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toxicFork

1,198 karma · joined March 14, 2014

Website: https://firtoz.com

Software, game and tools developer.

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toxicFork··on Microdosing with psilocybin mushrooms: a double-blind placebo-controlled study
Can you elaborate please?
toxicFork··on Roboticists discover alternative physics
At least it wasn't 42
toxicFork··on Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast
It feels nicer to use functional components with declarative state than set dom attributes imperatively.
toxicFork··on Million: less than 1kb virtual DOM that is fast
Would this be able to support projects like react three fiber?
toxicFork··on A clip from Stray got me banned from Twitter
It existed in ancient Greece at least
toxicFork··on Do breastfed children have higher IQs? The answer is annoyingly hard to uncover
Another issue is that IQ is not representative of intelligence.
toxicFork··on When animation is an accessibility problem
Just like OS dark mode settings, have a toggle for animations too.

Then let the developers and designers use the switch if they care.

toxicFork··on Niantic undergoes layoffs, cancels four games
I don't know how much they can stretch the license
toxicFork··on Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait
Someone call gpt 3
toxicFork··on Met Police UK Live Facial Recognition
> The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.
toxicFork··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
During some kind of exercise, or anything that gets you into the "flow zone", is not really that different indeed.
toxicFork··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
My seed was very personal too.

I had been overly self critical most of my life, and that made me unhappy. Additionally, I had a friend tell me that I had "too much ego". I did some research on "how to reduce your ego", and Buddhism appeared on my radar. I explored deeper, and started practicing. It showed me not to get too attached to a lot of the thoughts that I was very attached to. I was also very attached to a particular kind of self worth. I realised that I did have too much ego, not necessarily like the typical form of narcissism, but I was still too "self-centred", except instead of the "self-loving" narcissism, I was the "self-blaming" kind.

With meditation I learned not to pay too much attention to some of the thoughts, which helped calm me down. My complete solution did involve more than meditation, though, I went to therapy as well. Meditation feels more like a kind of "supplement" rather than a cure-all, tbh.

toxicFork··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
I see that you too are interested in philosophy ;)

Everyone has their reason to be interested in meditation.

The original Buddha was simply "not satisfied" and wanted to know why. So he discovered the causes and effects and removers of dissatisfaction in itself.

Part of his discovery that dissatisfaction comes from within, from all of the thoughts that poke us, especially when we let them to affect us.

Mindfulness meditation is only part of the puzzle of Buddhism.

toxicFork··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
You decide what you are comfortable with :) however in general we can roughly decide if someone is struggling or not.

There are no "right and deep answers" for questions like this.

toxicFork··on Ask HN: What exactly is a mindfulness meditation?
You can measure how many times you get distracted, and how far do you get dragged. This is very easy to do during meditation.
toxicFork··on The Deported
Archive link: https://archive.is/bJKvS
toxicFork··on Mummified baby woolly mammoth found in the Yukon
Because zoos are considered by some to be animal cruelty and objectification
toxicFork··on Ask HN: Your admittedly useless side projects?
I am trying to make a quantum computer with lasers, mirrors, filters and prisms.

Some regrets, but it's fun.

toxicFork··on FTC to crack down on companies that illegally surveil children learning online
Pretend to be 12
toxicFork··on Floating Point Math
Why don't we store fractions as fractions rather than floating point?
toxicFork··on A Note to the Celsius Community
Yes, to allow us to switch please vote with your temperature coins in this smart contact.
toxicFork··on How James Patterson became the world’s best-selling author
Is it Agile
toxicFork··on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all users
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzSc4mhX4AAi1Bz?format=png&name=...
toxicFork··on Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain
Pandemic
toxicFork··on Earthworms after rain (2019)
Moles
toxicFork··on Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk
Curious, how come? Does it become a statistical thing?
toxicFork··on Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk
I see, thanks!
toxicFork··on Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk
https://codepen.io/toxicfork/pen/OJQzLba

This says otherwise

toxicFork··on Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk
> Sample x and y coordinates from a standard normal distribution. Then project the result on the circle, by normalising the distance.

I wonder if that's uniform...

I expect that you would have more points mapped to the corners.

toxicFork··on Uniformly Sample Points in a Disk
The thinking goes more like this:

I want to get a random point in a circle.

What parameters make up a point in a circle?

Radius and angle can be one, so let's randomise those.

This is something that's done a lot in game development.

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