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by spectramax 7y ago
That's what it reminded me of too. Futura is also used for serious display text such as cockpit controls by Airbus (?) if I am not mistaken.
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by spectramax 7y ago
Yea I agree with you, it is more of a Display typeface. As far as ugliness or beauty, that is in the eye of the beholder. It reminds of me of Futura.
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by spectramax 7y ago
What do you think about a paid service like this? I would gladly pay $20 a year for a membership to get access to detailed tear downs, unbiased reviews and objective analysis (with proper metrology, standards, etc.) iFixit execs - if you&#x
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by spectramax 7y ago
I cynically think that this is a fall out of top-down direction from management for their little cost cutting bonuses. Short term benefits and incentives (fuck the consumers, durability will be dealt with when I am no longer around) trading
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by spectramax 7y ago
Ditto. Initially entertaining but it wears off quickly. He is obviously very popular so there is something to be said about that - he is truly funny. Also, his analysis is decent but he is no expert by any means like his fans think.
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by spectramax 7y ago
We need to do something about this. If I buy a washing machine, I have NO idea how much cost cutting has gotten into it - in fact, companies spend way too much money in marketing, shiny stickers, features and IoT bullshit than things like o
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by spectramax 7y ago
From what I know, fonts are created by optical judgment, fiddling with kerning until it looks right and a tremendous amount of trial and error - this is because our vision system's complexity is compounded by "short-cuts" (op
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by spectramax 7y ago
Looking at old Popular Science magazines, I actually don’t mind ads in the magazine. The whole advertisement business in the era of internet has rotten to the point where you can’t go anywhere on the internet without some fucking analytics
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by spectramax 7y ago
Yes, web-rings specifically!
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by spectramax 7y ago
This is extreme. Why use a real-world example? Because people can relate to it. People have seen these types of plots. It could have been a completely fabricated example of an arbitrary hurricane in Florida or Canada or whatever - the point
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by spectramax 7y ago
I don't understand - what are the wrong lessons that this article teaches? The author isn't a forecaster. The author is exemplifying a problem with the chart by using a 2017 hurricane example. Unless I am missing something?
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by spectramax 7y ago
And your article drives this point home really well. I honestly don't understand the criticism - the hurricane example you picked from 2017 is just to make a point - which people in this thread are unnecessarily complaining about.
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by spectramax 7y ago
The general problem that the article raises is still valid even though the pictures don’t match. The article is pointing out that the increasing circle sizes represent variation of centerline paths, not the actual size of the hurricane (whi
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by spectramax 7y ago
Off topic: On the homepage, the tag line says "Email for startups" - is that a marketing buzz these days? What's wrong with "Email for small businesses"?
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by spectramax 7y ago
Click bait title, should be just "Woman Finds a Yellow Diamond at a State Park after the Recent Rainfall". There is literally nothing interesting to talk about in this article.
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by spectramax 7y ago
Imagine if you have a non-linear function mapping to the height of the bars in a bar graph. For some input values, say, [0,25,50,75,100] we have a non-linear height function that calculates the heights of the bars, say [0px, 23px, 60px, 65p
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by spectramax 7y ago
It’s not about whether someone is taking away Inferno or Viridis. It’s about what is effectively lying to your audience and what is accurate perceptually linear representation of the data - the latter triumphs over any aesthetic considerati
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by spectramax 7y ago
I think my comment was downvoted for the tone rather than content. I am just frustrated that according to HN, it’s ok to create random color scheme with no clear objective problem statement and perpetuate the Jet...uhhh Turbo. It took a tre
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by spectramax 7y ago
I disagree. That’s still not a good way to show difference. Why not use a discrete color scheme for displaying differences? There is no reason to use a continuous color map, distort it and show qualitative differences - a continuous colorma
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by spectramax 7y ago
> "The background in the following images is barely distinguishable with Inferno (which is already punchier than Viridis), but clear with Turbo." (and presumably also Jet) This has to do with the dynamic range of the plot - if
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by spectramax 7y ago
> Today we are happy to introduce Turbo, a new colormap that has the desirable properties of Jet while also addressing some of its shortcomings, such as false detail, banding and color blindness ambiguity. What are the desirable properti
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by spectramax 7y ago
Should we let the market forces play that out? No tip, less incentive to join Door Dash as a driver. Also fix the minimum wage laws.
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by spectramax 7y ago
I find the title whimsical because GE actually bought part of Enron after its collapse, specifically GE Wind is a spinoff of Enron's wind energy division.
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by spectramax 7y ago
Not to be a thorn in your excitement but gravity assist is a standard technique for more than 40 years in space exploration. Literally every spacecraft uses it in some way or the other.
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by spectramax 7y ago
> I'd go so far as to say that it was coordinated in order to demonstrate the capability to self-moderate ahead of the 2020 US elections. I don't understand how you go from "Guessing from Twitter tipping off Facebook"
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by spectramax 7y ago
I was educating myself of Kashmir protestors in Srinagar and found a stark contrast between Kashmiri protestors (with their ISIS banners: https://i.imgur.com/ib8OVE4.png ) and HK protestors who are peaceful, educated in the
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by spectramax 7y ago
What you are agreeing to is that it is OK for a government to arbitrarily censor information to the public as long as it is possible for the people to bypass it - this is absolutely and utterly absurd. Please provide some additional color a
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by spectramax 7y ago
It is downplaying authoritarian rule by saying that they've made is easy for people to bypass it and as you said, many people live their lives "normally" in China. The parent clarifies this by reaffirming the core subject, i.
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by spectramax 7y ago
This is such an absurd reasoning. Just because people have circumvented the Great Fire Wall has no bearing on what the parent comment is talking about - GFW is the consequence of the evil things an authoritarian government is capable of doi
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by spectramax 7y ago
I am not familiar with Treasuries, I'd appreciate some insight into what this means "China has been a less aggressive buyer of the U.S. sovereign debt". How is it possible to "hold" (buy) another country's debt

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