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I got a slight flashback to Blue Max, just because of the graphics.

It is possible though, to unify those things, and to see those other effects also as second or third order effects of the same underlying deficiencies that cause problems in social…

I’m sure it does. If you ask a question, it forces you to think the problem through, which has a similar effect as the kind of therapeutic writing that is mentioned in this article…

I think you're right. I'm on the opposite side of it, but I have a colleague who routinely writes functions that are hundreds of lines long, with 30-40 local variables inside each …

> Knowing At a high level what needed to happen to accomplish what the code did, I know for a fact it could have and should have been broken down more. However, because of the comp…

Kalman filtering is what's used in GPS navigation apps, is it not, to smooth out imperfections in the raw GPS signal?

> If you could always do it over, an infinite redo so to say, nothing would matter. Every choice and outcome would become insignificant, because you could just redo it until it was…

Or: (e) because it’s subjective.

I'm just arguing that there has been no qualitative shift. The skills you need to produce pop music today are different than the skills that you needed before. Now you need to be a…

Music was never an issue of skill. You might have needed skill in order to get to the point where you could use your judgement, but skill was never the deciding factor. So, I don't…

So this is WYSINWYG.

It seems to have merit as a subdivision scheme. The shapes look a bit wonky when projected onto a map, though, and it may not be as intuitive to reason about as the hexagons that w…

Is it based upon repeated subdivision of an icosahedron?

I think it happens to a certain extent, if we do as the article says, and revisit our memories. We then probably reinterpret our memories in the context of our new and updated unde…

We attach our early memories to our concept of the world as it was then. Afterwards, our concept of the world changes. As a result, those old memories sort of become dangling point…

It comes down to the quality of the abstractions. If they are well made and well named, you'd rather read this: axios.get('https://api.example.com', { headers: { 'Authorization': '…

Because "things" are interconnected. There's not just one definition of Thing, whatever your thing might be. There's your perspective on Thing, and there's other peoples' perspecti…

I imagine this could be sold to upscale hotels or concert arenas, for display on a big screen in a reception area or foyer.

The cosine function itself is symmetrical around the Y-axis. Supposedly, the main advantage of the DCT is that it's better at representing symmetrical features in data sets, which …

Yes, I don't recall the game myself. But I recall Flashback. I had an Amiga at the time, but not a PC until a few years later. 1991 probably was about the time when the PC started …

Here's the answer that ChatGPT gives to this riddle; it thinks that it must be the 1991 game Metal Mutant by French developer Silmarils: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOl_fBWIuac…

I'm guessing it must be because of some kind of deal between Microsoft and Financial Times. If that's so then probably there are also similar deals with other publishers. Edit: Cha…

It’a still viewed as a peak intellectual game. And the magic is still there, just watch or listen to the fans of Magnus Carlsen when they’re viewing, discussing or analyzing his ga…