HN user
Visited Barcelona a decade ago to see this. It's awesome. I often think calling it "kitsch" is some sort of unfortunate linguistic quirk because Antonio Gaudi's name evokes "gaudy."
The thing is a celebration of creation, inventiveness, and natural beauty. Maybe even playfulness - though being a catholic building there's some requisite "death" mixed in: I guess the full spectrum of life is lurking in there.
Alert the influencers and grifters everyone, there's a fresh small-sample-size study to peddle. Use code yourdailydietguru to sign up and get 20% off your first order of the worlds first ketogenic cereal.
Oi! is how I find my friends in crowded places. We've all lived with Australians, who taught us. One quick "oi" will really quick cut through the commotion of a crowd and cause our gazes to practically crash zoom into each other.
For folks that like the idea of porting over shell scripts to python: https://plumbum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
This is an incredible bit of footage. It's so cool to see the engines looking sideways like a chameleon.
Raises a question: I suppose they fired 2/3 engines not because of a failure, but because 3 engines would produce too much thrust.
That does mean that in a high stakes situation (landing) you can't afford to lose an engine. I wonder if there's any margin there for lighting the third engine in case of engine failure.
It seems like you're fixated on one definition being "standard" and the other being "savings" - as are so many in this debate. When the time shifts, society as a whole moves with in. In general, I find my weekday mornings less social, less sun-demanding than my afternoons. I wouldn't care if I woke up at 7am to darkness and didn't see light until 10:30 if I had those extra hours of sunlight in the evening when I might cut loose and recreate.
The label for 8 am might as well be the TAFNAP era prince logo. The point is everyone goes to work at TAFNAP, businesses are open until TAFNAP + 8. In case you need to run an errand and talk to the guy that repairs HVAC systems. None of these sorts of errands is pleasurable or light-dependent and might as well be done in the misery of the dark that I lend to my employer for my work hours.
I don't know about you, but in the short winter months I'd rather get to work at night, run my lunch errands when the sun is 3/4 up in the sky, and end my work day with a couple of hours of sunlight to spare in the afternoon when my time is my own than burn sunlight driving in a cubicle.
There are some that manage to make use of early morning light to go surf (when the wind is favorable), or do some farm stuff (when the animals are cooperative??). I'd wager that surfers and farmers are a small portion the population and a lot of workers don't have some intrinsic benefit of spending their workday in daylight vs. night.
One detail -
Most of the modern backpacks portrayed are heavy and designed for 45+lb loads (of which some of these packs will comprise 3+lbs).
Would have liked to see more ultralight representation because it serves as a good counterpoint to all the tech that though effective, adds weight.
Reducing weight has been the biggest advancement in ergonomics for me. A pack is an important part of that total and many of his examples - ladder back adjustment systems, contouring supported by robust plastic and foam, articulating ball joints - add to it.
You Ain’t Gonna Need It - unless you don’t apply that attitude and end up with a 75lb(!) bag.
Another one if you like dot-esque notation and pretty output out the gate is https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid/#/.
If you do Costco, and you surf, then you have inevitably come across the "Wavestorm" surfboard.
The original article brings up the trust consumers place in the products Costco decides to sell, and the Wavestorm is a fun example of one such Costco cult.
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/sporting-scene/the-cult-of-...
I hear their Vodka is really great too.
Curious what effect a doubling in the DWave machine's "qubits" would have on this factor and how soon that's likely to be achieved. Does the complexity / cost of building such a machine scale linearly with the number of qubits involved?
Are there problems that are reducible to quantum annealing that become attractive with such a performance improvement?
A part of me feels like this would work extremely well as a kind of Vine or Instagram for people with GoPros doing cool shit. Yep, social media features and content hosting might be a bit out of scope but it would really close the loop on the whole "videos I've made that no one will ever see" problem.
This one right here. It's really useful for creating relevant commit messages, catching spurious whitespace changes, random debug code etc.
I like Sourcetree for history and diffs, but it's CLI all the way for commits.
His point about increasingly non zero-sum games reminds of a Steven Pinker talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ramBFRt1Uzk#t=890
"Technology has increased the number of positive sum games that humans tend to be embroiled in by allowing the trade of goods, services and ideas over longer distances and among larger groups of people."
