PuddleOfSausage
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2 years ago
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on: Aphantasia and hyperphantasia: exploring imagery vividness extremes
Related, this was recently published by the author (who has aphantasia) — a post describing a self-made Kobo enhancement that uses text-to-image generation to assist imagery-rich fiction. Here's the HN link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842710
PuddleOfSausage
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3 years ago
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on: Moiré no more (2021)
Ah, thanks. I did search before submitting but nothing came up at the time (must have been my connection).
PuddleOfSausage
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3 years ago
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on: Apple warns suppliers to follow China rules on 'Taiwan' labeling
Just a note, the ISO standard and the United Nations are intrinsically linked. A country can only enter ISO 3166-1 if it appears in the United Nations Terminology Bulletin 'Country Names'. And I suppose one could argue the UN is not neutral.
PuddleOfSausage
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3 years ago
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on: Show HN: WordBreak – A daily word puzzle game
Enjoyed it, thanks for creating and sharing!
PuddleOfSausage
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: Test your shape rotation skills
Works fine on mobile for me. Fun game!
PuddleOfSausage
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4 years ago
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on: Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion
(More related to the comments than the article) I've seen tons of takes on this since watching the end of the race this morning and, although it certainly played a part in deciding the outcome, it's a shame that more focus has seemed to be on making excuses or how the Dutch riders messed things up instead of Dr Kiesenhofer's incredible story and ride.
Kiesenhofer was on a fantastic day: van Vleuten's earlier attack from the peloton made no inroads to Kiesenhofer, assuming the time gaps shown on the TV were correct.
Watching on the TV we knew there was still a rider out front and, even if the race "ardoisier" (blackboard holder) wasn't the best, team management should have figured out a way to get that information to the chasing pack. I mean, the race finished on a motor racing circuit with pit lanes containing team helpers! It's not like it was like stage 16 of this year's Giro, where poor weather stopped race images being broadcast[1].
[1] https://cyclingtips.com/2021/05/gallery-amazing-images-from-...
PuddleOfSausage
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4 years ago
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on: Dataflow, a self-hosted Observable notebook editor
There are loads more supported via knitr. Scroll to the top of that linked page in this thread for the list.
PuddleOfSausage
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5 years ago
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on: A forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name
> one 18th Century doctor and botanist said that they cause diarrhoea
I thought this would have been a prime contributor to its vulgar name!
PuddleOfSausage
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5 years ago
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on: The Airline Industry's Meltdown
Regions like Africa may see some COMAC activity too.
PuddleOfSausage
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5 years ago
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on: Technology that changed air travel
The author/editor has mentioned elsewhere in this thread that he was using dummy data (which contains mistakes). For this dummy December flight LHR would be in GMT (UTC+0) and not BST (UTC+1).
PuddleOfSausage
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5 years ago
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on: Technology that changed air travel
I appreciate how hard it is to get buy-in from all parties involved, and NDC was initially launched in 2012, but is XML still a good fit for this solution? Are there better alternatives now?
PuddleOfSausage
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6 years ago
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on: Office noise bothers some people more than others
It probably doesn't occur to him. What's the worst that could happen if you let him know?
