ratmeadow

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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
> We are nice to people because cooperative societies out performed the non-cooperative ones on the macro level I.e. biology gets what it wants... We want to survive, mother nature wants us to survive, society wants to survive. I am abso
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
So for the same set of actions, it's fine if you're unaware of the underlying mechanisms, and manipulation if you are aware? If you dig through the weeds of it you can argue just about everything we do socially is manipulation. We
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
> Compressing data means you save space on the disc... If you conveniently ignore the fact that common.lin is duplicated in each map's directory and is the same for every map I tested, which kinda negates part of this. This is an in
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
Yeah I also had this thought. Despite popular belief, the film look is not magic. Especially since the article mentions they already had monitors calibrated for the film look during development. Why couldn't they replicate that for the
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by ratmeadow 11mo ago
I don't think it's so cut and dry. For some (even many) measures, over a long period of centuries, on average, yes the world is probably going up. For other measures perhaps not. And at a small time frame very plausibly not. Examp
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
This is a really cool idea! It seems really hard though, I tried for a while and didn't get far. Would be keen to see one that's a little easier, maybe with less * qualifiers and more + or ?
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Interesting thing I've noted with wildlife photography competitions is they're often about the backstory of the animal, not so much the photo. Here there photo by itself is not particularly interesting (IMO) but because of the ani
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Wouldn't this "val" be the same as "final"? Also related, it annoys me that Java has final but otherwise poor/leaky support for immutability. You can mark something final but most Java code (and a lot of the st
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Oh no, to save the world we'll have to take the train to work instead of a car...
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
If you can sell a call option you can construct a portfolio that's effectively short tickets
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Maybe a dumb question but what exactly is wrong with banning the IPs? Even if the bots get more IPs over time, surely storing a list of bans is cheaper than serving content? Is the worry that the bots will eventually cycle through so many I
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Agreed, the issue is more that the average person doesn't care about photos. Even now you can tell what is real vs fake in photography and people don't care, they eat it all up. The good, the bad, the fake, doesn't matter bec
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Hot take perhaps, I don't really agree with this. It's the same tired "worth by self work" claim that is given for all kinds of personal issues. I won't claim that it's strictly false (obviously working on your
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Elixir just keeps chugging along steadily releasing great features and improvements. It's an astoundingly well designed language and the creators have a solid approach to its development. It's a shame I don't get to use Elixi
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
I don't get why various governments/systems/etc have an obsession with the first name + last name format. It just has so many assumptions that fall over so quickly. Why can't we treat name as a single, generally opaque f
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
So true. It is abuse because the customer is largely trapped. I try my best to avoid subscriptions and tech for everyday things, but I have done the thought experiment for a possible future and it's kinda scary. Say I like photography
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Would some message passing hardware actually be "better" in terms of performance, efficiency, and ease of construction? I thought moving data between hardware subsystems is generally pretty expensive (e.g. atomic memory instructio
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Legit question, how do you work stably enough to have a good income to support this? Personally I find living a "regular" life and maintaining a 9-5 job is hard enough in terms of time management and logistics. And that's wit
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
> no preparation for things to go wrong besides saving money and hoping you can buy your way out I always wondered about the cost effectiveness of these alternate living arrangements. Like the probability of having to rely on huge amount
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
The way my psychologist explained social anxiety to me was it's based off an innate system in our brain which is sensitive to social rejection. Rejection is potentially very bad because that might mean we get kicked out of our group a
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
> Being able to work with others is an important skill Are we seriously claiming that average office socials/politics is no more than being able to play nicely with people?
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Agreed, it's becoming silly. Particularly for thing that are infrequent. Like no I don't want to install an app to check into a flight given that I fly once a year. And of course each airline would have their own app. Forcing an a
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Shaming is one extreme but surely there is some aspect of tradition. Personally I am a little snobbish with pasta because I have seen a lot of people with just no respect for pasta as a culinary experience. E.g. it's just carbs to shov
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Very soon after reading this I started to doubt my whole life's work in C++... std::flip? Never heard of it before, and I used to read cppreference for fun. And the name smells sus. I don't think the committee would name it "
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Interesting that for you typing makes the code harder to read. What context do you use Python for? And who is writing it? In my experience I have seen far too much Python code like `def func(data, args, *kwargs)` with no documentation and
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
I wrote about this a while back [1] because most documentation is just plain bad. At best it's a reiteration of what is obvious and at worst it doesn't exist. Far too often it says too little of the bigger picture and too much of
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Maybe we don't have to worry about AI chatbots taking over because they will end up so censored/policed that no one will/can use them. Can't use AI if you're too young, too old, have any medical issues, have the wro
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
I always wondered why lens blur is considered hard computationally. Lens mathematics seems pretty well understood given that we can create quite complex lens designs with incredible performance (take a look at modern DSLR lenses, they often
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
This is funny, at one point I became convinced 50mm is too "boring" of a focal length, and almost sold mine. Then I realised some of my best shots were taken at 50mm. It's a good neutral perspective when the scene is already
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by ratmeadow 1y ago
Interesting, different tastes I guess. I find the wide mountaintop shot to be pretty lackluster compositionally because everything is oddly spaced out and half of it is empty (sky). I often have this problem when shooting wide angle - becau

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