it was much deeper, proba
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by npunt 5y ago
To the public it was groundbreaking, but it is worth noting the ideas in both MacDraw and MacWrite were already approaching a decade old by that point, having first been on the Alto (Bravo and Markup) and later in house on the Lisa (LisaDra
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by npunt 5y ago
Web 1 had a lot of ideas that failed because they were too early, not because they were inherently bad ideas. Not sure if Metaverse will work exactly like SL did, or if its even the right idea, but it certainly will have a larger audience a
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by npunt 5y ago
China cherry-picked higher performing, higher socioeconomic regions for their PISA testing, where poorer students don't have access to HS & tests. US PISA scores would be very different if Cambridge and Minnesota and a few other re
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by npunt 5y ago
Likely ongoing teething issues with M1? It's a big lift to move an OS to an entirely new architecture, and haven't seen or heard of the same on Intel.
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by npunt 5y ago
Actually, it is. This is an adaptive clinical trial, meaning its part of the protocol to change when pre-set criteria are met. This is stated in the paper. There's a whole body of work on the ethics and statistics of adaptive clinical
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by npunt 5y ago
Population and individual stats are different though. If someone is older and in a higher risk group, the drug could indeed reduce hospitalization risk for that individual much more than 5%, while for other low-risk groups it could do nex
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by npunt 5y ago
The idea of the 'reverse Trojan horse' reminds me of the later fate of OS/2, which shipped with such good Win 3.1 compatibility that nobody felt the need to build native OS/2 apps. The Jonathan is probably my favorite Ap
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by npunt 5y ago
Worth listening to Maria Ressa's episode on Your Undivided Attention podcast back in 2019, where she talked about how authoritarian regimes like in her native Philippines have been using social media to manipulate discourse. https:&#x
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by npunt 5y ago
C’mon we’re almost two years into this, how is it we’re still under this idea that it’s about individual risk, and hospitalization (or death) is the only meaningful risk factor? A pandemic is a population-level problem, risk is dependent on
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by npunt 5y ago
Fully agree, HN is absolutely not the place to get insight on population-level experiences with tech (or most anything else population-level; my pet peeve is people generalizing their education experiences). These population-level problems
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by npunt 5y ago
Agree emotions are critical to understand as they're often signals for deeper unmet needs. RAIN is a great method for understanding emotions.[1] But sometimes, emotions are also just learned reactions, with little of value underneath.
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by npunt 5y ago
I wouldn't take your personal experience on Facebook to be universal. Being a public social network, Twitter's toxicity and distortions are much more visible than Facebook's, and the user experience is far less varied because
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by npunt 5y ago
"Motion before emotion" is a great little mantra to get you started on whatever - waking up, exercise, writing, working, etc. Emotions are sometimes helpful, but in the case of starting things they're usually wrong.
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by npunt 5y ago
The SE/30 is such a fantastic, charismatic little box. The community is always cooking up new things, plus there were a bunch of lesser known contemporaneous add-ons that expand its functionality (touchscreen! greyscale!). I summarized
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by npunt 5y ago
Yeah that is a super fast turnaround. Guess it's easy when there's no there there.
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by npunt 5y ago
Ah that makes more sense given the rules you're implementing. Agree friction is a good way to solve these kinds of issues.
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by npunt 5y ago
This is both a difference of kind and of degree.
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by npunt 5y ago
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I was replying to your assertion that ‘Flame wars, abuse etc. only happen if there are other people watching’. DMs are an example of a major abuse vector where other people are not watching.
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by npunt 5y ago
DMs are a major abuse vector, and only the abuser and their victim see DMs. It doesn't sound like you've thought this one through.
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by npunt 5y ago
If you have an iPad, Deutsche Grammophon's apps are a great intro to the intellectual and emotional complexity and nuance of some key classical works. They have apps for Beethoven's 9th, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and Liszt&#x27
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by npunt 5y ago
These models were problematic but I have a hunch with this many issues there may be a separate variable like problems w the power supply or the power itself (spikes, dips, etc). Bad power can wreck electronics.
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by npunt 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_psychology
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by npunt 5y ago
Tiago Forte has been working on these ideas for many years in the open on his blog (Fortelabs, the one OP posted) and Building a Second Brain is the course he built atop that. From what I have seen of it, its original work and some synthesi

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