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alok99
·2 года назад·discuss
Agreed. I think a tutorial step with mixing from obvious directions followed by the current one would be better.
alok99
·2 года назад·discuss
That sucks. I'm excited about a lot of things. I can't imagine COVID really changed that for other people - though I suspect you're right that it did.
alok99
·2 года назад·discuss
These are images you can post along with text on Threads/Facebook to signify what kind of responses you do/don't want.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
I'm having a hard time understanding how this leads to lay offs. Software engineering salaries being amortized over 5 years leads to an increase in yearly taxable income for the company. So what makes this a bad thing for the company? Are they doing the layoffs just to reduce total income to bring taxable income back down to (or closer to) 0? I.e. is this all just to avoid paying more taxes?
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
The FAQ states:

> Why so many from Konami?

> That’s because of Yoshinori “Moai” Sasaki. (ref)

https://moai.games/faq/
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
They're still using the oven temperature example further down, unfortunately.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
> You can't control how much you want to toast the bread.

But it does let you control that. There's a knob for it.

Granted, I still wouldn't pay $260 for this, but it's a pretty cool mechanism nonetheless.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
> I'm always confused by people who struggle so much with being able to quickly answer a question and get back to what they were doing.

> Also, here you're prioritising your work over someone else's.

That's what the whole article is about. The struggle is that holding a context in your mind is easily broken by small interruptions. It's not by choice. So the question is how do you reconcile people on both sides working together.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
Loud breathing is one of my biggest concerns when wearing noise-cancelling headphones around others. Partly because I dislike hearing it from others and don't want to subject them to that, and partly because I don't want to sound like a smooth-brain mouth breather.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
20 cups before 2 pm? How??
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
BQ = Boston Qualifying, I think. I.e. running better than the standard for men/women in the Boston Marathon
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro came out last year. The 7a came out this year, which is the same pattern they've used for the past few generations. As far as the yearly cadence, well, that's what everyone does now. I agree that a couple years between generations would be better, but that doesn't seem to be the prevailing opinion.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
That's a meaty lorem ipsum you've got there
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
I think the fake white bookshelf wallpaper has a certain aesthetic about it. I would like it in an AirBnB type of place, but definitely not in my own house.

I would also want it to actually fit on the wall and not be awkwardly cut off on the right edge.
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
The editorial on Hz is particularly funny and insightful.

    // Beware the SI's broken definition
    // of Hz.  You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental
    // dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math like
    // the Taylor series for sin[x], and you should treat the Hz as being a 
    // fundamental property of incompetence by committee.
    
    ...
    
    // You are perfectly right.  You are perfectly wrong.  You look dumb and
    // unreasonable.  The person arguing the opposite looks dumb and unreasonable.
    //
    // Hz == YOU CANNOT WIN
    //
    // (Insert "IT'S A TRAP" image here.)
alok99
·3 года назад·discuss
Maybe you're just unlucky. I usually find an answer, or at least something that points me in the right direction.

The "me too" problem was prevalent with forums too.
alok99
·5 лет назад·discuss
I totally understand this stance. Not every game had cheat codes, not every movie/TV show has hidden details, and so not every piece of software has to have easter eggs. That kind of defeats the fun of it anyway, knowing that everything has a joke.

I personally like adding easter eggs to my own code, but I wouldn't do it in software used by billions. At most a funny comment in the code, but nothing executable.
alok99
·5 лет назад·discuss
From the article: Without being told which shape was which,

> 95% to 98% selected the curvy shape as "bouba" and the jagged one as "kiki", suggesting that the human brain somehow attaches abstract meanings to the shapes and sounds in a consistent way

So apart from visually impaired (from birth) people, we may have a pattern in mapping shapes to phonemes.
alok99
·5 лет назад·discuss
That's really interesting. In the OP article I was noticing that instead of the horizontal artifacts of Perlin noise, Simplex noise had diagonal artifacts. And this is why
alok99
·5 лет назад·discuss
One word reply, really? That's not even the same as generating a static site.