Self-Perfection

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by Self-Perfection 17d ago
>It's sole purpose is to deny the bots you don't want on your site. This is fundamentally impossible. In the end only pay per crawl will work. Like x402 but maybe something similar. In other words: not only client has to spend
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by Self-Perfection 17d ago
The better solution would be fix Anubis and optimise its calculations on iPhone. Maybe it needs WebAssembly hashing implementation instead of JS? But it would just make Anubis suck a little bit less Anubis "protection" model is w
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by Self-Perfection 1mo ago
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 now I see utterly confusing window with an image that tells
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
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 gives even more space savings though.
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
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 feasible? Should we push for this default? First obv
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
$ 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 to server Tried from two hosts, differe
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
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 common substance is especially dangerous/harmful for hi
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
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 special celebration of fast software. To celebrate one should
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by Self-Perfection 2mo ago
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 the issue. Number of performed actions has to be equal to n
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
> 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 like for humans we have propagand
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
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 demand) one leaves space for scalpers to exist and coll
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
In lossless mode WebP is superior to AVIF.
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
Why "was"? I still read books in fb2.
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
Looks like you missed that MapComplete is an alternative interface to view OSM data and contribute to it.
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
Superstimuli and the Collapse of Western Civilization https://www.lesswrong.com/s/MH2b8NfWv22dBtrs8/p/Jq73Gozjsuhd... I remember this LW essay most often
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by Self-Perfection 3mo ago
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 stimulus / interpreted my current sta
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by Self-Perfection 4mo ago
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 well as humans (one need oxygen atmosphere, food, parents).
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by Self-Perfection 4mo ago
> 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_zombie But this is complicated and takes
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by Self-Perfection 4mo ago
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 of possible influence of these entities. And I do
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by Self-Perfection 4mo ago
Hopefully this database is integrated with OpenStreetMap. OSM has extensive tagging scheme for phone booths: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dtelephone
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by Self-Perfection 5mo ago
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 pollution might play big role in insect population decline.
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by Self-Perfection 5mo ago
kudos to guys who already started to work in that direction! They track blockings: https://hayahora.futbol
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by Self-Perfection 5mo ago
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 false AI generated images? I'd say keepi
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by Self-Perfection 5mo ago
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/should be followed, which I will not pursue perso
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by Self-Perfection 5mo ago
[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 internet during soccer games): - Consider running policy in small s
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by Self-Perfection 6mo ago
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. Version 1.6 was especially abysmally slow to start, 10x times s
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by Self-Perfection 6mo ago
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 seems this was possible because ripgrep is
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by Self-Perfection 6mo ago
> like "TRY /fast" when Opus is overkill for the task In fact using /fast in this case would only increase spending. /fast mode uses the same opus but consumes $$$$ faster to produce tokens faster ) https:/
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by Self-Perfection 7mo ago
I use simpler solution (measuring by number of taps on the screen): share place from google maps to https://f-droid.org/packages/page.ooooo.geoshare which can convert it to actual latitude/longitude which in turn
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by Self-Perfection 7mo ago
Feels really laggy on desktop. Tried both Firefox and Brave. Like 3-4 FPS

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