akkartik

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by akkartik 5mo ago
If you want to support cat pictures that show up without clicking a link, but prevent any behavioral exhaust from tracking pixels, that seems to be an open problem. Every new feature is like this: a risk surface until proven otherwise. So t
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by akkartik 5mo ago
Wrt finger I want to point out https://plan.cat as a nice service in this spirit.
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by akkartik 5mo ago
You'd have to prove these things are possible in the face of the ingenuity of the entire adtech industry. The limitations you point out, on the other hand, have easy solutions: * auth: Look at https://github.com/kr1sp1n
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by akkartik 5mo ago
That is an absolutely fascinating worldview. I don't know what country you're from and what pain and suffering you've been through that was caused by the US govt., but you've managed to get me to stop caring. Sparkling i
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by akkartik 5mo ago
Oh I agree so much.
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by akkartik 5mo ago
Does it occur to you that we too are deeply affected? Stop piously telling a whole country of people how to live their lives.
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by akkartik 5mo ago
That's a reasonable opinion for one to have, but it can coexist with humane timeframes for changing laws over time. Not grandfathering people already here for a change in policy of this magnitude -- this is inhumane.
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by akkartik 5mo ago
As a naturalized American citizen, I hope the world extends Americans who leave the same hospitality the US extended for decades before the last year.
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by akkartik 5mo ago
I had a slightly different reaction, though I'm only going by what I read in this thread. It wasn't to replace art with technology for everyone, but to scratch a personal itch. He liked the artist-made typography just fine, but i
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The AI people have been right a lot(dylanmatthews.substack.com)
2 points by akkartik 5mo ago|0 comments
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by akkartik 5mo ago
You mean the Endymion books, or Fall of Hyperion? I'm rereading the latter right now..
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by akkartik 5mo ago
Your first comment was good but here you're not responding to GP.
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What it would have been like to experience the dinosaur-killing asteroid(theconversation.com)
3 points by akkartik 5mo ago|0 comments
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by akkartik 5mo ago
"Did you watch The Matrix on cinema, without knowing anything about the movie?" Yeah, that's what I mean. I went in not knowing anything, never having seen any trailers. And halfway through I went, "oh this is They Liv
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by akkartik 5mo ago
What, people here still use it?
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by akkartik 5mo ago
I never found the Matrix very impressive, because I'd been inoculated by this movie.
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All means are fair except solving the problem(yosefk.com)
83 points by akkartik 6mo ago|56 comments
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The soul of maintaining a new machine(books.worksinprogress.co)
97 points by akkartik 6mo ago|8 comments
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by akkartik 6mo ago
This article has been deeply influential for me: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-... I used to imagine for someone in construction a wall must be some really simple thing. But it's
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by akkartik 6mo ago
When I was building my computing stack out of x86 machine code I noticed that even if my high level language only had signed numbers (I'm still pretty brainwashed by C, which leads to the conclusions of OP), I still needed the ISA&#x27
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by akkartik 6mo ago
I really appreciate your comments in this thread adrian_b. Could you point me at a brief summary of how Ada (or Pascal?) non-negative ints work? What is a compile error, what is a guaranteed run-time error, etc.
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by akkartik 6mo ago
Maybe it's telling you it's a hard problem?
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Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service(probablydance.com)
5 points by akkartik 6mo ago|2 comments
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by akkartik 6mo ago
Oh my knowledge is woefully out of date. But I believe the memory wall is a fact of life for the most part. Like many others, I nibbled around the edges of the constraint at massive cost in increased complexity. Outside of very specific exc
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by akkartik 6mo ago
My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP
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by akkartik 6mo ago
> "I'll just read a file, swap out some variables, and write some HTML." – Famous last words I'm actually living the dream. The key: directly author html. I.e. the above file contains html. https://git.sr.h
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A Simple Guide to Porting Your Basic(permacomputer.solarpunk.au)
3 points by akkartik 6mo ago|0 comments
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by akkartik 6mo ago
I thought this too for a long time. But I have since raised my estimate of the harms of DRM, and lowered my estimate of how much entertainment these artifacts provide. There is enough to read now without putting up with abusive relationship
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by akkartik 6mo ago
I haven't purchased a DRM'd ebook in 8 years.
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Artist Alexis Rockman Traces the Unsettling Evolution of a Climate in Crisis(thisiscolossal.com)
4 points by akkartik 7mo ago|0 comments

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