personalityson

In light of Designer News (never heard of, but I wish I did) closing down, got me curious -- what other websites have I missed?

Thats why it died

I have the same, but a thought crossed my mind that it somehow stimulates your vision so that you start seeing the flickering which is always there

He was also against LISP, but turned around in 1999:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD12xx/E... "I must confess that I was very slow on appreciating LISP’s merits. My first introduction was via a paper that defined the semantics of LISP in terms of LISP, I did not see how that could make sense, I rejected the paper and LISP with it."

"That is ugly" is what separates math (1-indexing in Fortran, R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab, Mathematica, Julia) from the apes

This and column-major order for matrices (a vector is a column, not a row)

Ironclad deduction and logic

" a) 2 ≤ i < 13

b) 1 < i ≤ 12

c) 2 ≤ i ≤ 12

d) 1 < i < 13

There is a smallest natural number. Exclusion of the lower bound —as in b) and d)— forces for a subsequence starting at the smallest natural number the lower bound as mentioned into the realm of the unnatural numbers. That is ugly, so for the lower bound we prefer the ≤ as in a) and c).

Consider now the subsequences starting at the smallest natural number: inclusion of the upper bound would then force the latter to be unnatural by the time the sequence has shrunk to the empty one. That is ugly, so for the upper bound we prefer < as in a) and d). We conclude that convention a) is to be preferred."

I despise this guy

*wipes tear

Isn't LinkedIn owned by Microsoft?

I used to slice large images in a grid pattern, held by a table. Don't even remember why... For faster loading?

Why is Altman, who has no higher education, critical for development of AI?

Say no to clouds and dependency hell, return to VBA

Problem is you edit Python code inside the cells, there is no IDE for it (from what I've seen, haven't tried it yet)

Excel format is just a zipped collection of XML files

I once watched a 15 min Youtube ad about immigrants running an ice scream sandwich shop. Just wanted to see how long it was

Not a game per se, just watch

Arrays start at 1

Can this be called "melting"?

"In 2015, a team of chemists in the US and Australia showed they could reverse the process. They added urea to liquefy the boiled egg whites, then put them in a vortex device to pull apart the proteins and return them to their original state." https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/can-you-unboil-an-egg

Forza, Flight Simulator, Halo

Forza Horizon, Flight Simulator are all good games -- at the time of release, ie. no botched launches with following fixes, which is the industry standard

What culture? Microsoft makes great games

Is the idea that you will not be able to use these scripts without a subscription?

After having realized that I don't know and can't put into exact words what harm telemetry represents for me personally, I stopped caring and I always opt in to share as much of my telemetry info as possible

Feels good to moderate others

Why are relationships holy and have to be salvaged at any cost? Just let go and move along

Everyone goes through this. 10 more years of doom, and then it gets better

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/201207_... https://www.margithenderson.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/H... https://i.insider.com/573a14b891058428008c31fe?width=1136&fo...

"Scientists researching possible candidates for treating Alzheimer's disease found exercise outperformed all tested drugs for the ability to reverse dysregulated gene expression." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22179-z

"High fitness in middle age reduces the chance of dementia by ninety percent" https://www.ergo-log.com/high-fitness-in-middle-age-reduces-...

Closed/open makes sense for continuous measures, for integers closed/closed is more readable

Fuck Dijkstra, his only argument was "this is ugly"

https://quakejs.com/ https://play-cs.com/en/servers