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To be general purpose with a very large package ecosystem so that you can get just about anything started pretty quickly. It is relatively easy to do things that aren't performance critical with python, which is great if you want an MVP to grow off of or if you're messing around with something and want to make a little flask server for it, or maybe run some image recognition, or a little anything. It's really just insanely flexible and puts a lot of the cognitive load in libraries so you can get straight to doing stuff, again, often at the cost of performance.

Went to check it out, it has a demo so it's worth giving it a shot, but then I went to look at what else this developer has published just to find it's the guy behind the original jelly car games?? Which they have a sequel to on their steam page and the music instantly sent me back. This became a huge nostalgia trip on accident, thanks for sharing!

I think the simple one is x=0.999..., 10x=9.9999..., 10x-x=9.999...-0.999..., 9x=9, x=1

I use something like this too, I will say it's helpful to have some simple command to append text to it so you can do it automatically, and then an extra little bit so if it's your first append of the day it adds the date. Sometimes I know something happened on a date and if you're just using paragraph breaks to separate it's harder to find but if you know it was related to this meeting on that date a few months ago you can go straight to it.

If you're into notion I wanna recommend obsidian. It's got support for both of those and it's way more lightweight. If you use the tables and images a lot I will say notion is simpler to use there, the same is possible in obsidian but it's more work for sure, but when I was using it it started to feel bloated and even though I love it I wanted something smoother and obsidian has been exactly that. Plus local storage as markdown for reliable access even if obsidian ends up shutting down or something is nice, and unbeatable for searchability since you can ripgrep through it all with ease.

I'd say they're about even, it has some things I enjoy more and some places I think The Martian was better, they're very similar in how they read though, if you didn't like The Martian you almost certainly won't enjoy Project Hail Mary.

Their github [1] page is more helpful for this. Typst itself (as in the program that converts your input to a PDF) is free and open source under the Apache license, and the online editor is free as well but it's currently in a public beta so that could change in the future once they move that out of the beta.

1: https://github.com/typst/typst

The amount of advertising you see will stay the same or potentially even increase (if the big companies are leaving then the amount they make from advertising probably drops, so they have to run more to make up for it), the quality and variety of the companies is what will go down. And if they run out completely the platform just has to shut down altogether.

The article is pretty specific, I'd say it doesn't use precise language in the title because it's covering a variety of reported problems that are detailed in the body.

Hop on over to nitter, just replace twitter in the url with nitter and you get https://nitter.net/snowmaker/status/1705643839443403263 which works without an account or anything.

The government cares, the precision necessary for taxes is sub cent as mentioned in some replies to the top comment on this post.

Have you checked out processing or p5js? They both seem like they'd be well suited to something simple like this, they're not game engines they're graphics libraries but they're very approachable and easy to use, with great documentation.

It does, kind of.

It's not really officially advertised but it is first party, this guide [0] shows how to find it but it's just https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=CHANNELI... and the guide just explains how to find CHANNELID since it isn't explicitly shared (which amounts to going a channel page, viewing page source, and searching for "browse_id" which will be a key in a JSON string where the value is the channel ID).

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/01/how-to-subscribe-to-youtub...

It gives the networks money but it also hurts the companies actually running the ads, which would disincentivize them to do it at all, and the networks will only make more money if companies don't see a decrease in pay off for clicks and reduce their offers/stop running ads through that service altogether.

That being said realistically this is too niche for nearly enough people to run it to make any significant difference on the scale of the networks themselves, it'll just obfuscate your tracking a little.

I went ahead and did it and sent a merge request, figured it'd be easy enough and that way you can just check/confirm the request probably without a PC.

I see what you mean, you're probably right that it would help, but honestly I just don't think the people hitting it are reading it in the first place. It doesn't light up until they're at the intersection, at which point they're either very focused on the light or the traffic, and definitely not looking way above even the yellow bar. Most people seem to be driving rentals, and in their case they're just not thinking about the size of their vehicle, and the rest have gone under a thousand bridges that look to the unfocused eye just as tall, so they're not worried about it at all. What they really need is probably just something that hangs at that height in front of it so you can hear it bang off of your car with minimal damage before you actually hit the bridge, and push the intersection further away from the bridge so there's more time to look at the signs.

That is exactly what it means though, they don't want everyone to stop just overheight vehicles. What do you want the sign to do? Encourage everyone to stop?

