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Laying Out a Print Book with CSS(iangmcdowell.com)
349 points by yojo 4y ago|119 comments
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I was wondering the same thing - I just had an interaction with Amazon's chatbot (which is showing LLM-level ability), and realized that my side of the interaction could also have been performed by a chatbot. I went looking to see if a
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by yojo 4y ago
If we had functioning government, this could possibly work. Instead, in the current national regime, it has a tendency to ossify current laws. Most legislation can only pass when the stars align (one party has house/senate/preside
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by yojo 4y ago
I always read this one as Shel evangelizing his views on romantic relationships. He never married, spent a lot of time at the Playboy mansion, and is reported to have had many, many partners. To me the book sounded like him trying to convin
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by yojo 4y ago
Perceptual hashes are reasonably robust to small perturbations. Scaling and converting shouldn’t be a problem, though applying filters that change the colors or blur the lines might. If it’s been changed enough that it hashes to a different
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by yojo 4y ago
Not an expert, but I think you can just hash using an image hashing algorithm and bucket by hash. Should be linear in time/space. You can then either have a human check collisions, or just accept a false positive rate and move on. This
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by yojo 4y ago
It can absolutely happen right away though - there’s no way to tell for sure until you try. Our kid #1 (both aged 33) was first month of trying, kid #2 (both aged 36) took 3 months. Most of our friends took longer, but another same-age coup
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by yojo 4y ago
This was specific to work-in-the-office desks, which I never bring my personal papers to. But yes, don’t try this with your home office!
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by yojo 4y ago
Oh, I agree. My cabinets have doors, and I keep them closed. But if you’re already leaving all your cabinets open at all times, you might as well just get the doors out of your way.
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Haha. We do that with our kids’ old toys - rarely comes into play, but saves much heartache when it does. There’s a similar trick for papers covering your desk; without looking, shove them all in a Manila folder, date, and seal. If you have
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by yojo 4y ago
At that point, why not just take the doors off? Open shelving is a thing. No one said your cabinets need to have doors.
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by yojo 4y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. That prompt is in the credits and super relevant to the discussion. I read the prompt and I can see the human’s intention: write a story about how you turn something bad into something good. But the AI
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by yojo 4y ago
Aside: I think you mean this show: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Tomorrow_(TV_series) I knew it in its “Beyond 2000” incarnation.
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Another difference between single and multi-pane is repairability. The seal between the pane and the wood is usually glazing. If that’s failing, you need to replace it. You can buy glazing putty at a big box store, and see how to do it on Y
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by yojo 4y ago
On windows: the seal between single pane windows never fails, because it does not exist. The original windows in my house have been working for 110 years. I put storm windows over them in the winter to get a little extra efficiency. Some of
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by yojo 4y ago
Unless it seeded a little self-replicating factory on the way by. The invasion force could already be growing exponentially out in the Oort Cloud. Or not. To paraphrase: sometimes a cigar-shaped interstellar mass is just a cigar-shaped inte
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by yojo 4y ago
Also lost 20 minutes doom scrolling that feed. Add an upvote button and some ML and you could destroy some lives.
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The company Leetcode was founded in 2015. You are correct that algorithm problems were common starting much earlier. The recommended preparation for them was the book I mentioned (Cracking the Coding Interview).
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I don’t click on the link in the email, I find the settlement site through Google. If the scammers can outrank they legit site, I am hosed though.
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Even with co-founders, one of you is still the CEO. You need an executive function to set direction and unblock stupid territory squabbles. Someone whose decisions are final. If you have two actual CEOs, you don’t have that.
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by yojo 4y ago
I search for the settlement and verify that there’s a real chain of news stories around it. Best to date was the Apple small developer settlement that paid out $8k. Previous was the Google/Apple non-compete settlement. I’ve never bothe
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by yojo 4y ago
I had essentially the same background as you, and made the leap 10 years ago. Here’s what I did: 1) With a friend, I worked through a bunch of tutorials of the current startup web framework (at the time, Rails). 2) At my non-programming job
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by yojo 4y ago
Huh, strange. On iOS/Safari, tapping the messenger icon then requesting the desktop site takes me to my messages inbox. Surprising that it varies between browsers.
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Agreed, this is incredibly user-hostile. As a pro-tip, you can get past it on web by telling your device to request the desktop website. They have a responsive design, so it’s actually quite usable. Just emphasizes how slimy the push to the
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by yojo 4y ago
Sure, here's the Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63250637-the-anshar-gamb... I'll probably write a blog post at some point covering the things I've tried, which is admittedly not
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by yojo 4y ago
Having just self-published a book that capped out at 10 sales, yes. For me, the hardest problem is even getting the word out. I’ve used a few different platforms to get my book in front of people. And by and large, the ones who start it als
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by yojo 4y ago
That was my first thought. Maybe it’s not “books are getting shorter,” but “publishers are getting cheaper.” Decreasing margins, decreasing font size, etc could all explain a diminishing page count to save on printing costs. That said, from
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You joke, but I have been using the same polite tone with ChatGPT that I would with a person. Not because I think the algorithm cares, but because I don’t want to get in the habit of dehumanizing the things I communicate with. ChatGPT respo
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by yojo 4y ago
> For most my friends, the question they pose is what is the benefit of marriage? You tie yourself down to monogamy, give up your personal life and risk losing half of it plus a life of child support and alimony in a divorce. I’ll bite:
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I Asked ChatGPT to Write My Book Synopsis(iangmcdowell.com)
1 points by yojo 4y ago|0 comments

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