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ObiWanFrijoles··on Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?
I don't think I've ever heard anybody put my exact feelings into words before. Although I don't feel distressed by the subjectivity of the experience as much as a feeling I can only describe as "odd". Why am I me? Not in a bad way, just, why am I seeing things from this specific point of view?
ObiWanFrijoles··on Choosing solitude
https://archive.ph/Hx4mj
ObiWanFrijoles··on Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List (2014) [pdf]
The paper was hilarious in itself. The context makes it even more interesting.
ObiWanFrijoles··on Visualize active fires around the world with Javascript
Observable [0] seems to be inspired by Jupyter. I haven't had a chance to use it though. It looks like some of its core features are open source [1]

[0] https://observablehq.com/

[1] https://github.com/observablehq

ObiWanFrijoles··on The Fourth Operation: What Comes After Exponentiation
Graham's number [0] can be defined using hyperoperations. There's an awesome video with Ron Graham himself on Numberphile (YouTube) [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham%27s_number

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigptwlVHo

ObiWanFrijoles··on Methanol in South Africa Teens Deaths Often Fatal
That is such a weird title.
ObiWanFrijoles··on Twitter Is Down
Is it because they cache data? Their description says they use Twitter's unofficial API, which I guess just scrapes data using web URLs.
ObiWanFrijoles··on Ante: A low-level functional language
This is a really awesome project and I hope it goes far!
ObiWanFrijoles··on Ranked-Choice Voting Is More Democratic, Not Less
Unfortunately, people don't trust what they can't understand easily either, which is why I think math based voting techniques aren't so popular.
ObiWanFrijoles··on Ivy – Unified Machine Learning Framework
I realize that this project is trying to provide a sort of meta-framework to make working with many different frameworks easier, but the tagline still reminds me of this Xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/

ObiWanFrijoles··on Ask HN: Have TV ads changed?
In India, they are creepier than ever

https://rootprivileges.net/2022/03/31/tv-ads-are-becoming-cr...

ObiWanFrijoles··on American NGO affected by your recklessness (node-ipc vulnerability)
This issue has turned into an absolute embarrassment

https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/issues/233

People like the maintainer are doing nothing but harm to the mutual trust that exists in the open source community.

ObiWanFrijoles··on What Is IO Monad? (2018) [video]
Nice to see Tsoding on the front page. He has another great video that covers a bunch of topics while making a JSON parser with only the Haskell standard library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RUqGYuGfw

ObiWanFrijoles··on Recreating Real-World Terrain with React, Three.js and WebGL Shaders
A guide to rendering photo-real terrain with React + Three.js