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Glad you found it interesting! Personally, I get a lot of interesting information around these kinds of topics from Twitter. In addition to @maxkriegers, the author of that comic, …

It's definitely an interesting thought. Max Krieger also explores this at some length in "Chatting with Glue": https://a9.io/glue-comic/

Oops, quite right. I’ll try and push up a correction later today. Thanks!

I have aphantasia and love the analogy to hashing. It matches my experience quite closely in as much as I can't really imagine faces in the abstract, but can verify a match in the …

Sorry about this! It was a stock copyright clause provided by my university. I’ll look into getting it removed, and in the mean time am perfectly happy for you to use the work (wit…

Abuse of this sort of functionality is definitely something I've thought about, but discussions around these sorts of ecosystem issues weren't my focus in this work. Ultimately, th…

To be clear, I’m familiar with the semantic Web and did a reasonable chunk of reading about it when doing this research, but view it as only tangentially related to the ideas I tal…

That's a good point, and not one that I've considered particularly deeply to be honest. (I'd love to hear other people's point of view on the topic!) I guess in many ways the situa…

I largely agree. I'm very much coming at this from the angle of 'knowledge work', and think a system of this kind is most useful to (though definitely not only useful to!) scientis…

Author here. It’s definitely true that extending existing browsers is the fastest route to this kind of behaviour (though it’s not clear to me if it’s the best route). In fact, if …

As far as I’m aware SMT in Arm cores is pretty uncommon actually.

> First, compilers are really quite good. Yes, it's possible to beat them (I do) but generally not by much. Genuine question: what would you quantify “not by much” as here? In my e…

I completely appreciate that “writing hardware” is a totally different problem to writing software, and that hardware comes with its own set of quirks and challenges. I'm just sayi…

Perhaps I'm reading too far into what you wrote, but I'm not sure I agree that the CPU is fundamentally different from other layers of abstraction in computer systems. All abstract…

I'm not sure it's fair to say that Apple is "as bad as Microsoft" in this regard quite yet.

Around two years ago now I created a League of Legends champion information/countering website: https://www.championcounter.com/ Growth was slow but steady, and the site now receiv…

Switching over to HTTPS in and of itself shouldn't stop much data leakage given that the hostname - at least at current - isn't difficult to obtain (and really gives the game away …

I'm not sure about "always". I run a site that provides counter information for League of Legends ( http://www.championcounter.com/ ) and I doubt very much my users will benefit at…

Right you are. Just updated the article to be more accurate on this matter.

For the record, the setup shown with PowerDNS is authoritative-only too.