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by xjay 2y ago
Re: Pagination Situation: There are N results shown per page. There are N+1 results remaining. Rigid/simple: The last result is put on a separate page. Flexible/human: If the last results are within some reasonable threshold then
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by xjay 2y ago
Perspectives [2015-09] Anne C. Reboul: "Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution" - , Laboratory on Language, Brain and Cognition (L2C2), Institute for Cognitive Sciences-Marc Jeann
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by xjay 2y ago
In a web context, I was thinking this when I checked out the web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1]; why would they use a thin, small typeface with light gray color on a bright/white background which makes the text le
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by xjay 2y ago
Somewhat related: "The Egg" [2009*] is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir. [1] > You, a 48-year-old man who dies in a car crash, meet God, the narrator, who says that you have been reincarnated many times befo
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by xjay 2y ago
Underscore as a separator, YYYY_MM_DD: 1970_01_01 2024_06_09 2024_12_31 16383_12_31 Treated as base-10 number literal in some programming languages. 5 bits for DD [0, 31] + 4 bits for MM [0, 15] + 14 or more bits for year [0, 1
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by xjay 2y ago
Related: 2016: Facts and statistics on domestic violence at-a-glance > The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project: The world's largest domestic violence research data base, 2,657 pages, with summaries of 1700 peer-reviewed studies
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by xjay 2y ago
Windows should be broken up. "Windows 11 Platform" for applications, drivers, security updates, and gaming. No (forced) Microsoft account. Only security updates. "Windows 11 Plus" is a subscription model for enhanced f
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by xjay 2y ago
EU: In the name of the EU government, you are all under arrest. Democracy: It's treason, then.
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by xjay 2y ago
See also: Bit Twiddling Hacks https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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by xjay 2y ago
Cloud 1: Cloud does all the compute, logic, storage, and transfer. Cloud 2 = Cloud 1, but delegate more compute/logic to edge/local computers to reduce cost. [1] Cloud 3 = Cloud 2, but edge/local computer has hardware specifi
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by xjay 2y ago
Replace it with a QR, but it contains a UUID which has to be used to look up the current street name. (If all you have is a phone, everything can be solved with an app.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code
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by xjay 2y ago
See also: The Elephant in the Brain [1] > The main thesis of the book is that we are very often not aware of our real reasons for most of our behaviours. Our behaviors are optimised for living in a social group and very often, from the p
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by xjay 2y ago
Android defaults to sending the IMSI (SIM ID) to Google. > SUPL is used as part of the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) system to get a faster Time to First Fix. The problem is that Android's implementation automatically sends the IMSI (ID of t
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by xjay 2y ago
I can imagine this happening in many places: 1) Idealist phase. 2) Hype phase. 3) Novelty wears off = Leave. 4) Bean counter phase. 5) ???
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by xjay 2y ago
Random stuff: David Lynch on what lead him to cast the set decorator, Frank Silva, as "Bob" in Twin Peaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37P0ukg4io0&t=40s
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by xjay 2y ago
This is what happens when you over-iterate on a specification. Keep it simple. Be kind to your fellow automaton.
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by xjay 2y ago
Sidenote: MSVC had an optimization option for Windows 98, I think it was /OPT:98 (/FILEALIGN:4096). It sets the "file alignment" of sections in the portable executable (PE) file to 4096 bytes (0x1000) = 1 memory page -&
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by xjay 2y ago
> They haven't open sourced anything. They posted a tweet. [1] [1@2024-04-06] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7MRj4N2Cyk&t=429s [Twitch] https://twitch.tv/georgehotz
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by xjay 2y ago
In some 1990s sci-fi series, an alien race played the long game by directing some (invisible) energy beam at the sun, accelerating its transition into becoming a red giant, a process which would have otherwise taken billions of years.
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Star Trek: TNG, season 1, episode 8, "Justice". > One punishment for any crime. Execution. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7XqGiwfUyI
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by xjay 2y ago
See also: Data, context, and interaction (DCI, 2000-) [1] > The paradigm separates the domain model (data) from use cases (context) and Roles that objects play (interaction). DCI is complementary to model–view–controller (MVC). MVC as a
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by xjay 3y ago
The problem is that we as a society constantly have to deal with adult children, so don't expect reason. Do expect elaborate rationalizations intended to waste the energy of an indecisive parent, who is basically getting bullied by a
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by xjay 3y ago
Maybe one hack would be to have a binary "restricted" flag communicated through the ISP's reverse IP lookup (probably very slow). It wouldn't put any personal information at risk, but it would probably open Pandora&#x27
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by xjay 3y ago
Alan Kay mentioned this recently at a UCLA talk [1] in February. It's known as the "The Friedman doctrine" after the American economist Milton Friedman. A) Milton Friedman: Shareholder profits > All. "...the social
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by xjay 3y ago
Writing by hand implicitly involves a delay which is another factor to consider. With the modern typewriter and rectangular light bulb, you may have to explicitly slow down to soak the information, in this hypothetical scenario.
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by xjay 3y ago
"The 80/20 rule"/The Pareto principle > Mathematically, the 80/20 rule is roughly described by a power law distribution (also known as a Pareto distribution) for a particular set of parameters. Many natural pheno
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Imperialism also exists in the digital realm. Step 1) Aggressively capture some digital space using money and resources few others can match in physical space. Step 2) Control who or what can access this now prevalent realm. The shortest p
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by xjay 3y ago
Sobering read in an age of alcohol intoxication ("AI"). There is a project that tracks/curates "AI" in the context of bad use or real world (mis-)application [1]. [1] https://incidentdatabase.ai/
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by xjay 3y ago
Warning from Daniel Kahneman on "System 1" and "System 2". [1] > I'm going to use "System 1" and "System 2", absolutely as homunculi. [...] They don't exist. [...] Don't look for t
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by xjay 3y ago
In this case, a 64-bit little-endian unsigned integer Ought to be enough for anyone. [1] Using variable-length "micro-compression" schemes like these merges concerns [2], add processing overhead, and lose out on the simplicity and

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