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by voldacar 5y ago
>Vim/Kakoune users could have their help menu _be_ the keyboard. Every action changes all of your keys to whatever is possible. Wow, this is an amazing idea. Think of all the other unimagined possibilities if we had real innovation
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by voldacar 5y ago
Nah there was definitely some kind of fundamental qualitative change from 7 to 8/10. I dont think the post-7 versions of windows will ever be loved like 7
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by voldacar 5y ago
Some other people in this thread suggested having a keyboard with little e-ink displays on the keycaps. Then the character map could be completely user-defined. Then you could just have a big bank of keys off to the side to select your desi
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by voldacar 5y ago
Huge agree. I knew it was quanta just from the headline. For the life of me I will never understand who their target audience is. People who claim to like math but cant actually be trusted to learn any??
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by voldacar 5y ago
Okay, so we need better keyboards then. If a character is annoying to type, that is a keyboard problem, not a language or charset problem. So let's improve the keyboard. Currently we are stuck with the garbage qwerty keyboard (and var
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by voldacar 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that in general, racket is just a lot slower than SBCL. I would never write performance critical software in racket
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by voldacar 5y ago
not your keys, not your coins. no exceptions.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I think Gravity's Rainbow is significantly harder than Infinite Jest
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by voldacar 5y ago
OS aesthetics just seem so bland and meek these days. I think Win7 Aero/OSX Lion/Compiz cube thing was the peak and after that everything became homogenized and boring. I want my computer to look cool, goddammit
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by voldacar 5y ago
Wow, that's an amazing story. Thanks for posting, i had no idea something like that ever took place
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by voldacar 5y ago
What an incredible life. Annoying antivirus creator, Belizean designer drug producer (and possibly murderer), bitcoin enthusiast, international outlaw, possible creator of the LSJ island drone videos... I never really interacted with him bu
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by voldacar 5y ago
As a non-Canadian, the Quebecois seem to have a weird cultural narcissism. It's like there are all these little petty bureaucratic foistings of Quebec on the rest of Canada. Music that nobody wants to listen to, a language that nobody
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by voldacar 5y ago
Woah, it's almost as if the right isn't monolithic
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by voldacar 5y ago
Wow, this is super cool. I love how it shows exact angles and traces the path of the bar. With that weight, you should be doing full reps though ;)
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by voldacar 5y ago
I wonder if someday you could make a differentiable kernel and do gradient descent in kernel-parameter-space
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by voldacar 5y ago
To increase the "fractal dimension" of anything, just EQ up the high frequency components. White noise has great fractal dimension, lol Can't wait for this to be on joe rogan
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by voldacar 5y ago
I don't think you get it. Young men today grow up almost entirely in female-dominated spaces. That is not normal historically. In fact it would be strange if it didn't lead to any pathologies.
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by voldacar 5y ago
Well I don't think that would optimize for weird but good prose. Maybe you could train it on Cormac McCarthy or Thomas Pynchon or something like that
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by voldacar 5y ago
The amount of churn in (American) math education is bizarre. New hip curricula, textbooks, etc every few years, and yet the average high school graduate cannot prove the pythagorean theorem.
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by voldacar 5y ago
This is simply incredible, I would love to read something novel-length like this. But unfortunately it also generates a lot of banal text, as in some of the other examples in this thread. I wonder if there is a way to optimize for the weird
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by voldacar 5y ago
I flagged this comment because it is hysterical and does not contribute to the high-quality discourse this site is known for >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate
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by voldacar 5y ago
You may be right. There are some photos out there of him looking pretty swole
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by voldacar 5y ago
I would love to know what the specific physical difference is with Seagate drives in general that makes them less reliable compared to WD, toshiba, etc. Nobody ever seems to describe that other than saying vaguely that they use cheaper part
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by voldacar 5y ago
Something might start out as a glitch, but then be embraced by the playerbase and become a really interesting and beautiful mechanic. Rocket jumping could be considered a glitch. It was never really designed, it was just an outcome of the p
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by voldacar 5y ago
10db actually. 20db would be a linear scaling of 100x.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I got to hear the sennheiser orpheus a few years ago. Honestly it was kind of underwhelming. It is a very physically beautiful headphone but in terms of sound, it's kind of warm with a slight haze and indistinctness in the treble. That
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by voldacar 5y ago
always has been
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by voldacar 5y ago
russell's paradox: the hn comment
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by voldacar 5y ago
time to post the graph again https://itdm.com/wp-content/uploads/Mozilla.png
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by voldacar 5y ago
Agreed. That does seem strange. I guess if you want a UI that just works and is flexible, most people will turn to a web browser

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