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The scenario I'm talking about is not synthesising a RAW file from scratch, but being able to freely edit it and save the result back into a RAW file that looks "original". I don't…

Interestingly, some major photo competitions require 'original' RAW files to be submitted along with processed jpegs. The idea is that they can check that the image hasn't been mod…

Just the other day someone posted something here about defunctionalizing continuations. That's the way to go: whatever amount of state the server has to hold, you have to hold anyw…

The paper is literally about doing away with the inversion of control.

The concept of continuations is well-established and they have their uses. They have been part of the landscape for years. They can be confusing, and that's impossible to separate …

This comment is like a red rag to a bull for me, because why wouldn't some artists want a basic grasp of calculus? Bear in mind that a secondary education, for most people, involve…

No, as the voiceover says, it was a much less powerful Class 46 (46009). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_46

I don't know the Observable folks personally, but I've been watching what they post on Twitter. It's not snobbery to say that the level of polish and sophistication present in what…

See this article for an in-depth look at implementing these conversions: https://research.swtch.com/ftoa

That particular example is discussed here: https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/02/nyregion/authors-seek-mus... Apparently one had to have a publishing contract to be admitted. I'm not …

There was a proposed system back in the 90s which involved multiple decryption keys. https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mernst/pubs/heraclitean-tr9...

To describe the article as an application of modern control theory is an exaggeration; these rules (proportional navigation and proportional pursuit) are extremely simple and ancie…

Aeronautics is (still) an incredibly glamorous field, and fighter jets and aviation disasters are a stereotypical topic of fascination for male engineers. HN is all about the "cool…

You haven't taken into account the difference between mean solar time and apparent solar time. The system you describe is essentially the old local mean time https://en.wikipedia.o…

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ngemodell https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettenlinie_(Mathematik) NB, the line taken by the cables of a suspension bridge with a deck of uni…

Thanks for the characteristically rude HN assumption that I don't know what I'm talking about. I know all about Chipperfield, at least to the extent of having seen him lecture abou…

The standard interpretation of this is something like the following: If you replace an element (e.g. a brick) with a new brick, you should aim for it to blend in discreetly and con…

This is like the argument that comedians who make funny jokes about human nature must therefore have good insight into politics. Anyone who watches comedy knows that the ability to…

I think you are exaggerating the expertise of both men. Gates was successful, but that doesn't mean he had rock-solid knowledge of all aspects of business and technology. Pratchett…

Where did this title come from? I usually can't stand HN's fussing over titles but this one really seems tendentious.

This is an unsatisfactory discussion, because you are attacking straw men. Samuelson was a genius and a once-in-a-generation thinker. I specifically avoided excluding the existence…

That's all fine. I think you will agree, though, that engaging with Marx's writing, however critically, is not the same as offering an explicit correction to Marx's theories or put…

I think you are essentially dismissing philosophy in general. From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability "Sir Karl Popper is not really a participant in the contemporary p…

I think Deleuze (who described some of his work as belonging to the genre of "generalized anti-Hegelianism", which I take to mean a kind of inversion of Hegel, i.e. a materialism) …

They might be seen as iffy because of the damage that has been done in the name of each of their theories. Marx obviously has a lot to answer for if you consider him responsible fo…