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tingle commented on The rise of judgement over technical skill   notsocommonthoughts.com/b... · Posted by u/kohlhofer
tingle · 3 months ago
Chap. CCCLXIV. — On the Judgment of Painters.

When the work is equal to the knowledge and judgment of the painter, it is a bad sign; and when it surpasses the judgment, it is still worse, as is the case with those who wonder at having succeeded so well. But when the judgment surpasses the work, it is a perfectly good sign ; and the young painter who possesses that rare disposition, will, no doubt, arrive at great perfection. He will produce few works, but they will be such as to fix the admiration of every beholder.

Leonardo da Vinci, "A Treatise on Painting.", p. 225

https://archive.org/details/davincionpainting00leon/page/224...

tingle commented on Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024   elitefourum.com/t/many-of... · Posted by u/grep_it
chinathrow · 7 months ago
> they have to

Is this a federal (US) mandate or a law in any other country?

tingle · 7 months ago
The legislations for the 35 member countries of the CBCDG can be viewed here:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/about-cbcdg

e.g. for the US dollar:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/currencies/us-dollar

Information on the CDS developed by the CBCDG is sparse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_Counterfeit_Deter...

tingle commented on Complete hardware and software setup for running Deepseek-R1 locally   twitter.com/carrigmat/sta... · Posted by u/olalonde
tantalor · 7 months ago
Off topic, but I'd be fine with not seeing direct links to Twitter on here anymore. It's not very useful or user friendly. Similar to Pinterest, Instagram, or TikTok.

Screenshots or mirrors (without the login requirement) are okay.

tingle · 7 months ago
Replacing 'twitter' in the URL by 'xcancel' can be helpful:

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

tingle commented on Ancient Carthaginians did sacrifice their children (2014)   ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-23-... · Posted by u/areoform
oofnik · 2 years ago
Child sacrifice hooks into some very deep and dark aspects of human psychology that we have yet to unpack. There is a reason that this practice crops up in various civilizations seemingly independently, and it is not a pretty one - at least not by contemporary moral sensibilities.

It is impossible to understand the biblical narrative of the binding of Isaac, for example, without addressing the context in which such a narrative was popularized and eventually codified into a sacred text.

tingle · 2 years ago
Patrick Tierney's "The Highest Altar" [1] develops a very similar thesis, with first-hand experience by the author.

Wikipedia provides some material on child sacrifice by the Incas in e.g. [2] and [3].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-10-08-bk-201-st... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plomo_Mummy [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Llullaillaco

tingle commented on Robots run the show as Swiss radio tests AI voices for a day   apnews.com/article/switze... · Posted by u/tingle
tingle · 2 years ago
Additional info on the station's web site, only in French, unfortunately: https://www.rts.ch/info/sciences-tech/medias/13976194-les-in...
tingle commented on Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?    · Posted by u/Aromasin
tingle · 3 years ago
Non-western publications of possible interest:

https://asiatimes.com/ in english, mostly free

https://www.jeuneafrique.com/ in french, subscription

tingle commented on After Delhi High Court ruling, Telegram discloses personal details of users   livelaw.in/news-updates/a... · Posted by u/ashleshbiradar
baxtr · 3 years ago
Which ones don't ask for a phone number?
tingle · 3 years ago
Threema doesn't require a phone number.
tingle commented on UK government ban for Chinese Hikvision CCTV cameras   techmonitor.ai/government... · Posted by u/TT482
tingle · 3 years ago
The behavior of the United Kingdom looks incoherent: it wants to become a surveillance state [1], but without using cameras manufactured in China, on the grounds that China is a surveillance state.

[1] <https://www.cctv.co.uk/how-many-cctv-cameras-are-there-in-th...>

tingle commented on Protonmail Recommended Browsers   proton.me/support/recomme... · Posted by u/_solr
ridgered4 · 3 years ago
I was until recently using protonmail for throwaway email addresses for various web forums as it allowed a captcha verification during creation. Every other one I'd tried demands SMS verification these days, which is right out. But proton mail recently changed and requires SMS or another email now, I believe they say it is to combat bots.

I tried tutanota but it refuses to create an account at all over a VPN, or at least the VPNs I've used. At least it told me the reason it was a no go here instead of silently failing.

Anyone have any recommendations in this space?

tingle · 3 years ago
Were you using Tor Browser ? From Switzerland, I can create free Proton accounts by solving a captcha, if I'm using Safari or Firefox. But if I use Tor on the same computer, the only option is to enter a phone number.

u/tingle

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