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by yboris 2y ago
Please let's normalize 4DWW - Four Day Work Week - please update original post to include the 4DWW tag in the description.
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by yboris 2y ago
Related: my favorite tool for optimizing SVGs is https://www.svgviewer.dev/
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by yboris 2y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but a beautiful tool for extracting screenshots from video: MoviePrint https://www.movieprint.org/ & https://github.com/fakob/MoviePrint_v004/
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Nitroplast Organelle Unveiled(nature.com)
4 points by yboris 2y ago|0 comments
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by yboris 2y ago
Related: eYd - https://www.yworks.com/products/yed It lets you auto "re-flow" diagrams using different algorithms (e.g. fewest intersections between arrows, center-out, etc).
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by yboris 2y ago
One of my favorite artists using a plotter is Licia He - using python to control brush to apply watercolor. - https://twitter.com/Licia_He - https://www.instagram.com/blahblahpaperblah/ - https:/
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by yboris 2y ago
My favorite is Consciousness Explained by Daniel C. Dennett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness_Explained
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by yboris 2y ago
Let's normalize Four Day Work Week . Could the author of `whoishiring` also include the 4DWW label as an optional tag that people can include (and search for).
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by yboris 2y ago
I wonder if he'd be more persuasive if he explained the reasons for not using it without supervision with graphic examples of danger.
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by yboris 2y ago
I don't like makefiles, but I've been enjoying justfiles: https://github.com/casey/just
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by yboris 2y ago
This is my favorite resource / tool for messing with SVGs. I've looked around a lot and I can't find better. Thank you to the creator.
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by yboris 3y ago
PSA: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
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by yboris 3y ago
PSA: https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/
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by yboris 3y ago
I find that philosophically, "all math is discovered" is a better way to think of mathematics. E.g - it's always been true, that given a set of axioms A, B, and C, the claim X is true. Humans discover these conclusions when t
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by yboris 3y ago
Reading a book, say 10 hours, is like a meditation on an idea: you get numerous examples of it and a variety ways of thinking about it. Our brains learn best when they encounter something often across time (spaced repetition). Reading a sin
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by yboris 3y ago
Video Hub App - shows many screenshots per video of all videos from a directory as a pretty gallery. Thumbnails you can scrub through, filmstrips you can scroll through; tons of filters and search options. https://videohubapp.c
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by yboris 3y ago
Related tool: diff2html also as a CLI - with one command opens a browser tab showing HTML diff (side by side or line by line) - a great way to review your work before committing. https://diff2html.xyz/
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Fanless Intel N100 stick PC: 16GB RAM, 256GB and a tiny form factor(tomshardware.com)
7 points by yboris 3y ago|1 comments
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by yboris 3y ago
Mildly related: for complex diagrams where too much overlaps, consider yEd - which has functionality to rearrange boxes to minimize overlaps (and other settings) https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
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Korean researchers' neural AI chip: 625 times less power draw, 41 times smaller(tomshardware.com)
27 points by yboris 3y ago|4 comments
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by yboris 3y ago
I've not heard of people doing that - is there a reason for your concern? My understanding is that the brain undergoes important development until around 25 years old, so it's best to push drug use to after. If someone insists on
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by yboris 3y ago
Direct video link: https://vimeo.com/30392799
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by yboris 3y ago
I would love at least some vague estimate that is more descriptive than "a reasonable amount of time" :) Perhaps as a range (95% confidence interval perhaps) - estimate of total hours on task?
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by yboris 3y ago
Cool! This was one of the tools I considered to help get the open-access textbook to its print version (to be published later in 2024). Since I was using Hugo I went with some custom CSS that gets enabled during the PDF build phase and w
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by yboris 3y ago
Can we please include 4DWW as a tag in the description? We need to normalize Four Day Work Week and including 5 extra characters in the description is a very small price to pay. See 4DWW on HN being discussed today: https://n
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by yboris 3y ago
So frustrating to not have a screenshot in GitHub :'(
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by yboris 3y ago
Accelerando is amazing; see it being recommended several times in this post!
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by yboris 3y ago
My all-time-favorite collection of short stories is The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu. Highly recommend, whether or not you liked The Three Body Problem (trilogy)
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by yboris 3y ago
Thank you for your work! Last time I praised Accelerando on HN you commented that I should read The Rapture of the Nerds . I read it shortly after and loved it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds
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by yboris 3y ago
I once commented on HN how much I loved Accelerando and Charles Stross responded suggesting I read his The Rapture of the Nerds . I read it soon after and loved it. I very much enjoy the genre of people living inside computers; I welcome

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