ttctciyf

10 ms·

91.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
It's sort of funny that where the title alludes to the arrow of time, opening with a quote asserting "all measurements are in principle reversible", it pretty quickly gets to a different arrow of time - that of comprehension:
92.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
> The word "literally" can no longer be trusted to mean "in a literal sense". It's frequently used as an intensifier. It was ever thus. See, for example, https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25&#x
93.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
> It’s some kind of influence effort. Maybe even Russian. Russians are amateurs compared to proper "influence efforts" like, for example https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/r/rk-ro/ross-clark&#x2F
94.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
Somewhat distressing to see that the following notice first appeared in a December 2021 update note[0] and has been repeated and updated regularly ever since! > GraphicsMagick really does need some additional productive volunteers. For s
95.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
Somehow this piece manages to avoid mention of both Diogenes, famed admirer of dogs for whom his philosphical school, Cynicism[0], is named, and Kafka, whose Investigations of a Dog is an essential short fiction about a genius dog philoso
96.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
Who said LLMs couldn't do irony?
97.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
Lots of HN Q&A with their CEO from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25372401 I was a bit surprised that on my first visit to the main mojeek search page the "No tracking. Just search" text ent
98.
by ttctciyf 2y ago
The paper itself[0] is a little (hah!) over my head, but this[1] tickled me: > I’ve heard more than one person say that what a pity that Penrose fell for this crazy Hameroff person. But, well, I’ve met both Penrose and Hameroff and the
99.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Tim O'Reilly, of the famous publishers, interviewed and later befriended Herbert while writing his 1981 book on the author, Frank Herbert . It covers a lot of the themes of the linked essay in an effort to explore the origin and meani
100.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
I've listened in on planning sessions for the "rather basic" "tally of points" (BGS) system, and it's far from basic, there's plenty of strategy and tactics involved and political thinking and negotiations
101.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
I think it's a mistake to call the game shallow, there's a deep 9-year struggle for political dominance, for example, that links up to many different game systems. If you take the time to talk with time-served veterans it's a
102.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
I embarked on Elite: Dangerous, the successor game, recently. It has its share of problems, granted, but nonetheless is a pretty amazing experience. Seeing the continuity of game elements from the 1984 version (which I also sunk hours into)
103.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
I was curious to see specifics of what the authors consider fake news sources. I didn't see any concrete identification in the paper itself, but following one of the references[1] I found this: > Within our list of news sites, we di
104.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
The section from the article dealing with the downside of extended deployment seems hardly to match your description of it. Unless you want peer-reviewed soc. psych. studies - unlikely given the military context - then first-hand and expert
105.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Practically speaking, when you want to link to the latter in a markdown that already utilises parens, you encounter more friction - cutting and pasting a url with parens from the address bar needs manual correction if used to create a link
106.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
"Magic bullet" is just the most recognisable name for CE399[0], nothing supernatural implied by my use of it. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory
107.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
> how does that upend anything? If the story in the article is true, the bullet Landis found - i.e. the famous "magic bullet" - could not have wounded both Kennedy and Governor Connally and have been shot from the Book Deposi
108.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
You might also like to check out Greg Egan's Permutation City [0] which (in the form of entertaining scifi) presents some related arguments about the need for a computational substrate, or lack thereof. 0: https://en.wikipe
109.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Currently on the front page with 129 points, 32 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37354401
110.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
> I just can't find the usecase for it Evidently: for coding in languages you are not proficient in! What could go wrong?
111.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Maybe you missed that the article explicitly talks about the cloning/deep copy of coroutines: > Using my C/C++ preprocessor coroutine system, this is perfectly possible. In that system, all the persistent variables of the corou
112.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Adguard seems to offer blocking only, whereas Privaxy "is able ... to inject scripts as well as styles into HTML documents", which was the feature my comment expressed interest in. The readme goes on to say: "Privaxy is also
113.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
(With thanks to your grandchild) https://github.com/barre/privaxy seems definitely worth a look - thanks!
114.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
> The Proxomitron Googling this, development ended in 2004? An informed summary of the current state of play would be interesting, since a lot of different "continuations" of it seem to be around. Also, is it Windows-only? (I&#
115.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
> [containers are a] better solution to the problem profiles solve If this problem is persona/identity/account isolation, then yes. If you want multiple parallel settings and add-on combinations, then no. I use profiles in fire
116.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
The article links to a vulfmon track with audio and a still photo, but the video for same track on the vulf channel proper shows the instrument actually being played[1]. When I saw this a couple of months ago I had a bit of work to convince
117.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
> only takes seeing one black swan to disprove “all swans are not white” I think you mean 'disprove "all swans are white" ', since a black swan tends to confirm the existence of non-white swans. In other nitpicking n
118.
How to Place Mozilla Firefox Browser Under Lockdown(codeproject.com)
1 points by ttctciyf 3y ago|1 comments
119.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
Interesting, I thought, on account of its example policies.json as well as its robust pro-user assessment of current browser tech.
120.
by ttctciyf 3y ago
He seems to be saying Earth's rotation is speeding up, the axis is shifting, there's a destabilisation of the Earth's core, and other alarming happenings. He says there's a natural 12 (or 24) thousand year cycle which af

More ›