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MetaPost and ConTeXt Rendition of Byrne's Euclid

Grieving — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 22:03:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jemmybutton/byrne-euclid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32270615

Points: 1

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New comment by Grieving in "The Red State Murder Problem"

Grieving — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 16:02:23 +0000

What's the difference between egregious racism disguised as "data" and data relating to race that contradicts liberal priors?

New comment by Grieving in "Ukraine calls on hacker underground to defend against Russia"

Grieving — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 03:40:40 +0000

The "real" Anonymous was. Now some other hacktivist group uses the name to cash in on the clout. People get really excited when they hear Anonymous is back at work.

New comment by Grieving in "Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile"

Grieving — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:50:45 +0000

My comment was tongue in cheek, but is based on my experience with both groups, especially as they exist online.

Part of what's strange is how often age of consent comes up in these circles. It's not something most people think too much about. Last time I was worried about age of consent laws was when I turned 18 a few months before my girlfriend.

> tend to support age of consent laws > objection to the structural basis on which they are made and enforced

You'll get a laundry list of reasons why our existing laws are oppressive, passionate assertions that adults and minors can have positive sexual relationships with each other, delineations of pedophilia, ephebophilia, etc. All followed up with a vague caveat that age of consent laws might not be inherently bad, but usually with no attempt whatsoever at suggesting what they should be. Seems a strange place to just stop your little thought experiment.

Then you have people like Vaush who just can't stop saying things like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Cjw7Fq6VA

New comment by Grieving in "Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile"

Grieving — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:01:38 +0000

It's just an idiom. But to clarify I'm not on this particular horseshoe at all.

New comment by Grieving in "Turns Out Schrödinger, the Father of Quantum Physics, Was a Pedophile"

Grieving — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:20:52 +0000

There's a libertarian-socialist horseshoe on age of consent laws. The more ideological one becomes, the more passionate they are about lowering the age and distinguishing between the different paraphilias relating to sex with minors. At this point I assume that all political theories are invented to justify their proponents' sexual desires.

New comment by Grieving in "Sublime Text 4 (Build 4126)"

Grieving — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 16:59:56 +0000

I don't use Sublime often anymore, but it's the only graphical editor I can work with. I can't help but get exasperated at the constant, admittedly small, delays with VS Code. I'm talking about small things like the delays when popping open and using the fuzzy finder, the time it takes for a project-wide file search to complete, typed characters showing up just a tiny bit later. Whereas Sublime, for its faults, feels well-oiled, VS Code feels gummy and unable to keep up with me. I know I'm being picky, but it's hard to turn off once you're aware of it, like recognizing bad kerning.

>Maybe it's changed since the sublime 2/3 days, but the packages ecosystem always felt a bit unpolished and anemic.

As far as I can tell it's only gotten worse. The rise of Atom and then VS Code sapped a lot of the energy that went into creating plugins.

New comment by Grieving in "Amputated fingertips sometimes grow back (2013)"

Grieving — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 03:26:10 +0000

Three more anecdotes here: my mother, uncle, and wife chopped off the tips of their fingers (him doing farm work, them chopping food) and had them grow back. The article talks about kids, but the former two were in their 40s and the latter in her 20s at the time.

New comment by Grieving in "[dead]"

Grieving — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 01:04:46 +0000

"Far-right activists report far-left doxxing rings to Twitter." This is important news.

Georges Bataille – The Cruel Practice of Art

Grieving — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 05:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://supervert.com/elibrary/georges-bataille/cruel-practice-of-art

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29347629

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Grieving in "NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads"

Grieving — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:10:45 +0000

If you click on the github link, it redirects to an archived repo under that username.

New comment by Grieving in "NPM – "is-even", 160k weekly downloads"

Grieving — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 16:06:55 +0000

2̶7̶ 2 dependencies, travis ci configured, fully tested and documented, even the readme depends on some external tool. github username is i-voted-for-trump. Looks like a joke that people actually started using.

edit: Confused dependents with dependencies

New comment by Grieving in " Rittenhouse lawyer claims iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage"

Grieving — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 16:12:53 +0000

This was one of the more entertaining parts of the trial. The defense stated that "AI and logarithms" (algorithms) were used to enhance the image when zoomed in, and the prosecution claimed that it was no different from a magnifying glass.

Both are right in some way. I think the defense raised a good point that while interpolation algorithms are everywhere, people don't generally understand that by definition these introduce new information not present in the original. It's a general problem with technology, but isn't brought up often in court. On the other hand, I think the prosecution's magnifying glass analogy was apt, but for the wrong reasons; it's an older form of upscaling technology that introduces its own distortions, but is accepted as accurate. It is kind of ironic that the format of the video and whatever transcoding has been performed wasn't delved into.

New comment by Grieving in "Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”"

Grieving — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 04:16:40 +0000

First, Black didn't sell the gun to Rittenhouse. He bought it with Rittenhouse's money and allowed Rittenhouse to use it.

Second, Black has been charged but not convicted, and I don't think the charge will stick: the argument is that while this was technically legal according to the letter of the law, the law in question was written with only underage hunters in mind, and should not apply in this case. Since the law itself makes no such distinctions, I don't see this as anything more than an empty gesture. Maybe I'm wrong.

New comment by Grieving in "Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”"

Grieving — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:59:34 +0000

Of all cases to lament the lack of evidence for, why this one? We have video from multiple angles covering the entire event, dozens of witnesses, forensic evidence. Lack of evidence isn't the reason this case is polarizing.

New comment by Grieving in "Facebook is blocking searches for “Kyle Rittenhouse”"

Grieving — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 03:50:12 +0000

No. Whatever the state of mind of both parties, Grosskreutz and Huber were responsible for engaging Rittenhouse in combat (in the second encounter). Even if the initial encounter were the fault of Rittenhouse (I don't believe that it was), he was running toward police in a non-threatening manner. You aren't allowed to attack a fleeing person, much less one clearly attempting to turn himself in, which is what Huber and Grosskreutz did. When you do so, you are responsible for the encounter and can't claim self-defense. The only scenario in which they could is if they then attempted to flee and Rittenhouse continued the attack, which didn't happen (and in which case all parties would be guilty).

New comment by Grieving in "Willmann-Bell Books Now Available"

Grieving — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:20:09 +0000

A few months ago I submitted a link to Jean Meeus's Astronomical Algorithms (now available at https://shopatsky.com/products/astronomical-algorithms-2nd-e...) without realizing it was no longer available for purchase. Now the Willmann-Bell catalog is returning through Sky and Telescope.

Willmann-Bell Books Now Available

Grieving — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:16:33 +0000

Article URL: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/willmann-bell-books-now-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29033772

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Grieving in "FBI Releases Updated 2020 Hate Crime Statistics"

Grieving — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:24:15 +0000

Not much new AFAIK. Of the "big three" racial/ethnic groups, Whites and Hispanics are underrepresented and Blacks are overrepresented, which has been the norm for a long time.

I don't know why they don't release the same data for convictions though. Hate crime hoaxes are more than common enough to distort the results.

New comment by Grieving in "SUVs are offsetting EV car gains"

Grieving — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 14:44:45 +0000

This sounds highly location-dependent. I'm in rural America, and the poor here, with extremely rare exceptions, own cars. There are people living in dilapidated shacks with SUVs in the driveway.