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pastrami_panda··on Python Workers are now generally available
All example pages return 404.
pastrami_panda··on Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work
I believe it's confirmed Tesla employed this strategy successfully to id a leaker.
pastrami_panda··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
Larger than 6 inches, got it!

Assuming you meant < 6 inches I'm all for it as well, it would be another incredible usp for these devices.

pastrami_panda··on The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform
Gauss's notes and margins is riddled with proofs he didn't bother to publish - he was wild.

Not sure if true, but allegedy he insisted his son not go into maths, as he would simply end up in his father's shadow as he deemed it utterly Impossible to surpass his brilliance in maths :'D

pastrami_panda··on Cool native HTML elements you should already be using
This website is quite broken on firefox android. Lots of jank but most notably the viewport isn't fixed so when you interact with sliders the viewports also shifts to the side. Figured I'd point it out as it's an article about website interaction.
pastrami_panda··on 62% of Canadians Plan to Avoid the U.S. for at Least the Next Year
> Like why did Trump want to bash on Canada in the first place?

Canada was a founding member of NATO, and it's very obvious Trump does not want a strong NATO alliance. Whatever the reason may be is up to speculation, but from an outside looking in it's quite jarring seeing clips of Hillary Clinton 8 years ago warn everyone that Trump was going to dismantle NATO. How any American is baffled by the current events is the only thing that is baffling to me.

pastrami_panda··on Ask HN: 2025 Resolutions?
How's it going now that you're 5+ years into this resolution? Why 2030 specifically?
pastrami_panda··on Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)
Small suggestion from a DFW fan, read the extremely brief book This Is Water, and then try to take on Infinite Jest - just make sure to read the foreword by Dave Eggers before you start, it will light a guiding torch for the journey and what to expect coming out of it.
pastrami_panda··on Infinite Proofs: The Effects of Mathematics on David Foster Wallace (2012)
Amazing delivery! Thank you for sharing this, I started The Pale King many years ago but got sidetracked - this video inspired me greatly to try to finish it again.
pastrami_panda··on For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter
> could be by anything…

A JS framework is probably nabbing it as we speak

pastrami_panda··on How a baker survived the Titanic by getting drunk (2022)
I'm not sure how being fully submerged for long periods of time affects this, but in outdoor culture there are sayings like "warm when wet" - pertaining to certain fabrics such as wool and polyester.

One famous strategy is the pile and pertex combination. Where you have a thin basically windproof but not waterproof shell made typically from Pertex, and then fake fur from polyster on the inside.

These jackets are used to (might still be) be worn by law enforcement to old school rock climbers for it's ability to keep you warm and damp for hours.

There are videos of people submerging in ice cold water and "walking it off" until they are damp but warm again.

Another saying is "cotton kills", because it does not provide warmth when wet and also sucks up insane amounts of water for its weight, so it bascially never dries out.

pastrami_panda··on He spent his life building a $1M stereo
Sure, it was a used pair from the brand IK Multimedia, the model is named MTM. I still can't believe such a small speaker can punch this hard above its weightclass in terms of bass. When I have people over they think my air purifier by the desk is a subwoofer.
pastrami_panda··on He spent his life building a $1M stereo
I sold a pair of pretty renowned speakers with 6" woofers for a much smaller pair of DSP controlled close range studio monitors that came with a calibration microphone. Even though I liked my old speakers I could tell they couldn't shine in my room (mainly the bass couldn't be controlled, which impressed everyone except me that just wanted to hear what the audio engineers intended).

I'm super happy how good my mostly untreated room sounds now with some calibration and careful monitor placement. I'm a somewhat critical listener having had basic ear training and always protected my hearing at live shows. My room is very bad in terms of acoustics, so of course proper room treatment would greatly improve the setup, but not everyone is in a position where room treatment is feasible, so to me this is a great way to get maybe half way there.

pastrami_panda··on What Meta learned from Galactica, the doomed model
Sure, but it still doesn't support ISO timestamps: https://github.com/acchiao/galactus/issues/34
pastrami_panda··on Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
I didn't see it, but everyone who has hiked during a lemming year has these types of stories about these crazy animals