We still have a tendency to revert to meanness when resources become scarce - e.g. dwindling runways without forthcoming funding or competitors eating away at our market share. In many cases, It plays into the death spiral - visionary thinking, paced discovery and creative exploration of a problem space are replaced with short-term thinking, churn, frustration, and ultimately failure.
In developed nations we've had the privilege of being able to take our time, spending at least 12 years of our lives educating ourselves instead of ploughing fields. Hans Rosling's talks get into this too: technology has allowed people to liberate time previously devoted to sustenance farming, washing clothes, 4 hour walks to the market. That time gets shifted to activities like education.
There's a common them here of not letting our immediate needs overwhelm our ability to pursue goals that can dramatically change our lives and the world around us. Our opportunity is rare and the privileged position we have to pursue ideas can often be tenuous. In a way, if we don't hit escape velocity, we don't simply float, we crash.
Meanness is a hack (one that doesn't even have an explanatory comment).
As you gain weight, you burn more calories passively. I'm 155lbs and could imagine it being difficult walking around with what amounts to nearly a barbell and two 35lb plates should I be in the extremely obese range for a man my size.
Assuming no lifestyle changes - I might be less excited to ride my bike with a 115 lb bag on my back - you should reach some sort of thickquilibrium.
Nine is great. I snooze 4 times and it's 4 minutes more time I have than if it were 10 minute intervals. That's 4 extra minutes to ride my bike to work on time for the daily standup at my startup.
Now I suppose I could just set my clock 36 minutes later and get 36 minutes of quality sleep. But I think I actually enjoy those short snooze button dreams. And I savour every minute. Again and again and again and again.
He's not saying software doesn't run well on multiple cores and we need to learn how to program applications that can utilize multiple cores efficiently. That's a software problem. This is a hardware problem.
His argument is that scaling silicon to multiple cores is facing physical barriers. You're no longer getting more cycles, improved transistor density, and decreased power consumption simultaneously. Exponential scaling of cores will not result in exponential scaling of computational throughput because we're facing energy-related tradeoffs.
Modal/modeless, stateless/stateful, functional/imperative, declarative/procedural, schemaless, distributed, asynchronous.
Yammer yammer yammer namedropping and proselytizing buzzwords like gospel.
Modal interfaces are bad? Man, what the hell does modal interface even mean anymore? Like when I'm drawing vectors and my cursor changes to a selection tool instead of an "add point tool" when I hover over an existing point. That's bad now? Even though it's really annoying to create a duplicate points in a small area?
Restricting functionality to a relevant subset of behaviours based on the task you're doing can be a great idea. Yes, it can also be annoying. E.g. in the case of file explorers that don't let me create folders when I'm opening a file.
But that's just it. Spend some time thinking about how people interact with your application rather than making some thoughtless generalization. Otherwise you get Metro.
Claims you don't need a DSLR then produces a bunch of amateur photos as evidence.
I think computational approaches like the Lytro are the future. But right now, DSLR's still produce markedly better images thanks to faster lenses, larger sensors, shallow focus depths that create buttery soft backgrounds.
Some of those advantages, larger cameras will always have. At some point we'll probably ditch the anachronistic "reflex" part. The viewfinder gives you an inaccurate representation of the image anyway.
Smart phones are good enough for 98% of the photography that we do - vacation photos, drunk nights out with friends, that colourful homeless guy with neon tassels and a cowboy hat.
I can still easily tell a DSLR photo apart from a camera phone shot and it doesn't take pixel peeping either. Better dynamic range, sharpness, focus.
Still love my camera phone, in fact I don't even have a DSLR anymore. But I'm not going to pretend its anywhere near as good as a pro camera in pro hands.
Of course, we're geeks and love to expand our skills. One day we wake up and want to be a photographer dammit. So we buy a DSLR and take it to parties, dinner, public events. The big camera is a liability - you worry about dropping it or having it stolen. It also makes you look like a dork. Sometimes people give you flak for bringing a pro camera to no cameras allowed situations. When you do take pictures it feels like a ceremony. Of course, you have to nail the photo because you just spent 2500 on a camera. Every previously dismissible imperfection is now a bottleneck that prevents your camera and you, the ariste, from living up to their full potential. You need the external bounceable flash, the L series lenses, the filters and hoods.