It seems you didn't read the article, it specifically talks about people are already buying accounts for $30 or less to be able to make accounts in areas where you're not allowed to register.

My guess would be that it's because spoken languages and programming languages are fundamentally different, so in trying to make one fit the other you might end up with a programming language that looks and reads a lot like English, but it's almost become self obfuscating because now your brain could automatically try parsing it using the rules for English and not the rules for the programming language, making things look like it should work even if it doesn't. The example the comment you're replying to works pretty well, we probably largely ignore punctuation at the end of sentences in terms of actually consciously seeing it as opposed to just inserting a pause in our mental cadence, so if they're suddenly important pieces of syntax in statements that look like English you could easily start messing up the use of it

I wonder if they did a black highlight digitally and then printed that, not taking the time to verify that the black was dark enough that it was actually making the text under it unrecoverable.

Key caps have lower tolerances than the rest of the board, and the slot for the stems is a very small (the whole cross is 4.1mm wide with the "arms" of it being 1.17mm [1]) negative space, which 3d printing isn't great at. It's certainly possible and I know Zach Freedman [2] did this using his publicly available/free mx keycap model [3], but honestly unless you're more committed to having a board totally made by you than having one that sounds/looks good (which is totally reasonable, making one just to be able to build one from scratch yourself is something I want to do too), I'd say buy some.

1: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/dev.html 2: https://youtu.be/yYcNi9hKxDk?t=688 3: https://thangs.com/designer/ZackFreedman/3d-model/KeyV2%20G2...

This analogy doesn't work because you're comparing euthanizing dogs to using a secure password instead of face ID, one of which ends a life and the other is a mild inconvenience (we all used to use pins before touch ID was normalized, it takes less than a second to enter a password that you've got down to muscle memory). Yeah, we can't make all our choices in life based on an off chance, but when it's this simple it's easily worthwhile

I would advise commenting out every console.log() for your production version, I didn't check till after I played but it's pretty easy to just see what the quote is there, and even without that I think having that much of (what I assume is) debug info showing up for users seems undesirable, to me at least.

I wonder if anything else will come along after calculators, it seems like we've reached peak performance for that use case since there's sort of a cap to how much your tool can even be allowed to help given it's used during a test of your knowledge, not the tool's.

Probably AI, regardless of your opinion on its stability/reliability it's definitely the next big thing right now.

Because LLMs are so unreliable. Alexa misinterpreting and giving a nonsensical/unrelated answer is annoying, but fine. If it was an LLM, when it was wrong it would be lying confidently and unless you're double checking everything it outputs (in which case just search it that way in the first place) then that means it'll be misinforming you without you having a clue, as opposed to the current system where it's obvious when it gets it wrong. That's clearly just worse.

And that's ignoring the fact that all the publicly accessible LLMs have been "jailbroken" and you can get them to say all manner of wild things, and Amazon is definitely aware that all it takes is one or two viral clips of Alexa saying something unhinged for their sales to start dropping, and the tech isn't currently sufficiently understood for them to avoid that.

If you remove a sign it gets replaced right away, if you put a sticker that barely covers it like this then it probably doesn't get taken off for weeks, if at all.

Yeah but an optical illusion to confuse a human would have to cover most of the sign I think, and I know this isn't a random sticker but if this is possible there's no way that people don't make some and put them on signs just to mess with the cars because they can. In fact, I'm sure they'd do the same with stickers that would confuse people, it's just that there aren't any (that we know of, but considering self driving is a lot newer than people driving I'd say finding one for cars already but not people is telling on it's own) small enough that they wouldn't get immediately removed.

They're so light that their terminal velocity is very low, so when "shooting" them you'd have to be very close to the ground otherwise they'll decelerate almost immediately, long before they reach it.

Anecdotally, even from right next to the ground I don't think seeds have enough mass to have the kinetic energy at any realistic speed to embed into the soil.

But that pattern wouldn't be allowed on a stop sign, it would have to almost entirely obstruct it to work since we're so used to looking for the shape and even a hint of red, all it took to confuse the AI was a word above and below that covers a very small percent of the area. Stickers on stop signs are ubiquitous in a lot of places, so this is a fairly probable situation, whereas I've never in my life seen a stop sign that was so obstructed that I wouldn't recognize it. I'm sure someone could design a stop sign the machine could recognize and we couldn't but that's not what's on the roads and arguing about that is pointless because the amount of infrastructure you'd have to replace to get there is so massive that it's not relevant.