Grothendank

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by Grothendank 3y ago
A 10% conversion rate would be incredible. If that were the case, it would be hard to be angry at people for exploiting this factor. However, I would be very surprised if the conversion rate of a popup signup sheet is even 2%. And there is
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by Grothendank 3y ago
You might enjoy this benchmark: https://www.reddit.com/r/browsers/comments/zebad6/a_few_andr... Some highlights: - Vivaldi is suprisingly fast and has good ad blocking - Kiwi plus the Ublock Origin exten
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by Grothendank 3y ago
If 30% of your users hate the interface so much that they immediately leave your service, then sure, you can say "70% of our users have no problem with our strobing call to action". But that does not stop the problem - 30% of your
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by Grothendank 3y ago
I recommend reading longer histories and reading them on audiobook. Those tell history in a nonlinear way, going events over and over and over from different perspectives, until you get the feeling of what it was like to live in that time.
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Another thought is that the friction should be inherently enjoyable. Another person gives the example of an extension that adds 10 seconds to the load time of Youtube videos. This would be a great time to take a breath, clear the mind, thin
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Why does this feel like a union made in hell? Partnering with the incomprehensibly byzantine andcomplacent architect of the SEOpocalypse AND "late-to-the-ai-party" Google does not give faith that the solution will be more performa
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Ironically, there is a school of thought on meditation which says that it's perfectly valid to meditate by picking a task or chore, then performing that task so that it engrosses the entire mind. According to this line of thought, this
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Here's my basic position: 1. The risk and threats are published 2. The audits I've seen don't evaluate the threats 3. Link me to the audits if you want to convince me I. The risks - airgapping is not enough 1. If the software
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by Grothendank 3y ago
I'm not trying to be flippant here, but how many of ghidra's 2 million lines of code have you audited?
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by Grothendank 3y ago
I'm looking at it. It's very beautiful code. 2,049,616 lines of it. Okay. I have looked at the code. Now what? Has that made me more secure?
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Is ghidra safe to use if you consider the NSA an adversary? Every person I've asked this question has had their noses so far up the NSA's pooper that they could not imagine considering the NSA an adversary. But suppose you were ru
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by Grothendank 3y ago
This actually works! It works astoundingly well with poorly written technical manuals. Looking at you, CMake reference manual O_O. It also helps translate unix man pages from Neckbeardese into clean and modern speech. With science papers it
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by Grothendank 3y ago
There's a difference between buzzwords and jargon. Buzzwords can start out as jargon, but have their technical meaning stripped by users who are just trying to sound persuasive. Examples include words like synergy, vertical, dynamic, c
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by Grothendank 3y ago
Should jackasses on HN use plain language instead of jargon? Surely. But AI workers mainly develop and use jargon because it is an easy and natural way to consolidate concepts. Sure, there is a kind of conspiracy caused by publish or perish
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by Grothendank 3y ago
There's a neat trick when you encounter jargon. 1. Identify the jargon terms you don't understand 2. Lookup papers that introduce the jargon terms 3. Skim-read the paper to get the gist of the jargon If you don't want to do t
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by Grothendank 3y ago
I feel like Lecun did a poor job of localizing the technique relative to any philosophy, or really explaining what it does for a nontechnical audience. Saying he gives talks to philosophers, or saying this pushes philosophy to its limits do
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Basically the thesis is that we can make needy and hapless students less needy and more self reliant by publicly roasting the most needy and hapless students among them. So basically lets bully the students into being more competent, becaus
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by Grothendank 4y ago
like I said it's better to not help people at all than to evolve the attitude that some people don't want to help themselves. people typically want to help themselves but don't know how, and might have self-defeating habits -
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by Grothendank 4y ago
It would be better to help zero people than it would be to develop the bitter attitude you've developed - this is because your attitude could prevent people from helping! I feel you've helped too many people, with too little rewar
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Tell the employer to close up shop, because they are too incompetent to design a business model that involves serving all customers, and doing any less is just fraud :shrug:
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Often you can guilt trip sales into acting as your advocate to other departments of the org. "I know it's not your job, but can you please make sure the person you'll transfer me to can help, uwu? I'm just a poor helples
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by Grothendank 4y ago
This is definitely one of the drivers of anti-capitalist extremism, and as an anti-capitalist extremist and recruiter, I can only say, "thanks!" Remember capitalism's job is to provide zero value for nonzero cost. Therefore,
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by Grothendank 4y ago
how does it approach these issues?
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by Grothendank 4y ago
If you loved authors who work towards the Public Good more than you loved authors who are complicit in predatory UX/SEO, then you would not blame me for this problem. Any writing or code I put out into the public is under a copyleft of
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Let me extend the Free Beer analogy. Suppose the bar where you serve free beer: 1. is an eyesore 2. serves beer I hate 3. bars the entry to vendors that serve beer I love Then I think you'll find I can do much better than simply being
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by Grothendank 4y ago
It's interesting because I have had a similar breakthroughs by using Bing to help organize and simplify my thoughts. I have Pure-O - a mental variant of obsessive compulsive disorder where I ruminate compulsively about things that conc
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Should I pay you for what you wrote? No. You wrote it to benefit me, and yet I should not pay you. Curious, right? How would you explain that? I would consider your message a gift, designed to help me correct what you see as a mistaken view
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by Grothendank 4y ago
Reading this conversation is like watching Casey skillfully and lovingly jailbreak Uncle Bob's GPT personality prompt, yielding a new and exciting performance focused alter ego which I admiringly dub "SPEEDY BOB".
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by Grothendank 4y ago
The claim is that writing causes you not to be disposed more positively - it doesn't really do that now does it? Writing is miserable work. No. The claim is that writing causes you to think more clearly and powerfully than not writing.
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by Grothendank 4y ago
It's the author's choice, and it's the author who should be punished. If you have something important to say, say it for free.

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