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New comment by zoltar in "YouTube's New Hue"

zoltar — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 06:24:01 +0000

Here is a tampermonkey script to disable the youtube progress bar gradient:

New comment by zoltar in "[dead]"

zoltar — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:33:39 +0000

A good companion video to this might be The Psychology of Extreme Rhythms from Adam Neely's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLTjESyuQk

New comment by zoltar in "Thinking Forth: A Language and Philosophy for Solving Problems (2004) [pdf]"

zoltar — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 05:24:00 +0000

There was always something I liked about Forth when I didn't have to do much stack-thinking. One of the things that felt forth-y to me when I first encountered it was threaded code in Clojure (or any other point-free kind of idiom for that matter).

https://santhoshkris.medium.com/threading-macros-in-clojure-...

I'll sometimes abuse Python's compose to do similar things I won't send out for code review. Maybe I really should just try to live in Coconut instead of silly stuff like:

  import chess
  import chess.svg
  from IPython.display import SVG, display
  from functools import reduce
  
  
  def rcompose(*fs):
      return reduce(lambda f, g: lambda *xs, **ys: g(f(*xs, **ys)), fs)
  
  inline_board = rcompose(
          chess.Board,
          chess.svg.board,
          SVG,
          display)

Factor's quotations dealing with stack management weirdness is super nice, too.

https://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Concatenative%20language...

It still has a bit more stack juggling than I like, though. That could just be a "me" problem. Props to that whole community for their effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g

New comment by zoltar in "What happened to Wirecutter?"

zoltar — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:40:03 +0000

I've found smaller categories of products with decent reviews on youtube. Project Farm and America's Test Kitchen spring to mind. I'm not sure they're as rigorous, but it's beyond what I'm willing to do at home by myself.

New comment by zoltar in "Underwater ears everywhere"

zoltar — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 04:53:39 +0000

He didn't take credit for making the wire, so no.

New comment by zoltar in "Darmok and Jalad on the Internet-The Importance of Metaphors in Natural Language"

zoltar — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 09:46:42 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylV7QtfkBFQ

New comment by zoltar in "$900k Median Package for Engineers at OpenAI"

zoltar — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 19:40:44 +0000

Last time I ate in SF, I walked past a guy smoking crack on the sidewalk. But, yeah... big house with a big yard is nice.

New comment by zoltar in "Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (2014)"

zoltar — Tue, 23 May 2023 16:46:23 +0000

I find this video (series) helps break down Bleed pretty nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcsAAPdJTBE

New comment by zoltar in "Dune: Part Two – First Look"

zoltar — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:03:08 +0000

I'm with you mostly on the "really like" side. Sound all the way around is excellent. Little details like the horn blowing dust when they disembark from the ships on Arrakis are great. Salusa Secundus in the rain was great. The overall visual style is great. Casting was mostly great.

I just wish some of the sets were a bit more dense. The room for the Gom Jabbar scene, the Bene Gesserit walking back to the ship, cone of silence scene, and especially the palace fight on the stairs. Kinda gave my Sky Captain vibes.

I also don't like cutting the tension between Jessica and Thufir, although if Thufir doesn't end up under the Baron I guess I get it.

New comment by zoltar in "America Has Too Much Parking"

zoltar — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 04:48:13 +0000

99% of what?

It's nearly 4% of the US population (2021).

New comment by zoltar in "Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008"

zoltar — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:51:26 +0000

Is that the same Peter Schiff that said gold was going to $5,000/oz in 2012?

New comment by zoltar in "Zero energy ready homes are coming"

zoltar — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 08:07:10 +0000

Regarding passive solar, I liked this video on the Schweikher House built during the 1930s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq-3cZ0cbws

New comment by zoltar in "Vimium – A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

zoltar — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 09:13:38 +0000

In Firefox: about:telemetry#scalars-tab_search=tab

New comment by zoltar in "Tilde.news – A Link Aggregator for the Tildeverse"

zoltar — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 09:40:46 +0000

"Anyone who controverts my psychological insight into jwz is a fool!"

So you know him personally? Talked about this? Have some background in personali...

"He runs a bar!"

Seems legit.

"Armchair psychoanalysts, not so much."

Indeed.

New comment by zoltar in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

zoltar — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 02:19:48 +0000

No, they don't do that either.

New comment by zoltar in "Alphabet Earnings Report Q3 2022 [pdf]"

zoltar — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 20:34:15 +0000

The house that Marissa built.

New comment by zoltar in "How to build a personal webpage from scratch"

zoltar — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 09:44:50 +0000

You are confusing line editor with command-line editors. If you interpret command-line editor as editing the command line, emacs has eshell. If you interpret it as an editor from a terminal, it's that, too.

If you mean "line editor", emacs has batch mode.

New comment by zoltar in "How to build a personal webpage from scratch"

zoltar — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 08:21:49 +0000

Of course it is. It's not just that, though.

New comment by zoltar in "How one of America’s last piano manufacturers stays alive"

zoltar — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:11:39 +0000

A Kawai MP11 playing out some Magnepans and a sub feel as enjoyable as the Bösendorfer I used to noodle on. I'm pretty terrible, though. I'm glad I don't know what I'm missing. I don't have the room for that old big boy.

New comment by zoltar in "How to 3D-print one of the strongest stainless steels"

zoltar — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:49:32 +0000

https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2018/code-pen/part-6...