defanor

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by defanor 1y ago
What is "nope" about? I understand "people in Government are subject to the same laws as any other citizen" to mean the same as "written laws that apply to everyone equally". The sort of thing Aristotle and Loc
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by defanor 1y ago
Good for Germany and the EU, but how (or why) is the rule of law supposed to make it a taboo? Is it thrown in just to sound nicer, or did they skip a few steps in the reasoning? I heard "rule of law" being used to justify roughly
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by defanor 1y ago
While I did lose access to a hosted email and other services, and only permanently lost access to a free domain name so far, also was close to losing access to regular paid domains on multiple occasions (once because of the used registrar,
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by defanor 1y ago
I have gradually reduced CSS to zero myself, since pretty much every tweak seems to mess up accessibility more than improve things, and generally it is the client that should control the style, and the user who should configure it for thems
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by defanor 1y ago
> I assume the server is going to be run under xmpp.example.com and you all the following domains have been set up. > [multiple A records] "A" DNS records may be used for a fallback, but SRV records are the primary way to co
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by defanor 1y ago
Given that we tend to pretend that our computers are Turing machines with infinite memory, while in fact they are finite-state ones, corresponding to regular expressions, and the "proper" parsers are parts of those, I am now curio
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by defanor 1y ago
FWIW, some of the things I configure differently: - More of anti-UCE, with postscreen (greylisting, DNSBL and DNSWL checks), policyd-spf, body_checks, check_sender_access, check_client_access, postscreen_access_list. - Setting "home_ma
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by defanor 1y ago
I missed an incoming message (fortunately an unimportant one) from Amazon SES recently, since its 54.240.27.30 address was listed by bl.spamcop.net: Amazon kept trying different addresses while running into greylisting, until it tried that
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by defanor 1y ago
Indeed, I guess in a while it is going to look pretty much like the older formats relying on obscure bytecode look now. Possibly the kind of data analytics it aims has some special requirements, but I would expect a simple format like CSV (
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by defanor 1y ago
It is indeed considerably more verbose, especially the "context" version (the one focusing on semantics, rather than presentation), and I did not write much of it myself, but I can imagine it being fine. It should not be a bottlen
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by defanor 1y ago
Among alternative typesetting systems, there is also SILE, which supports two syntaxes (XML-based and TeX-style), supports scripting in lua, comes with freely available sort-of-specification (unlike (La)TeX or Typst, unless one counts progr
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by defanor 1y ago
I get those "math processing errors" in Firefox, after some time. Some of the error messages, which appear right before those: GET https://www.quantamagazine.org/wp-content/themes/quanta2024/front
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by defanor 1y ago
It is quite similar on the Web still: web browsers (at least Firefox) allow to set user CSS or change default colors, but some websites (the percentage would vary defending on the method used) do not play nicely with that. Likewise on Unix-
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by defanor 1y ago
I can see whole lines and select the text in a desktop Firefox, but the fonts are messed up (thinned and otherwise tweaked) and colors are set to reduce the contrast, making it hard to read. As with most of the design-related articles, I ha
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by defanor 1y ago
The pyramids analogy may lead to a different line of reasoning: not only they look useless (making all the effort and complexity put into those unnecessary), but at least Aristotle claimed (not sure how accurately though) that they are made
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by defanor 1y ago
A similar article, possibly was linked from Hacker News before: https://azeemba.com/posts/pi-in-other-universes.html
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by defanor 1y ago
Apparently the "Show HN" prefix would be appropriate here [0]. And this kind of a service is usually called a pastebin [1]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by defanor 1y ago
Indeed, I thought that "decades old" sounds like an underestimate there: Socrates is said to have criticized writing for letting people to not train their memory, so that would be millennia by now. Though of course it is possible
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by defanor 1y ago
I thought it is an overkill, though probably a convenient and practical one. But if one's aim is hacking with simpler technologies, a mechanical linkage (maybe something with a cam) should suffice for this task. Or an electrical circui
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by defanor 1y ago
Always nice to see CC-licensed textbooks. This one looks fairly minimal, not including much of explanation, illustrations, or proofs; I think those are generally useful for the initial study, but this should still work as a cheat sheet, at
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by defanor 1y ago
Not OP, but sharing the sentiment (never had banking or similar software on a phone, yet using ATMs, banks' web interfaces, offices). Avoiding interaction with a bank completely is rarely viable these days, and they will run their soft
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by defanor 1y ago
Are you arguing against simplicity being subjective, or as a tangent, with the topics brought up as examples (particularly advocating early returns)? I already mentioned that I view it as subjective, so perhaps as an illustration of that, i
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by defanor 1y ago
> You would feel the need to look up a variable called isSecure, but would not need to look up condition4 or condition5? I assume that those "conditions" are placeholders, not to be read literally in the example (since the exam
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by defanor 1y ago
I think most programmers agree that simpler solutions (generally matching "lower cognitive load") are preferred, but the disagreements start about which ones are simpler: often a lower cognitive load comes with approaches one is m
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by defanor 1y ago
Seems to be for Gmail and Fastmail specifically, and for some reason it calls those "clients" (rather than mail service providers).
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by defanor 1y ago
This compares a new desktop CPU to older laptop ones. There are much more complete benchmarks on more specialized websites [0, 1]. > If you can justify an AI coding subscription, you can justify buying the best tool for the job. I person
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by defanor 1y ago
It appears to have a feature overlap with gptel; would be nice to highlight the differences.
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by defanor 1y ago
A Festival's English model, festvox-kallpc16k, is about 6 MB, and it is a large model; festvox-kallpc8k is about 3.5 MB. eSpeak NG's data files take about 12 MB (multi-lingual). I guess this one may generate more natural-sounding
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by defanor 1y ago
Rather annoyed by the hype around LLMs myself, but I notice, both in this article and more generally, that some of the criticism seems to attribute to LLMs specifically the issues that are neither unique to them, nor caused by them. > Wh
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by defanor 1y ago
> But if I didn't listen to the devil from time to time, I wouldn't stay up to date with the latest technologies, and as a result I wouldn't be able to pay my bills. It appears to imply that new technologies do not count a

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