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811.
by tobr 4y ago
So are you saying that the offset of 1 Earth/soccer ball radius is helping or hurting? It’s still seems to me like it’s just getting in the way. (Though I guess the ant wouldn’t see much of anything if it was down in the grass.)
812.
by tobr 4y ago
That is interesting… but to my intuition, it seems like that would have the opposite effect? You are offset in the “wrong” direction, ie the sun and the moon are further “down” and more obscured by the earth? I might be thinking all wrong a
813.
by tobr 4y ago
This piece is not actually about the button, but about the image stabilization. It’s just part of an article series called “Button of the month”.
814.
by tobr 4y ago
It’s easy[1] to open a new tab and forget about it. There’s no specific time or prompt to revisit it and make a decision to close or keep it except when your machine gets slow. 1: That is an understatement - easy as in, 100% automatic and
815.
by tobr 4y ago
I always appreciated the rotational symmetry of “up”/“dn” (as seen on some keyboards in the context of Page up and Page down).
816.
by tobr 4y ago
Just today I learned that Nick Berry of https://datagenetics.com/ passed away recently. I guess that is slightly off topic but I wanted to share, I’ve been following his excellent blog for many years.
817.
Hest, Time Travel (2019)(ivanish.ca)
5 points by tobr 4y ago|0 comments
818.
by tobr 4y ago
Medium CEO @tonystubblebine is here occasionally. In case he comes by the thread, I’d like to ask him if he’s heard of the Streisand effect?
819.
by tobr 4y ago
> Something like 95% of streamers have under five viewers, and the majority of those have exactly zero viewers. Thinking about all those thousands of people broadcasting day in and out to exactly nobody is kind of fascinating. When you s
820.
by tobr 4y ago
Those are some very poor comparisons. Maybe if someone is claiming that dark mode or light mode have long-term effects on your health, but what people are actually claiming is just that they find one or the other more comfortable. There’s n
821.
by tobr 4y ago
That might sound convincing to someone who already prefers working on the backend, but you can basically invert your statement to describe a typical serverless setup: “You need a frontend anyways. Shifting to a client-side codebase is elimi
822.
by tobr 4y ago
I don’t see the difference. Isn’t backend code code you have to maintain too?
823.
Visualizing Binary Data with 7-Segment Displays(youtube.com)
2 points by tobr 4y ago|0 comments
824.
by tobr 4y ago
Ok, but if I use this to ask about something I genuinely need help with, how am I supposed to know that? And I don’t really think the problem is that it can’t differentiate between sources that are right and wrong. The sources are perfectly
825.
by tobr 4y ago
This might help: https://beta.sayhello.so/search?q=the+p50+time+is+around+2s+... It has the code you need: INPUT X IF X > 10 THEN PRINT "X is greater than 10." ELSE IF X < 10 THEN
826.
by tobr 4y ago
> how do i mix two colors (hexadecimal rgb string) in js > ANSWER > To mix two colors in JavaScript, you can use the color-mix property. This property takes three parameters: the colorspace, the color to be mixed, and the per
827.
by tobr 4y ago
It’s funny how mixing pure blue (#0000ff) with pure white (#ffffff) makes it look a little purple, and how you also have the exact same problem when you invert the colors - mixing pure yellow (#ffff00) with pure black (#000000) makes it loo
828.
by tobr 4y ago
Original iPod did use Chicago though! Then when they got color screens they switched to Lucida Grande.
829.
by tobr 4y ago
They totally did. It used to be a common argument against mandatory seatbelts, that people would feel safer and drive more recklessly, killing more pedestrians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt_legislation#Risk_c
830.
by tobr 4y ago
Wow, never thought about this. That’s an obvious and terrifying monetization model. Pay to always have GPT speak well of your company. Pay to appear more frequently in certain contexts.
831.
by tobr 4y ago
> Celebration > This web feature is now available in all three browser engines! Lament There are only three browser engines.
832.
by tobr 4y ago
I guess we all have different instincts when it comes to this, but I find it much more expected and acceptable that a website can see that I’m returning, than that they get to know about random other interests I have based on my general bro
833.
by tobr 4y ago
You’re probably right! But since they aren’t getting any more info by continuing to count after 2, it’s just a liability to do it. After all, the whole point of the setup seems to be to minimize the amount of unique information the system h
834.
by tobr 4y ago
That seems very different, as those cohorts are based on actual personal data (correct me if I’ve misunderstood this about FLoC). That’s fundamentally different from a counter I think.
835.
by tobr 4y ago
Consider that there’s some long tail of visitors who visit many times in one day. Someone is going to be visiting more times than anyone else, whether that’s 10 or 100 or 1000 page views. That person is now uniquely trackable. To avoid that
836.
by tobr 4y ago
That’s pretty clever. I think if you really want to keep it privacy respecting, you should stop counting at 1 - so you can distinguish the first vs subsequent visits, but you can’t tell if someone has visited 2 or 200 times.
837.
by tobr 4y ago
Brings to mind Terje Hellesø who became famous for his photos of his many close encounters with lynxes, over a decade ago. Of course they were all fake. https://photographersdirect.blogspot.com/2011/09/terje-helle
838.
by tobr 4y ago
But you still have to have a config file, right? And the Tailwind docs. And then keeping track of when you changed something in your config that means the docs don’t apply 100%.
839.
by tobr 4y ago
“Choosing to use JS without TS at this point has become a dogmatic statement of purism that, while beautiful in a sense, is so unpragmatic as to appear a little foolish” honestly sounds like a dogmatic statement.
840.
by tobr 4y ago
Could you add back the “How” in the title?

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