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kwstas commented on Notebooks Are McDonalds of Code   yobibyte.github.io/notebo... · Posted by u/sebg
lucw · 2 years ago
The article should start with more context, what is a notebook ? I know what it is, but the author is particularly bad at introducing his article.
kwstas · 2 years ago
Agreed, even something like "coding" notebooks if brandname usage is a concern would help. It took more time than I'd like to admit to understand that they weren't talking about physical notebooks...
kwstas commented on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive   blog.archive.org/2024/06/... · Posted by u/passing
adolph · 2 years ago
That might have been the 161st image taken by an old Sony camera.

Cyber-shot model names use a DSC prefix, which is an initialism for "Digital Still Camera".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-shot

kwstas · 2 years ago
The filename for sure comes from the camera. My point was that the crawler stopped there and did not pick up the other images on the page because all of them have a higher number in the name and it stopped at an artificial number of sub urls
kwstas commented on In highly connected networks, there's always a loop   quantamagazine.org/in-hig... · Posted by u/headalgorithm
kwstas · 2 years ago
Here is the paper in arxiv the article is refering to for anyone else interested https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06603

Though maybe just the proof outline section is enough for a Saturday.

kwstas commented on The Backrooms of the Internet Archive   blog.archive.org/2024/06/... · Posted by u/passing
TZubiri · 2 years ago
I thought the same thing. If you look at the crawled page, it's only one of like 20 images that survived.

So either the crawl got lucky and saved the only relevant image, or there is survivor bias.

Then again, the actual crawl might be triggered precisely because the image was linked.

kwstas · 2 years ago
What do you mean there is survivorship bias? That the only image used is the one that survived? Or it survived because it was used?

Something I noticed was that all other jpgs in this site have a lager number in the filename, for example: www.hobbytownoshkosh.com/Dsc00348.jpg

So maybe the crawler that saved this webpage had a limit on how many suburls it would capture and it sorted by name and then stopped at around Dsc00161.jpg, which is the name of the image in question. Though there is a Dsc00164 that is lost so it seems kind of unlikely...

kwstas commented on On keeping sketchbooks   attainablefelicity.mattki... · Posted by u/matt_kirkland
codazoda · 2 years ago
The book Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher helped me get through notebooks. I could only ever get a few pages in one before switching interests.

This is the book: https://amzn.to/3OQxX4J

I started with these, and got through them easily: https://amzn.to/3YJwBx7

Now I use notebooks like this: https://amzn.to/47VJeJI

kwstas · 2 years ago
Hey, thanks! I will add this to my list of book to read seems interesting.
kwstas commented on On keeping sketchbooks   attainablefelicity.mattki... · Posted by u/matt_kirkland
MrJohz · 2 years ago
I bought a Supernote recently as a note-taking device, and that's worked out really well. It's almost like pen on paper to write on, but I can open new documents freely to make notes in, then consolidate them later because they're all already in one place. The stuff that's just working out or temporary diagrams I can delete later, and the rest I can archive.

On the other hand, I have gone from having a clutter of paper on my desk to having a clutter of notes on my Supernote, so maybe I've just moved the clutter from one place to another. But at least it's now less visible!

kwstas · 2 years ago
Digital notes are not for me, they seem to put up a mental barrier and have tradeoffs that I am not thrilled about. The epaper/e-ink ones have the best battery life, best feeling when writing but the delay when the display changes just halts my thinkin. When changing documents to reference especially. Also the process of changing implements (e.g. from pen to highlighter) in tablets in general just annoys me.

They are awesome for pdf annotation though, If they ever get to be a bit more affordable I would enjoy having one of these just for that purpose (maybe even in color! probably in about 10 yrs).

kwstas commented on On keeping sketchbooks   attainablefelicity.mattki... · Posted by u/matt_kirkland
kwstas · 2 years ago
Posts like these make me wish I could be consistant and keep a single notebook until its done and then move to the next. I always end up starting a project or scibbling down a thought on random scraps of paper. I try to organize and consolidate but really there is not much point after the fact since, if the note is made, transfering it is just busywork.

