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mcalus3··on Is my blue your blue?
In Polish language we commonly call turquoise "lightblue", so instinctively we'll have the boundary not at the middle of the turquoise, but between the turquiose and green, (i got hue 165, 95% of the population). We also call it "sea-color", but sea is also more culturally associated with blue than green.
mcalus3··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
Vibe coding is cursed gold from the first 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie.

> "For too long I've been parched of thirst and unable to quench it. Too long I've been starving to death and haven't died. I feel nothing. Not the wind on my face nor the spray of the sea. Nor the warmth of a woman's flesh." [steps into moonlight becoming a skeleton]

mcalus3··on List of rivers by discharge
It was sarcasm, no one uses anything like that outside of the US. Using football fields as a measure of distance is as "stupid american" meme around the world.
mcalus3··on World Building with GPT
Ah, yes, the ultimate world-building expierience:

> Neighborhoods are called "neighborhood"

mcalus3··on The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon
> Just like it is in many parts of the world today.

It's not true, despite population increase number of people dying of starvation goes down https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/famine/ the reason of starvation in modern times is political, not production shortage.

mcalus3··on The disappearance of the hit-driven business model
In Poland cinema ticket costs ~5$. Is it really 10 times more expensive in USA? Why?
mcalus3··on Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (2021) [video]
Trivia related to the hyperbolic geometry - There was a game released recently that have a world set in hyperbolic space. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/

If someone wants to 'grasp' what hyperbolic space is about, this game is one of the fun and inspiring ways to do that.

mcalus3··on DALL·E Mini
"Dog pole dancing" https://imgur.com/a/xht8aPi
mcalus3··on Programming with Categories
"We will assume no background knowledge on behalf of the student, starting from scratch on both the programming and mathematics."

This is a fantastic "side effect" of the fact that category theory isn't built on any other mathematical knowledge. You don't even need even any arithmetics for that.

mcalus3··on Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections
In first world countries it is. In Poland since 2009: http://www.prepaid-wireless-internet-access.com/page/Poland+...
mcalus3··on Single div Sierpinski triangle
I have made a funny Sierpinski carpet clicker recently, it's only 30 lines of code in react and unfortunately not one div, but it's still quite performant (safe to open, even on low-tier phones)

https://recursivebuttons.mcalus.dev/

i love all kinds of fractal generative art :)