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targonca··on Tesla Cybertruck
>This thing is Pontiac Aztec bad.

Is it just me, or DDG really shows an image of a turd when searching for "Pontiac Aztec"? :D

targonca··on Colossal Holograms
Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.
targonca··on Colossal Holograms
You would need a beefy machine to render 45 8k images per frame.
targonca··on Differentiable Programming Manifesto
So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differentiable stuff for TensorFlow.

Why won't they implement proper metaprogramming support instead of proliferating the core language?

targonca··on Uber’s self-driving car could not detect pedestrians outside of a crosswalk
Because you don't want to be the one whose team is lacking in agility on the next company all-hands meeting ;)
targonca··on What does the Laplace Transform tell us? A visual explanation [video]
I prefer this one:

Where the Laplace Transform comes from (Arthur Mattuck, MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqOboV2jgVo

targonca··on Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking
So, you'd like to expose the whole kernel to Spectre-type attacks. Wonderful!
targonca··on The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
Sounds like gentrification to me.
targonca··on “We have no reason to believe 5G is safe”
Why not have carrier executives install 5G base stations on their houses as a publicity stunt?
targonca··on America’s Pistachio Industry Came from a Single Seed
Sanctions aside, Iranian pistachios taste so much better.
targonca··on Humans have salamander-like ability to regrow cartilage in joints
Cauliflower ears are caused by the ear cartilage dying off and being replaced by fibrous scar tissue. That's definitely not cartilage overgrowth.
targonca··on Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption
Yes, Epstein committed suicide, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Every sane person knows that.
targonca··on People are reporting collisions with Tesla’s Smart Summon feature
Are there no dedicated parking spots for the disabled in the US?
targonca··on Buffon's needle or how ants estimate nest size
>although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it

Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly complex stuff with surprisingly elementary tools.

targonca··on It’s not just p=0.048 vs. p=0.052
Yep, it's confirmed with p = 0.049
targonca··on Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
I personally prefer buying FLAC from Bandcamp. It's the most artist-friendly option I'm aware of (and the most environmentally friendly too!). Some of them even include the same artwork in PDF that would be printed for the CD/vinyl edition.
targonca··on Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986
This. Just give me FLAC with vinyl artwork in PDF.

Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than CD - it's the equivalent of around 12 bit dithered PCM.

targonca··on Google’s GDPR Workaround
>And then Mr. Tripathi went missing

False. He went missing a month before the bombings:

>Soon after, another redditor named Sunil as a plausible suspect after asserting a resemblance between the suspects in the FBI's pictures and Sunil, who had gone missing a month before the bombings.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil_Tripathi

targonca··on Building Interactive SSH Applications

    keys = (f"command=\"buildsrht-shell '{b64key}'\",restrict,pty " +
            f"{key_type} {b64key} somebody\n")
Now it depends on how b64key is sanitized.
targonca··on Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
In Safari: View → Zoom In

It's smart enough to remember the zoom level the next time you open HN too.

targonca··on Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
His employer considers him trustworthy.
targonca··on Debug Adapter Protocol
There are tons of resources online about why UTF-32 doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna repeat them. Do your own research.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195827

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2361...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32#Analysis

http://utf8everywhere.org/#myths

targonca··on Debug Adapter Protocol
That's... a very bad idea.

First of all, there's graphemes are inherently not one-to-one with code points, e.g. Á = A + `. There's simply no Unicode encoding that will let you safely index into an array without paying attention to the meaning of the underlying codepoints. (and no, using NFC won't solve this either, because there are combinations for which there's no composed equivalent)

Secondly, general formatting info won't fit into 11 bits (italic, bold, underline, strikethrough - that's already 4 bits, and we haven't talked about color, font weights other than bold, etc.), so why bother baking in a limited, intentionally gimped version into your character encoding?

targonca··on My Sudden Trip to Hell
"your adrenals are gone"

Wtf. Adrenal crisis [1] would be fatal. You're talking nonsense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_crisis

targonca··on People love working remotely
>white noise over the speakers

W-what? I know some people swear that white noise makes them concentrate better, but forcing everyone to listen to white noise? Wtf. I'm not even sure that's legal from an occupational health & safety standpoint.

targonca··on Developers accuse Apple of anti-competitive behavior with iOS 13 privacy changes
Hint: it's not actually "developers" per se, rather CEOs of data-siphoning companies.
targonca··on Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
What data? - you ask. Let's see:

- audio recordings (smart TVs have microphones)

- photos of your living room (smart TVs have cameras)

- still images of TV content

- SSIDs of neighbouring WiFi routers for geolocation

- data from scanning nearby smart devices Bluetooth

- daily/weekly usage data

- data from scanning USB devices plugged into the TV (e.g. list of filenames from your pendrive / USB HDD)

targonca··on Watch a Drone Take Over a Nearby Smart TV
Good luck with that. It will simply connect to a neighbouring open WiFi and transmit your data anyway :)
targonca··on Psytrance Guide
Ishkur's guide to electronic music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur's_Guide_to_Electronic_M...
targonca··on Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beautiful places
electric fence?
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