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I'm not gonna bother quoting you to fisk you. Your approach towards my evidence is weak overall. I'm gonna throw more evidence at you. Miller and Dean Tribble have been working on …

I get to be part of the discussions since I hack on E-related things. Mark Miller worked on E and then on Google's Caja (stands for 'Capability JavaScript'). He has been leading an…

I am pleased to see that features from E continue to be smuggled into ES, like finally-style asynchronous cleanup and template literal enhancements. Edit: Downvotes can't undo our …

Let us analyze this further. Suppose that Alice browses 4chan. 4chan uses a Google image-classifying captcha. Alice is viewing user-generated content posted for free, including 4ch…

I feel like users should be compensated for giving Google their time and mental energy since this is literally making users manually tag their machine-learning corpus for free.

As a resident of Oregon, I notice a curious pattern wherein shitty knockoff or generic products are more likely to carry the warnings, and the warnings don't say which ingredients …

Why did your ear, the outer part and the inner bones and the canal and the fluids and the brain, all evolve together in a way that grants Fourier analysis for free? Coincidence? Ma…

I've apparently read my last complimentary article for the month. Slate also has an article about this, so if it's a hoax, it's a very convincing hoax: https://slate.com/technology…

I'll believe it when I see it; the authors are well-known for arbitrarily-long delays on upcoming releases as well as bare-bones git repositories with nothing inside. Unfortunately…

You'd think so, but check out the 'smooth surprise' in Kahan's great writeup: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf We can approximate quite a bit, but ultimately f…

No, the text is awesome. I read it over the weekend. As an amateur mathematician, don't worry about attempts to apply mathematics to the real world; mathematics is the pattern whic…

Nix is for everybody; I don't do functional programming but I still use Nix for everything. If OpenBSD is simple, or C is simple, and Void is also simple, then it sounds like I sho…

Why would one use Void instead of NixOS or another Nix-based distro?

While it might seem arrogant of the author to take this stance, the Sampling Theorem generalizes extremely well and is considered an extremely stable result. My favorite generalize…

To give context to all of the surrounding links, which are all about libel in the UK, remember that truth is not an absolute defense to libel in the UK. In addition, the burdens of…

You mentioned elsewhere that you haven't been asked any hard questions. So, here's the question: Does this 'quality' of art exist in the things which we observe? Or is it subjectiv…

It's not just arrogant, it's disappointing. I could ask you to answer 'the big questions', to tell us what life means or what the teleological truth about our creators or why we se…

People are uncomfortable with Malthusian conclusions when applying his model to other systems. Malthus highlighted a tension between the relative sizes of populations in certain re…

Books, as traditionally written, are too big for the amount of information which they typically contain. We need knowledge representation which is capable of coherently and consist…

Most software is terrible because the existing corporate power structures, which concentrate the wealth and power necessary to sustain lasting projects, do not have any incentives …

I have been MitM'd by my ISP, Comcast, multiple times. Their injection only works on HTTP without TLS.

Discord's founders promised open-sourcing their client and API long ago. I don't think it'll ever happen. Still, it's great to see them contributing to the wider community. I am de…

Not sure whether this is being hyped extra due to Intel's desire to tar and feather AMD. Certainly, the FUD around where AMD's chips are made is other-than-honest, and many parts o…