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by pavlov 2y ago
In 2016 they absolutely pretended that the economy was very bad, and then suddenly it was very good in February 2017.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Has anyone claimed responsibility for what appears to be a well-planned assassination? As America moves further towards a billionaire-controlled system that disregards conventional norms of democracy, I wonder if there will be a rise of mil
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by pavlov 2y ago
I'm not claiming I implemented everything from scratch. Since it was a Mac OS X Cocoa app, it would just call the APIs available on that platform, like Apple's original Canvas implementation in WebKit. Also since this was a video
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by pavlov 2y ago
Canvas is one of the easiest browser APIs to implement because most of it maps 1:1 to PostScript-style 2D APIs. It was created by Apple as a wrapper for CoreGraphics back around Mac OS X Tiger 10.4. (IIRC, Canvas even debuted in Apple'
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by pavlov 2y ago
On the Enterprise-D in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, they don’t have WiFi or any other kind of local wireless except for voice calls. So when the android Data needs to access some information, he reads it from a GUI terminal, but at 100
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by pavlov 2y ago
Here’s a funny recent one: https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int... “When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in” Bu
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by pavlov 2y ago
Apps as a platform are at a disadvantage. The bar for entry is roughly as low as creating a website, but for users it’s a higher bar to install an app. Yet the app doesn’t offer any intrinsic advantage in discovery or marketing over a websi
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by pavlov 2y ago
The body text is also quite hard to read because the font has a tall x-height and line spacing is very tight. This makes paragraphs look very dense, almost like it was set in uppercase only, because the lowercase letters don’t create a vary
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s also the time and effort that you need to invest. You can buy a lottery ticket every week and it costs $2 (just guessing — I don’t buy them). With that minimum spending over three years, you get 150 shots. You paid $300, but no time
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by pavlov 2y ago
The anti-state people often like the idea of an authoritarian leader figure who will fix things by their genius and power of will. Some really do want monarchy (see Curtis Yarvin), but others believe that the dissolution of state power need
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown. (Twitter appar
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by pavlov 2y ago
This HN comment section with showdead enabled reveals that Ms Graber attracts trolls and misogynists like moths to a flame. Sometimes I think that the efficient moderation on HN hides the extent of the problem in this community. When Trump
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yes, I don’t suppose there are cities in America that are both walkable and cheap enough that a jazz fan could own a small commercial property for this purpose (if they didn’t get rich from something else before). Seems like a possibility i
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by pavlov 2y ago
I suspect print magazines are undergoing the same kind of cycle of destruction and resurrection as happened to vinyl records. In the 1990s, vinyls were the clunky old things that your mom gave away in a yard sale. Now they’re produced again
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by pavlov 2y ago
Just a nit, but PowerPCs were not used in Thinkpads except for very limited production runs in the mid-1990s. The problem was that IBM didn't have an OS for the platform. They had AIX, but it didn't make sense on a laptop. The ide
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by pavlov 2y ago
Yeah… And which of the involved parties are so eager to send that kind of signal to Docker? What would it change? Mauritius can make money from these registrations, like Anguilla makes a pretty penny from .ai today. They have no practical i
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by pavlov 2y ago
There’s so much infrastructure on companies that use .io domains that it’s impossible and pointless for anyone to think about removing the TLD. For example, Docker Hub images are at docker.io. Why break those? Who knows where those URLs are
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by pavlov 2y ago
The conflict of interest is simply dead and forgotten in an era where the president-elect has his own cryptocoin, his own social media company, and appoints his billionaire supporters to improve efficiency in the parts of government that di
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by pavlov 2y ago
I’m pretty sure the radio on a mobile device consumes more energy than the GPU doing a 2D operation on a single image. If you want to save energy, send less data.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I guess everybody has their own preconceptions of what's wasteful. I grew up in the era of 14.4k modems, so I'm used to thinking that network bandwidth is many, many orders of magnitude more scarce and valuable than CPU time. To m
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by pavlov 2y ago
That's the reference. Brushed metal was a controversial design feature of early Mac OS X, unevenly applied across the built-in applications. (It was kind of supposed to be for media browsers, but then the Finder and Calendar and many o
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by pavlov 2y ago
Maybe they were zero-terminated C strings, which of course can’t represent arbitrary binary data.
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “a 64MB POWER Indigo 2 with XZ Graphics and a 2GB SCSI drive would run you around £58,000” And then you had to buy the software. A license for a 3D modeling package like Softimage or Alias cost at least $10-15k, and you probably also
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by pavlov 2y ago
The "Geo Nodes Meets Grease Pencil" demo video is so cool. Makes me want to download Blender again just to play with this 2.5D effect. I don't think there's any other open source project that does release notes with such
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by pavlov 2y ago
Putin is old enough to remember the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when their side actually tried this and had to back down.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Do you have some specific application profile in mind? Sounds like this approach could be useful for games that embed a scripting engine. In that context it might be interesting to eventually see some benchmarks against usual suspects of ga
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by pavlov 2y ago
The rate of temperature change happening currently is much greater than anything in the geologic record. What use it is to ponder about what has triggered an ice age in the past, when that mechanism can’t possibly counteract what’s happenin
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by pavlov 2y ago
Shoot, the thousands of scientists who have researched climate change since the 1970s must have never taken the very first class in statistics. They must be embarrassed now that you told them about this.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Would event camera input data be useful here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_camera “Event cameras do not capture images using a shutter as conventional (frame) cameras do. Instead, each pixel inside an event came
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by pavlov 2y ago
Musk is in a unique position to recommend that investment and have the president and Congress actually listen. He won't do it, but he could.

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