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by taneq 9mo ago
They’re already calling it the Kings Birthday public holiday in Australia and it just seems wrong.
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by taneq 9mo ago
I've always said that driving a car with modern driver assist features (lane centering / adaptive cruise / 'autopilot' style self-ish driving-ish) is like riding a horse. The early ones were like riding a short sigh
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by taneq 9mo ago
Yeah, from what I saw they originally took the plunge to build the ‘tank’ due to the armour but ended up using it for almost everything because it was so flexible and convenient.
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by taneq 9mo ago
Then you have to also model all the other actors and the entire rest of the scene, including practical effects. Otherwise you get Phantom Menace style 3D visuals with close-enough cube maps that end up looking very game-y.
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by taneq 9mo ago
I don’t see why it’s so absurd, with how cheap display tech has become recently. Ambitious, maybe, but it seemed to work pretty well in The Mandolorian.
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by taneq 9mo ago
This, 100%. Semicolons and curly brackets aren’t the hard part of developing software. The hard part is figuring out what you want in the first place.
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by taneq 9mo ago
> I don’t see people complaining “I hate listening to most music because my headphones are always at 90% volume Volume and loudness are different things ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war ) and pervasive lou
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by taneq 9mo ago
Light mode decreases the localised dynamic range. Also, screens are way brighter than they used to be. It’s the visual equivalent of the loudness wars in broadcast audio. Is everything is loud/bright then nothing is, but everything is
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by taneq 9mo ago
I’ve been having The Talk with my kids recently. They’ll say “I looked up this question and the answer was X.” And I’ll ask “was that answer on a credible website, or was it an AI summary?” And then explain, again, that LLMs are great at pr
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by taneq 9mo ago
How can planets be real if our eyes aren’t real?
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by taneq 9mo ago
Icon design is actually really interesting because good icons are an attractor in a phase space defined by the expectations of the users of those icons. An icon doesn’t need to look like the action it represents. It needs to evoke the conc
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by taneq 9mo ago
Diet, exercise, and physical training, probably?
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by taneq 10mo ago
> "Cancel culture" (your social actions having social consequences) has and always will exist I want to reinforce this fact. Consider the origins of the term "ostracism", where a sufficiently objectionable individual
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by taneq 10mo ago
I think there's a bit of rose tinted glasses going on with our memories of SD TV, too. A decade or so ago I plugged an old PS2 into my 50" plasma TV (which I bought just after plasma TVs got suddenly cheap :D ) and then spent a go
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by taneq 10mo ago
That’s when you find out if the soft power you’ve accrued is sufficient.
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by taneq 10mo ago
In my experience (at a much smaller scale than these guys, of course) the legal papers power is more of a formality. It’s the soft power tied up in knowledge, relationships, trust and goodwill that really count.
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by taneq 10mo ago
The very fact that he (or anyone in a similar position) holds the hammer is enough to guarantee that he will very seldom have to swing it.
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by taneq 10mo ago
Exactly. If you work in a field that’s close to your interests, there are probably parts of your job that you’d do for fun even if infinitely wealthy. It’s the other stuff, the boring annoying grind, that makes it a job and not a hobby.
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by taneq 10mo ago
A software update can absolutely trigger or unmask a hardware bug. It’s not an either/or thing, it’s usually (if a hardware issue is actually present) both in tandem:
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by taneq 10mo ago
The IR camera idea is clever, usually we use them to find hot spots. Gonna try this next time I suspect we have a leak.
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by taneq 10mo ago
Are you saying that all particulates in the air inside a house are mold spores? Surely the vast majority is just normal dust (dander, microplastics, silicates, etc.)?
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by taneq 10mo ago
It’s fun driving a spaceship, though. :D I’m just glad we’re past the phase where apparently EVs had to look like science experiments. That’s one thing Tesla got right, they built a car that was electric, rather than building an electric ve
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by taneq 10mo ago
Yeah but they’re usually a rectangular prism, more or less.
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by taneq 10mo ago
"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." Also probably move around a lot, doesn't matter how, ideally by finding something fun to do that involves moving around a lot.
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by taneq 10mo ago
You're talking about two different things here (and I'm not condoning either, to be clear.) 1) UI = a clearly documented way to configure all features and make the software work exactly how you want. 2) UI = load a web page and tr
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by taneq 10mo ago
The issue is that it's beautifully designed for a portrait phone-ish-sized screen. Try viewing it in 16:9 and it's a mess. I'm not saying this to criticise; the author owes me nothing, and if I shrink my browser window down t
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by taneq 10mo ago
The internet is fine. The Web is bad.
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by taneq 10mo ago
> Its purpose is to make preliminary designs of wings, planes, hydrofoils and sails reliable, fast and user-friendly. From the main project page. So it’s for designing aircraft, mostly.
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by taneq 10mo ago
No idea, I certainly haven't. This was decades ago, though, so it's entirely possible that established best practice has changed.
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by taneq 10mo ago
That matches what I've been told by various personal trainers. 6-8 reps if focusing on strength, ~12 for all round, and 16-18 for size/endurance. Do three sets, weight should be enough that the last couple of reps on the first set

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