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splatcollision··on The metaverse is bullshit
I appreciate your optimism, but this time around the elites have learned their history lessons and we haven’t.
splatcollision··on Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language
You could be inspired by the link reference syntax from markdown, and use the following where subs are possible:

add @acid{1%tsp} to @milk{1%cup} to create acidulated milk

[acid]{lemon juice|apple cider vinegar}

Anyway great spec and language!

splatcollision··on Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed
They call themselves "energy" companies, so where does it matter where that energy comes from?

In that perfect world where once they knew early on that the consumption of their product would lead to an uninhabitable planet for future generations (because that's what we're facing now), couldn't they have pivoted (slowly) towards true renewables and battery technology? They could have been the leaders instead of the culprits, and positioned for greater long term growth and shareholder value, instead of the relatively short term profits of business as usual.

As long as we're writing science fiction that is... But someone somewhere made a choice to bury the science and keep the status quo, either by action or inaction.

splatcollision··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
Oh, I assumed for higher karma users they could downvote actual story posts... ohwell
splatcollision··on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets
It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?
splatcollision··on Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping
Let's leverage the current mask trend, and make masks that are low-rez displays, and project a loop of shifting blurry different generated facial features, like the scramble suits in scanner darkly :)
splatcollision··on Launch HN: SigmaOS (YC S21) – A MacOS web browser designed for faster work
Big Sur only (You have macOS 10.15. The application requires macOS 11.0 or later.)
splatcollision··on The Lightness of Windows
He very carefully does not say "born on windows" but "grew up on windows". Be sure that phrasing of a CEO's words on a press interview are very carefully chosen and checked.
splatcollision··on U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May
Yep remember who owns the WSJ and what their agenda is. Replace WSJ with any news outlet!
splatcollision··on U.S. Consumer Prices Rose Strongly Again in May
From what baseline? The pandemic dip? Or pre-pandemic levels?

Here's some actual journalism: https://jabberwocking.com/the-price-of-bacon-is-up-8-1/

splatcollision··on Chrome is faster in M91
Can't live without container tabs anymore - Firefox is actually killing it with great user focused features. Give it a try, many of us actually enjoy vegetables just fine for what they are!
splatcollision··on Chrome is faster in M91
Is chrome still automatically uploading any saved credit card information from the browser to your google account, and automatically putting test charges on those cards? Without warning?
splatcollision··on In Response to Oversight Board, Trump Suspended for Two Years
When the US government is really overthrown in a coup of course, because they're Facebook and they'll always hedge their bets, democracy be dammed...
splatcollision··on The Expanse UI Design
One of Philip K Dick's essays about Sci-fi mentions this as well, as a way to make a world that 'doesn't fall apart'...

Search found me this: https://web.archive.org/web/20080125030037/http://deoxy.org/...

and previous discussion! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500469

splatcollision··on WWDC21
They could totally do this and it would be amazing. Would be a great but late reproach to the years of complaints about the demise of general-purpose computers that the iPad and iPhone have represented so far...
splatcollision··on WWDC21
Unicode points for emoji are in the code reflected off the glasses of the developer on the left hand side:

1f374 = FORK AND KNIFE

1f634 = SLEEPING FACE

1F4BB = PERSONAL COMPUTER

Eat / Sleep / Code!

splatcollision··on U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees
“If a business can’t pay a living wage, should it be a business?” - https://annehelen.substack.com/p/the-capitalism-is-broken-ec...
splatcollision··on A virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron
Pathways into darkness demo is broken, please fix :)
splatcollision··on Vald: A Highly Scalable Distributed Vector Search Engine
What’s the typical vector dimension/size that this would work well for?

I did something naively like this using array indexes of about length 20 vectors on Cloudant (CouchDB) in order to implement a text similarity search, based on something simple like LDA auto tagging and keyword frequency clustering vectors.

I would query based on input text vectorized the same way, and simply offset each element of that input vector by a fixed small value, using those offsets as start and end keys for a couch view query.

I didn’t test this on larger vectors but have always been curious on how far it could go.

Probably the matching algorithms in this project are more accurate, but this naive method worked pretty well for my use case and on a maintenance free DBaaS.

Would love to hear more about concrete usage examples in this area if anybody likes to share - thanks

Edit - found my slightly more detailed blog post about this http://splatcollision.com/page/fast-vector-similarity-querie...

splatcollision··on I hope work from home continues
> Informal communication, informal collaboration, a culture of apprenticeship

You're right of course, those qualities don't naturally occur remotely.

However, and I know I'm slightly taking your use of "culture" out of context, but "Culture" is often code for any number of implicit biases in a workplace. Known or unknown. If you don't fit in, for whatever reason, can you still not be a productive asset in the corporation?

splatcollision··on Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
Chiming in here with my latest "weird but cheap" stack:

* Use a Trello board as a free CMS. * Write cloudflare worker code to read cards from the board via Trello APIs and render card content as plain old HTML.

I use labels as tags for the categories, and have specific formatting in the card descriptions. If an attachment is a YouTube URL, it renders the video as an embed, otherwise it uses image attachments as post images. Card covers render as the link thumbnails on the list pages.

Powers our family YouTube blog: https://thunderiron.family

(Check it out if you like fun and delicious Keto recipes)

An earlier version of this stack powers my personal dev blog, and the approach is written up here:

https://splatcollision.com/page/meta-post

What is particularly cool is that I can post things right from my phone using the Trello apps!

splatcollision··on Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer
I am literally replying to this so I can find it later. Thanks for the architectural advice!
splatcollision··on I don't want to do front-end anymore
Game development! You can choose whatever tech you are most familiar with and you get to be creative, work on probably the most interdisciplinary area of technology possible.
splatcollision··on FastAPI framework, high perf, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production
I picked FastAPI when I started a large project last year, when I was looking for something a little nicer than Flask for just an API server.

FastAPI feels like a damn cheat code, it's so well designed with the Pydantic models as input validation, the flexibility, the built in OpenAPI docs, on and on.

Love it!

splatcollision··on StrictMark: Markdown, Refactored
Markdown was engineered to be flexible _on purpose_ because it was designed for writers and readers, not programmers.

Writers are less likely to care about what symbol means "bulleted list item", as long as anything that makes sense for it, just works.

It's a mistake to think of Markdown as a programming language, or a "formal grammar".

That being said, if it works for you go for it...

splatcollision··on Reddit's GameStop, AMC surge is the new Occupy movement
Just like all those punishments that were doled out in 2008, gotcha.
splatcollision··on Firefox 85 cracks down on supercookies
Even if you've changed the search engine?
splatcollision··on Roblox S-1
You didn't have an analog tape recorder hooked up to your TI basic computer that only worked 20% of the time to save your games? Pffff
splatcollision··on Electoral College Decision Tree
So the fate of the world rests in the hands of Floridians...
splatcollision··on Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels
Still waiting for the third volume to actually drop? Can't find it available and all the amazon reviews are 5-star complaints about the delayed release :(
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