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FigmentEngine··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
shame the bishop behind looks a bit flat though ;-)
FigmentEngine··on Supreme Court rules Andy Warhol’s Prince art is copyright infringement
Mickey Mouse has been extended to ~95 years so far
FigmentEngine··on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
they work in single cells...
FigmentEngine··on Feb 27 2023 GCP Outage Incident Report
tldr; no system failure is human error. if a human can cause this, then your system lacks adequate controls and mechanism. the root cause is the lack of controls, not the human error
FigmentEngine··on Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game
671 flips, lol
FigmentEngine··on Privacy is ok
> Absolute privacy still results in tyranny,

what are the examples of this, can't think of any?

FigmentEngine··on Privacy is ok
false and dangerous analogy. knowing your number plate is comparable to knowing your phone number, rather than the real analogy of bugging your converation in the car. the number plate yields metadata about journeys, not the actual conversation.

"i mean people who argue for privacy would never have a problem with barcodes on milk"

FigmentEngine··on Geodesic domes made simple
linux only i am afraid
FigmentEngine··on Overlapping markup
overlapping b and i elements <p>he<b>ll<i>o w</b>or</i>ld</p>

contary to the article it can still be represented as a tree, by decomposing the children into their own nodes (so in this case characters become nodes with child nodes expressing what formatting is active, followed by the letter, and then turn of all the active formatting)

FigmentEngine··on High-documentation, low-meeting work culture
this statement needs some detail, "high meetings" is obscuring that meetings use the docs (not meetings with no agenda or lots of presentations). meeying use docs as the primary driver, be that a narrative or analysis of a dataset
FigmentEngine··on Checking statistical properties of protocols using TLA+
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/learntla/
FigmentEngine··on The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
Inertia is a thing, especially around mental models and ways of working. Its hard to change an early decision, because many other parts and people have subsequently made decisions ontop of that. Like the ship of theseus, replacing parts is possible, but the replacement needs to fit in the gap, and the inertia means even if you replace everything, its always a ship.
FigmentEngine··on Kurt Vonnegut on the “shapes” of stories
Contextomy, happens all the time https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/016344370505397...
FigmentEngine··on Ask HN: Are there any good poverty simulator games?
Something like games these by Jane McGonigal

https://janemcgonigal.com/play-me/

> I make alternate reality games: games that are designed to improve real lives or solve real problems. I’ve been making ARGs since 2001 — and you can watch trailers for a dozen of my favorite ARGs below.

> Many of my games challenge players to tackle real-world problems at a planetary-scale: hunger, poverty, climate change, or global peace, for example (see: EVOKE, World Without Oil, Superstruct)

FigmentEngine··on Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number?
I do not believe S3 is written in Erlang... do you have a source for this?
FigmentEngine··on The weight of the clipboard
sounds like "cognitive load"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load

FigmentEngine··on Ask HN: Own .com for 7 years, a new company trademarked my name registered .NET
Assume you are in Oz and they are in US so be aware that laws are different, as well as scooe of any marks granted (doubt they have an internatonal mark), as daid by others marks also cme wth limitayions on them - so see what mark they have.

check your registration rules, and reach out to them to explain what is happening, stop any end run on your registra.

FigmentEngine··on Cloudflare's Disruption
and Windows NT and Digital Vax

WNT<-VMS

FigmentEngine··on Researchers are studying the cooking traditions of the FARC
Never really understood how they fed them on Hoth either.
FigmentEngine··on Warmest June on Record for Contiguous U.S.
https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/western-north-americ...

it wad made 150 times more likely due to cc so far, hence the 1/1000. so we can expect those odds to get more likely - even if we stopped emitting today, those odds look bad.

FigmentEngine··on John Carpenter’s ‘They Live’ was supposed to be a warning
4th... agi, mice, dolphins, humans
FigmentEngine··on North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
love it!

is there a Sunset Commission for the Sunset Commission? :-)

FigmentEngine··on TDD from the Factorio Team
this could be many different concepts. fault tolerance is the most obvious, and self-healing and auto-rollback

a good read is ROC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery-oriented_computing

FigmentEngine··on Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR
the phrase maybe, but the gdpr article itself provides more "Article 20

Right to data portability

1. The data subject shall have the right to receive the personal data concerning him or her, which he or she has provided to a controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:" https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj#d1e2753-1-1

FigmentEngine··on Common data model mistakes made by startups
"NULL out all identifying information" is anonymization, not deleting the information.
FigmentEngine··on Common data model mistakes made by startups
INAL, but... you might want to revisit that code. article 17, right to erasure is about erasure of personal data, not about making non-indentifiable. of course they dont define erase or delete :-)

(edit: typo)

FigmentEngine··on An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs
yes, you can always map most structures into tables, or even excel.

but it think "good fit" is a stretch. when designing systems you generally want to look at data access patterns, and pick a data exec approach that aligns to that.

in tech, unfortunately, RDBMS are the "hammer" in "if your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail."

FigmentEngine··on Gravity batteries try to beat chemical ones with winches, weights, mine shafts
Design forces are very weak...

btw anyone saying that gravity is weak should try getting of this planet...

FigmentEngine··on The brain ‘rotates’ memories to save them from new sensations
probably a reference to the curse of dimensionality
FigmentEngine··on Google misled consumers about the collection and use of location data
and so i type me home postcode every time i do a route - and it reminds me its' my data and not google'$.
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