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contact me at my gmail address: flenser DOT tyrathect

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Flenser··on Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell (2012)
This used to be on it's own domain as well but it looks like that's gone too now:

http://web.archive.org/web/20180514064448/http://ghostinthes...

Looks like the following is the original author. They mention it on their portfolio page:

https://www.michaelolaya.com/portfolio

Flenser··on Suspension of Cogent Access to ARIN Whois
Ask to be added to their "do not call" list. Then they can't re-add you to their "call list" when they recieve your contact details again in future.
Flenser··on Ask HN: Best book / resources on leadership, especially for tech teams?
Thank you. I'm sorry I can only upvote this once.
Flenser··on Show HN: Manage Dotfiles with Stow
> no surprising behavior

What surprising behavior does it avoid?

Symlinks breaking perhaps? Anything else?

Flenser··on PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B
What about services like revlifter[1] where you put their script on your basket page and they give customers offers based on their basket contents?

[1] https://revlifter.com

Flenser··on Stellar just sent 100M Lumens (worth $5M USD) to 300k Keybase users
You can generate paper keys in the mobile app. They count towards the device count.
Flenser··on How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
It's on Netflix:

https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/60004419

I found it using this:

https://www.justwatch.com/uk/search?q=The%20Pledge&content_t...

Flenser··on How Spotify and Discover Weekly Earn Me $400/month
Any idea why you're not getting featured on those playlists?
Flenser··on VFX, Amiga and Babylon 5 [video]
No way!
Flenser··on Capitalism and Inequality
Found it: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-10-inequality-in-equ...
Flenser··on Capitalism and Inequality
I'm trying to find an essay I remember reading in the past 5 years titled something like "Inequality in Equalville" but my googling isn't finding it. Does anyone remember what it was called?
Flenser··on What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
Thank you!

(It also looks like it helps with keeping the weight off once it's lost.)

Flenser··on What I learned from reading over 100 weight loss studies
What I'd like to know is if there are any studies into whether the frequency with which a person weighs themself can have an effect on weight loss? The theory being the quicker feedback would lead to quicker results by motivating more change and making it easier for the person to stay motivated and correlate changes in lifestyle with weight loss.
Flenser··on How shutting out men from the conversation is an obstacle to change
A long description of the problem, but short on solutions.

This video is much better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G9tX0wZptM — Alexis Jones: "Why We Need Men" | Talks at Google

Flenser··on Improbable and Epic Games establish $25M fund for ‘more open engines’
Unity's blog post refutes a lot of what Improbable claim about released and in production games:

https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/01/10/our-response-to-improba...

Flenser··on Reynholm Industries: Welcome
Anyone know/guess the username/password for the staff intranet?

[Edit] Nevermind :)

Flenser··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
The Buildbox UI is very similar to Magicavoxel
Flenser··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
That's just some code that @ephtracy is using.

"ephtracy/stb forked from nothings/stb"

Sean T. Barrett is @nothings on twitter per the twitter link on https://nothings.org/

Flenser··on Show HN: YourNote, a note-taking app that puts users’ data first
Could you make it so we don't have to log out to see the link to that page.
Flenser··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
@ephtracy has been developing it for over 5 years. I understand why you might be concerned but that's a lot of time to invest creating a niche piece of software in order to launch a malware attack. If it was new today I might share your concern.
Flenser··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
> Who's https://twitter.com/ephtracy?

Unknown, they appear to like their privacy.

> Why did you create this? How are you using it this days? > Are you making any games with this?

"the project is also used as my personal research platform, so it contains codes for unpublished features and from other private projects." [0]

> Is the Ray Tracer to do that built in or do you have to import the models in a second software?

It has a built in renderer, or you can export to other tools (e.g. Unity3D) if you want more control of rendering or to be able to rotate/deform the models. I see Export options for: obj, ply, mc, xraw, slab, qb, vox, iso and 2d.

[0] https://github.com/ephtracy/ephtracy.github.io/issues/108#is...

Flenser··on MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing renderer
For those like me that couldn't work out how to create bigger scenes, the world editor is available by pressing TAB or clicking the TAB icon above the top-right corner of the main view.
Flenser··on Microsoft Edge
It's not just fear of Google and Chromium beating EdgeHTML that's driving this. It's also Apple and their iDevices.

This allows them to bring Edge to parity with Chrome, and by building their own features and proposals on top of that they regain the ability to drive standards.

But they can also errode Apple's moat by supporting web standards and deep device/native integration better than Safari, which lags chromium in standards support.

Flenser··on Namecheap announces support for TOTP-based 2FA
So we can expect it in 2024 then?
Flenser··on YouTube will delete existing video annotations on January 15, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I&t=50 Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
Flenser··on Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?
> (for the local market)

There is no local market, at least not in the long term. Once a junior developer has acquired some skills and experience they're going to start looking at other markets where their market rate will be higher, and being less likely to have attachments that make it harder to move they will find it easier to move than more senior developers.

Flenser··on With Facebook at ‘War,’ Zuckerberg Adopts More Aggressive Style
There's even a term for this, Stand Alone Complex:

> Accidental collectivism made up of detached individuals, resembling a highly organized conspiracy and lacking a deliberate origin. The stand alone complex is from Ghost in the Shell. — https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stand%20alon...

More here: http://ghostintheshell.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy

See Also: There Is No Cabal:

> There Is No Cabal is a catchphrase used on Usenet. Its common abbreviation, TINC, is used humorously to suggest that people should lighten up and not see a conspiracy around every corner. It is alternatively used as a pseudo-ironic statement, since presumably an insider or someone who knows "the cabal" would inevitably deny that there is a cabal. It was used extensively by members of the backbone cabal. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal

Flenser··on The Power of Web Components
I use GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey, but WebComponent even make modifying a page using dev tools hard.

Edit: e.g for printing or to make reading / using easier.

Flenser··on The Power of Web Components
Hi!

I'm not a fan of them for web apps that use excessive whitespace between repeating components[1]. Previously you could just edit the global stylesheet in dev tools but now that only changes the current component.

Edit: I get the widget / embedable use case but fear that it won't just be used for that.

[1] e.g. Chrome's new material design bookmarks manager that shows far less bookmarks per page than the old design.

Flenser··on The Power of Web Components
Web components may give power to developers but they take it away from users. Any page made with web components is hostile to user styling. I'm surprised Mozilla would support them.
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