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The stats I’ve seen on this tracking toggle are pretty wild. Will be interesting to see how the next period unfolds for advertisers. If history is any guide they’ll get even shadier and look for terrible workarounds, but we can dream.

Two key parts: start small and play slow!

Treating practice different to performance. Until you can actually play a piece just do drills, then gradually build up to larger sections. But do the drills slowly and correctly, rather than trying to play at actual speed with bad form.

This is why so many form fields yell at me while I am typing in them!

Sensible writeup. The trashing and attacks over gd frameworks is terrible and unnecessary. Use whatever tech you want!

We crush and burn rock, and then re-constitute it at a time and place and in a form of our choosing.

? Like coffee or pancake mix, it’s “instant stone—just add water!”

Isn’t that basically magic?

Longer form on Instant stone - just add water.

I love the question “what’s a boring topic that you’re excited/fascinated by”. Great way to learn new things!

Quotes from this piece on Ethereum.

I hold zero real gold, so why would I need digital gold, especially digital gold that is ridiculously expensive to transfer?

Started off sounding so ambitious and friendly; the goals and incentives probably shifted fairly early.

They never delivered on this “strong goal” to make web search an academic endeavour.

supply and demand is one special case which comprises a fraction of the total pressure on wages and prices and success or failure at any moment.

Mostly about case and formatting consistency. Fantastic list, these sorts of things don’t exist often enough.

The structure of the article is great - “here’s the whole thing, followed by a line-by-line breakdown”.

The enormous blobs of mobile meta will always be a bit gross.

Some amazing sounding experiences

Don’t know if they have a real product yet, but exciting to see meat alternatives other than beef!

Cutting sync support for Chromium was what finally sent me to other browsers. Now alternating between Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi.

Good advice - be genuinely curious about things rather than an NVC parrot

Interesting stuff. I have no real background in this but still found the article and experiment outline very readable.

Random find, fantastic write up. Kind of a year in review, kind of a work/life/other reflection. Summary of the clusterfuck of a year, reasons for leaving the US, thoughts on finding where to move to. Some parts on work and projects.

Manages to be personal without feeling like oversharing.

Some good tips for better writing. HN thread on it also had some interesting points on tone and editorialising of writing.

Outlines reasoning behind Capsize. Still haven’t looked much into this but some sensible ideas in there.

Article raises a lot of the things I don’t like about tourism: locals being priced out, areas being ruined and overrun by visitors, and useful stores being replaced by junkshops selling shitty trinkets.

Subtitle explains it - America’s biggest vulnerability in cyberwarfare is hubris. Shoting “this is 'murica” doesn’t protect your data.

Cool glitchy animated drawings in the article.

Hadn’t tried this opening before and quite enjoyed playing it. Made for an interesting game

I love this for many reasons. Mostly for some people continuing with approaches that aren’t just brute force deep neural nets. Goes into better detail than the original headline, which implied it could just automatically detect cancer cells (it was years of work going from pastry detector to other uses). Hard things are hard.

Excellent tips, and good pictures explaining what they mean (this is often overlooked in descriptions of actions). Sit forward, sit up. Leg angle closer to 120 that 90 is a good one

This is a joke, but some parts are too real

you forgot to mention the time it takes hunting for your ‘obscure teenage years’ CDs on eBay, setting up search alerts for each CD to appear for ~$1 with cheap shipping, waiting three weeks for them to arrive from Lithuania, alcohol-rubbing the dozen sale stickers off the jewel case, cleaning the CDs with lint-free holy water, ripping the audio losslessly at superfast 52x, physically scanning with a scanner and optimizing the album artwork, categorizing, metadata’ing, updating and maintaining your Frankenstein music database, updating the online database for prospective fake internet points, and relisting each CD at $2

yay science

This is beautiful. Also little bit of history in the replies - this is apparently a public kitchen shared by multiple people, who would then eat in their own rooms.

Wonderful web app to generate much nicer looking shadows than I can come up with

Random discovery from some article, verified on Wikipedia. A few decades in the timber business, then in the late 90’s started buying fashion companies. Now owns Gucci, YSL, Balenciaga, Brioni, Girard-Perregaux. Businesses are crazy.

The relaxing sound of events and errors rolling in to your server.

I too have a lot of issues with this. What if your file moves? What if the file is fake? What if URLs change? What if servers shut down? Startups shut down or disappear all the time. And even if they don’t people don’t tend to do backwards compatibility anymore. This is a whole new and expensive consequence to link rot.

Short version:

The NFT token you bought either points to a URL on the internet, or an IPFS hash. In most circumstances it references an IPFS gateway on the internet run by the startup you bought the NFT from.

Oh, and that URL is not the media. That URL is a JSON metadata file

What a champion. I was quite worried my laptop was dying.

I still have no idea what is going on with all this.

What’s interesting is that Beeple, the creator of the artwork, is actually a business partner of Metakovan’s. He owns 2% of all the B20 tokens. I’m sure there is no conflict of interest here