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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Right, but in the mid '90s when Java was designed, 64 bit machines were basically an exotic architecture and its practicalities weren't well understood, which is quite clear when CompressedOOPs is basically the sane default. The w
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   In terms of putting food on the table, it doesn't really matter how you run it. If you're accepting donations or charging customers, you still gotta pay your taxes.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Java made a bunch of optimistic assumptions about the future of hardware when it was designed. UTF-16 strings, 64 bit pointers, enormous object headers. While great for future-proofing, it's been hard to deny it's had overhead. Gl
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   It's still pertinent. As the article notes, EU regulation suffocates open source work as well. And in many ways, the reason why so much of this stuff gets run as open source projects in Europe is because running it as a business wouldn
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   I say this being EU-based: If the EU wants a viable tech sector, in AI or otherwise, it needs to offer a business environment that can compete with Silicon Valley both economically and in terms of regulation. As long it's more lucrati
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Blade Runner is cool.
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   It's tricky to extrapolate from Google. It's fairly obvious that there are things Google could do to fix this problem such as to penalize ads. They are never going to do as long as their main income is those very ads they would ne
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Yeah. This is a very good point. Overall I think the user experience of the web when accessed through google kinda sucks in an overtly annoying way. I also think it's one of the big selling points of GPT-like search engines. It's
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   by marginalia_nu 4y ago

   Well on paper at least, the US has antitrust laws going back to the Sherman Act and Standard Oil. Microsoft was basically inches away from being broken up in the late '90s due to their anti-competitive practices.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Lest we forget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Human beings are spectacularly shit at comparing areas. If you put two circles next to each other, one with double area of the other, most humans will say their relation is 3:2.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    > For over a thousand years, nobody has been brought up to speak [Latin] naturally at home Uh, except Montaigne.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Only tangentially related, I'd warn against .icu, .xyz, .tk, .online, and if you aren't doing business in these regions, domains associated with russia, ukraine, china, singapore, taiwan, bangladesh, zimbawe, and south africa. Ma
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Simply get a computer.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Nobody expects the fourth declension.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Didn't they have removable batteries? One of my old nexi did at least.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Be that as it may, 5Gb just isn't realistically significantly smaller than you could squeeze the text of wikipedia.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    I'm not sure this is true. Lossless compression algorithms exist, and HTML compresses almost absurdly well. A 20x compression rate would be quite impressive, but I don't think it's impossible, since 10x compression is fairly
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Next you'll tell me to stop visiting the alternate timeline where everyone has a mustache and domain names end in a period. https://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=35751030 ;-) ( warning: your cookies for news.ycombinato
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Yeah that's solved itself, I eventually got a cheap VPS @ downloads.marginalia.nu for providing these files. It solves the immediate problem of hosting the data that can't go in git. How much space have you got by the way?
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    50k legitimate queries / day on a slow day. A HN hug of death is maybe 100-150k/day.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Sometimes it's a lesser evil. Clouflare blocks about 1.6 million bot search queries per day on my search engine. Simply could not operate it without this inconvenience.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    > Gorbachev holding meatball pasta in both hands. 1980s synth futuristic max headroom aesthetic. Neon lights. > Aristotle in ancient greek clothes. Toga. New york, rain, film noir, fog, art deco, neon lights, blade runner sci fi Seems
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Interesting question. If I wanted to say grow the index 10-fold and aim for a billion documents indexed (~2.5bn crawled), I'd need: * More crawlers. This is mostly a network limitation. Disk requirement would be about 50 Tb in total of
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    Nature does have decent pest control, but the way we do farming does basically everything to circumvent it. If you were actively trying to encourage the development of new forms of highly specialized pests, setting up a continent-scale mono
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    I view it as a long march. Right now I've got about two years runway, which isn't a lot but it also isn't nothing. Considering the project had barely started two years ago, and considering the opportunities it's already
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    No I'm still solo developing. Would having a few more people working on it make stuff move faster? Undeniably. But I don't think lack of manpower is an obstacle at the moment in the same lack of hardware. It's reasonable to
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    > search.marginalia.nu consisted of 1 Swedish engineer and 1 server last I heard and still managed to outclass DDG in a number of query types relevant to me. Still just 1 dinky lil' consumer hardware server in my living room. I thin
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    I don't think what you want exists or has ever existed. A search engine that does not exercise judgement about relevance and quality will just return noise.
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    by marginalia_nu 4y ago

    This is pretty silly. I think they should lean into the silliness even more. Pretty silly is the worst kind of silly. Give them names from D&D or something. A level 7 gnome warlock with a ring of true sight and the wand of absolute free