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by sigil 6d ago
Great essay, thanks for sharing. When I was a software library developer, I came to resent application developers. I noticed a pattern. Libraries solved hard problems and did so carefully, thoughtfully, in a way that others could reuse. App
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by sigil 5mo ago
"Every augmentation is also an amputation." – McLuhan https://driverlesscrocodile.com/technology/neal-stephenson-o...
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by sigil 8mo ago
There's a reason Spotify might force shuffle play on the free tier. It isn't solely to annoy you into upgrading. Royalties are 2x - 5x higher for interactive vs non-interactive streaming plays.
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by sigil 10mo ago
Are human rights concerns running cover for more straightforward financial interests here? Norway and Saudi Arabia are both petrostates with large sovereign wealth funds.
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by sigil 1y ago
> I believe the bounding box has to fit all the possible ascenders and descenders etc., so the em-height is proportioned within the box to whatever the highest and lowest marks in the typeface are. I wish it were this simple. The em squa
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Mental Models and Potemkin Understanding in LLMs(alangrow.com)
1 points by sigil 1y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 1y ago
nginx validates hostnames per the spec, and to your question specifically it rejects requests that would put a slash in $host: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/b6e7eb0f5792d7a52d2675ee...
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by sigil 1y ago
This nginx local dev config snippet is one-and-done: # Proxy to a backend server based on the hostname. if (-d vhosts/$host) { proxy_pass http://unix:vhosts/$host/server.sock; break; } Your local
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by sigil 2y ago
These are neat. I'm reminded of Claude Mellan's face of Christ from 1649. This also uses a single continuous line, but he was carving the line by hand into steel! https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/your-collectio
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by sigil 2y ago
Gleick's "Chaos" got me sent to the principal's office in high school. I went crazy for fractals. Unfortunately all I had at home was an IBM PC XT. Mandelbrot set renderings were agonizingly slow and the CGA palette was
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Quantum Algorithm Solves Travelling Salesperson Problem with 1-Qubit(discovermagazine.com)
3 points by sigil 2y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 2y ago
Thank you!
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by sigil 2y ago
Who was the first person to propose FFTs for faster polynomial multiplication? Got curious about this recently. I’m not great at citation tracing, but did make it back to this 1995 paper by David Eppstein [0] where he uses it to efficiently
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by sigil 2y ago
> Sure, but how often do you need to touch that config? More often than I’d like! tmux config has broken backwards compatibility on me multiple times over the years. This is fine for most software — you upgrade your config once and you’r
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by sigil 2y ago
> And on a related note, Lewis Mumford, a philosopher and writer, wrote quite a bit about how clocks were (in his view) the necessary invention for capitalism to flourish. Szabo also takes this up in his excellent essay "A Measure o
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by sigil 2y ago
HTML can be described by a context-free grammar [0], but not by a regular grammar [1]. If a language can be described by a regular grammar, you can parse it with a regular expression -- that's where the "regular" in RegExp co
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by sigil 2y ago
This idea was used to great effect in Matt Might’s “Parsing with Derivatives” paper [0]! And it featured prominently in the Compilers class he taught at the University of Utah. [0] https://matt.might.net/papers/might201
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by sigil 2y ago
Lol okay man. Maybe if you're running FreeBSD 4.2 or HP-UX or some BSD derivative from the 90s. All unix systems from about 2000 on will honor unix domain socket permissions.
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by sigil 2y ago
Like you, we use pre-signed S3 upload urls. From there we use Transloadit [0] to crop and sanitize and convert and generate thumbnails. Transloadit is basically ImageMagick-as-a-Service. Running ImageMagick yourself on a huge variety of unt
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by sigil 2y ago
You do realize D-Bus also uses SO_PEERCRED right? And transitively polkit, systemd, and everything in that ecosystem. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus/-/blob/master/dbus/... > Meanin
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by sigil 2y ago
What do you mean by "great ideas and great implementation / bad execution and bad interface." Is this a plumbing vs porcelain distinction?
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by sigil 2y ago
I like s6! One of the key differences here is that s6-sudo builds on, rather than replaces, the standard unix permissions model. s6-sudod listens on a unix domain socket. Unix domain sockets are just files, so they have an owner, group and
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by sigil 2y ago
run0 has already been exploited: https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/17854955875146385... There will be plenty more where that came from. Yet another terrible idea and terrible implementation from Poetterin
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How I Made Wine Glasses from Sunflowers (2011)(blog.wolfram.com)
1 points by sigil 2y ago|0 comments
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Why Warp Drives Are About to Get Better(discovermagazine.com)
4 points by sigil 2y ago|1 comments
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by sigil 2y ago
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.03095.pdf
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by sigil 2y ago
Good question! Here's a paper, "Build systems à la carte: Theory and practice," that compares Make, Shake, Bazel, and Excel: https://ndmitchell.com/downloads/paper-build_systems_a_la_ca... Yes, Excel can
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by sigil 2y ago
The accompanying code lets you try this [0]. make -B DICT=/usr/share/dict/british-english ... ca,co,de,di,ed,er,es,in,li,mp,ng,nt,ra,re,ri,si,st,te,ti,ve No "ph", but definitely a different optimal t
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What Letter-Pair Tileset Forms the Most Words?(alangrow.com)
5 points by sigil 2y ago|2 comments
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by sigil 3y ago
> My FB password is 96 bits from /dev/urandom in a GPG-based password manager I wrote for myself a couple decades ago. We have the same approach to password management!

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