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  • stibium1 month ago | link | | on Persepolis Reimagined in WebGL | source

    Truly magnificent.

  • epilys1 month, 3 weeks ago | link | | on BQN: finally, an APL for your flying saucer | source

    Impressive. I like this collection of snippets: https://mlochbaum.github.io/bqncrate/ (/u/eris might like it)

  • vladimyr3 months ago | link | | on Services in OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP | source

    I like that definition! It is very much relevant and still going strong: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/extensions/services/

  • epilys3 months ago | link | | on Services in OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP | source

    What an interesting concept. It's sort of like an application IPC for GUIs- marvelous! I can see it being relevant in a today's integrated desktop environment.

  • vladimyr3 months ago | link | | on The web of names, hashes and UUIDs | source

    To be honest I didn't even notice it but anyway it has been published using GitHub pages so source is also available here and also in its raw form.

  • epilys3 months ago | link | | on The web of names, hashes and UUIDs | source

    Needs js to display static content... Thankfully the plain text cache works

    Interesting link!

  • vladimyr3 months ago | link | | on The problems with hard wrapping email body text | source

    Personally, I'm in a format=flowed camp, and the inability to author such emails through Gmail's web interface, as is the case with many others, is really unfortunate.

    An even better idea is a combination of markdown and format=flowed like MailMate does: https://blog.freron.com/2011/thoughts-on-writing-emails-using-markdown/

  • epilys3 months ago | link | | on The problems with hard wrapping email body text | source

    Having authored an email client, I have to agree with the article's points; Use either:

    • format flowed, or
    • one line per paragraph
  • epilys3 months, 1 week ago | link | | on `export default thing` is different to `export { thing as default }` | source

    Gotcha's all the way down! Thanks for posting!

  • vladimyr3 months, 3 weeks ago | link | | on peg-bootstrap/peg.md at master · kragen/peg-bootstrap | source

    Found it also under their personal space at canonical.org server: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/peg-bootstrap/

  • river3 months, 3 weeks ago | link | | on Hard code golf: Regex for divisibility by 7 | source

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/13223927

  • epilys4 months ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    Yeah, I wonder what choices their made for their kernel, userspace, etc. Really interested to see how they solved the various challenges and problems that rise up in osdev.

  • river4 months ago | link | | on 29-year-old Conway conjecture settled | source

    https://conwaylife.com/book/

  • cfenollosa4 months ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    It's a completely new operating system, written from scratch!

  • epilys4 months ago | link | | on Essence: Desktop operating system built from scratch | source

    I'm interested in the technical details; what makes this different except for the UI theme? Really excited to see it!

  • cfenollosa4 months, 1 week ago | link | | on Collection of weird, funny scientific papers by Carlos Fenollosa | source

    Thanks for sharing, glad you liked it!

  • epilys4 months, 1 week ago | link | | on Collection of weird, funny scientific papers by Carlos Fenollosa | source

    /u/cfenollosa thanks for this list, it was very fun!

  • epilys4 months, 1 week ago | link | | on The Ariane 5 rocket conserved enough fuel to potentially double the Webb telescope’s service life | source

    I wonder if that robot refuel mission happens in 20 years and becomes the next "Webb telescope delayed again" topic in astronomy :D

  • hoistbypetard4 months, 1 week ago | link | | on HTML/CSS Dog | source

    This is awesome. But damn, it makes firefox consume a lot of CPU and RAM, and makes my fan get loud.

  • river4 months, 1 week ago | link | | on Mental Rotation Tasks [aphantasia.com] | source

    https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2700106

    Our ability to form visual images within our mind is known as visual mental imagery and enables us to draw on internal representations in the absence of external stimuli. Aphantasia, a recent condition to gain attention within the field of visual neuroscience, describes the experience of individuals who lack voluntary visual mental imagery. The majority of research in this area has stemmed from subjective reports of visual imagery, through questionnaires such as the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire (VVIQ). More recently, a few studies have investigated impairments in cognitive function; however, these studies are limited in terms of the low sample size of aphantasic individuals used within the studies. As yet, no study has explored mental rotation (MR) performance in congenital aphantasics. Using the classic Shepard and Metzler MR paradigm, here we examine MR performance in 20 individuals with congenital aphantasia, as well as measuring self-reported visual object and spatial imagery through questionnaires (VVIQ, Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale and Object-Spatial Imagery Questionnaire). We find that aphantasic participants self-report higher scores for visual spatial imagery compared to object imagery scores, which were below average of the object imagery scores reported by controls. Furthermore, in the MR test, aphantasic individuals took longer to rotate the stimuli compared to controls, and this time increased in line with the increased level of difficulty of rotation. Despite aphantasics taking longer to mentally rotate stimuli compared to controls, aphantasic participants were more accurate then control participants across all levels of difficulty. Our results indicate that aphantasics use a different strategy when performing the MR task, leading to slower reaction times but higher accuracy.

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