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Interesting, I've also heard the exact opposite opinion [0] where Zulip’s non-standard approach is seen as its main strength. [0]: https://chaos.social/@yorgos/115931944888149528

I would think there wouldn't be much of a difference because the smallest unit you can really work with on modern computers is the byte. And whether you use 8 bits to encode a byte…

There's a project for using Swift to write GNOME applications, which is fascinating to me: https://github.com/AparokshaUI/adwaita-swift I wish them success but realistically they w…

1-cos_sim(x,y) is a valid distance metric for L2 normalized vectors, though.

That's not very actionable advice. I've found this article [0] from Terence Tao very insightful: [A]ctual solutions to a major problem tend to be arrived at by a process more like …

I've also seen neovim plugins written in fennel [0], so if you want something lispy, that's possible now. [0]: a Lisp that compiles to Lua, https://github.com/bakpakin/Fennel

Coal is 30% currently: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2023/06... and I don't see this going away soon. The argument is that we could have kept nuclear running…

I doubt the USG is competent enough to have a masterplan like that. This just seems to me like the actions of a person (Gary Gensler) who personally dislikes cryptocurrencies and w…

I think my banking app disallows taking screenshots of it. (Presumably this also means it would be hidden from screen recordings? Not quite sure.)

Why is the article using PNG images for the code samples? I guess because the author thinks it looks prettier this way, but I don't really see it.

Wow, this is all I ever wanted. The only thing that's maybe missing is a natural way to do captions for images and tables, and a syntax for spoilers. But these can probably be buil…

Most of that will be crypto spam though...

UK has daylight savings time. Better move to Iceland instead. They're always on UTC.

Yes, miners can turn off the bomb, but that requires that they coordinate and determine a schedule for the hardfork that turns off the bomb (you need a hardfork to turn it off). Th…