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by pjs_ 3y ago
Two things that are real but aggressively story-resistant are quantum mechanics and the self-stability of bicycles. Tens of thousands of pages have been written in an effort to provide an intuitive, natural-language story about what is happ
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by pjs_ 3y ago
I know people are very accustomed to miracles these days but I still find the fact that these guys are comfortably doing foveated rendering kind of crazy. Anyone here work on that stuff and know how it is done in practice? Is it just things
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by pjs_ 3y ago
While messing around with numerical models of entangled states, I found a very simple and convenient way to characterize entanglement without a local frame of reference: https://peteshadbolt.co.uk/posts/random_measureme
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by pjs_ 3y ago
> are you gpt-4? I am an AI language model created by OpenAI, but I am not GPT-4. I am based on the GPT-3 model. GPT-4 has not been released yet.
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by pjs_ 3y ago
I like the ads. They spice up my day and give me something fun and interesting to look at when I'm bored at work. Plus I find it positive to see adverts for useful and enjoyable products and services. Thanks Microsoft for putting these
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by pjs_ 4y ago
Dude have you thought for one second about what human beings do to animals lol. We slaughter them in the millions, keep them in cages, eat them, torture them, do experiments on them, use them as beasts of burden... your analogy is not on fl
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by pjs_ 4y ago
Serifs in font design serve a similar purpose to OPC.
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by pjs_ 4y ago
In Chaos by James Gleick it is mentioned that bunch of early mathematics related to fractals was worked out in the context of research into soot - the story went that soot is very black because the surface geometry has high fractal dimensio
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A lot of hate here but I think this thing kicks ass. Do you really think that the person who made this does not understand that taste is subjective, rounded corners are not necessarily preferred etc? Do you think that they believe that ther
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by pjs_ 4y ago
This person seems to be pretty far out of their depth TBH. Writing emails like this genuinely is difficult and you are optimizing for a very diverse set of stakeholders - not just engineers - but this is amateur hour. From a purely utilitar
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by pjs_ 4y ago
Looking fwd to going viral multiple times on Hacker News over the course of the next few months with such irresistible blog posts as: - Don't be afraid to roll your own crypto - Why using string types for numeric data is actually a gre
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by pjs_ 4y ago
You really know you are dealing with a serious bike enthusiast when you see a DIY Sheffield stand installation in the front garden. Many such cases in Oxford and Bristol ofc...
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by pjs_ 4y ago
NGINX will do this just great.
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by pjs_ 4y ago
Honestly try getting a bunch of PhDs in computer science to solve the same task and I think you will get dramatically worse results, not only artistically but also in terms of comprehension... The toaster/pyramid/ball one makes no
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by pjs_ 4y ago
I know a lot of people hate ORMs but I tend to find them useful, and if you do go down that route, it is pretty easy to write an application that will work with either a Postgres or SQlite backend. I use SQLAlchemy and write applications wh
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by pjs_ 4y ago
I have had a weak headache all day, every day, for more than 20 years. Occasionally I will have very bad headaches, visual stuff etc. but there is always a background, low-level headache. It's weak enough that I frequently forget about
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Someone should add KLayout to this list. Free software for chip design that is absolutely incredible given that it is a free piece of software... https://klayout.de/
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Thanks a lot moxie. Epitome of "this guy gets it". You don't have to have had scabies to gain my trust as a CEO of a tech company, but it helps.
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by pjs_ 5y ago
This is brilliant - simple, novel, local, open source. Love it. I had a dream at the beginning of the pandemic that people who spend all day in Zoom calls might be able to spend all day hiking as well. I tried quite hard to make it work a c
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Incredible. They paused his ass
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Absolutely brutal stuff
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Thinking about a monitor with a 1024:1 aspect ratio which only displays a single long line of text
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by pjs_ 5y ago
HTMX really kicks ass, I simply love it.
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by pjs_ 5y ago
If your body was perfectly efficient at converting calories into gravitational potential energy, the calories in a single can of coke would be enough to carry you 1km into space
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by pjs_ 5y ago
If you grow up in a shitty environment there is an increased probability that you will get into drugs. Once you start doing strong drugs all day, there is a considerably increased chance of shitting all over the place and causing havoc. I d
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Is that a bootleg G-shock?
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by pjs_ 5y ago
KLF went much further back in the good old days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
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by pjs_ 5y ago
Seems like it would be mostly effective for killing people who are asleep, or for intimidating innocent people. Don't like the idea of this thing wandering into my house when I'm having a kip. That said it doesn't seem like i
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by pjs_ 5y ago
This kicks ass!!

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