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The Typographic Scale

kenny87 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:22 +0000

Article URL: https://spencermortensen.com/articles/typographic-scale/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37923198

Points: 4

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New comment by kenny87 in "Leon: Open-source, self-hosted personal assistant"

kenny87 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 20:01:41 +0000

> The packages list is a dead link. https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/packages

From the blog ...

"As of now, 'module' and 'packages' no longer exist. Instead, they’ve been replaced by 'skills'."

New link is https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/develop/skills

New comment by kenny87 in "Performance Evaluation of IPFS in Private Networks"

kenny87 — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 03:42:17 +0000

One certainly can't get much more worse than worser.

New comment by kenny87 in "Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?"

kenny87 — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:04:51 +0000

I converted to the Baha'i Faith from Christianity about 15 years ago, after investigating Islam and Buddhism. Very happy to see this topic trending on HN. Our daily practice consists of reading the Holy writings every morning and evening, daily prayer and meditation, and service. There's a prayer from our tradition that says may "this American democracy become glorious in spiritual degrees even as it has aspired to material degrees ... ." I cherish this hope for this nation and all humanity.

Owners of Local Hardware Group Selling Company to Employees

kenny87 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:52:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sourceofthespring.com/silver-spring-news/owners-local-hardware-group-selling-company-employees/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28566925

Points: 1

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New comment by kenny87 in "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)"

kenny87 — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 20:55:34 +0000

Ten years later I still struggle to get involved language standardization effort.

New comment by kenny87 in "The Textbook That Unleashed Ramanujan's Genius"

kenny87 — Wed, 19 May 2021 14:03:57 +0000

MAA has its Basic Library List: https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-basic-library-list...

New comment by kenny87 in "U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown"

kenny87 — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:46:37 +0000

Very nice to see to genuine interest on HN in solving our Democracy's problems, instead the general cynicism, apathy and self-interest we all too often see. But to be fair, I think it's first important to realize that we are discussing historical forces. The kind of movements that we all read about in school, are happening now. And I think when we look at history we'll see that social forces strong enough to reform empires have always started in the marginalized communities. Our role here is to become active participants, on a day-to-day basis, in these communities and aid them, both technically and morally, in building -- and here is the key concept -- decentralized quasi-autonomous [1] communities. No amount of reform, sorry being a cynic, will "fix" Washington and its relationship with "corporate capitalism". The Supreme Court settled this question, campaign money is "free speech". [2] But we can build new social structures in the gaps. It happened about 2,000 years in empire built in Rome. Why not today?

[1] http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/decentralization/admi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

New comment by kenny87 in "Generate Flowcharts from Text"

kenny87 — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 23:56:59 +0000

Meh, one more: https://structurizr.com/

Get the Funk Outta Here (2017)

kenny87 — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lostinmusic.org/Blog/Detail/8-get-the-funk-outta-here

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26025976

Points: 1

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New comment by kenny87 in "Have we already been visited by aliens?"

kenny87 — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 18:38:15 +0000

Those that like this episode would also very much enjoy VOY, Episode 6x12, Blink of an Eye [1]. Fascinating premise, essentially a pre-warp society views Voyager as a sky deity, eventually Voyager becomes the raison d'etre for the scientific progress of an entire civilization.

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Blink_of_an_Eye_(episod...

New comment by kenny87 in "NY State Assembly Bill A416"

kenny87 — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 20:01:59 +0000

To put some context on this, the underlying social problem is the overcriminalization of behavior and the alarming growth [1] in incarceration rates here in the U.S.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#/me...

New comment by kenny87 in "Ask HN: Where are the Beautiful clean HTML/CSS templates?"

kenny87 — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 20:02:26 +0000

List of free tools and resources to create UIs: https://dev.to/davidepacilio/50-free-tools-and-resources-to-...

Templates: https://cruip.com/

New comment by kenny87 in "Funkwhale is looking for new maintainers"

kenny87 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:47:53 +0000

People that enjoy listening to music -- audiophiles, DJs, music producers, musicians, etc -- often search out and download their favorite tunes, .flac and .wav specifically, simply b/c these formats have higher fidelity to the master mix. Granted, not everyone cares about high-fidelity audio, and that's ok too.

New comment by kenny87 in "Getting Started with Ansible"

kenny87 — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:32:54 +0000

copy pasted this from gitlab recently to provision a packer image https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-omnibus-builder/blob/ma...

New comment by kenny87 in "YouTube-dl's repository has been restored"

kenny87 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:55:07 +0000

I just find it quite ironic that their site is running WordPress, a "free and open-source content management system".

New comment by kenny87 in "Ask HN: I am writing a book what tools do you recommend?"

kenny87 — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 02:16:21 +0000

git, search "using git to write thesis".

* https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7775881/using-git-for-wr...

New comment by kenny87 in "Facebook prohibits music or music listening experience on Live"

kenny87 — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 04:24:31 +0000

The issue here isn't legality but performance royalties. Music played over the internet is considered a performance. These royalties should be collected and paid out to recording artists, or whoever owns the master recording copyright, whenever that song is performed publicly. It's seems that FB doesn't want to pay artists these royalties.

New comment by kenny87 in "Gallup: 81% of Black Americans Want Police to Retain Local Presence"

kenny87 — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:33:31 +0000

Key takeaway from survey:

"It's not so much the volume of interactions Black Americans have with the police that troubles them or differentiates them from other racial groups, but rather the quality of those interactions."

Not sure what "preferred narrative" you are referring too, but most black people think America has a "police problem". Define that however you like. Bunch of other polls from the same organization for those curious enough to dig deeper. Seek Higher Things friend.

* https://news.gallup.com/poll/316247/black-americans-police-e...

* https://news.gallup.com/poll/315962/americans-say-policing-n...

New comment by kenny87 in "All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization"

kenny87 — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 15:20:07 +0000

Frankly, this kind of hubris is dangerous. The point here is not that financial instruments are 'fake' wealth or 'nothing more' than the value that people put on real assets, that is the entire crux of the matter. You literally require expertise in higher maths to understand the valuations. And even those with that understanding sometimes fail to manage the risk. The guys who literally wrote the book on modern finance bought the global financial system to its knees b/c of their mismanagement [0].

The systemic risks that these insanely complex valuations pose to the economy are real and matter. I'm talking about food, housing, education, infrastructure, health care ... real things the matter for long term growth. This concept needs to be thoroughly appreciated. The notional values here are important b/c they are powerful indicator of the impact of default on the real economy [1]. The impact is in fact so great, that the Fed is willing to print trillions and trillions of $$$ to save financial systems from their failure. But a maxim of economics is that "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." And right now our government is literally feeding the capitalists while watching millions of people go w/o food, housing, health care. It's egregious injustice and insult to people of Enlightenment everywhere.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475366