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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Whenever this topic comes up I feel the urge to point out that not enough people have read Audrey Watter's "Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning" , or her blog. We might stop repeating the same mistakes ov
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> I had a high-end webcam that flickered. There should be switch in the software to switch from 50hz to 60hz that'd fix it but it was nowhere to be found. Similar issue, although I'm not sure if it's the Logitech webcam
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
(too late to edit my comment, but I obviously meant increasing the spool size near the end, not reducing)
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I think the idea is that at the end the sling starts to unwind too, increasing the effective arm-length (that non-linearity is one of the reasons trebuchets are so efficient to begin with). As a result it's possible that decreasing the
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I've never seen a NAXALT fallacy used for the concept of engagement metrics before. It's not relevant to this discussion that in certain contexts, useful engagement metrics exist that supposedly aren't toxic, because it does
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Are you sure that wasn't referencing "grue" from this philosophical thought experiment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_riddle_of_induction
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Perhaps the "hits like an x on a y" family is larger than any of us thought?
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Could be a regional thing. I've heard the pliers-on-a-pig version too, might be more common.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
So in Dutch one expression for "that makes no sense" is "dat slaat nergens op" , which literally translates to "that doesn't hit (slap, beat) anything" . A ruder variation of that is "dat slaat a
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
From what I've seen from the outside looking in, I feel like game development has it's own variation of Wirth's Law where level designers push game engines to their limit faster than the people making the engines can optimize
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Especially your soul, I bet.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> In Jenner’s century it killed an estimated four hundred thousand Europeans a year. I don't think that number is correct… https://ourworldindata.org/smallpox#all-charts
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I think they meant it in the sense of coming back to the topic yet again after talking about it fairly exhaustively in an earlier blog post.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Thanks to both of you for explaining, I thought Java and JavaScript would have similar behavior here and did not know .intern() had to be manually invoked in the former. Just to clarify where I started from: JS has the notion of String Prim
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> requiring more instructions for string access Wait, why would interned immutable strings require more instructions when doing regular string access? You can still point to the start of a zero-terminated C-string, it just requires sto
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I don't know much about other quantum computers, so maybe this is a common feature of them, but isn't another interesting thing about this design that it would do reversible computing, making it potentially very low in energy co
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Bootstrapping a Forth in assembly is probably a better option, two birds with one stone.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> If you're an unc with a background in Ruby or that era of webdev Millennials catching strays I see.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> Btw, almost all of Javascript's good parts come from Smalltalk. That's E and Self erasure.
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
As your link points out, in Dutch this is also known as "komkommertijd" ("cucumber time"), and in German as "Sauregurkenzeit", (" pickled cucumber time"). The funny thing is that apparently "cuc
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I do wonder if you can truly control for it in this case, or if doing so doesn't in and of itself introduce a survivar bias that masks a reversal of causality. That is: could the taxi drivers who are already predisposed to have a lower
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Also came up with the original ..cantor.dust.. binary visualization tool, which is a tool I never used directly but Chris' presentation of it in 2012 is still one of the coolest talks I've ever seen. [0] https://github
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
That's because Gaussian splats are ellipses without any texture of their own (more or less), missing any detail that an actual brush stroke would have. Because the ellipses are so elongated in the finer details it feels like layered br
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
I am very much looking forward to see the results of trying it out, regardless of whether it works in practice! (negative results are also educational after all) And thank you for looking into the accessibility issue regarding links!
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> Each layer is more translucent and specific than the one below it, augmenting the existing structure that's already been built up. So interestingly, one distinguishing difference between oil paintings and acrylic paintings is th
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
As someone with an arts degree (not in painting though, but still) it feels really really weird to see how that animation builds up the image. It feels less random than the old "simulated annealing with vector shapes" techniques
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
So where do either of you lie on the "human rights vs property rights" spectrum? Because that's the real discussion to be had here. To quote Cory Doctorow: > But when it comes to a "post-politics that is neither righ
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
> Most people complain about the rules in Germany, but I like them. It means someone, or a group of people, sat down and thought about that specific thing and decided on a standard for everyone. When you have to do something, you don&#x
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
The author mentions various categories grew or shrank, but always in percentages. Since the list also grew from 2300 to 2800 words that feels like it might distort things a bit: in absolute word count, a category that shrank by 1% lost fewe
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by vanderZwan 2mo ago
Oh like that. I was thinking of situations where "reference" just directly links to the API keyword index, e.g. the P5 docs[0], putting a redundant extra page between that would annoy me too. [0] https://processing.org&

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