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by spiralx 5y ago
While this article is on sound fingerprinting it does talk about image fingerprinting, the algorithm finds "significant" points in the image and as such can still work because it looks at their positions respective to each other,
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by spiralx 5y ago
Do not do this to the CTO about their own code is a lesson I learnt painfully many years ago. And today as a technical lead there's far too much wince-worthy code I come across that I was personally responsible for a few years back. On
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by spiralx 5y ago
`acc.concat()` also creates a new array instance, so I don't get your point.
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by spiralx 5y ago
They're talking about bioprinting which is a rapidly developing field, with a lot of recent successes in "printing" liver tissue: https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/tr-biofab-pulls-off-brea... Being abl
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by spiralx 5y ago
Your comment gave me flashbacks to Chris Morris's satire Four Lions :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Lions
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by spiralx 5y ago
Isn't that from the same person?
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by spiralx 5y ago
Don't forget all those power plants generating power when there was no demand! “Making renewables profitable” is the same talking point as “utilising excess power” as I see it, or at least a minor variation of it.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Surely the spread operator is nicer here? [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].reduce((acc, n) => n % 2 === 1 ? [ ...acc, 2 * n ] : acc, [])
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by spiralx 5y ago
For me the ban on indoor smoking was a godsend in that it gave me an open excuse to duck out of a situation and spend some time on my own recombobulating without it being considered a massive breach of etiquette. If things start getting tri
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by spiralx 5y ago
For me it's all about the reassuring inevitability of the techno kick drum, always thudding on, comfortingly constant. I love psytrance but techno is life.
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by spiralx 5y ago
A friend of mine has ADHD and is a street performer in Covent Garden in London, and it fits him to a tee - 15 minutes of hyper-focus on doing the show and interacting with the audience then an immediate reward of gratification and money, wh
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by spiralx 5y ago
> He then went on saying that normal people plan their life 2 or 3 months in advance, and that's such a mind blowing, alien concept to me. I barely have an idea what I'm going to do tomorrow. The farther I think, the foggier it
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by spiralx 5y ago
Ketamine really cuts through that compulsion, to the point where I find I get stuff done when I take it. It's very much a trade-off between capability and contentment, and it's nice to be enjoy the moment once in a while. I wouldn
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by spiralx 5y ago
Now that does not surprise me at all. It's a nifty system that I didn't quite click with when I tried it, I should give it another go perhaps.
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by spiralx 5y ago
Would you judge a diabetic person for taking insulin? That's a somewhat similar situation, but it doesn't have the stigma of mental health attached to it, and there most definitely is such a thing. Your brain is part of your body
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by spiralx 5y ago
Ignore them. Medication can and does help with ADHD, as someone who was diagnosed at 31 the biggest problem was addressing various coping mechanisms I'd developed that were no longer useful thanks to medication. And I was amazed to wak
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by spiralx 5y ago
Which itself followed the Great Bullion Famine, where there was too little gold and silver available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bullion_Famine It's also amusing that silver was far more critical than gol
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by spiralx 5y ago
Last years huge dip due to COVID has been great for spinning all different kinds of narratives that fall apart when you look beyond last May. There are definitely those with vested interests in pushing the "economy is in tatters and sp
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by spiralx 5y ago
That's about improving the regulatory process, not sure what's your point?
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by spiralx 5y ago
Sadly the TPP was abandoned along with the significant environmental and worker protections it would have imposed, neither of which I can see being a feature of China's replacement for it.
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by spiralx 5y ago
I remember being surprised when I read that half of all of the gold we have has been mined since 1961, which really does show that basing your currency on it would have massive problems.
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by spiralx 5y ago
90% of HNers couldn't tell you what fiscal and monetary policy even are, let alone have a sensible debate on the economy.
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by spiralx 5y ago
My brother and I used to build space fighters with a pilot inside who could see outside, with the goal of being able to throw them at the wall as hard as possible without them coming apart - our parents were not fans lol. It's perfectl
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by spiralx 5y ago
> The sum was $2000 before and $2000 after. Do you have an issue with any of the six numbers above? Well clearly because that's not what I wrote. You're mixing liabilities with assets and also redefining the money supply to inc
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by spiralx 5y ago
I assume because it's easier to extrapolate an "alarming trend" from a curated subset of small initiatives and programs than it is from a bunch of recommendations for improving maths education. Seems to have worked, there&#x2
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by spiralx 5y ago
Most American schools finish then because they start an hour or more before schools in most European countries, typical primary school (4-13 years) hours in the UK are 8:30 to 3:30 with an hour for lunch, France is 8:30 to 4:30 but with two
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by spiralx 5y ago
> If the assets and liabilities balance, why describe it as "literally creating money"? 1) Say you have an account at FooBank with a balance of $1000, and I have an account there with a balance of $0. The total supply of money
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by spiralx 5y ago
> After following some "dark enlightenment" people on Twitter and libertarians with a subset of very far right viewpoints, it's becoming clear that lots of these people claim to want "freedom," but what they real
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> We’ve almost completely discarded “the establishment” because it’s so hard to fix. But when we lose that, we lose an explicit hierarchy and get the implicit one, which has problems that are impossible to fix. Rather than chasing a thou
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by spiralx 5y ago
The Tyranny of Structurelessness literally says power structures are inevitable and when a group has no explicit structure an elite will form from either a pre-existing network or an informal network of those who are good at networking and

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