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by sgentle 3y ago
Susan Blackmore was right. > To help understand the next step we can think of this process as follows: one replicator (genes) built vehicles (plants and animals) for its own propagation. One of these then discovered a new way of copying
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by sgentle 3y ago
I found a pretty fun set of rules: make a cycle of -0.4 between the colours (eg G->R, R->Y, Y->B, B->G in 3d or G->R, R->O, O->C, C->G in 2d) and set the other factors to 0.1. The particles form semi-stable rotating
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by sgentle 3y ago
I had a problem like that, which turned out to be caused by pocket lint stuck in the USB-C jack. A bit of digging with a toothpick (I had to split it a bit to make the end small enough) got it out and after that the connection was very secu
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by sgentle 3y ago
Fortunately, they did foresee this! The push notification only contains enough information to tell the phone that it should fetch the actual notification content from Signal's servers. Here's a Signal dev talking about it on the S
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by sgentle 3y ago
I'm not sure exactly where the appropriate place is to mock the victims of genocide while they try to preserve what remains of their culture and land, but it's definitely not here.
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by sgentle 3y ago
I absolutely hate the list-of-custom-timer UIs on both iOS and Android. I can only assume that both companies have separately gone through the cycle of "people want favourite/recurring alarms" -> "timers are just alar
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by sgentle 3y ago
> It's not a woman specific thing. That's sufficiently incorrect that there's an entire subfield of medicine dedicated to how incorrect it is. If you're interested in learning more, this is a pretty good study to star
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by sgentle 4y ago
Fun Janet feature that I don't see in many languages: you can pause a fiber (coroutine), serialise it, deserialise it somewhere else and resume it again. A bunch of caveats to using it in practise, but it's still a little bit magi
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by sgentle 4y ago
Here you go: https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap300/ch300-copyrightable-... 308.2 Creativity "A work of authorship must possess 'some minimal degree of creativity' to sustain a copyright claim. [..
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by sgentle 4y ago
For what it's worth, I had similar issues and eventually realised that "not enough of a problem" was a pattern of thinking that held me back. Even the DSM5 now uses this language: "the symptoms interfere with, or reduce
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by sgentle 4y ago
I believe this is the strongest version of the argument you're making: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-intelligen... (prepend archive.is/ to get around the paywall) It's
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by sgentle 4y ago
If you're a real Linux user, you can build such a system yourself quite trivially by combining xargs, sed and grep. You see, nodejs is the pumpkin spice latte of languages. I, a sophisticate, insist upon the fine single malt whiskey of
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by sgentle 4y ago
I think it's actually to do with whether the cutting edge is visible or not. Right-handed scissors held to the right of your eyes have effectively no margin between the cut and the edge of the blade. Right-handed scissors on your left
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Show HN: Flourish – An Epicyclic Music Visualiser(demos.samgentle.com)
2 points by sgentle 4y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Flourish – An Epicyclic Music Visualiser(demos.samgentle.com)
3 points by sgentle 4y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 4y ago
The length of the bottom wall is 20 feet and the sum of the lengths of the top walls is 17.5 feet, meaning there is an additional 2.5 feet of wall width across the two walls of the balcony. Assuming the wall is uniform thickness, that gives
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by sgentle 5y ago
That's not an accurate history; npm started around 2010 and didn't become a company until 2014. Perhaps it was all part of a master plan to build the perfect trojan unicorn, but I invite you to look at some of the 2010-era code an
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by sgentle 5y ago
You've made several claims in your comments that don't hold up to even a few minutes of basic research. You can Google the definition of PII in the CCPA. You can Google whether emails can be legally binding. If you don't both
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by sgentle 5y ago
The OS X equivalent is: dscacheutil -q host -a name MYHOST
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by sgentle 5y ago
If anyone wants to do any fun OS X GPU rabbitholing, this command will dump out a bunch of stuff from the IO Registry as an XML/plist: ioreg -c IOGraphicsAccelerator2 -r -l -a The PerformanceStatistics and IOReportChannels dicts are pa
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by sgentle 5y ago
If you don't mind the, uh, colourful presentation, the You Suck at Producing series (and channel with the same name) on YouTube is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kjCxfEZZKo - he also does pretty regular
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by sgentle 5y ago
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly w
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by sgentle 5y ago
I unironically solved this problem by running docker-compose in Docker. You can build an image that's just the official docker/compose image with your docker-compose.yml on top, mount /var/run/docker.sock into it, a
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by sgentle 5y ago
I found the mean version: http://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_of...
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by sgentle 5y ago
Array prototype methods are designed to be applied to other objects. There's explicit language about it dating back to the first edition of the ECMAScript spec: "The map function is intentionally generic; it does not require that
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by sgentle 6y ago
I made this a while back: https://demos.samgentle.com/breather/ It's a 4-2-6 breathing pattern, but it's a single html file, so should be pretty easy to save and customise if you want something different.
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by sgentle 6y ago
This is a bizarre take. The most substantial point is buried near the end of the article: Genius does not own the copyright to the lyrics. Yes, they may have taken billions of painstaking person-years to hand-transcribe them onto artisanal
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by sgentle 6y ago
Never thought I'd see the day that a pg essay crosses over with /r/politicalcompassmemes The problem with "discussing ideas" as a framing is that it exists in opposition to something. What is that something? Those w
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by sgentle 7y ago
"Some drug that blocks the euphoric effects of drinking" would be more accurate.
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by sgentle 7y ago
It's easy to get hung up on specific words, so it might be easier to consider meanings. What is the meaning of the phrase "What are you even talking about?" Is it a question? If so, what answer were you hoping for? If I take

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