toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Risk and Regret
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toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Toward a Digital Comics Praxis
If you need inspiration you can take a look at this as well made using REXPaint. https://preview.redd.it/vxfohcwxywt71.png?width=1458&format=...
It's all ASCII art so in theory one should be able to convert it to HTML. I have a project to make a story using REXPaint to HTML in a near future.
If you need more info, feel free to contat me raising an issue on github.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Toward a Digital Comics Praxis
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Everything You Can’t Have
My version would be more like :
"Owning a car is very circumstantial. It means you temporarily have some property right on it. It can break, it can be taken away from you. If you create something it's yours forever. Its existence is not independant of your will.".
At the end of their lives some people will have owned ten cars, others will have written ten books.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Everything You Can’t Have
How do you ignore friends who write a new book every year?
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Everything You Can’t Have
Since it makes my goals very personal, I can't compare myself on an objective metric with other people and as a result feel less frustrated about not earning more.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Heroku 2FA Scam
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation
All the results were about men patronizing women. I just checked and it's still the case.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you test SQL?
I also have a few 'test' queries that insert there results into a 'test_results' table. Most of the queries check the cardinality of the table since to me wrong cardinality is where the biggest errors come from. I do something like :
insert into test_table
select case when count(*) = count(distinct users) then 'pass' else 'fail' end as result, 'test_cardinality_temporary_table_a' as test_name from temporary_table_a
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors
I remember reading a few years ago that most search engines use some tree based model. If that's the case, that means the idea of monotonic linear weights is not relevant.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Great text based games to play?
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Make up a guy
Here are some examples :
> Riemann counterexamples
> Unicode Corporation
> Google Sex
> procedurally-generated regulations
> denim skin
> peak humanity
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Gasoline made of carbon sucked from the air (2018)
_solr | 3 years ago | on: Twitter's API is down?
It seems to be down as well. I knew it would happen with the whole Elon Musk stuff but that still makes me very unhappy.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata
I have recreated the UI of a fashion Ecommerce site such that the user is so familiar with the button labels ('buy', 'add to cart', 'recommended items') that they can easily guess their meanings.
I teach HTML using simple Japanese. I make use of the fact that "<span style="background-color: yellow;"> </span> " uses English words but is not English. That allows me to say things such as 'to change the background colour to yellow you can add this tag' without using English. It's definitely cheating but I have found that cheating is actually good practice when it comes to help people guess the meaning of words in a foreign language .
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata
It reached the HN frontpage a few years ago and I've kept working on it since then. It now contains close to 100 pages (~500 words) and everything has been proofread by a native speaker.
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Protonmail Recommended Browsers
toto444 | 3 years ago | on: Protonmail Recommended Browsers
I can totally relate to it but it might be because I'm in a mid life crisis.