captainmuon

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by captainmuon 1y ago
As somebody who does some scraping / crawling for legitimate uses, I'm really unhappy with this development. I understand people have valid cases why they don't want their content scraped. Maybe they want to sell it - I can u
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by captainmuon 1y ago
I feel like most people only use Tor via the Tor browser or a socks proxy, and the developers in the ecosystem cater only to these users. But there are a bunch of other creative uses of Tor around. A couple of years ago, I used the TransPor
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by captainmuon 1y ago
It's funny that the list includes both California and the US. It would be interesting to compare economies of the same scale, regardless of legal status: If you are considering the US and China, maybe you should include the whole of th
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by captainmuon 1y ago
Except pixels are little squares. Sure, if you look under a microscope, they have funny shapes, but they are always laid out in a rectangular grid. I've never seen any system where the logical pixels are staggered like a hex grid, for
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by captainmuon 1y ago
I would go further, it should not be (just) forbidden, but taboo. Just like it is taboo to install a camera in a bathroom or to listen in to private conversations. If I have a thing, that thing should obey me. Be it a crowbar, a PC, a smart
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by captainmuon 1y ago
That's great if you are the kind of person wo is added into fun social group chats. But my group chats are mostly functional, like for hobbies, or parents groups for the kids' classes, and so on. There is one family group which se
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by captainmuon 2y ago
It's not about the Apache web server, and I know there are a lot of actively maintained and respected projects under the Apache label (Lucene, Tomcat, Maven, ...). I think the project that gave the most sour association was OpenOffice,
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Interesting, I have the opposite association. When I see Apache something, I assume development has ceased and the project is legacy or maintenance only. There is a saying, "Apache is where projects go to die".
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by captainmuon 2y ago
That's their justification . I never had security problems on Android, and I actually find Android to be more cohesive. Just a few things where iOS is uncohesive to me: You can customize the keyboard, but it will not work everywhere t
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I wonder how much of this is policy, and how much is actually a technical limitation. For example, could you build an app that would not pass app store review, that would be able to send SMS or manipulate notifications? If so you could just
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by captainmuon 2y ago
The cosmic distance ladder is fascinating. At university, we had an astrophysics professor who said his secret worry is that something was broken about the ladder. If you have a wrong assumption close to the bottom, then the error would com
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I believe LLMs are entirely analogous to the speech areas of the brain. They have a certain capacity of speaking automatically, reflexively, without involving (other) memory for example. That is how you are able to deliver quippy answers, t
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I guess it is a good thing that they are now clear about the state of create-react-app. I used it about a year ago because it was still recommended on the React page, and got a lot of deprecation warings. After a lot of googling I realized
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by captainmuon 2y ago
The downside of defining things like pointer provenance in the IL is that it ties the semantics of your IL to C. If you are writing another language and want to have very different symantics - say a flat memory model where pointers are in
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by captainmuon 2y ago
This is about an explicit argument of type "Context". I'm not a Go user, and at first I thought it was about something else: an implicit context variable that allows you to pass stuff deep down the call stack, without interme
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Context: Jack Dorsey is giving a talk and Drew DeVault is organizing a protest against that https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/20/2025-01-20-FOSDEM-protest...
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by captainmuon 2y ago
As a user, I'm mostly fine with making an account with Google or Meta and using that as my identity root. I know there are a lot of problems with that, for example you can lose your account, but you have all the same problems with a di
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Check if the response time, the length of the "main text", or other indicators are in the lowest few percentile -> send to the heap for manual review. Does the inferred "topic" of the domain match the topic of the ind
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by captainmuon 2y ago
The argument that I heard a that sucrose does not readily disassociate, but has to be broke down by sucrase. Sucrose absorbtion is limited by the sucrase availability in the gut. In contrast corn syrup ist quasi pre digested, the body canno
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Windows has a way of opting out of legacy behavior since Windows XP - manifest files. If you don't include a manifest, even GetWindowsVersion will not return the current version IIRC. It should be not too hard to add an opt-out in ther
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Really interesting, I have been confused about the einsum function before. As a former physicist, I would also like to see the actual tensor notation for the examples. So instead of ij,jk something like $A_i^j B_j^k$ (imagine the math here
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by captainmuon 2y ago
If you are not FAANG or some other large company, the question is not if somebody is "good". It is if they are "good enough". I feel there is often a bimodal distribution of applicants. Those who can do the job and those
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by captainmuon 2y ago
It's totally fine if somebody just wants the money. We are all in it for the money to some degree or another. No need to fake enthusiasm. Actually, many applicants I see want to work part time (e.g. 2/3) and just want something to
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by captainmuon 2y ago
When I see posts like this, I think either I'm doing something wrong or they're doing something wrong. I never wrote hundreds of applications. When I'm looking for a job, I investigate a couple of companies where I'd lik
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Yes, I absolutely read cover letters. But I work in Germany which has different customs around applications, so maybe that's the reason. We get a lot of low effort applications so I look for something why the candidate wants to work at
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by captainmuon 2y ago
Just saw a video of a prince rupert's drop breaking a hydraulic press and wondered the same.
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I feel strongly they should split undefined behavior in behavior that is not defined, and things that the compiler is allowed to assume. The former basically already exists as "implementation defined behavior". The latter should b
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by captainmuon 2y ago
It's crazy, people used to be excited when a new version of Windows came out. New features, prettier UI. People used to pay a lot of money for a new mayor OS version. I probably haven't payed more than 5 € for Windows in the last
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by captainmuon 2y ago
For many queries, it seems the top result is just Stackoverflow, Wikipedia or something simliar, then a couple of organic links, and then just junk. And on the second or third page, the results just stop. I have a feeling that at this point
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by captainmuon 2y ago
I wonder why it is called `from_chars` and not `to_number` or similar. It's obvious what you are converting from, because you have to write down the argument `from_chars(someString)`, but you don't see what is coming out.

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