ethmarks

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by ethmarks 5d ago
It is > Ironically, this project was built with AI coding and uses AI to filter out articles about AI. Go figure. https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai
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by ethmarks 3mo ago
> i wouldn't expect css gaussian blur of all things to cause slowdowns in some browsers Gaussian blurs are extremely performance intensive. They need to be calculated for every individual pixel, and the per-pixel computation inv
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by ethmarks 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure that's because the entire <main> of the site has an 8px Gaussian blur on it: .site-main[data-astro-cid-bpoqdqeq] { backdrop-filter:blur(8px); } Why, exactly? The page looks visually identical w
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by ethmarks 4mo ago
> they accept money and direct deposit still with no KYC. But to get the money out? Oh no! We need a picture of your face! Unauthorized deposits aren't nearly as much of a concern as unauthorized withdrawals, right? I'd imagine
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by ethmarks 4mo ago
> when they bought the successful ads company Could you elaborate on this? What ad company did Google buy?
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by ethmarks 4mo ago
Does the pitch describe the distance between the edges of the pixels or between the centers?
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by ethmarks 4mo ago
> the size of the rust binary The `render` binary weighed 4.0 MB on disk when I compiled it a few minutes ago. Not sure if that's what you were looking for, but just in case it is, there you go. Here's the logs, if you want: h
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by ethmarks 5mo ago
The source for the site is here: https://github.com/dyne/cjit/tree/main/docs . It's a VitePress site with a custom theme. Glancing through the code, I don't see any obvious signs of LLM coding.
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by ethmarks 5mo ago
I don't think that complaining about things necessitates believing that you're entitled to them. I agree that complaining about things you received for free is in rather poor taste, but I don't think that it's morally wr
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by ethmarks 5mo ago
Pardon my ignorance, but why does the "447 TB/cm^2" density value use square centimeters instead of a volume unit? Does the information capacity of this material really scale in proportion to area? How? Or is it just a typo?
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
The Copilot in Visual Studio (Code) is not the same as Microsoft's Copilot. The former is GitHub's AI product and the latter is Microsoft's AI product. You can tell them apart because GitHub Copilot's icon is a helmet wi
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Kurzgesagt didn't invent the concept of disassembling Mercury to build a Dyson swarm. Stuart Armstrong proposed it in a lecture in 2012[0]. [0]: https://youtu.be/zQTfuI-9jIo?si=3jwmhoB7zx6rclhb
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
There are other substances that can be used for reactor coolant. Molten salt reactors are actually substantially more efficient than water-cooled reactors because they have a higher operating temperature. You can also use liquid metal as c
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Could you elaborate? Why would being deep in the gravity well be a non-starter? I thought Mercury's proximity to Sol was a huge advantage because of the ample solar power which would make planet-side manufacturing easier.
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
They asked if the astronauts "want to risk it", not if it was actually safe. Those are very different questions. The astronauts are, in fact, the world's leading experts on whether or not they personally want to risk it, so i
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
The semantics that make sense to me is that "DDoS" describes the symptom/effect irrespective of intent, and "DDoS attack" describes the malicious crime. But the terms are frequently used interchangeably.
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Project Hail Mary. It's a sci-fi novel by Andy Weir (author of The Martian) that was adapted into a movie that released in theaters a couple weeks ago. It's fantastic and you should totally read/watch it.
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Firstly, since this argument is about semantic pedantry anyways, it's just denial-of-service, not distributed denial-of-service. AI scraper requests come from centralized servers, not a botnet. Secondly, denial-of-service implies inten
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Unintentional denial-of-service attacks from AI scrapers are definitely a problem, I just don't know if "theft" is the right way to classify them. They shouldn't get lumped in with intellectual property concerns, which a
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
In a similar vein, I want a text editor where pasting from an external source isn't allowed. If you try, it should instantly remove the pasted text. Copy-pasting from inside the document would still be allowed (it could detect this by
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Which is especially odd because the author (Sam Hughes) lives in the UK and wrote the original in UK English, but apparently wrote the rewrite in US English. For example, a chapter in the original was titled "Case Colourless Green&quot
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
> The only way text can become communication is when the writer has intents I'm curious as to what you mean by this. I assume you don't mean it literally, as that would be trivially falsifiable (for example, the text readout on
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Counterpoint: a major use case for this technology would be to experiment on human brain structures to research and hopefully cure neurological diseases like Alzheimer's. If you want to cure Alzheimer's in humans, you might as wel
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by ethmarks 6mo ago
Is there a reason they're using human brain cells specifically? This seems like it would also work with neurons from other creatures. I was under the impression that the relative intelligence of humans versus other animals was largely
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
> Here's the thing, people make casual remarks, they use imprecise non technical colloquillisms. I think that you're completely misunderstanding my objection here. I'm not in the least bit upset by people using "zip&q
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
Putting aside both my age and the latency of my initial response, all that I was trying to do was correct godelski's erroneous attempted correction of sweetjuly's lighthearted joke. The "colloquial usage of zip" that god
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
> Did you hyperfixate on the colloquial usage of zip? No? I am not hyperfixating on the colloquial usage of ZIP. The colloquial usage of "zip" would be "any compression container", which is not what I'm talking a
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
> You do realize there is both lossy and lossless compression, right? This is simply wrong. There is no lossy compression for ZIP. DEFLATE, by far the most common ZIP compression method, uses LZ77 and Huffman Coding, both of which are lo
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
Apparently the site itself is written in Loon. The HTML is just a static shell that loads a `boot.js` script[1] that runs some WASM that compiles and evals the Loon source files. I found the source code here[2]. Definitely cool in concept,
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by ethmarks 7mo ago
Because we don't know if this would scale well to high-quality frontier models. If you need to manufacture dedicated hardware for each new model, that adds a lot of expense and causes a lot of e-waste once the next model releases. In c

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