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by trealira 3y ago
You could try showing her some documentary going over how some particular professional animation was made in detail. It sounds like she doesn't just want to make her own kid version of animation, but rather wants to learn how professio
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by trealira 3y ago
Right, that's why we use compasses, which use the poles of the Earth to determine the direction. Something living in zero gravity doesn't have a planet, so they'd have to find something else to base the directions on. That&#x
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by trealira 3y ago
I've noticed a lot of comments on Hacker News that use this construction. I don't point it out because often people dislike unsolicited advice about their English. Spanish speakers also make this mistake. I haven't met German
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by trealira 3y ago
However, North, South, East, and West are relative to the poles of the Earth. Something living in zero gravity would have to use some object as an anchor to determine the direction.
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by trealira 3y ago
Thanks for the summary. That makes sense as an argument.
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You're completely right. Neither can the Monroe Doctrine be called neutral, nor can: - the Mexican-American War - Commodore Perry's forced reopening of Japan - The fact that President Franklin Pierce recognized William Walker&#x27
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by trealira 3y ago
I think it's great that they're working to provide some sort of protection against spyware like Pegasus, and investing into cyber security and rewarding bug bounties more liberally. It makes me wonder if they'll spend time fo
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by trealira 3y ago
You could try Sarasa Gothic, which is made by the same person who made Iosevka. Github Link: https://github.com/be5invis/Sarasa-Gothic Specimen (made by someone else): https://picaq.github.io/sarasa&#x2
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by trealira 3y ago
I replied to someone else, but I think it serves just as well as a reply to your comment. Here's a link, because I won't copy and paste: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38321929
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by trealira 3y ago
Some Republicans voted for Biden despite having no leftist beliefs and not really liking Biden that much, simply because they really didn't like the direction that Trump had taken the Republican party. They felt like their party was mo
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by trealira 3y ago
To be fair, in most other nouns, adding an apostrophe and an s at the end can both be short for "is" and signify the possessive form (e.g., "Tim's a jerk" means "Tim is a jerk," but "Tim's house&
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by trealira 3y ago
He conflated the ADL with western Jewish populations, though, and agreed that Jewish communities as a whole have been spreading anti-white hatred, not just the ADL. https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/17249082874712
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by trealira 3y ago
> PEOPLE DIDN'T THINK THEIR 60'S - 90'S CODE WOULD STILL BE RUNNING IN 2000. That serves as evidence against this point, though: > COBOL in 60s was written with a lot more focus on lasting in general.
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Programming languages haven't even been around for 100 years. There's no guarantee we'll even be running programs written in C in 2123, let alone ones written in JavaScript. 100 years from now is a long time.
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It's more like "why use Linux if you dislike using the shell?" or maybe "why use XMonad if you dislike Haskell?" Which aren't unreasonable questions; there are a lot of people who use XMonad despite not caring
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> How's this for interesting: many people in my field (formal methods) seem to be pretty excited about our job prospects. Wow, I hadn't thought of it from the generative AI standpoint, only from the standpoint of "cybersec
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by trealira 3y ago
I agree Rust lowers the bar to write low-level performant code (especially considering that it was always harder to write correct C than, say, correct Ada) but I don't think it's always necessary to write code in non-garbage-colle
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by trealira 3y ago
Yeah, I have a friend whose family switched from dial-up internet to DSL only in the mid-2010s.
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There was a video from Twitter shared on HN a while back of Windows 95 or 98 (I don't remember which) running on a modern computer, and all programs and menus loaded instantly when clicked, not like now where there's often a sma
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by trealira 3y ago
I think "data mining" must have had less of a negative connotation when they wrote those titles 20 years ago.
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Game tree heuristic searches, like the minimax algorithm with alpha-beta pruning, has also been called AI, which is why programs that play chess are called AI. What I think is the problem is that when people hear "artificial intelligen
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At my university library, there are a bunch of books from the early 2000s already with titles like "Web Content Mining with Java" (Tony Loton, 2002) and "Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques" (2001, Han Kamber (and 2006
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by trealira 3y ago
I've found that exercise helps. I try to jog and lift weights regularly, but usually I exercise for a few months and stop for a few months. When I don't exercise, I notice I'm a lot more tired and feel significantly colder th
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This is the reason there are cross-platform GUI libraries (like GTK and QT) in the first place. Without it them, an application must either sacrifice portability, or manage the same application for multiple different interfaces over multipl
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> So android isn’t cool with teenagers, but it’s mostly because Android devices just suck now. You may be right about Android phones sucking more than they used to regarding replaceability, customizability, rootability, etc., but I don&#
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It was actually called the Inflation Reduction Act, but you're right, it is doublespeak.
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> about making a static ML like language without starting with hardcore theory. The book Applicative Order Programming: The Standard ML Perspective has you implement an ML-like language at the end (the book is mostly about programming
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> If I want more clean air and you want more rocket launches, and we're both willing to work to get what we want, then whether we get it is less about how much value we capture and more about how aligned our work is with our goals a
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A book recommendation [for programming in C](old.reddit.com)
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The idea behind the market economy is that people still will always strive for more. Some examples of commodities that aren't strictly necessary, but can always be improved: - video games with more beautiful or realistic graphics - foo

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