🔗 Quick links thread
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Manning is giving away a handful of programming books until April 30:
https://freecontent.manning.com/mannings-coronavirus-response/
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A heatmap of "Frequency of references to "localhost:n" in GitHub code search"
I particularly like the diagonal of ABAB ports.
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@Luhmann said in Classic Programmer Paintings, where this would be off-topic:
Side Quest: Caption all of MC Escher's work in here
I like Francine Champagne's tesselation work:
Namely Mountain Biker:
and Fifi at The Salon:
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@Zecc I don't see any onaholes in that second picture.
Also, rather disappointed that it's just a tessellation and not a stereogram.
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https://www.thiswebsitewillselfdestruct.com/
Someone wrote:
Dear Website,
There is an end to covid-19 insight.
Thank you
Me
I'm sure there's plenty of people who never had any insight in the first place.
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@Zecc That appears to be simulated in real time; if you stop the animation suddenly, you can see the cloth settle into a steady state for the current pose. (You may also see some instability in the collision detection algorithm cause parts of the cloth to take on a jittery life of their own.) Being way too familiar with cloth simulation in Blender, where simulations may take a few seconds, or even tens of seconds per frame, that's pretty impressive.
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I came across this in my old bookmarks, and thought it was kind of timely. An example of how the mainstream media and entertainment industry promote a wrong but popular narrative. https://web.archive.org/web/20071214040212/http://graphicwitness.com/carter/
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A fun diversion.
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@Zecc Nope thread is .
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Sokyokuban is a variation of Sokoban, an iconic Japanese puzzle game from 1982. Rather than using the normal square tiling, Sokyokuban takes place on a hyperbolic plane. 双曲番 (sōkyoku-ban) is a pun on hyperbolic (双曲, sōkyoku) and Sokoban (倉庫番, sōko-ban).
We wanted the hyperbolic geometry to be an integral part of the game rather than just a gimmick. One of the most interesting aspects is holonomy: in this case, the fact that moving in straight lines can result in rotations. After playing with different ways to integrate this into Sokoban, we settled on giving the boxes and targets an orientation.
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Apparently, the 2021 site has been taken by some Chinese fellow. Unlike the 2020 site, it seems to focus more on things happening to individual than larger trends, but there's a side-order of "this terrible thing happened because this company/group isn't doing the right thing."
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Does what it says on the tin. Seems to be pretty good with the stuff I've thrown at it.
Doesn't use a server, once the model is loaded that's it as far as I can tell.It's an 80Mb model though, so be ware if you're on 2G data... Could take a while.
In case it goes down, I have mirror:
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Is this something?
Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time
Introducing QOI — the Quite OK Image format. It losslessly compresses RGB and RGBA images to a similar size of PNG, while offering a 20x-50x speedup in compression and 3x-4x speedup in decompression. All single-threaded, no SIMD. It's also stupidly simple.
tl;dr: 300 lines of C, single header, source on github, benchmark results here.
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@boomzilla author is generally sane, have spoken to him on other things in the past.
And he’s not claiming magic - he’s claiming that he’s got a fast algorithm for lossless images that is a lot simpler and a lot faster than PNG but not as tiny, that is the starting point for further investigation.
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@jinpa another shill for Big Velostat.
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Someone at my work shared this video about CSS, and if the other videos on this channel are similar it looks like a good one:
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@hungrier I couldn't tell if he was serious when he started talking all the stuff he liked on that page.
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“That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better implementation”
This seems to be an accurate description of software development.
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@boomzilla I'm at the point where I really should coalesce several pieces I needed to fix later.
The side effects are making it hard to continue.
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@Luhmann Nearly. :sad_trombone:
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@HardwareGeek said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@Luhmann Nearly. :sad_
trombonesax:keeping it in the country
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Darn it.
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duplicate
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@Zecc said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Darn it.
Shit!
Edit yes I know you're supposed to input enough so it starts guessing, bit since the score doesn't count passing as a loss I'm counting it!
Edit edit: I sourced a PRNG for some bits and threw them into the algorythm.
Yeah, this is an exercise of stupidity.
Edit edit eDit:
Ded
Turns out Javascript is bad at holding 32kb of array data in a 5-dimensional matrix?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Turns out Javascript is bad
at holding 32kb of array data in a 5-dimensional matrix?
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TIL: is2022over.com gives me some kind of SSL error about not having overlapping allowed algos. I'm not about to make myself vulnerable just to see if it isn't a hack site. And is2023over.com doesn't exist.
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@PotatoEngineer
It loaded for me without those errors but it's presumably not the site it used to be.
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Presented without further comment: a link about academic journals and impact factors and why they suck.
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@Benjamin-Hall An informally written article about formally-written papers. (Not saying that's a bad thing.) For example, the title says it's about PNAS, but he goes back and forth between whether the article is about PNAS or not.
It's not clear whether he has any recommendations.
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@jinpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
It's not clear whether he has any recommendations.
As a PhD student, publish where your professor tells you to.
As someone more senior than that, publish where you think what you write will get read by others. If you don't care about that, you can save a lot of time, money and effort by publishing to your desk drawer.
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@dkf The problem described in the article is not a problem for the purely self-interested individual.
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@jinpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
the purely self-interested individual.
Ah,
Homo economicus
; the rational actor.Where did you find one?
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@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Ah,
Homo economicus
; the rational actor.Where did you find one?
They're usually locked up as dangerous psychopaths.
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@dkf Though I would argue that selfishness is irrational - we think it's rational only because we take it for granted. But this would be a discussion for the Salon, which, AFAIK, no longer exists.
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@jinpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@dkf Though I would argue that selfishness is irrational - we think it's rational only because we take it for granted. But this would be a discussion for the Salon, which, AFAIK, no longer exists.
Proving once again that rationality will fail every time. Or maybe something about threshold conditions on network effects.
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@jinpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
But this would be a discussion for the Salon, which, AFAIK, no longer exists.
It doesn't need to be the Salon.
It should at least be another topic though. They're free!
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@loopback0 said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
@jinpa said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
But this would be a discussion for the Salon, which, AFAIK, no longer exists.
It doesn't need to be the Salon.
It should at least be another topic though. They're free!Remember, tho, you can only create topics which no-one else creates.
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@Gribnit only with that attitude
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@Gribnit said in 🔗 Quick links thread:
Remember, tho, you can only create topics which no-one else creates.
That's why we have 'Re:' !