marginalia_nu

10 ms·

91.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
If quantum probability is a wave function, and interaction introduces a phase shift, this alone is enough to lead to decoherence through the same mechanics as classical optical (de)coherence. In the same circumstances a light beam stops pro
92.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
To be fair they are a supremely interesting problem to hack away at, and one that will meet you where you are. Almost anyone can put together a basic search engine in a few thousand lines of code, it's just not very hard to make a prog
93.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Object pooling and bump allocators using persistent scratch buffers, mostly. The latter what you'd use for read buffers in I/O intensive applications like databases and the like.
94.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Approaching search by just tossing the data in Lucene is how you end up with Confluence's search box though.
95.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Interesting project. Website discovery is indeed in a pretty dire spot, definitely a space that needs innovation. An auto-labeled website directory isn't that silly of an idea. I have a 400 GB sqlite database with samples of render
96.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Delphi had a powerful and easy to use GUI editor in the early 2000s, much less of a hassle compared to building software with Windows' own C++ API.
97.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
> Plenty of people out there, more than we're willing to admit, are callous, unfeeling, unempathetic, and uncaring. They may not rise to the level of outright sociopathy or psychopathy, but they generally do not regard emotions high
98.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
I think it could be argued there's a use case for agents to function as a personal secretary, planning, emailing, news briefs, task reminders, those kinds of things. Probably hasn't taken off because what this solves isn't mu
99.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Tiny screen that can barely show any information and the awkward miniature keyboard that's slow to use and gives no feedback, it's a pretty awful way to do anything.
100.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Marginalia Search as usual. Recently went on an optimization bender that saw the index now become almost completely bottle-necked by CPU in the ranking calculations step. Pretty neat. Faster ranking means better results as queries run on
101.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
You still have that sort of expression on neocities. It's a genuine treat to see what people are building over there. https://neocities.org/browse
102.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Yeah, countries are even using this as a bargaining chip, if not a form of hybrid warfare. Neither Russia nor China is losing any sleep over digital attrition in the west.
103.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
I can see why people might want it to come back, but I don't think bringing it back will bring back the good old days. Much of that was made the early web less shit was people being more mentally stable by having most of their social i
104.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Steve Bannon's involvement in promoting Gamer Gate and co-opting it into a (what would become MAGA) recruitment funnel is fairly well documented[1]. There's absolutely nothing "allegedly" about it, he proudly spells it
105.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Most of the nonsense comes through botnets/residential proxies, so it's very hard to say.
106.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not really something I spend much time thinking about. I'm on a ton of different social media because I run a business and need to be where people are discussing my work.
107.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Think it's often depression rather than addiction that's at the core. Trying to get depressed people to stop ruminating and to start engaging with the world is a notorious challenge, though in terms of potential quality of life i
108.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
> By the way, I know you from your search engine. This might be an out there question but do you offer your search index as a downloadable structure? If so, how much does that cost? Shoot me an email and we can discuss, but the index is
109.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
It's not really very useful in this particular case, as you can't actually navigate the "dictionary" any other way than finding the base word form somewhere in the text you're looking at.
110.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Well where does meaning come from? It doesn't seem to exist in nature. Some say it's something we have to create ourselves.
111.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
I'm not sure if this is arguing for or against my point, but it's good you're touching grass I guess?
112.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
The negativity is affecting you negatively though, that's my whole point. Doom scrolling and blackpill cirklejerking hasn't fixed even one singular problem in the history of the phenomena. Depressed chronically online people hav
113.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
https://ancientlibrary.net/claudian-carminum-minorum-corpusc... I don't get a definition for 'fulgere', third word first entence, just a reference to 'fulgo'. I can guess what it means though from
114.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
As an experiment, completely stop consuming news and social media for a few weeks. People have lived their entire lives without these information streams, you'll survive unplugging a bit. Now I can't tell you what you will exper
115.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the reason for the difference is that production machine exists in a state of mixed memory residency and low grade resource contention that is incredibly hard to replicate in a test scenario (as the moment you start mak
116.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
How do you know if you're making the right optimizations? I struggle with this a lot with Marginalia's index. Where I identify a hot method in a prod profiler run, try to replicate it on a test machine where I can never get the s
117.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torment nexuses for FAANG.
118.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Should being the operative word. In practice it's both easy and common to have a database do unnecessary work when generating a page, a problem that often only rears its head when under unusual load.
119.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
It's almost always the DBMS that's the bottleneck when websites drop from traffic. As long as you don't do anything fancier than primary key look-ups you're probably fine though. I survived handling the search search tr
120.
by marginalia_nu 2mo ago
Static files on literally any hardware from the last 15 years on modern server software simply won't get cooked by bots. The network switch will bottleneck you before the server will. Your ephemeral port range will run out before the

More ›