rectang

41 ms·

661.
by rectang 2y ago
This entire HN page is a performance piece. There is only one commenter who is not in on it.
662.
by rectang 2y ago
I watched the video and I don't see how cutting commentary like otteromkram pointed out here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168503#42173585 aligns with their intent to not say anything negative about the artist
663.
by rectang 2y ago
Repaired links: https://museumofbadart.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PAULIN... ... which is the fourth picture in on this page: https://museumofbadart.org/in-the-nood/
664.
by rectang 2y ago
Here's the critique I would like to have seen from MOBA for such a work: > human fetus made of chicken bones Delicious.
665.
by rectang 2y ago
I dislike it. Ostensibly this is taking on art museum snobbery, but many of these works are by amateurs and were literally pulled out the trash. It feels like an embittered teacher making fun of a kid, while the class snickers at the spec
666.
by rectang 2y ago
The presidential government system has the flaw of the citizenry ascribing blame or credit to the president for effects that they had no hand in. It impedes learning from mistakes, compared with the parliamentary system where the accountab
667.
by rectang 2y ago
Even if it is a net win, voters won't perceive it as one, judging by the historical response to inflation against incumbent governments worldwide and through the decades.
668.
by rectang 2y ago
Recall this anecdote the next time someone mentions "meritocracy" in the context of tech. At best, only a limited population gets to participate.
669.
by rectang 2y ago
Back in 2003, my boss asked "what if we stack 2 banner ads at the top of each page?". It looked like poo, but I ran it and it increased ad clicks. Stacking 3 banner ads didn't help.
670.
by rectang 2y ago
The author doesn't know their stuff, and is speaking with inappropriate authority and hubris. I wonder if that's what they do on other topics besides trademark law.
671.
by rectang 2y ago
That's the difference between an independent language standard with multiple implementations (the old way), and a language with a single canonical implementation (more typical these days).
672.
by rectang 2y ago
Who's the intended audience for your Github fork? Is there any likelihood of marketplace confusion? If you're just forking a repo on Github and upstreaming patches, then the likelihood of confusion is minute. Github's users
673.
by rectang 2y ago
"RustCamp" would likely be adjudicated as a trademark violation if it went to court. "Alternative to Rust" would not.
674.
by rectang 2y ago
> What do people need? People need money. Being a caregiver is financially devastating because those who need the care often exceed their means, and society expects caregivers to pick up the tab. We've emphasized quantity of lif
675.
by rectang 2y ago
I'm have relatives in the elder care industry and I've been a caregiver myself. This options presented here are laughable. Modern medicine has extended lifetimes so that people spend an extraordinary amount of their lives in a sta
676.
by rectang 2y ago
There's another option: abandon your responsibilities. Modern capitalism demands that you spend your time competing, and lots of people are not able to keep up. Return to natural state of leaving behind the infirm to die.
677.
by rectang 2y ago
With many people who would be at risk for an enforcement action, odds are they will complain mightily whether the rules are implicit or explicit. It’s not that the rules are codified or not, it’s rules of any kind being applied to them tha
678.
by rectang 2y ago
A bracing introduction to the Paradox of Tolerance!
679.
by rectang 2y ago
CoCs arose because of endemic abuses that were not organically curbed, sadly.
680.
by rectang 2y ago
I just take a 1-US-cup measuring cup and fill it 3/4 full for each "cup" that the Zojirushi wants. Like a "heaping cup" in reverse.
681.
by rectang 2y ago
My mother's measure, from an old college cookbook: "One cup of rice make three cups of RICE". (With eyes springing wide open and fingers splaying outwards at "RICE", followed by a hearty giggle). Our measures are wa
682.
by rectang 2y ago
I use a Zojirushi NS-LAC05. (I believe the current version of this model is the NS-LHC05.) https://www.zojirushi.com/app/category/rice-cookers It makes great rice consistently and easily. The only quirk is that t
683.
by rectang 2y ago
I thought myself a pretty decent C coder, certainly someone who was conscientious and took safety seriously. I am nevertheless often humbled when programming unsafe Rust as I discover aspects and errors I had not anticipated or thought thr
684.
by rectang 2y ago
If you write a piece that "plays well", a player can play it well — and give a more compelling performance. What makes a piece "play well" isn't necessarily that it be "easy"; more that it be natural and
685.
by rectang 2y ago
Acknowledge the difficulty and sacrifice needed to follow the path of self-oriented creativity, and that most people do not have the resources to pursue it. However, that advice doesn't please the audience, so few entertainers will giv
686.
by rectang 2y ago
> What advice do you have for aspiring inventors? > Giertz: Make things that you want. Few things make me so cynical as a successful entertainer doling out "do what you love" advice. It's what the audience wants to
687.
by rectang 2y ago
> Video conferencing platforms have opted to deliver audio that arrives quickly but is low in quality. Platforms aim for a lag time of less than 150 milliseconds. Yet that is long enough to violate the no-overlap/no-gap convention
688.
Return-to-Office Mandates(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by rectang 2y ago|0 comments
689.
by rectang 2y ago
I think of high-dimensional spaces in terms of projection. Projecting a 3-dimensional space onto a 2-dimensional space loses information and the results depend on perspective. Same with an 11-dimensional space being projected onto a 10-di
690.
by rectang 2y ago
Time to share my favorite quote from Symbols, Signals and Noise by John R. Pierce, where he discusses how Shannon achieved a breakthrough in Information Theory: > This chapter has had another aspect. In it we have illustrated the use

More ›