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by mwcz 1y ago
I have dreams of building a web browser that operates only in this mode. No JS, just HTML, just user-selected CSS themes. It would be incompatible with most of the modern web, but it would be a window to the kind of web I want (back). Ju
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by mwcz 1y ago
There was a Neal Stephenson novel where curated feeds had become a big business because it was the only tolerable way to browse the Internet. Lately I've been thinking that's more likely to happen.
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by mwcz 1y ago
They aren't given the opportunity to, that's true. We've also been in an industry-wide performance drought for so many years that many devs don't even realize how fast websites can be.
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by mwcz 1y ago
Mellon is Sindarin for "friend", so maybe mellonking is exploring one's friends?
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by mwcz 1y ago
Let's write an algorithm that ranks HN by number of oblique sci-fi book references!
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by mwcz 1y ago
I meant zooming in on the hardware very literally. Watching electrons in a transistor. Logic diagrams are naturally easier to understand than what they describe.
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by mwcz 1y ago
First, I thought "not so simple!" But it's wonderfully grokkable compared to zooming in on equivalent hardware and watching transistor states unfold.
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by mwcz 1y ago
I've worked in other domains my whole career, so I was astonished this week when we put a million 768-len embeddings into a vector db and it was only a few GB. Napkin math said ~25 GB and intuition said a long list of widely distribut
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by mwcz 2y ago
I found what I think is a flaw in your methodology: you did not use the Mario font in your post.
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by mwcz 2y ago
It was so fun tossing that opening tag into a forum post and watching the whole forum disintegrate.
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by mwcz 2y ago
If all actions and options were reachable from a fuzzy finder, then I'd be very happy with all UI components being hidden to reduce clutter.
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by mwcz 2y ago
That's not just a trend. There are many areas of programming where a choice between Rust and Go is perfectly reasonable. Rust is playing on Go's turf, but Go isn't playing on Rust's, if you get my meaning.
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by mwcz 2y ago
Well, it's good to have hobbies. Keeps ya out of trouble.
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by mwcz 2y ago
Yeah, I think you're right. I replied to my other comment describing the effect on my perception of using squares. The blobs did retain an association with the original image, either because I'd just looked at it, or that the sh
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by mwcz 2y ago
Really interesting. If I reproduce the same colors (plate, strawberry lit, strawberry shadow) but with simple squares, the colors that were associated with strawberries do still look a little bit red to my eyes. The more I stare at it, th
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by mwcz 2y ago
If I blur the strawberry image enough that all the objects are unrecognizable, reducing everything to blobby abstract shapes, how would color constancy apply? The areas that used to be strawberries still look reddish. Is the suggestion th
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by mwcz 2y ago
The illusion works even when the "red" items are blobs, not strawberries, so I think this has more to do with color differentiation than the actual objects in the image.
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by mwcz 2y ago
I thought the same with "algae plays DOOM"...
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by mwcz 2y ago
Boy is that a familiar feeling. It's the programmer version of shaving away at one's self-worth by looking at friends' Instagram-perfect home photos. I think most of us feel it from time to time. There are ways to combat it
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by mwcz 2y ago
You didn't lose it, it just wafted over to me. Faith in humanity restored!
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by mwcz 2y ago
We were lucky to be privy to his wisdom for the past 18 years, since a heart-related close call in 2006, but even that doesn't feel like enough.
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by mwcz 3y ago
The laws of physics are explanations, created by us, to explain the behavior of physical things. The laws exist in physical matter, our brains.