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Comment · 12 days ago
Well, I suppose it's pronounced [buba], right? It's not pronounced [bauba]? So why is it spelled 'bouba'? To distinguish from 'boob' (other comments here implied so)?
Comment · 17 days ago
Is there a PDF specimen? I disable font substitution in my browser, but I do want to have a peek. But not a peek that requires reconfiguring my browser.
Comment · 1 month ago
Nice! But is there an app with this algorithm/strategy/design for finding good matches for casually having fun together? All the apps I know suck.
Comment · 1 month ago
> non alcoholic beers taste terrible

Fortunately, this is not universally true anymore.

There are now beers brewed with extremely low-alc yeasts (which have a trait that makes them unable to digest maltose) that make <0,5% alc beers with good flavours. This combined with sour malts and good hops can give you great flavours. These low-alc yeasts remove the need to maltreat the beer for removing the alc. And it is often OK to have 0,5% alc -- maybe not during pregnancy, but to avoid the annoying 5% alc. It's most probably not the industry cheap shit though.

There's also the possibility to just stop the fermentation with normal yeasts at any point, e.g., at 1% alc. I've had a couple of very good beers like this, too.

Comment · 1 month ago
And take all the fun out of it??
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, sure. But what was the incentive? The goal? The reason to start the project (and not another one)? What was interesting enough to start this?
Comment · 1 month ago
It would be nice if the first paragraph gave a motivation for this. Why did you start this?

I mean, I can derive from the text that this can encode arbitrarily large integers. So what? What's the point? I also understand that this is for fun.

Comment · 1 month ago
As are FE, FD, FC, FB, FA, F9, F8, F7, F6 and F5.
Comment · 1 month ago
Written in the best programming language ever!
Comment · 1 month ago
Is this as good as Laya 3? Unfortunately, it's production was moved from Bremen, Germany, to China, and it is not good anymore, in my opinion.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yoti? Is there anything useful to read about the security and privacy architecture?
Comment · 2 months ago
Yeah, this is actually one of the best uses for AI, I think. Boring decisions that you have to take, but without all necessary knowledge, based on history that can be learned and summarised. And it's all a lot of luck, and nothing is 100% a good or a bad decision. Algorithms won't help. It makes total sense to me to make it openly heuristic and based on propabilities and therefore use AI.

Just like in Iain Banks's scifi (although those AIs are actually intelligent -- I don't think you need that for a CEO).

Comment · 2 months ago
They are shutting it down. Same agenda as with the ban on side-loading.
Comment · 2 months ago
Well, \tau vs \pi is a question of taste, but 1 vs. \tau (or \pi) is not. Because you don't get rid of these weird constants, because \pi (or \tau) is, as a fact, in the circumference and area of circles and in surface and volume of spheres, and in other places. There jus is a weird constant.

And for APIs, you could reasonably well have turns or radians or degrees or even percentage of turns, whatever -- it depend on the context what is 'better'. What's really missing, I think, is the support of units in programming languages (in the type system) so that you cannot mess up when invoking sin()/cos(), because you would be forced to provide a unit.

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