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the_jpg··on Ask HN: Do any of you dislike using Visual Studio Code?
Do you do frontend stuff on your emacs? If yes; Mind if I take a look at your .emacs?
the_jpg··on Rio de Janeiro’s police killed a record number of people in three months
Everything that you said is right, my problem with this kind of policy is that they sell it as the solution, I think that is better to fight organized crime with intelligence instead of with raw force.

The weapons and the drugs that finance the traffic do not come from the poor communities, the crime in rio is deep within the society killing the poor that is already marginalized it’s not a soluction.

I agree with you on the other side, people with weapons should be treated as the threat that they are, but the public policy should not be just “kill theses guys and we are good”.

the_jpg··on How to make a simple 'vintage' HTML website but that will work on mobile?
Write little CSS as possible, this was the method that i used on my own [0], and as you are at it, try to use little as possible of JS too (in my case i use none)

[0] http://jpg.computer

the_jpg··on Golden Rules for Making Money (1880)
I'm against this practice because of two things:

First, you are selling a little bit of your privacy, the bank you know all your purchase patterns and even though this seems not to be abused it creates a precedent that I do not like.

Secondly, every time that you buy things with your credit card the bank change the business a small fee, so in a way you are making the 'rich' more richer and the 'poor' more poorer.

I believe that these two thing will make me use cash forever.

the_jpg··on How to fight the surveillance economy
On my country at least there is a trend that only registered costumers have promotions and discounts, but what really happens is that the price of the things go up and the registered costumers pay the 'normal' price.

I'm not buying anymore on theses type of stores (markets and restaurants mostly), but this is keeping growing difficult because every other week more and more business are starting to ask for my 'credentials'.

the_jpg··on A Coder Who Became a Crime Boss
Unbreakable encryption it's quite legal where i live
the_jpg··on The Very Rich Indie Writer (2011)
But i think that the point is that it’s a bad story too.

Without a good story or a good text what is left to be good? Probably the price and the marketing.

the_jpg··on Algorithmic math art
Thank you for the links, Pretty cool stuff i’ll Take a closer look in the weekend.

I found this when I was looking for art representation of mathematical concepts, like this one that i created (is not a really good one, and the code have a lot of space for improvement):

https://jpg.computer/cantor/

The page is in português (my main language), but it try to represent the cantor set in a two dimensional form.

Do you know were i can find more “math non-generative art”?

I’m specially interested in “math profs art” but I could not find much.

the_jpg··on Things an architect should know
I think that one should know deeply about its craft.

Architecture is about design so it's fair to think that an architect should know about art and (some kind of) product design.

The analogy that I can think would be something like - A developer should know about network and how the user will use software, this concepts are important even if the programmer do not work directly with this things.