Edit: I read the comment you linked, the reason we have such similar language is because Swedes and Norwegians call it the same thing and I guess both of us were unsure if 'lemming year' is a widespread term :)

pastrami_panda··on Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant
There's a setting to disable it, I own a Pixel 7 and turned it off on day one.
pastrami_panda··on Lemming Suicide Myth: Disney Film Faked Bogus Behavior
I was hiking a summer when there was a 'lemming year'. You saw thousands of tiny carcasses strewn everywhere during that week, you accidently stepped on them as they ran under your hiking boots mid-step, if you sat down off trail they would start running up to you and attack. It was very surreal, they are very cute but also very fierce. Seeing a lemming run up to you and stand up on its hind legs and produce a high pitched shriek to intimidate you is something I'll never forget. Very strange animals.
pastrami_panda··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
But there are no bools in Verse so seems the keyword isn't taken and could have just been syntactic sugar for 0 from what I can tell?
pastrami_panda··on Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language [pdf]
Reading half of it I'm struggling to see why they chose the semantic 'false?'. How do you read it? It sounds like a question, why not just 'false'?
pastrami_panda··on Brief activity bursts offer health benefits for non-exercisers
I've bought parallettes recently and started working on tucked planche to reach climbers push up in the long run.

Amazing feeling to stop coding and just do some intense exercises that takes 30-40 seconds to reach failure. I love these types of compressed intense workouts, and parallettes are a great and fun way of doing it.

I've also bought a push up bar that fits in my doorway so everytime I go to the bathroom I do static hangs with retracted shoulder blades to strengthen shoulders/upper back.

I'm seeing really good results just from doing little by little every day.

It's like that article on here a while ago about "the unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up"

pastrami_panda··on Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders
This is an awesome article, and Conway would've been incredibly excited about this result. Thanks for sharing!
pastrami_panda··on Microsoft's ex-UI chief is shocked about the Windows 11 start menu
Honestly Windows 11 is getting better all the time. It's much cleaner and less cluttered compared to 10 as well.

It's not perfect of course, but it's the best one so far imo, and it keeps getting better. I really like the new way to connect and manage Bluetooth devices from the taskbar that was recently added.

But then again, it's Windows, so when you look underneath the shiny new surface and realize e.g there's no way to add seconds to the watch display due to performance issues - the facade starts to slowly peel away.

pastrami_panda··on Box breathing techniques and benefits
I'm happy to see these types of techniques hit the front page of HN.

Breathing techniques changed my life.

I remember convincing myself many years ago to take a leap of faith and to trust the process.

I've practiced for over 10 years at this point, and I've been in dangerous or even life threatening situations where I've remained mindful of my breathing throughout the experience.

It's an incredible feeling to be so deeply connected to yourself through breathing. It can become an extremely transformative experience.

I've had a couple of experiences with samadhi by 'accident' throughout the years which is the most profound experiences I've had in my life.

So what is the practice? Non-doing? Staying mindful? All I know is that words cannot really describe it, as soon as you're dealing with words and semantics you've strayed away from breathing again.

The ego ties into it a lot, but you quickly start to sound like a broken record if succumb to that gospel.

No one preaches that the sun is going to rise in the east tomorrow.

It's the elusive obvious, it's the old fish swimming by and saying:

"Morning boys how's the water?”

The two young fish give each other a puzzled look and ask:

"What the fuck is water?"

pastrami_panda··on Nvidia PhysX 5.0
It's not quite as easy as slapping on a good physics engine and call it a day.

A good integration with a decent physics engine feels better in-game than a superb physics engine with a bad integration.

When programming physics there's many ways of getting the desired behavior from the physics system, and as with all problem solving some solutions are better/more stable than others.

pastrami_panda··on Emulating double precision on the GPU to render large worlds
Your intuition is right, there's a pretty standard algorithm to solve this called "floating origin".

Essentially you translate the world back to origin when the player gets too far away.

pastrami_panda··on Signal is testing “stories” feature
So they're removing the SMS feature but adding Stories? Sounds like we know where this is gonna end up.
pastrami_panda··on How a razor blade can be damaged as it cuts human hair (2020)
I do this against a towel after each shave, I saw a video some 10-15 years ago of a guy doing it against jeans. I believe he also verified with a microscope it indeed made the blade sharper.
pastrami_panda··on MVP.css – Minimalist stylesheet for HTML elements
I'd say it's way more nuanced than that. I appreciate the comment since I gained knowledge on both HTML and about this project's particular usage of it. If a project is based on an unconventional idea and this is undisclosed it's nice for everyone to point this out, it doesn't have to be interpreted as an attack.
pastrami_panda··on YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)
On this note I do want to get into Anoraks because from what I understand they pack up much easier and the zippers basically don't wear out.

But I've never found a comfortable way to take them on and off them so always end up returning them. Any anorak wearers wanna share some oppinions on this?

pastrami_panda··on YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)
Do note that a decent waterproof rain flap is probably more important if you need actual waterproofing for persistent rain. Since AquaGuard isn't waterproof, it's water resistant, just like all zippers I've seen in the wild.
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