I leaned into it last couple of years, I have a 2 corkboards (a bit larger than A4 sized) on the back wall of my desk and I actually mounted a stationary clamp under one to have blank papers (A6) handy. It works pretty well until I fill them and move on to another notebook scrap paper etc.

I wish I could stick to a notebook and have everything from each time period but I have too hectic thought process I think. Maybe I could somehow combine them...

kwstas commented on When I have a slower publishing cadence my blog grows faster   henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/effo... · Posted by u/savagejohn
kwstas · 2 years ago
I already wrote and deleted 3 opening lines to this comment so I think I get where the conclusion is coming from. Maybe it has to do a bit with how much of the piece of writing is finalized or I guess put in order in your head before starting writing it.

I tend to have an abstract, unfinished thought on a subject and just start working it out while typing. Maybe I'm thinking linearly I dont know. But at some point I may hit a roadblock or change my mind and then go back and rewrite most of the previous material. It's why I rarely comment, it takes me a while. So if this time is included in the writing, when it really is idea formulation and research then the time required to get to 300 words skyrockets.

In the context of a blog, especially if you aim for a certain style,flow etc I guess this is even more prominent. The more time you spent writing for the specific goal the better (an faster) you will get at it I suppose, but still I think some people just have a way of thinking that more robustly tranlates to text. In the sense that you can link sentences like you link thoughts and get to a conclusion rather via a well articulated piece rather than what I (and possibly the op) get which is a mess of sentences referencing different points in the cognitive process that may just get to a dead end.

kwstas commented on uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox   addons.mozilla.org/en-US/... · Posted by u/tech234a
kwstas · 2 years ago
Cool to have this available in FF too. Other than less permissions I can also compare the behaviour directly with chrome now.
kwstas commented on Tesla owners say they've been trapped inside their EVs after they lost power   businessinsider.com/how-t... · Posted by u/doener
Nafnlaus · 2 years ago
"Truly an inspired design if that is the case" - it's not the case.

"Rear doors either do not have an emergency release" - you mean like every coupé ever built? Since when were you protesting coupés? Rear doors not only do not have to have manual releases, but don't even have to exist.

"lack and/or ambiguity of signifiers" - the front manual release handle is not only not ambiguous, but is far more prominent than the electric release button, so most people with no experience with the car pull it instead of the button.

It's also, in all this, noting that modern cars have crash sequences. A crash is detected either (ideally) immediately before, or during its occurrence. A wide range of events are triggered, such as brakes, airbags, etc... and among the things triggered is *unlatching all the doors for easy egress* (the specific details depends on the door design - you want the door easy to open but not to pop out during the crash itself). Now, things can go wrong - the prime characteristic of a crash is that it mangles your car, and this can jam doors shut or cause other problems. This is why the Jaws of Life exists. But prepping the doors for egress is something that cars at least try to do during a crash.

kwstas · 2 years ago
> "Truly an inspired design if that is the case" - it's not the case.

I only read the article and some commenters here saying the windows break. The commenter above provides a reason for it that you say is not true. I stand by my comment, that if it is the case the design is "inspired"

>"Rear doors either do not have an emergency release" - you mean like every coupé ever built? Since when were you protesting coupés? Rear doors not only do not have to have manual releases, but don't even have to exist.

Don't most (all ?) of these cars have rear doors? What do coupés have to do with this? Convertibles don't have a roof but I would expect it in a sedan. If the doors exist there sould be a release that works in the case of this electrcal malfunction.

>"lack and/or ambiguity of signifiers" - the front manual release handle is not only not ambiguous, but is far more prominent than the electric release button, so most people with no experience with the car pull it instead of the button.

I expect this is the case for one model? The article has 2 cases of people that own these cars (a model y I think) and could not find the manual release without reading the manual or calling someone. Moreover the confusion you are describing (using the emergency rather than the regular release button) is exactly what ambiguous signifiers result in. This is a design failure as well.

I agree that unlatching the doors in a crash is a part of the crash sequence in many modern cars but these cases are not about crashes. Sudden power loss or an electrical malfunction should trigger the unlatching of doors and they seem to not. Jaws of life would not be a prudent way to get out of your car in these occasions.

u/kwstas

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