nice idea but I think not knowing exactly when the animation will change is really a negative. it's fine if you are reading and scrolling slowly in a linear manner, but whenever you want to do other things like jump 3 sentences etc. it becomes confusing for me. I see that you put visual indicators on the left of the text whenever theres an animation,but maybe a better idea would be to put permanent indicators so the reader knows where are these animations are triggered.
I have no idea how people solve constraint problems without prolog and clpfd/z. these types of problems seem to be everywhere, and yet prolog still has a very small user base, how come?
kinda unrelated but can someone explain to me how this one korean company has access to infrastructure to lock any phone anywhere in the the world? am I misreading something?
quite the rabbit hole this decision theory business. for the uninitiated, I'd recommend reading about Roko's basilisk. it's easy to dismiss these as new age techno religion crap, but I feel like there's more to this than that.
I thought the idea was to get data out/transmit out of an "infected" computer when it has no public network access: and not actually sniffing normal traffic. so it assumes a compromised air-gapped computer, is that not a concern of infosec? is that a purely theoretical scenario that won't happen ? why?
so freaking weird, even if you change only the cable between the display and the motherboard the phone knows and stops working properly. how do they even do that ? I assumed the cable doesn't have any logic or chips in it.
really interesting share. a reminder of the arbitrariness of our current metrics of "citation"s and "h indexes". consider Ludwig Boltzmann's non-existent google scholar profile and his paper "Further studies on the thermal equilibrium of gas molecules" with 131 citations, in which he explained the 2nd law using statistical mechanics and defined entropy.
it's also worth pointing out the author of nanocolors https://github.com/ai has multiple PRs in the last few days asking libraries to replace chalk/colorette with his nanocolors. smells bad to me but maybe that's how the whole thing works.
love made up words! this reminds me of "The Meaning of Liff", the "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet" by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd. here's an online version (with dubious legality?): http://www.lib.ru/ADAMS/liff.txt_with-big-pictures.html
so true! I've been trying to figure out a way to get my social sciences student friend learn programming and I was dreading to install python/conda/jupyter ? on their computer. A single-click jupyter app with electron indeed sounds like a lifesaver.
cool project, though the name was confusing for me: I believe to most people "paper" first means actual paper, so I thought this was some kind of OCR system converting printed material to html?
oof the calibration process seems VERY daunting, involving breadboards multimeters and tinfoils. I thought HRNGs were already included in chipsets? doesn't every CPU has it ?
surely if you "query the endpoint a few times per day" the captcha indeed shouldn't be an obstacle to that. I thought the idea is to prevent ddos and spam, and not to distinguish between an actual human and bot. like it shouldn't prevent non-harmful scripts like web scraping etc. as long as you don't overtax the servers.
I'm asking as an outsider who wants to learn: do you mean people in european universities got harassed because they were against Mao? do you have any articles about this that I can read?
> It increasingly looks like we live in a region in the universe that happens to have a significantly lower density than the average in the visible universe. This area of underdensity which we live in has been called the “local hole”
that sounds really weird, if the cosmological principle is invalidated, does that mean that we have to reject the Copernican principle as well? the text seems to imply that there is something "special" about our location in the universe.
it's a clear cut case really, the elementary dev issues an ultimatum to the repo owner, the repo owner points out that they do not have any legal basis to issue such an ultimatum.
if elementary os people do not have a registered trademark to enforce this, then they shoud have "recommended" the repo owner to change the name, not giving an order and linking their company brand webpage.
from what I understand, the main problem with a "conventional" satellite is that the transmitter beam is fixed and the shape of the antenna physically determines the shape of the coverage, which cannot change once the satellite is in orbit. if you use a generic shape for the antenna dish and multiple beams,then you can control the shape of the coverage digitally by changing the amount of each beam.
wanted to drop a link to buzzard's very interesting talk https://youtu.be/Dp-mQ3HxgDE starting at 13:00 he talks about that frailness. also loved the bit about "elders" at 40:37
so true. I have a similar beef about the popular explanation for uncertainty principle: "well you see the light hits the particle very hard so we know where it was but we don't know where its gone now". urgh.
such great points! I've always found the tooling lacking for teaching beginners programming, sure there are good languages, but as he points out the environment is also vital. I find it very hard to introduce programming to my social science friends (who would actually benefit greatly from knowing how to manipulate data), most of those who have extra time go to learn excel or spss.
I thought it was blatantly dishonest: "GPL people should ignore GPL violations because pursuing them will make them look like the giant corporations" is clearly not a defendable argument (although I might be building a strawman here)
seems to be similar to the argument "GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736650 : "GPL people should not push for a extension of the copyright because that will strengthen the power of giant corporations", which is completely bogus to me.
what a useless and counterproductive argument. so self driving is hard, and anyone attempting to do it is a scam looking for profit? we should all listen to Dr. Cummings and stop researching self driving, because apparently it is "hard"?
Read like a literary peace than a scientific one. I understood that dataome is a "very provocative", "intimate and inextricable" concept, but not what it actually is.