sovok_x

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by sovok_x 5y ago
Irrespective if it's a random thing, it still gives valuable insight into possibilities and crowd psychology.
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by sovok_x 5y ago
I have an impression that they force at least part of those "UI upgrades", to the point of removing their switch in about:config, specifically to annoy users and to create waves pushing their product into some news while showing o
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by sovok_x 5y ago
As I see it, many problems like those described come from the lack of adequate and properly filtered bi-directional feedback loops both positive and negative between users and the algorithmic decision makers as most of the companies turn fe
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by sovok_x 5y ago
Yeah, you learn _any_ language that much faster if you have a solid motivation, both external and internal, to do so. And if the language is _availible_ enough, meaning it has a lot of help, examples and 3rd party libraries, going for pract
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by sovok_x 5y ago
That depends on purpose of the teaching. If you want to teach them basics what the thread starter mentioned is enough. If you want the deeper understanding you should teach them how it boils down to machine code or add a bit of Assembly to
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by sovok_x 6y ago
If you can do without folders/issues/actions/etc gists already provide this functionality, as they can be accessed like usual git repositories while allowing private visibility with sharing by their exact link.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
I tried something similar and it works to a degree. There are two cons though: connector reliability on the disk and especially on the docking device degrades with time and you need to care about backups more as you can damage the drive dur
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by sovok_x 6y ago
Making big revenue and having best teams doesn't mean they do everything most efficiently and don't ever go the way of the lowest friction. I am really curious whether someone really tested it and found it unfeasible from a techni
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by sovok_x 6y ago
And youtube knows exactly what videos they re-watch often enough so it can clearly mind this stuff, plus they will probably use the search if they want to re-watch something specific anyway. It is no reason to re-recommend every one of thos
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by sovok_x 6y ago
That doesn't really explain why they re-recommend previously acted-on videos though. You won't watch them anyway so they basically eat screenspace that can be used for some novel videos with ads that you will watch with a higher p
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by sovok_x 6y ago
Maybe there are some differences between offline and online compute like page response times, cluster specifics, database latency etc. There are no hard timing or effectiveness requirements for processing videos after all.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
Yeah, they probably just plain economize on compute there.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
I think there can be some additions: 1) for user to be able to manage those percentages directly or using various pre-made profiles and maybe allow some randomness mixed in; and 2) "exploraton mode" where topics with content that
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by sovok_x 6y ago
And mixes it with misinformation somehow too so the argument is all over the place.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
Just make draft versions without much effort involved to test the waters. Nobody actually know what they really want before they see it.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
The article isn't clear enough for me but upvoted anyway.
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by sovok_x 6y ago
I believe problems of IPv4 are related more to IoT than end-users currently. There is not much urgency for humans to switch within ~3.7 billions of IPv4 addresses unless all of humanity will suddenly decide to own a web-site with unique IP
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by sovok_x 6y ago
I don't have enough F-words to explain how I feel about the new address bar. @Mozilla: Can you at least not remove about:config entries to disable it, in the later releases, please.
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by sovok_x 7y ago
I would be glad to switch, but I am sucker for good UI. I can even forgive some lost functionality for it. Most alternatives were not to my liking.
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Personally I most dislike forced deanonymization with 2fa or annoying me with device verification which locked me out of my anonymous account with old expired email (I didn't need it secured and I don't want to prove anything to M
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Its mobile UI is broken all over on my system. But I am all in for getting inspired by exact Github UX/UI. They're the main reason I don't want to switch to alternatives even if I hate Github after MS-merger and following &
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Maybe Internet access do need to be made into a basic human right after all. See https://phys.org/news/2019-11-free-internet-access-basic-hum... for another example why.
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by sovok_x 7y ago
The filter is applied to entire content of a given tag and its subtags, here is the example for HN (has-text must be site-specific): news.ycombinator.com##.itemlist .athing:not(.comtr):has-text(/corona|covid|\bsars\b|(?:epi|pan
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by sovok_x 7y ago
The sudden idea is to separate metadata and content on different services and merge them only for viewing and interaction. Then users can selfhost content and request its distributed social metadata (upvotes, emotes, other people's com
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Textual data and exchanges are often self-describing. They're easier to debug and monitor visually. Try debugging or reverse-engineering binary exchange with some obscure proprietary protocol to see why this matters. In the end it is m
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Usual ML models take static slices of data and process them. Human brain, on the order hand, used to work with dynamic data, even within a single perceptual frame, and timing of events is a major variable there. No surprise that those ML mo
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by sovok_x 7y ago
I wonder if there were ever attempts to replace reviews with questionnaires with some motivation to fill them like points or micro-discounts. It should provide more standardized flow and force users to disclose more about their experience.
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by sovok_x 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this has something to do with gut microbiota.
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by sovok_x 7y ago
Make different priorities of reading based on what your real-life priorities are. Some things you'd better read right this moment and some things when nothing better to do, if ever. Don't fear removing marginally useful articles f
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by sovok_x 7y ago
In short: use unsupervised AIs and algorithms to generate metadata because humans suck at it.

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