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Steve Bannon's involvement in promoting Gamer Gate and co-opting it into a (what would become MAGA) recruitment funnel is fairly well documented[1]. There's absolutely nothing "all…

Most of the nonsense comes through botnets/residential proxies, so it's very hard to say.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, not really something I spend much time thinking about. I'm on a ton of different social media because I run a business and need to be where people are …

Think it's often depression rather than addiction that's at the core. Trying to get depressed people to stop ruminating and to start engaging with the world is a notorious challeng…

> By the way, I know you from your search engine. This might be an out there question but do you offer your search index as a downloadable structure? If so, how much does that cost…

It's not really very useful in this particular case, as you can't actually navigate the "dictionary" any other way than finding the base word form somewhere in the text you're look…

Well where does meaning come from? It doesn't seem to exist in nature. Some say it's something we have to create ourselves.

I'm not sure if this is arguing for or against my point, but it's good you're touching grass I guess?

The negativity is affecting you negatively though, that's my whole point. Doom scrolling and blackpill cirklejerking hasn't fixed even one singular problem in the history of the ph…

https://ancientlibrary.net/claudian-carminum-minorum-corpusc... I don't get a definition for 'fulgere', third word first entence, just a reference to 'fulgo'. I can guess what it m…

As an experiment, completely stop consuming news and social media for a few weeks. People have lived their entire lives without these information streams, you'll survive unplugging…

I'm pretty sure the reason for the difference is that production machine exists in a state of mixed memory residency and low grade resource contention that is incredibly hard to re…

How do you know if you're making the right optimizations? I struggle with this a lot with Marginalia's index. Where I identify a hot method in a prod profiler run, try to replicate…

There's much more overlap than you'd think. Quants generally have a STEM background, and stay in the field much for the same sort of reasons tech workers stick around building torm…

Should being the operative word. In practice it's both easy and common to have a database do unnecessary work when generating a page, a problem that often only rears its head when …

It's almost always the DBMS that's the bottleneck when websites drop from traffic. As long as you don't do anything fancier than primary key look-ups you're probably fine though. I…

Static files on literally any hardware from the last 15 years on modern server software simply won't get cooked by bots. The network switch will bottleneck you before the server wi…

A counterpoint would be that you don't really ever see investment bankers reacting in this fashion.

Saw a meme on mastodon the other day contrasting people of the '90s going online to escape from offline reality, and people of the '20s going offline to escape from online reality.…

Yeah I think a worrying thought is that it has to be that way. A big conundrum for technologically advanced societies is that technology gives us so much power that if people are a…

Yeah came here to say the same thing. The Hard Problem of software engineering isn't making a complex monstrosity with millions of lines of code and endless feature creep, but not …

Yeah it's as old as time to be honest. When Plato complains about writing diminishing our faculties for memorizing things, it's sometimes treated as an example of how we've always …

That is to the extent of my understanding, not correct. At least in the EU, "Given this framework, it follows that purely AI-generated outputs—those created automatically by an AI …

Makes sense. The G in GCC is for GNU right, GNU as in Stallman-style Free Software. The GPL operates based on copyright licenses. If LLM output can not be copyrightable (as the cou…

Concerns that shape my own decision to run Marginalia Search as a service based architecture rather than one blob include: * NUMA optimization - on multi-CPU architectures, I/O and…