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by jeffparsons 3y ago
> you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers? We're talking about Google here. It doesn't matter that they have lots of clever people working there; they still occasionally get/gue
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I once visited Lindisfarne. I remember joking about all the idiots that disregard the warnings, or cut it too close. On the way back to the mainland we stopped on the causeway to make some sketches from what we figured was a pretty unique p
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
This happened to me. Users initially couldn't directly control the content being hashed, because it contained a random element (via UUID). Later, the API surface expanded. Luckily, my personal rule is to default to a cryptographic hash
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
One way to approach this would be to interpose all calls to the TCP interfaces (pretty straightforward with Wasm Components), and tunnel it using Websockets (or whatever) to a server that can make the actual TCP connections on your behalf.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Yeah, it's pretty weird here. Pharmacies stock both: the placebo on the shelves, and the real one behind the counter, usually called "such-and-such ORIGINAL" or something. So if you don't want a placebo, you have to know
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I kinda assumed that all the above companies would already be doing something similar. I want to live in a world with warranties, so if there's a non-privacy-violating way for companies to protect themselves a little bit from fraudulen
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation. It makes me a little sad, but maybe it's for the best; efficient collimation of light would offer enormous destructive potential for $cheap, and that's not something the world needs any more of.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I have no physics education beyond high school, but I briefly became obsessed with the idea of efficient collimation of light. I eventually concluded that it must be impossible, because it would imply a global decrease in entropy, much like
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I'm ignorant and curious: why 48V specifically? Why not 40V? Why not 50V? Is there some ideal ratio that makes DC-DC conversions more efficient or something? For comparison, Makita (and I think some other power tool makers) have augmen
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Would pressure-washing using sea water be viable? If it's all going into storm water drains and out to sea anyway, what's the difference? Or does it go via, e.g., sewage treatment, first? (I suppose this is a bit of a lazy questio
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
And kiosks, like the McDonald's ordering kiosks. I wouldn't be surprised if they spend more on installation than on building the device itself!
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Same. As a child, I could be reading a book at one end of the house and I would experience discomfort (experienced as a slightly painful "pressure" in my ears) when the television, which was 4 rooms away, was powered on. My family
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Assuming a non-shit business, you could think of "biz" as "customers integrated over the long term". Therefore putting "users" and "biz" as incomparable could be interpreted as prioritising users, sus
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Hey, author, if you end up reading this thread: put the conclusion on a sticker. I'll put one on my laptop and give a bunch to friends. For anyone that didn't make it to the end, the conclusion was: user > ops > dev
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
> Haters gonna hate If you dismiss all criticism of your behaviour in this way, you'll never gain any insight into why so many people find your behaviour so objectionable. It's not because "haters gonna hate". It&#x27
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
A charitable interpretation could be that a rising tide lifts all boats. Syrus/Wasmer may sincerely believe that WASIX contributes to the rising tide, and it will therefore benefit Wasmer and all other Wasm-related ventures alike. Unde
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Serious question, in pursuit of understanding where you're coming from: in what way do you think that your own reckoning is fundamentally different to or more "real" than what you're describing above? I know I don't
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
They have no inherent concept of true or false, sure. But what are you comparing them to? It would be bold to propose that humans have some inherent concept of true or false in a way that LLMs do not; for both humans and LLMs it seems to be
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Ever opened up the average laptop? They look like someone threw the list of component dimensions at a bin packing algorithm, let it run for a couple of minutes, then added some extra plastic struts to fill the dead space. It feels like nobo
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I'm afraid so. MacBooks are just so far ahead of their "competition" that it's not funny. The M2 MacBook Pros are about as close as you can get to a perfect laptop. Really, I w
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
The `else` badly wants to be in an expression-oriented language, too. JavaScript would be a strange choice for "fake code for marketing website" even if it was correct code...
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
On the old internet, if you could trick someone into revealing their IP address, you could knock them offline: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death But it was fun because we were young, the "attackers&quo
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Not quite; I think it was actually Kurt Gödel. Jokes aside, I assume they are referring to Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which might well reasonably be characterised in that way.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Successful startups don't necessarily have to be _operationally_ odd; they could just choose an odd domain and then operate in the most boring, corporate way imaginable. There are so many underserved markets that the larger players eit
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I would guess it has more to do with current and anticipated future availability than anything else. I don't work in hardware, but I've read some wild anecdotes about the extreme difficulty of establishing a stable supply chain if
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
That's okay; _using_ WebAssembly is getting easier bit by bit. Features like this one allow the high level programming language features you know and love to be implemented efficiently behind the scenes.
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
It will be back. Somewhere along the line the kinds of people who push these sorts of things realised that it doesn't matter if everyone hates the thing and it gets temporarily "defeated". If you can afford to keep reinventin
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
Ah, okay. Thanks. The world makes a little more sense again!
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
I don't think that's a fair representation of my position. I'm not suggesting that it's "hard" — I'm suggesting that it's absolutely futile to attempt it, and at least as bad as doing nothing. I'
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by jeffparsons 3y ago
You don't have to be sure that it's possible, because the alternative we're comparing it to is absolutely useless. You only need to not be sure that it's impossible. Which is where most of us, him included, are today.

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