marginalia_nu

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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   On a theoretical level, a service like Cloudflare is the most terrifying entity on the Internet I'm aware of. They've accumulated an insane degree of insight into the traffic flow of the web (since their entire service is essentia
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   An ideal computer is an universal machine. A real computer has real limitations on what is calculable, even among the things that are theoretically calculable.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Eh, I don't think most people's diet consists of hamburgers. Or rather, I sure hope it doesn't.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   To be fair the EU can barely prevent this shit in European waters.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Who decides what's a true democracy? Athens didn't have universal suffrage, and they invented democracy (and were in many ways far more democratic than anything we have today). They had some pretty radical measures for mixing up w
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   I tried to do AoC in sed one year. Didn't get all the way through. Real turing tarpit sed is. My solutions had the readability of APL and the brevity Java. Mistakes were made.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   It's far easier to construct banal bumper sticker slogans that merely appear profound, than to construct profound aphorisms.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   In general, I feel comments should explain why the code is the way it is, not what it does.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   The broader history of psychiatry has so many dark spots one might confuse it for a dalmatian.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    The C++ code I wrote in 2008 doesn't compile today, despite depending only on libSDL. Lots of small things that have broken, mostly GCC behaving differently. Still miles better than the JS and cloud spaces where code has such a short h
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    > If a code change is outside of the code coverage of the test, it doesn't affect the test. This assertion questionable, the extent it is true it is language specific. Here is a counterexample in Java: // foo.java
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    It's honestly kinda unsettling how many bizarre sci-fi takes on AGI have gained popular plausibility since the new AI marketing boom. Potent kool-aid.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    If a keyboard kept re-arranging itself according to which key was most recently pressed, you'd be typing a hundred times slower than if it doesn't. Taking in visual information is super slow. I feel like a lot of interface designe
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Why is that unscientific?
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    > smells strongly of a server-side change Doesn't need to be. Some software nowadays can toggle feature flags clientside behind your back. I know Firefox does (or did?) this. Creepy as all fuck.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Except in Nebraska.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Kinda reminding me of when you're autocompleting commands in a shell prompt.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Well when you're a bank, you've got your inactivity fees, activity fees, deposit fees, withdrawal fees, administrative fees, currency conversion fees, currency preservation fees, invoice fees, fee fees, ...
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Technically pretty impressive, but if I am permitted to be blunt, it's severely lacking in polish. Overall the website doesn't look good on desktop. I look at this: https://imgur.com/3SoPR67 and think that some el
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    How small are you getting them? I'm straight up screenshotting websites (e.g. https://search.marginalia.nu/screenshot/245804 ). Seem to come in at on average 17 Kb, based on a sample size of 550K screenshots.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Why is that?
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Breeder
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Wouldn't that find articles that are semantically similar, rather than structurally similar (which I interpreted GP as wanting)? In the structural-comparison case, I imagine you might have better luck with just doing cosine similarity
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Maybe from ... "at scale" bit? ML approaches are relatively computationally expensive.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    A measuring stick that is of different lengths depending on who wields it is not a good measuring stick. Different people may use the same list to arrive at contradictory conclusions about the same code. You, following your preferences and
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Mind-body dualism is an older position than Descartes, but cartesian dualism is distinct from the Aristotelian hylemorphic theories that were popular for a long time before, and still profoundly shapes the way we think in ways that may be d
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    You can largely blame Descartes for this notion.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Dunno, I feel the effect of lifting is mostly one of persistent clarity. Whatever wandering thoughts I had bouncing around in my head before a set of heavy deadlifts, all that is gone after, because the effort of pulling up the bar doesn&#x
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    This isn't a hypothetical. I've used this exact workflow for this exact use case. I'm telling you it's no good. I run a search engine crawler and my average across 100M docs is about 7 Kb when compressed with zstd (fs bl
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    On the flip side, there's code that will never be easy to read. Many algorithms and data structures simply don't break down to anything that is easy to comprehend. Like even something as freshman as mergesort falls in this categor