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> is literally “post death” in Latin Yes; I think what I described matches that meaning? Post-death, as in: "it's over," "activity has halted," "no more work being done." Death doe…

This might be terminology that's used differently in different places. For instance, in video games it is extremely common to use "postmortem" to mean "post-shipping." Example: htt…

I agree it's not a perfect parallel. But it was very much part of a movement that challenged traditional notions of what art was, and spurned similar debates and outrage as here. P…

> the concept of perceiving content gets intertwined with how content was made It reminds me also of the eternal "can we separate the art from the artist" debate, too. For instance…

> Meaningful art is not mass-produced, generated content. Andy Warhol might disagree [1] (: (I realize that's not exactly apples-to-apples, but y'know.) Or there's "art is anything…

Next, someone needs to make a stereoscopic "magic eye" font. Until the LLMs get binocular vision, I suppose...

Since you seem to know, and I am curious, doesn't CIE[1] effectively use RGB to describe its space, too? Eg: the r̅(λ) g̅(λ) b̅(λ) color matching functions? Or is there something e…

I know someone who went to Reed College, which has semi-famously not suffered from grade inflation[1]. They send your transcripts out with an explanatory note, so that the recipien…

I feel there is a balance to be struck between a project that is popular (where if you run into problems, you will get good support), and one that technically gives longer-term sup…

It's a bit of an "if a tree falls in the forest but nobody hears it, does it make a sound?" quandary. Sure, maybe some aliens in a distant galaxy understand quantum mechanics bette…

Short-lived branches are likely referring to "bookmarks" in Mercurial. Or they could also just be un-named anonymous heads. These are different from what is exposed by the "hg bran…

FYI: Matt Mackall is now Olivia Mackall [1], so that can make searching for things harder. Looks like they work at Valve, now? Agreed that they were a really stabilizing and health…

A recent funny story on this topic: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-is-copilot-exactly HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603231

Indeed, the Wikipedia page on fractal dimension[1] uses the coastline paradox[2] as a leading example. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_dimension [2] https://en.wikipedia.…

> Don't laugh I laugh (: But good for you, whatever works. Personally, I can't do music with much lyrics or narrative; I find it distracting. But to each their own!

For others interested, perhaps a more straightforward example is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGHkigtPcIA The one in the article is the same essential technique (structura…

> there are billions of souls on this planet. They're not a rare thing > like say, gold. They're very easily produced, by two people getting it > on. That leads to a harsh conclusi…

I have the same problem with the mouse (little page marker overlay covers the down arrow). But using keyboard arrow keys work for me.

Well, I wrote what I meant, but I meant to be facetious (:

My sense is that there is a narrow slice of software developers who genuinely do flourish in a pair programming environment. These are people who actually work through their though…

> you are back to the same problems that certificates have. Some of the same problems. One nice thing about verifying content rather than using an SSL connection is that plain-old …

I recently learned about the fact that Sichuan peppercorns are actually related to citrus, so was looking for where the connection is... As it turns out[1], there is a "citrus fami…

A bit of an aside... From the article: MetaPost is written in literate programming language WEB, then generating Pascal code from it. Hence the tooling and developer experience aro…

Does anyone know a google-able term for split keyboards that have doubled keys down the middle column (B/N, G/H, T/Y, 6/7)? I see one instance on this page of a keyboard with doubl…

I didn't see it on the feature list, but it might be nice to allow it to run as a cron job and send email for reminders. These days, most mobile phones have an associated email lik…