veltas

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by veltas 4y ago
>I didn't suggest that angular velocity is the same as linear velocity, I asked how you were interpreting the area and velocity, and parenthetically observed that the angular velocity was constant. If you make tangential observation
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by veltas 4y ago
Angular velocity is not velocity, the velocity increases because the angular velocity was remaining constant as the radius increased. It's encoded in the radius, but the area is visually more impactful - to me anyway - until the end wh
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by veltas 4y ago
My point is if you want to inform people about climate changes, be accurate with visualisations (i.e. don't equate something quadratic with something linear without being very transparent about this). If you want it to not be arbitrary
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by veltas 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_anomaly As I understand it, this is a more useful number when trying to measure changes of average temperature over time.
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by veltas 4y ago
This visualisation is misleading because the visual area covered increases quadratically as the radius increases, and (less misleading) the velocity of the 'pen' increases linearly too. But it's measuring a difference (not an
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by veltas 4y ago
Yeah at this point, if English isn't your first language you probably know how to auto translate a website if you need to. Shouldn't offer other languages if they aren't manually translated.
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by veltas 4y ago
It's confusing because I was talking about English having an American flag.
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by veltas 4y ago
Yeah as I said the best thing is to remove the flag, because languages aren't flags. As someone else said, just put the language name in its own language. I'm not jumping up and down annoyed, I'm not even really annoyed, I ju
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by veltas 4y ago
I'm not saying they should say English is from the UK, although as a matter of fact it is, and I don't know why that would offend anyone. I'm not offended either way. I'm just identifying a cultural issue they've ov
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by veltas 4y ago
You're going to put off UK customers having language icons, with English with a USA flag and Welsh with a UK flag. Many people who speak Welsh would probably rather associate Welsh with the Welsh flag. Likewise it's confusing or s
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by veltas 4y ago
Well they can probably get in trouble for branding as GNU, even if they disclaim it somewhere else. GNU is trademarked, for one. https://trademarks.justia.com/853/80/gnu-85380218.html
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by veltas 4y ago
There's a difference between sexual behaviour and gendered insults, that's my point. Or no?
523.
by veltas 4y ago
Judges are not meant to write laws. There is deciding a new precedent in the application of existing law. And then there's redefining 'sexual harassment' to mean whatever you want to get the same level of punishment for thing
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by veltas 4y ago
But "women are bad at X" is not 'sexual harassment'. Misogyny is not identical to sexual harassment, they are two different things with some overlap. EDIT: would downvoters (or downvoter + socks) like to explain their
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by veltas 4y ago
If Twitter overestimated actual users by like 200% then that wouldn't affect its profitability by 40%? It could do, not sure why Bloomberg is defending Twitter so hard.
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by veltas 4y ago
Another case of judges writing their own laws.
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by veltas 4y ago
This is really an outrageous, unethical, disproportionate response to a negative article, what kind of psychos are working at eBay?
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by veltas 4y ago
At some point MSDN replaced the names in comments with email addresses associated with accounts. My email address wasn't public but all of a sudden it was, at Microsoft's discretion! I complained about this, potentially this was t
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by veltas 4y ago
Yeah this is the problem, the 'terminal' used to be the box/machine in-front of you. Now a 'terminal' is pretty much just a window or tab most of the time.
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by veltas 4y ago
Compared with suicide statistics, suicide attempts are much harder to measure (and also sort of misleading). They classify 'serious suicide attempts' (SSA) as where there is serious intent of death (SSA is the real suicide attempt
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by veltas 4y ago
Yep, even writing a simple wildcard at command-line I will 'echo' before I 'rm'.
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by veltas 4y ago
Website text size seems to be based on window width, doesn't resize when I zoom out, I'm zooming out because I don't want to read your website as if I'm trying to read a war memorial from 1ft. I shouldn't have to re
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by veltas 4y ago
"It affects girls far more". Don't far more young men kill themselves? How is this being measured? Seems more complicated than that.
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by veltas 4y ago
Would love something like this for cars.
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by veltas 4y ago
I think it's the Irumodic Syndrome
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by veltas 4y ago
Yeah, just this. It's not a psychology experiment, it's "do I want to work with this person?"
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by veltas 4y ago
To be fair, if you ever rely on the default hash it's already safe to assume you don't care about performance. There's no good 'default' for all input.
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by veltas 4y ago
The one I cooked up was used to test some kind of game solver, so a 'large set' and it happily beat std::unordered_map, was a tiny bit slower than a Google hash map implementation. But I do believe in edge cases, I'm sure the
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by veltas 4y ago
I agree with all your points except "are actually well-designed and performant". I mean they perform well enough but when I write simple hashmaps that perform better than libstdc++ (yes with the same hash) anecdotally I don't
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by veltas 4y ago
> it's a vast improvement over linked lists or home-grown hashmaps. One of the easiest things to do is write home-grown hashmaps that perform better than std::unordered_map. I suppose you have to worry more about technical debt &#x2

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