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New comment by nearmuse in "Ludum Mortuus Est"

nearmuse — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:54:27 +0000

You don't die if you lose 20% of your body mass in fat.

New comment by nearmuse in "DJI Drone Rescue Map"

nearmuse — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:59:40 +0000

How is there not a single marker in Ukraine? UAF are using every kind of equipment they manage, I have certainly seen in the media DJI drones being used there.

New comment by nearmuse in "EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona"

nearmuse — Tue, 16 May 2023 02:57:25 +0000

> Pathos is as important as logos.

As far as Stallman's choices of what to debate, and how, and where are concerned.

The problem that is being raised here is with the ethics of those who smear an individual's reputation while refusing to admit they were wrong and knowing full well that it is impossible to undo the damage even if they did, and of those who end up supporting the former by shunning that individual.

New comment by nearmuse in "EPFL cancels Stallman's lecture citing “the situation regarding” his persona"

nearmuse — Mon, 15 May 2023 23:36:38 +0000

> Think before you speak, think before you act.

People always did, especially the smart ones like Stallman. His blog literally consists of his provocative takes on various issues. Thinking results in having an argumentation for one's actions. That argumentation might be wrong, and the person could change their views when presented with evidence. If you never overlook blunders and allow to self-correct, you are discouraging original thinking.

New comment by nearmuse in "Vice, Decayed Digital Colossus, Files for Bankruptcy"

nearmuse — Mon, 15 May 2023 11:43:21 +0000

I mostly knew it for Simon Ostrovsky in eastern Ukraine. In the recent years it has seemingly become more politically biased like many other papers, so I stopped paying attention - it simply did not stand out anymore.

New comment by nearmuse in "All the exciting media outlets are dying – what comes next?"

nearmuse — Sun, 14 May 2023 14:44:09 +0000

No matter how grass-roots you imagine journalism to be on the path of becoming I believe it will end up resettling into a specialized organization, because it requires cross-domain research, an ability to vulgarize, and an ability to investigate and witness events, better than any of the individuals and organizations you listed.

New comment by nearmuse in "All the exciting media outlets are dying – what comes next?"

nearmuse — Sun, 14 May 2023 13:22:11 +0000

BuzzFeed and Vice were exciting?

New comment by nearmuse in "The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (1992)"

nearmuse — Fri, 12 May 2023 18:58:52 +0000

I am really tired of dirt being brought up each time a discussion of a renowned figure is happening. It obviously detracts from the inspiration or immersion people are trying to derive from bringing up those renowned figures. They are intentionally focusing on the positive aspects, and those who are bringing the garbage up are intentionally detracting from it.

New comment by nearmuse in "Goodbye to Google Code Jam"

nearmuse — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 09:27:38 +0000

Sounds really weird because you still have to screen people for software engineering jobs, while administering problems in an in-person interview is how it was being always done before coding competition platforms.

As to the platforms themselves, they are still usable for in-person interviews and practice.

New comment by nearmuse in "Anki-fy your life"

nearmuse — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 20:12:00 +0000

I am trying this approach right now. It is difficult to do it for big concepts because they take time to recall in their entirety and can't be reduced to one key idea to be recalled quickly. It may also be hard to estimate what interval to use, and bloated repetition sessions are killing the whole idea of spending some 10s of minutes a day, causing a sort of fatigue if not outright burnout.

New comment by nearmuse in "Microsoft lays off one of its responsible AI teams"

nearmuse — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 03:08:44 +0000

Edward Diego works at Microsoft confirmed.

New comment by nearmuse in "What if writing tests was a joyful experience?"

nearmuse — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:01:49 +0000

What's with the sudden barrage of FPLs posts in the recent days?

New comment by nearmuse in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

nearmuse — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 06:18:10 +0000

I love these:

Q: how to perform a 7-base sum of two numbers?

A: To perform a 7-base sum of two numbers, you must first convert the numbers into their 7-base equivalents. For example, if you want to add the numbers 5 and 12, you would convert 5 to 7-base using the formula 5 = 4 * 7 + 5, which would give you 4 * 7 + 5 = 37. Similarly, 12 = 1 * 7 + 5 = 22. Then, you would add the two 7-base equivalents together, which in this case would be 37 + 22 = 59.

New comment by nearmuse in "Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT"

nearmuse — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 16:30:01 +0000

If to "look" means to verify the existence of things in it and to skim the code for style etc without even running it, then yes.

Many people have these repos with a fork of some opensource project with like 2 commits in it, or something not parting too far from a template project. I am not saying this does not qualify - because those commits might be useful or insightful, or merely sufficient to solve a problem - but they are way too easy to fake.

New comment by nearmuse in "FizzBuzz in Haskell [pdf]"

nearmuse — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:41:03 +0000

Case in point: it can prompt people to gush about a fizzbuzz implementation.

New comment by nearmuse in "If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now"

nearmuse — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:48:01 +0000

Oh so that's the "extreme programming" I have been hearing about.

New comment by nearmuse in "The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok"

nearmuse — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:14:27 +0000

People are seeing the young YouTube in TikTok. For monetization reasons, YouTube shifted to longer and better produced videos, and the quirky and raw content the OP is praising TikTok for has become less prominent, although it is definitely still there.

New comment by nearmuse in "Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile"

nearmuse — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 17:53:25 +0000

Because of all of these news of arrests, cops shooting someone unarmed, or people getting easily labelled as felons or sex offenders, US has become synonymous with "trigger-happy" (literally & figuratively) for me. Are people (and specifically cops) in the US really that quick to judge? Does it depend on the state? Or do these cases make the news exactly because of how outrageous and rare they are?

New comment by nearmuse in "Body Doubling"

nearmuse — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:20:44 +0000

Sounds like the Japanese cuddling as a service.

New comment by nearmuse in "Lego Is Discontinuing Mindstorms"

nearmuse — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:49:56 +0000

Although they claim to not be abandoning the idea and the trademark altogether, I don't really understand the reasoning behind not using such a seemingly strong brand. Mindstorms appeared pretty popular with hobbyists and in education.