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6 years ago at a new job I was forced to use provided Mac laptop. Never used MacOS before. So first thing first: get Firefox. Managed to download .dmg file. Double clicked it. And …

JPEG photos stored as progressive usually take ~5% less space so there is value. And it is possible to losslessly transcode JPEG to progressive. Lossless transcoding to JPEG XL giv…

What if government websites were distributed & archived as a default, from the beginning? Think IPFS as a first target for publication, "normal web" only as a mirror. Is it feasibl…

$ curl -I https://drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev/ curl: (7) Failed to connect to drop-e7e6d363-601.important-seat.workers.dev port 443 after 47 ms: Couldn't connect t…

That gives some probabilistic info to scraper. Like person might have genes that are: - susceptible to drugs abuse - or game addiction Bam - you get target ads - Indicate that any …

I am mulling the idea that we need a day of fast software software to spread the [culture?] of loving fast low-latency software. Like a programmers day or sysadmin day. That is a s…

From the article: > The Nothing Phone button gives you a tap confirmation via both haptics and sound, and then ignores the tap if a previous rotation is still animating. This is th…

> I'm sure that everyone out there is trying to make their weights, when ingested during training, survive over competing weights; "Buy AAA products" vs "Buy BBB products". Just li…

You can get away from supply/demand laws. By pretending that something is not giverned by them and putting fixed price lower than real price (i.e. that price at which suppl equals …

In lossless mode WebP is superior to AVIF.

Why "was"? I still read books in fb2.

Looks like you missed that MapComplete is an alternative interface to view OSM data and contribute to it.

Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization https://www.lesswrong.com/s/MH2b8NfWv22dBtrs8/p/Jq73Gozjsuhd... I remember this LW essay most often

My current understand that "subjective experience" is a post effect of memory forming in the process. "I experience X" ≈ "I remember that I just recently received [external stimulu…

Well yes, LLM need rich and favorable substrate to grow and learn (or we might say bootstrap) As well as DNA needs specific substrate (cell with ribosomes and other machinery). As …

> People are not. Humans have an inner world and subjective experience. Humans learn through their experiences, not just backprop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombi…

I am getting tired of hearing "next token predictor" from carbon-based facial expression predictors. You are saying this like an argument which allows somehow estimate upper bound …

Hopefully this database is integrated with OpenStreetMap. OSM has extensive tagging scheme for phone booths: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone

I suppose we do not even know exact reasons of decline of wildlife population. Quite definitely it is due massive intervention of human activity, but which aspects exactly? Light p…

kudos to guys who already started to work in that direction! They track blockings: https://hayahora.futbol

This is a push for privacy and it is fundamentally pushes in the opposite direction from let's say "forming accurate knowledge about the world". How can we combat being mislead by …

This is far from the first time that I see on HN indignation on LaLiga blockings. Sadly all this rage does not seem to lead to any change. I'd like to suggest some steps that might…

[Meta comment] Humankind is not doing well with implementing new policies. We should really strive for each new policy (like in this case - blocking access to some parts of interne…

I think that in most cases jq is launched to extract value from relatively small JSON document, for which raw parsing speed is not affect much. jq is just really slow to start. Ver…

HWisnu wrote cgrep that he asserts is even faster, especially on loaded system. He posted interesting benchmarks https://hwisnu.bearblog.dev/building-cgrep-using-safe_ch-cus... It …