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evmar commented on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial   bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
embedding-shape · 4 days ago
It's actually a fun demo, that shows a fairly common difference between Europeans and Americans. The demo is mostly about comparing GDP, while HDI or something else more "human" is left as an exercise to the reader. If someone was doubting Americans only care about money, now you have some more evidence :)
evmar · 2 days ago
This comment feels in bad faith. There are ~340 million Americans and you draw evidence about all of them from this one thing? It's not even an insight into its single American author. It was a quick weekend hack.

The purpose of the thing is to try to put things into perspective, like "Portugal is about the size of Indiana", or "California's economy is about the size of Germany". It compares three numbers, two of which are not money!

evmar commented on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial   bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
nine_k · 4 days ago
A really nifty tool, thank you!

BTW the population figure for Czechia is NaN, for some reason,

evmar · 2 days ago
I took this morning to gather the data again and sanity check it further, so please try again!

(I guess Wikipedia and the UN call it "the Czech Republic" so my update also renamed it...)

evmar commented on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial   bbc.com/news/articles/cp8... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
nradov · 4 days ago
They didn't run out of money just because they fought two wars. For some bizarre reason the UK has simply chosen to be (relatively) poor instead of embracing a growth policy. Despite all their potential advantages their GDP per capita is about equal to the poorest US state.
evmar · 4 days ago
Since it's so germane, I'll share my little widget that compares EU countries to US states on various metrics: https://evmar.github.io/states/
evmar commented on My Favorite Math Problem   bytesauna.com/post/my-fav... · Posted by u/mapehe
evmar · a month ago
From the title, I first imagined what my favorite math problem was, then clicked on the article -- and they had the same one!

For me, the reason this problem is cool is that it exemplifies mathematical thinking: superficially the problem is about placing individual dominos but the solution is about seeing the underlying structural properties. Similar to Euler realizing the bridges in Königsberg were a graph.

evmar commented on Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It's Hiring High-School Grads   wsj.com/business/palantir... · Posted by u/adwmayer
evmar · 2 months ago
My first job was a dotcom startup who heard via social connections I was a bright high school student who could program. I think I was paid $15/hr to write Windows GUI code. In retrospect I think they were just happy for the cheap labor and I didn’t know any better. There was no mentorship or any other useful growth to make up for the low pay.
evmar commented on Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28   developer.apple.com/docum... · Posted by u/summarity
anthonyskipper · 2 months ago
This is awful. I love playing games on my MBP and the latest crossover releases have been amazing in the ability to play almost all windows PC games at full speed. Losing rosetta means crossover is dead.

You would hope that apple would open source it, but they are one of the worst companies in the world for open sourcing things. Shame on all their engineers.

evmar · 2 months ago
From the OP: "Beyond [the two-year] timeframe, we will keep a subset of Rosetta functionality aimed at supporting older unmaintained gaming titles, that rely on Intel-based frameworks."
evmar commented on WASM 3.0 Completed   webassembly.org/news/2025... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
jsheard · 3 months ago
The comedy option would be to use the new multi-memory feature to juggle a bunch of 32bit memories instead of a 64bit one, at the cost of your sanity.
evmar · 3 months ago
It looks like memories have to be declared up front, and the memcpy instruction takes the memories to copy between as numeric literals. So I guess you can't use it to allocate dynamic buffers. But maybe you could decide memory 0 = heap and memory 1 = pixel data or something like that?
evmar commented on Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface   patternproject.substack.c... · Posted by u/cainxinth
_fat_santa · 5 months ago
We need to push to make this stuff legal. I wouldn't go so far as to say lets sell it OTC vape pens at gas stations but a middle ground where you can go to a doctor to have this treatment performed.

I personally have never taken DMT though from everything I've read and heard on podcasts it's not something to be taken lightly. I think having a sort of "DMT Clinic" that you can go to would be the best middle ground of allowing the public access to these substances while also ensuring that there is a trained professional there to guide you through the process.

Saying "trained professional" in this context feels wired because this stuff has been underground for so long but I think it's starting to bubble up into the mainstream enough that we need to start bringing all that "into the light". Lets have training programs that teach people how to administer this stuff properly, how to deal with the negative side effects, etc.

One of the things that while I find understandable is ridiculous is the fact that Bill had to use a pseudonym in the community. I feel like if were at the point where you have C-suite types at Apple taking this stuff, it's time to think about making it available to the broader public.

evmar · 5 months ago
The state of Oregon is experimenting along these lines:

https://www.oregon.gov/oha/ph/preventionwellness/pages/psilo...

"A client may only access psilocybin at a licensed service center during an administration session in the presence of a trained, licensed facilitator."

evmar commented on Dear High Schoolers, Time Is Precious   byronsharman.com/blog/dea... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott
sandspar · 6 months ago
The author dispensing wisdom to high schoolers is himself 20 years old.
evmar · 6 months ago
For this advice, that is the best place to share it from. They're saying even by age 20 it's already the case that the effort was wasted.
evmar commented on (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling   go.dev/blog/error-syntax... · Posted by u/henrikhorluck
evmar · 7 months ago
Most discussions of language features immediately fall into the politician's syllogism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism

I appreciate the Go language's general sense of conservatism towards change. Even if you're not a fan of it, I think it's admirable that there is a project staking out a unique spot in the churn-vs-stability design space. There are plenty of other projects that churn as fast as they can, which also has its pros and cons, and it's great to be able to see the relative outcomes.

PS: it's kind of hilarious how the blog post is like "there are hundreds of proposals and miles of detailed analysis of these", vs the commenters here who are like "I thought about this for five minutes and I now have an idea that solve everything, let me tell you about it".

u/evmar

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