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mcalus3 commented on List of rivers by discharge   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/abudabi123
viciousvoxel · 2 years ago
In the USA we use football fields too, but they're US Standard (aka American) football fields (120 yards).
mcalus3 · 2 years ago
It was sarcasm, no one uses anything like that outside of the US. Using football fields as a measure of distance is as "stupid american" meme around the world.
mcalus3 commented on World Building with GPT   ianbicking.org/blog/2023/... · Posted by u/JohnHammersley
isaacfrond · 3 years ago
mcalus3 · 3 years ago
Ah, yes, the ultimate world-building expierience:

> Neighborhoods are called "neighborhood"

mcalus3 commented on The Last Mustard Maker in Dijon   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
pjmlp · 3 years ago
Just like it is in many parts of the world today.

What I mean is that you don't have to eat nice steaks and a full fish every day, sometimes twice a day.

mcalus3 · 3 years ago
> Just like it is in many parts of the world today.

It's not true, despite population increase number of people dying of starvation goes down https://sites.tufts.edu/wpf/famine/ the reason of starvation in modern times is political, not production shortage.

mcalus3 commented on The disappearance of the hit-driven business model   dearproducer.com/the-disa... · Posted by u/Flatcircle
chx · 3 years ago
Based on box office numbers, where 2022 should've been the year of recovery, perhaps even surpassing pre-pandemic number as people surged back to the cinema... none of that happened. The numbers are down drastically, box office is 60% of the pre-pandemic times. This year doesn't look particularly promising either. One Avatar a recovery doesn't make.

The blockbuster movie and the multiplex cinema created a self strengthening cycle but it's over. I think we will see entire chains going under and with them, the blockbuster will die too.

It is indeed the time of the home theater. A family of four wants to go to the cinema, that's at least $100 if not $200 outright. Or they can watch Disney+. This is a no brainer.

mcalus3 · 3 years ago
In Poland cinema ticket costs ~5$. Is it really 10 times more expensive in USA? Why?
mcalus3 commented on Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (2021) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=J0yFd... · Posted by u/zackoverflow
mcalus3 · 3 years ago
Trivia related to the hyperbolic geometry - There was a game released recently that have a world set in hyperbolic space. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1256230/Hyperbolica/

If someone wants to 'grasp' what hyperbolic space is about, this game is one of the fun and inspiring ways to do that.

mcalus3 commented on DALL·E Mini   huggingface.co/spaces/dal... · Posted by u/gregsadetsky
mcalus3 · 3 years ago
"Dog pole dancing" https://imgur.com/a/xht8aPi
mcalus3 commented on Programming with Categories   brendanfong.com/programmi... · Posted by u/kercker
mcalus3 · 5 years ago
"We will assume no background knowledge on behalf of the student, starting from scratch on both the programming and mathematics."

This is a fantastic "side effect" of the fact that category theory isn't built on any other mathematical knowledge. You don't even need even any arithmetics for that.

mcalus3 commented on Don't Terminate People's Internet Connections   labs.ripe.net/Members/job... · Posted by u/venti
z3t4 · 5 years ago
In this time and age I think an internet connection is a human right. There should be free internet access, although limited bandwidth, for those who cannot afford it.
mcalus3 · 5 years ago
In first world countries it is. In Poland since 2009: http://www.prepaid-wireless-internet-access.com/page/Poland+...
mcalus3 commented on Single div Sierpinski triangle   yuanchuan.dev/single-div-... · Posted by u/spirit23
mcalus3 · 6 years ago
I have made a funny Sierpinski carpet clicker recently, it's only 30 lines of code in react and unfortunately not one div, but it's still quite performant (safe to open, even on low-tier phones)

https://recursivebuttons.mcalus.dev/

i love all kinds of fractal generative art :)

u/mcalus3

KarmaCake day39February 9, 2020View Original