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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/obscurescience; my proof: https://keybase.io/obscurescience/sigs/Q7IZfMYUD9o69c51npXAEghcb0q3TZBSbLuSRj3WvZQ ]
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ObscureScience··on TXR: An Original, New Programming Language for Convenient Data Munging
Could be interesting to port as a Racket #lang
ObscureScience··on I resigned from Anthropic today
I'm not sure where I place AI (of the current family), but more than directly worry about the actions they may perform I'm actually more worried what affects their usage can have on us as individuals and society.
ObscureScience··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
My employer uses CDN77. Only for serving static resources.
ObscureScience··on DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
It would be interesting to research more into parameter analysis to learn more about what parameters a trained network has "extracted" that has the strongest predictive power; assuming the model itself has such preductive power. I guess I'm imagining some kind of alternative to embeddings where you get answers like: Predicted percipitation P(accumulated humidity over n days, net wind vector over n days, humity today, temperature today, ...)
ObscureScience··on Em dashes are amazing
That seems to be the case with linguistic- and group practices in general. It's not universal law, and while the overlap of correctness and even best practice is pretty big, there are still differences. Subject matter, language, abstract institution (universities), concrete ditto (Oxford, Chalmers, Max Planck IoT, Royal Academy of {country}), register/style (daily newspaper, tabloid), etc.
ObscureScience··on 98.css
Are you thinking of Win 2.0? https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl...
ObscureScience··on HMD Touch 4G
This one was recently up in HN: https://dumbermini.com/
ObscureScience··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
Yeah, why should it not be desireble to give them access to the good properties of such devices and the internet?
ObscureScience··on Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive
I guess it could disable the killswitch
ObscureScience··on The peril of laziness lost
"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.

To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.

Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.

ObscureScience··on this css proves me human
I read it as the latter. With all the bots out there running their own blogs and making commits to projects that was the context I assumed. It reminded me of this one https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
ObscureScience··on Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)
You mean point of local maximum in the mass field?
ObscureScience··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
I don't get it. Why should not tickets be submitted for when a new feature worsen the usability of the product?
ObscureScience··on Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
I didn't read malice into the post, just using a tongue-in-cheek tone.

My reading was "letting them know doing bad choices will not quitely be accepted".

But I may ofcourse read something into it that wasn't meant.

ObscureScience··on Pyrefly: Python type checker and language server in Rust
The analogy would be mandatory inspections of certain components or manufacturing processes to see that rules and specs are followed while assembling.
ObscureScience··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage. But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.
ObscureScience··on TPDE-LLVM: Faster LLVM -O0 Back-End
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ObscureScience··on I tried Servo
How do you think Firefox is making money, since it has no payed features? Hint: it has Google search as the default search engine.
ObscureScience··on I tried Servo
While it's hard to know what comes of it, there is also https://ladybird.org/ to challenge to monopoly of Blink.
ObscureScience··on More women than expected are genetically men (2016)
I don't believe that is true (but I am certainly outside of my expertise). As far as I understand it, sex chromosomes (specifically the Y chromosome) are responsible for genitalia differentiation, but the relevant genes of the chromosome needs to be expressed for it to happen. Whether it's the Y chromosome itself that is inactive, or genes on the other chromosomes that supress it I have no clue about.
ObscureScience··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
>In your Windows vs. Linux example, Linux just doesn't do a lot of things very well on the UI/UX side of things (e.g., window management, driver support, an out of the box experience).

That judgement confuses me a lot. Window management, drivers and out of the box experience has been much better in Linux for the last 10 years in my experience. Sure, there are some companies that don't ship drivers for Linux or the configuration software is not fully fledged. Window management has almost always been better in Linux, but of course depends on the WM. Windows innovated one nice feature in Vista (aero snap) which most desktop environments has implemented since.

If you install Fedora, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, what are you lacking from that out of the box experience? Generally no driver installation needed, and no cleaning up of bloatware.

ObscureScience··on I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
I don't see any relation. Pigz is a multithreaded reimplenentation of gzip (drop in replacement)
ObscureScience··on Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
That table is unfortunately quite old. I can't personally say what have changed, but it is hard to put much confidence in the relevance of the information.
ObscureScience··on Blog hosted on a Nintendo Wii
Anyone knows if the Starlet co-processor is accessible from NetBSD?
ObscureScience··on Surrealist Compliment Generator
This one was pretty reasonable: "The perils of your eyelashes torture my libido into a state of crass belief in Roman Catholicism"
ObscureScience··on Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting
Electrical safety -> not destroying your GPU does seem like something sellable.

It could probably be spinned into some performance pitch if you really want to.

ObscureScience··on A Minecraft server written in COBOL
There are actually cross play solutions such as https://github.com/GeyserMC/Geyser, there are some limitation, but not too many. Basically disabling the features that only exists in one version.
ObscureScience··on Ask HN: How do you view the merits and future of Stellar Lumens (XLM)?
I was an early user of Keybase, and at one point they started promoting this crypto currency, including giving away some starting capital. I understand it as a serious project for payments, rather than a cash grab for early adopters. After years of stable value (not even following inflation) it recently shot up in value on trading markets (Trump effect?). However it now seems to be going back down again.

What are your thoughts on this specific currency. Is it worth "betting on" (not specifically trading, but buying as a well functioning payment resource)?

ObscureScience··on The Analog Thing: Analog Computing for the Future
Cool, I was thinking about the other way around, using an analog computer to build synthesizers.
ObscureScience··on The almost-lost art of rosin potatoes
Yeah almond potatoes should not be parboiled in my opinion. I prefer to halve them (not smaller/slimmer pieces).
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