jonathanyc

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by jonathanyc 4mo ago
I have been walking some newer programmers through Git recently, so this topic is fresh on my mind. The commands in the blog post do not look friendlier or even different.
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by jonathanyc 1y ago
> The idea of “weighing souls” reminded me of another anti-spam solution from the 90s… believe it or not, there was once a company that used poetry to block spam! > Habeas would license short haikus to companies to embed in email head
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by jonathanyc 1y ago
They write: "Below, we show uncut videos of runs during which Dreamer collected diamonds." ... but the first video only shows the player character digging downwards without using any tools and eventually dying in lava. What?
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I've been the same thing now that I look for it. In a theater in December I saw at least 2 people scrolling through Google or Apple News. In the plane I saw at least 3 people on TikTok. On roadtrips people scroll through Reddit when th
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs. I considered using a Fly GPU instance for a project and went with Hetzner instead. Fly.io’s GPU offering was just way too expensiv
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Thanks for the reply! That makes a lot of sense.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The app looks really good! Based on the title I thought it’d be something you made most as a testbed for Racket so I was surprised to see the app itself actually looks great :D I tried looking through your blog but couldn’t find anything ex
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The vast majority of the scam or spam texts I receive come from one provider: Bandwidth ( https://www.bandwidth.com/ ). They technically allow you to report phone numbers ( https://www.bandwidth.com/legal/
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
While studying anthropology I briefly heard about the theory that in monarchies the support of the nobility should be conceived of as an investment. It really stuck with me.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I actually had no idea FFmpeg could do this. Are there any sample videos for people to look at? I know YouTube has a very aggressive video stabilization option, but I'm sure that that's using something more complicated than what F
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I haven't seen any information that could be used for this in the RSS feeds I've looked at. You could scrape the website, especially if it's all running on your own computer, but if you do it on a server you'll almost ce
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I've worked in the SF Bay Area my whole life and no one has ever asked me how I voted at work. Also even if someone asked me, there's no way for anyone to know how I voted, so I could just lie!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I mean, I'll accept your interpretation with as much charity as I take Musk's public statements, even though I think both are wrong :) Hope to chat again in a happier context!
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Not really. It uses S-expressions but Scheme pattern matching is totally different. The most common Scheme pattern matching syntax is basically the same as pattern matching in any other language: x means “bind the value at this position to
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I loved the vending machines for drinks!! I had at least one novel drink every day and enjoyed almost all of them. If you remember the name of the white grape drink you mention I’d love to look for it, it sounds great.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
In Canada, there was a lot of controversy over the government awarding ~$200M in contracts to one consultancy, almost always without competitive bidding. They chronically underdelivered, e.g.: There has been much scrutiny over how muc
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The query language is definitely underdocumented. In case it helps you, what helped me was realizing it’s basically a funky pattern language, à la the match pattern sublanguages in OCaml/Haskell/Rust. But the syntax for variable b
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Igalia is a pretty interesting business. For context, they are a consultancy whose engineers contribute quite a bit to the various browser engines (WebKit, Blink, and Gecko; perhaps Servo too?), among other things. From Wikipedia: In
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
To my surprise, they sold these things in pretty much every big store I went to in Japan. A record store sold them, albeit in the adult records section. But an otherwise normal department store also sold them behind a curtain. I bought one
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I don’t think you and I disagree! I agree that Musk is being a hypocrite and that his actions are inconsistent both with (1) being a ‘free speech absolutist’ and with (2) allowing all legal speech. But (2) is definitely not (1). He used t
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
I like the idea of a guide like this. Reminds me of “Implementation of Hex Grids,” another high quality game-related guide: https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/implementation.h... and before that, “Beej’s
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Weird, this whole time I had the impression that the Apple App Store was more strongly reviewed than the Google Play Store. I remember searching on the Play Store and getting e.g. lookalike/phishing apps pretending to be Firefox, but w
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
This is very cool. I was randomly clicking on circles and thinking it was weird that none of them sounded bad yet. Then I clicked on one of the presets, which merged its state in, and realized it was indeed possible to end up with a loop th
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
On the one hand, Musk has already retracted his claim[1] that he's a "free speech absolutist"[2], so I don't think it's fair to come after him for that: In last month’s interview with the BBC, Musk said, “the
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
Interesting: > He and Kressner’s algorithm is delightful. Ultimately, it uses randomness in only a small way. For most coefficients a_1, a_2 \in \real, a matrix Q diagonalizing a_1 H + a_2 S will also diagonalize A = H+iS. But, for any s
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
The Hotelling game seems related: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs6840/2020sp/note/scribe... https://www.eco.uc3m.es/~mmachado/teaching/oi-i-mei/slides/4... IIRC
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
> Through effective population size reconstructions and extensive population genetics simulations, we reject a scenario involving a severe population bottleneck during the 1600s, as proposed by the ecocide theory.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
This is an interesting idea! Could you put some examples of the recommendations the system generates on the home page?
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
As a corollary, if you try to be too clever with your data reduction strategy, you might walk yourself into a dead end / local maximum by making the job of off-the-shelf compression algorithms more difficult.
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by jonathanyc 2y ago
This is particularly interesting to me because (1) they have a natural control, given that it’s such a small area, and (2) the mechanism is apparently a mystery? > When comparing the site to a nearby control area that hadn't been tr

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