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syockit··on Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
E-mail has always been decentralized. But if you're looking for a feature-packed server/client, then maybe iRedMail and Roundcube will do?

As for identity service, in its early years OAuth had many service providers. But then the providers don't bother to maintain the service so many sites also stopped using OAuth as login alternative due to unreliabiliy of the feature.

For password saver, KeePass + (sync service of your choice) also works? (Personally, I don't use it)

syockit··on What's Great about Julia?
It is already doing what V8 does. It's only compiling when needed. The problem is when you start to put in too many things in the startup script, which is going to compile the things it says it "needs", even though you may never use when running.
syockit··on What's Great about Julia?
It's catering to Fortran developers. Matlab was also catering to Fortran developers (you can read up the history of Matlab). And I wouldn't discount HPC guys as non-developers.
syockit··on The Army tried to develop a missile guided by pigeons
Pigeons, not swallows.
syockit··on Stable Diffusion 2.0
They don't. The training dataset though, may have been obtained through human rights violation. The problem is when the novelty starts to wear out. Then they will start to look for fresh training data which may again incur more human rights violation. If you can ensure that no new training data are obtained that way, then I guess it's okay? (Personally, I don't condone it)
syockit··on What is the history of ‘Vox populi, vox Dei’? (2013)
Simple. If you stay on the same position, and the party you're talking to moves far to the left, you automatically become far right without doing anything.

The tiki torch guys, well, they're the original far-right guys, and are still far right because they were already past the threshold since the beginning.

syockit··on Plants use their epigenetic memories to adapt to climate change
I'd say being outcompeted by already thriving local flora. When "planting" they must have made sure that the conditions were optimal for survival (soil condition, no competing crops etc.).
syockit··on Divers accidentally find a piece of the Challenger space shuttle
Well, it never left the atmosphere.
syockit··on FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
Donations from employees, not the company itself. The company can't force the employees to donate in a specific way (or maybe they can. I don't the know US laws, but that would sound unethical)
syockit··on Gundam and anime replace rampant politics in Japanese Twitter Trends
Au contraire; something of value was gained.
syockit··on Re-using the heat in bathwater in Britain
What, all my life I thought that was the normal way of showering. So how do you people actually shower? You leave the tap on while soaping?
syockit··on Study: Electroshock therapy more successful for depression than ketamine
Hmm, that is starting to sound like nerve stapling.
syockit··on Why we chose not to release Stable Diffusion 1.5 as quickly
So long as the AI can remain creative. Once it has exhausted itself of that while the niche consumers still crave for more variation. That's when children start to get hurt again.
syockit··on Why most published research findings are false (2005)
Even in hard sciences such as physics, there is a problem where not many researchers have access to instruments used in the published result, or even if they do, it's just too expensive to do it just to replicate (low return on investment).
syockit··on A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem
> no obsolete constructs such as gotos

How do you deal with resource management? Do you create a wrapper type for those that don't have automatic destructor? (I'm surprised that stdlib doesn't provide a wrapper for files)

syockit··on A modern Fortran scientific programming ecosystem
At some point you'll want to do scripting to automate some stuffs so I don't think you could really fully get rid of it.
syockit··on We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity
The latter. Effect of an effect of an action.
syockit··on Looped Square Or ⌘
I couldn't count the many times I've been saved by the menu key, when my mouse somehow stops working for no reason. I hate that my current keyboard relegates it to be second-class citizen in lieu of the Fn key taking its place (which on the other hand I find to be useless).
syockit··on Bill Gates: You’ll never solve climate change by asking people to consume less
> but as soon as we get more efficient things, we just consume more.

A phenomenon known as Jevons paradox.

syockit··on Bill Gates: You’ll never solve climate change by asking people to consume less
> Workers at large just need to be able to kick out any management that decides to exploit their labor.

Corporate politics are already bad as it is, and this is going to make it worse.

syockit··on “I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
No, you only have the license, not the copyright. So you are permitted to redistribute the code as stipulated by the license, but you are not allowed to, for example, relicense existing code to something else like BSD (except for modifications that you made afterwards).
syockit··on College Tuition Is Marketing Fraud
The postulate that college price inflation is a result of college being seen as essential to having joyful living may well be agreed upon, but as to why it is seen that was may, there may be other things at play rather than solely college marketing.
syockit··on Former world champion reveals that she was ordered to lose Olympic semi-final
Here's an article for that: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2018/10/17/tian-jis-horse...
syockit··on C++ Expression Templates: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo & XTensor (2020)
Good article. Next time I ever want to revisit using C++ for scientific calculation again I'll keep in mind that Fastor has the fastest compilation time of all. Still, 2 seconds for just a benchmark code is a bit too much.

I remember doing this kind of finite difference stencil templating using plain C++. All the performance gains went out of the window as soon as the array size becomes dynamic.

syockit··on Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship
I remember that one. It's the one where Biden said "well, son of a bitch, he got fired", right? But what does that have to do with Trump?
syockit··on Apology for Video Games Research
Now that you mentioned that, I remember World of Warcraft having a pandemic event that spurred some discussion in epidemiology circles.
syockit··on FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19
Hiding it from the army is not the point. Who knows if there'd be another maniac with a homemade gun or explosives out there, just like what happened with the ex-PM of Japan.
syockit··on Canada Will Implement a New Luxury Tax on High-Priced Planes and Vehicles
If the goal is to reduce production of private jets and vehicles, then go for it.

The last time USA tried this it killed jobs and reduced tax income.

syockit··on Twenty years of Valgrind
There are times when LeakSanitizer (in gcc-8.2) would not give me the full backtrace of a leak, while valgrind would, so to me it's still an indispensable tool for debugging leaks. One caveat is that it's magnitudes slower than valgrind. Now, if only I know how to make valgrind run as fast as LeakSanitizer... (command line options?)
syockit··on People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'
Now, if only the food packaging shows the ratio of n3:n6 fats... Is it expensive/difficult to determine them?
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