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The thing that everyone always misses in these conversations is that screens over buttons is a cost cutting measure, not a first-principles design decision. It means the UI can be …

The idea that Builder.ai was Indian workers being sold as AI wasn’t true, by the way. That was made up by a crypto influencer on twitter and copied by sloppy news sites. They were …

I’m not sure if this is the point you mean to make, but Michio Kanu is one of the bigger cranks in physics communication. He said ion an (maybe the Joe Rigan interview?) that quant…

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

DCOs only document that the contributor has the right to contribute the code, not the license under which they contribute it. CLAs do both.

Good catch on the license in that file. I went by separate documents in the repo that said the source is available “under the licenses documented in the repository”, and took that …

I’m not sure where this belief came from, or why the people who believe it feel so strongly about it, but this is not generally true. With the exception of GPL derivatives, most po…

Don’t make tools for cheating at games against real people. It’s antisocial. —- Cheating at games is antisocial. This means it is a behaviour that leads to a worse experience for a…

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At first I was a bit confused why this was a big deal given that Cosmogenic Radionuclide Dating[1] (which is based on cosmic rays) has been a thing for a while. But it turns out th…

Isn’t ReLU an element of neuroscience that was incorporated into machine learning to great success?

Raw HTML: potentially. Big blocks of undifferentiated ASCII art: no.

In my experience Wasmer is generally disliked by the rest of the WASM community. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including attempting to copyright the term WASM and pushin…

As of a few hours ago, ModHeader started injecting a script into every page that tracks browsing activity. It also injects ads into Google Search and may be capable of remote tab c…

Scaleable Vector Extension. A class of SIMD instructions.

From what I can tell the issue here is that the author has produced a WASM module with minified dynamic dependencies. This is not an issue with the runtimes but with the earlier co…

Perhaps because they include metrics for compression time, which could easily be gamed by doing significant precomputation in the compressor?

If you’ve read any of the code you’ll also know that early Unix was full of security vulnerabilities. Eg. Statically allocating fixed buffers and not checking input sizes. I’m all …

Those are separate questions. Is Google forced on people by the US Govt?

I note that with a vocabulary of 1,000 words it is roughly 10x the size of Toki Pona, a conlang which also aims for minimalism. That said, Toki Pona's goal is to help clarify thoug…

For what its worth, I used to say the same thing. Now I have glasses for astigmatism.

Algebraic data types (more technically sum types) are very much not “PhD level concepts”, despite the name. They’re just what C developers would call “tagged unions”.

Among others: "Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."

What happens when the ASCII character for space is embedded within a multibyte UTF-8 codepoint?