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Geenkaas

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Geenkaas··on Sora 2
The irony is not lost I hope.
Geenkaas··on What are OKLCH colors?
I tried working with it but had to give it up for practical purposes. Whereas the focus with HSL is on the Lightness part and the Saturation is made to fit, OKHCL does it differently. It pushes the Chroma part to it's technical limits and abuses the Hue to make it fit, but we just do not understand Chroma intuitively. I am waiting for OKHSL where the adjustments will bu much smaller and do not lead to absurd changes in intent. I already had a discussion about it somewhere else (https://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/1jv5f0r/hue_is_an_issu...)
Geenkaas··on Googler... ex-Googler
I am listening to a podcast Adam Argyle is talking in, listening to what he is passionate about and then getting axed by Google is painful to hear as now it is clear that Google is not passionate about those things (anymore). It is also painful personally because it is what I am passionate about (and my job). Link: https://dev.to/whiskey-web-and-whatnot/leveraging-css-web-de...
Geenkaas··on Live Map of the London Underground
I once saw a rendering of parts of the underground showing the stations and the tracks in 3D (hand-drawn but in scale), what stood out to me is how much of the entire system is composed of stations and how little for the actual tubes connecting those areas, certainly in the busier areas. I was hoping to see the stations rendered as well as I never could find those images back. This looks very nice in any case, reminds me of marinetraffic.
Geenkaas··on Go European: Discover European products and services
This is such a shame, we should be looking to source and produce things globally and find better ways to improve the logistics and efficiency world-wide. Why would the EU take such a protective stance which only enforces isolation and increases cost?

Edit: Thanks for the responses, I am still looking for a signal that tells my post is sarcasm multiplied by cynicism.

Geenkaas··on Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene
Falling down the rabbit hole I stumbled on this link: https://gamedev.city/

"I miss when people would just post gamedev resources on the internet without thinking about algorithms or engagement. In order to try to mitigate that, I decided to host my own link aggregator website!" - Pedro Medeiros

This post has been an excellent waste of time and a great source of inspiration. Thanks.

Geenkaas··on Calendar, Not Todos (2018)
"Your bottleneck is time management, and not motivation."

If indeed motivation, forgetfulness, procastrination and rapidly changing priorities were not a thing this would be great advice for me. Unfortunately for my distracted self this would be unmaintainable in any time span.

I can live by a mix of todo-lists (some with a deadline, most prioritised and all categorised), a red line in my agenda telling me when all the weekly/daily scheduled events are and bright coloured, triple alarmed random events breaking up the pattern. My goof off hours are after getting something done and before the next notification blaring from my phone.

Geenkaas··on Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
My high school physics class flashes back to me, I don't think I understand a fraction of it but it seems very exciting (pun intended).

I was reading up on this (now outdated) wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_thorium#Thorium-22...

And it mentions the application as qubit for quantum computers. If the state change is relatively simple, cheap and stable, what could this do for quantum computing? I picture a crystalline processor holding Thorium nuclei as the brains of a new supercomputer? Would that be viable?

Geenkaas··on Astronomers discover new quiescent galaxy
"Massive galaxies that stopped forming stars (known as massive quiescent galaxies) are plausible progenitors of giant elliptical galaxies."

Could someone explain a bit more what this means? Is it that those galaxies were "born" out of the quiet galaxies, or shaped into ellipses because of them?

Geenkaas··on John Boyd Compendium (2007)
I found an older copy on the Way Back Machine with working links. https://web.archive.org/web/20220705015435/http://dnipogo.or...
Geenkaas··on Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services
If you reverse all the do's and don't in this manual it reads like a pretty good manual to go about your daily business and household maintenance.
Geenkaas··on Launch HN: Joon (YC W22) – A mobile game that teaches kids to build good habits
I am torn, my kid loves playing on the computer (any screen) more than he does his doing chores, and combining these would be great, but the gamification of my parental responsibility does not sit well. I really appreciate your work and effort but chore > reward is not my goal or method.

What if the game itself has more depth (learning for example) while remaining as engaging? Simple dopamine triggers they have enough.

Geenkaas··on Google exec challenges Berners-Lee (2006)
Also a lot of people working for NASA check their facts from those:

https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/dynamicso...

Geenkaas··on Deploy a website on imgur.com
We run a sizeable webshop that can fall back entirely on non-js for whatever reasons with plain forms and HTML. Not based in Oslo though.
Geenkaas··on A (possible) solution to Covid-19
The Netherlands is testing with plasma from a recovered patient right now:

Source: https://nos.nl/artikel/2330036-nederlandse-coronapatient-hee...

NB: I am NOT a microbiologist and do not know how far this is related.

Geenkaas··on Hacker’s Manifesto (1986)
See you in 2022!
Geenkaas··on Kerbal Space Program 2
You should have a look at StarMade: https://www.star-made.org/
Geenkaas··on Pilot’s dramatic emergency landing at Chicago-area airport caught on video
http://around-7.com/index.php/travel/1364-video-dramatic-eme...
Geenkaas··on Pilot’s dramatic emergency landing at Chicago-area airport caught on video
I think you are mistaking cause and effect, this is an organisation who chose the easy way out instead of just complying with the rules (which are not draconic).
Geenkaas··on Show HN: Know Your Pixels? A small browser game done with mediaqueries and JS
Is it cheating when you put your browser over a Photoshop image displaying the rulers?
Geenkaas··on Google HTML/CSS Style Guide
I don't get this one: Capitalization. Use only lowercase.

and:

Use HTML5. HTML5 (HTML syntax) is preferred for all HTML documents: <!DOCTYPE html>.

Why not <!doctype html>?

Geenkaas··on The open web needs you *now* (Webkit the new IE6?)
This is just plain silly: -webkit-border-radius: 1px; -moz-border-radius: 1px; -ms-border-radius: 1px; -o-border-radius: 1px; border-radius: 1px;

If one vendor has something that is useful, let the others ask that vendor to make it default, let all vendors strip the vendor tag and get it over with. if you do not want to implement the rule, ignore it but do not cry when people leave your vendor prefix alone.

I can't be bothered with ever changing browser prefixes.

Geenkaas··on The new Alan Turing docudrama is available for streaming
Trying to watch this outside of the UK... The irony with this link on HN does not escape me:

http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-Nov...

and

http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/i-live-in-the-uk-r...