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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Your eyes do not have built-in motion blur. If they are accurately tracking a moving object, it will not be seen as blurry. Artifically adding motion blur breaks this.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Python 2.7 called its % operator the "string interpolation" operator[1], and it doesn't allow inline values. [1]: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/stdtypes.html#string-for...
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/Longreads/
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
That paper (P1364R0) was contentious, and I regard it as being severely motivated reasoning, published only to kill off competing approaches to C++ coroutines. Some discussions of that paper: * https://old.reddit.com/r/
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
To save others a google: coproducts = sum types AKA tagged unions.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
You can literally ask any SMTP MX server if an email address is valid, and it'll tell you yes/no. Emails send to invalid addresses are in general not silently discarded.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Most physics engines do indeed do this and call it something like "collision margin"[1]. [1]: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/113774/why-do-ph...
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
> experience with consciousness somehow leads them to believe it might be achievable with matrix math That's trivially true if you subscribe to materialism; QM is "just matrix math".
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
This is an incorrect conclusion: > In other words, the next generation will genetically regress to the mean. Mating is emphatically not like mixing paints. > [T]he Hardy–Weinberg principle, also known as the Hardy–Weinberg equilibri
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Mostly thanks to other humans helping them. If all humans lacked vision, the human race would definitely not do just fine.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Yes, "immediate" refers just to the API. Source: [1] [1]: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/wiki/About-the-IMGUI-paradi...
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
"A bit inconvenient" might be the understatement of the year. If information requires say, 2x the time to validate, the utility of the internet is halved.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
I have a very similar technique that I made up: Close your eyes. For every thought you have, imagine it to be a soap bubble, floating upwards. After a few seconds of floating upwards, it pops and is gone.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Passive boice generally requires using the words "is"/"was", which are absent there.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Author FYI: The "You can see the session log here." link to [1] is broken. [1]: https://rjp.io/blog/claude-rust-port-conversation
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
See also: Namecoin [1], the first altcoin. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
"IPP Everywhere" [1][2] [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSIPPEverywhere [2]: https://www.pwg.org/ipp/everywhere.html
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Another, introduced around the same time (SHA instruction set): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_instruction_set
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
See e.g. Migen [1], a Python HDL. TL;DR: The hardware modules you're generating are represented as first-class objects that can be constructed from a DSL embedded within Python or explicitly from a list of primitives. [1]: https:&#x2F
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
> My understanding is that modern hardware is significantly more complicated at the lowest levels and (at least generally) no longer has a dedicated framebuffer (at least in the same sense that old hardware did). Modern hardware still ge
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
The strong hypothesis has been debunked, yes, but nobody is asserting it. From your link: > Nevertheless, research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity:[5][4] that a language'
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
> Similar trains of thought were used in the middle ages [...] The theory of evolution was conceived way after the middle ages, so that seems beside the point.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
It's only weird if you model HN as a hivemind.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
Getting someone's home foreclosed is just SWATing them in slow-motion.
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by oasisaimlessly 1y ago
I think transpute likely meant to link F4PGA[1] or one of the projects it makes use of (Yosys, nextpnr, Project IceStorm, Project X-Ray, etc). [1] https://f4pga.org/
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by oasisaimlessly 2y ago
Well, of course it would.
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by oasisaimlessly 2y ago
> This example implies producers are already in competition with one another, so it's unlikely that any of them can lower the price much. Non sequitor. Differing production conditions between countries would result in differing prof
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by oasisaimlessly 2y ago
The graph X axis could just as well have been labelled "agrees with Republicans" and "agrees with Democrats"; perhaps it would've been clearer that way. But really, any polarization axis would've worked. The id
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by oasisaimlessly 2y ago
You're doing yourself a disservice by creating a false dichotomy of "things that are okay to discuss" (tax brackets, zoning) and "things that aren't" (tariffs, manditory genital inspections), when it's ver
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by oasisaimlessly 2y ago
Yeah, weighting the figures by GDP makes sense. Indeed, poor people aren't really people at all.

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