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grenoire

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Bourgeoisie spy.
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grenoire··on The Coming AI Hackers (2021)
As if there's an implicit belief that companies artificially reducing their tax liability will lead to better growth or something? Perceived benefit is then positive, I suppose. On the other hand, an individual doing it for their personal gain is vilified indeed.
grenoire··on Just use Postgres for everything
I think there exists a midway, where you rely on the heavily-tested open source solution that implements what you want, and a sprinkle more. RabbitMQ for example is that layer that your 40 lines of code would do, but pays off dividends in good nights' sleep.
grenoire··on Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game
In terms of usability, I still just find Dwarf Fortress to be a decade behind Rimworld. The fact that we had to use Dwarf Therapist for years... Rimworld just has it all on the screen within four clicks, with clear indications on how to resolve issues like mood modifiers.

Dwarf Fortress in all its complexity, embraces fuzziness in how things work, and focuses on a bit of a higher-level focus (fortresses reach many more dwarves than a Rimworld colony). However, this complexity makes the game a lot less accessible too. I hope the UI changes help bring ease of use and clarity!

grenoire··on There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
Thanks for the briefing! Tim's Vermeer comes to mind as I stare into the van Eyck.
grenoire··on There Should Be No Computer Art (1971) [pdf]
>It happened when oil paint was 'invented'

Where can I read more about this, sounds like juicy historic drama!

grenoire··on New EU law on gender balance on corporate boards
Investment in education and social welfare, combined with time.

My university is growing into having a more balanced faculty mainly because it is now seeing an increasing number of female candidates. This is a result of the study (economics and finance) becoming more popular in the past two decades with women, and we are seeing the results only now. There will always be lagged effects in this.

Granted, there are quotas in place too.

grenoire··on Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Practice improves this, I suppose as you age it's harder to get that commitment to becoming a speedy note-taker, but I share the sentiment among many that speed is not necessarily a deal breaker. I can barely decipher my scribbles after the fact, but doubling down on the neural pathways is a deal breaker.
grenoire··on The collapse of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fraud is looking quite spicy for journalism
There are two major ways in which you would not identify this flow of money:

1) You do a bad job at the due diligence and do not review anything beyond the income statement and top-level balance sheet accounts.

2) You turn a blind eye to it because it is favourable to you. Favourable can also be just the outcome of assessing the risk of 'cost of reversing fund diversion practices' vs. 'letting it slide because those diversions yield returns'.

grenoire··on Ask HN: HN-like forum for literature and cinema?
What are some music/movie trackers a normal dude has a good shot at getting into?

Open to studying obscure archival standards and peering.

grenoire··on 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
Honestly full-assed implementation. Font hinting is a bit odd with a green sheen on Firefox Win 10...
grenoire··on TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
I should indeed have mentioned that. On the other hand, this is not a concern if you do not execute the it outside your shell (e.g. in another script that reads TOTP secrets from elsewhere).
grenoire··on TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch
I just cooked up something in Python if you have it installed on your system, quite straightforward to use. If there's interest, I can prepare a compiled version.

Unlike the other ones posted here, this one just takes secrets as arguments:

    > python -mtotp DGLTPWEUERUUDCEC SWPKQCKEWRXPCRXE
    628502
    674329
https://pastebin.com/apNKxMBF
grenoire··on How to prove you know a secret without giving it away
Fixed the bug, boss!
grenoire··on Named element IDs can be referenced as JavaScript globals
I discovered this the hard way and I am still really torn. The entire window global object is just a minefield.
grenoire··on iPhone = Privacy?
WiFi still remains on, no?
grenoire··on The B-52 was designed in a hotel room over one weekend
Wiktionary claims that this form is recognised in Webster's since 1913. Probably a misspelling looking at the context though.
grenoire··on A Retro Nethack Interface
My gripe with these sorts of faux-retro interfaces is that they are emulating the experience and visual characteristics very badly. This is using a TTF font that attempts to emulate a pixelated bitmap font, but it's fuzzy on the edges because of improper font size and scaling. It tries to get moving scanlines on the screen by overlaying a grid of (approximately the same size, but not quite) of dark/light alternating lines slowly grazing the screen, but all it does is blur everything and make it illegible. It's cheap.

Take a look at what a realistic emulation of this sort of terminal display effect is capable of: https://mrmotarius.itch.io/mrmocrt

grenoire··on The case for language agnostic hiring
What exactly does that signal to you?
grenoire··on Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense
Over the last month, we've been hearing more about Unity's business developments than its work on the core product itself.
grenoire··on GitHub removes promise not to track you
> This change is only on subdomains, like resources.github.com, where GitHub markets products and services to enterprise customers. Github.com will continue to operate as-is.

The PR is a better resource https://github.com/github/site-policy/pull/582

grenoire··on FTC takes action to stop Opendoor from cheating potential sellers
So what, they should be able to give fraud another go?
grenoire··on “No convincing evidence” that depression is caused by low serotonin levels
Correct, in theory. However, if you are just starting out growing you won't have the knowledge to assess quality or control contamination.
grenoire··on A Chinese woman wrote millions of words of fake Wikipedia history
SCP Foundation comes to mind https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/. An entire wiki of a loosely interconnected series of supernatural events and entities. It's very easy to get lost in it.
grenoire··on Show HN: Feather – 90 percent of Bloomberg terminal, for 5 percent of the price
How about the added value of the chatrooms, which is a favourite whenever I talk to people using the terminals?
grenoire··on Asking for a date of birth (2013)
Do note that their new guidelines at https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/dates/#asking-... suggest using `type="text" inputmode="numeric"` instead of `type="number"`.
grenoire··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
You may wanna check out https://www.mobygames.com/game/gadget-racers
grenoire··on Cat S22 Flip Phone
Looking at the reviews on the T-Mobile website, you can't type using the number pad. That's an insane oversight!
grenoire··on No, America is not collapsing
I don't see how the tax rate impacts your inflation pace. Your net wage increases with the percentage raise you get as well. W * R * (1 - T) / W * (1 - T) = W * R / W = R, no? (Wage, Raise, and Tax as the variables).
grenoire··on Ask HN: Why can't I learn anymore?
I mean... you're extrapolating very hard. The results are not controlled for a completely unchanged lifestyle. Plus, the study specifically shows that people undergoing primary/mental care recover sooner.
grenoire··on Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign
This is absolutely crazy, almost an order of magnitude. What could've triggered this? All Postmark addresses suddenly under 'marketing content/spam' scrutiny?
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