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mastermedo

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mastermedo··on VimGraph
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I'm curious about something a bit different. Given a vim buffer, and picking two caret locations in it, I'd like a tool that shows only the paths to getting there with my current Vim setup (including all the plugins).

After 10 years of using vim, I rarely use L and H. For horizontal moving it's almost always F or S (vim-sneak).

mastermedo··on AI Demos
Good work. The delay seems to be around 5 secods. This is a step in the right direction. I'm wondering how much more real-time can we push it.
mastermedo··on Very Wrong Math
> It becomes even less true once one gets to space. There height is a function of speed which means that to "catch up" something in front of you, you need to slow down.

Can you expand on this? My brain is not connecting the dots.

mastermedo··on Fascists and Rakes (2014)
What the article seems to be highlighting is _affirming the consequent_ fallacy whereby people deem you as evil when they observe you doing something they deem as wrong. Instead they should actually confirm that you too deem the act as wrong before they label you as evil.
mastermedo··on Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
This surprised me too. I am from Croatia, and while there is a fair bit of discrimination against anyone that's different in the country, I am very surprised about this magnitude of it. I'm curious about the route he took. Some road types are illegal to run along, and coincidentally the one going from south to north along the coast is illegal to be on for pedestrians to my knowledge. I wouldn't be surprised if any pedestrian was stopped on that road, it's dangerous to run where the speed limit is over 100 km/h.
mastermedo··on Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client
I gave firenvim a shot a few times in the past. The pain points for me were competing shortcuts between extensions (e.g. vimium) and too small realestate in most text area prompts where firenvim activated. I believe the messaging then was that you could just copy paste your nvim config over, and firenvim would use it in the browser. While I think that's true, what makes a good config in the terminal is not the same as what makes a good config in small text area prompts on most websites.

EDIT: I remembered another issue. I'm not able to use it at work because my employer doesn't allow extensions that access all data on a website.

mastermedo··on Brunello Cucinelli scroll zoom-out website
Continue browsing > Scroll to explore > My Life > Scroll away

I found this while looking at what https://www.endlesspaper.app turned out to be.

mastermedo··on Show HN: Defrag the Game
You need to swipe. Works on iphone 13 + chrome.
mastermedo··on I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)
By grayscale filter you mean a physical screen protector that is passthrough only for gray colour?
mastermedo··on British duo arrested for SMS phishing via homemade cell tower
Why does this work? How simple is it to follow the sms protocol, I thought there were spam filters in place on the phones to prevent receiving any traffic from towers which are not registered to a well known network provider (or what have you).
mastermedo··on Stable Audio Open
Except here the out is not commons if I understand correctly.

EDIT: might be cc, non commercial

mastermedo··on Just got doxxed to within 15 miles by a vision model, from only a single photo
Original link https://geospy.ai/. Pretty scary stuff, I took a picture of one tree, got pinpointed to 4 km.
mastermedo··on Add Depth of Field to Screenshots
Looks interesting. In the beginning I thought it would blur the part of the screenshot farthest away from you and keep the closest thing in focus. But that's not how it works.

I guess it could be useful for focusing on a particular part of the screenshot if you one could mark what the important part is.

mastermedo··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
suno.ai
mastermedo··on Deep Bug
Yikes, can you explain a bit more? It sounds like a nightmare to debug.
mastermedo··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
I generated a song in 30 seconds from getting on the site, and generated a song that is crazy relatable, funny and sounds good. Made the whole family smile. This is going places.
mastermedo··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
I see, that makes sense. And automatic provisioning can be costly in instances like ddosing.
mastermedo··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
I might be out of touch with reality, but billions of requests per month sounds like peanuts. Is that considered a big ddos attack?
mastermedo··on Just 2 cans of soda per week is too much – even if you exercise
This is not how discussions work.

A: I think X. B: Interesting, why do you think that? A: I have 10 years of thinking about it. B: I have 10 years of thinking about it and have the opposite opinion. A: If you're suggesting I'm not telling the truth then it's not possible for us to have a good faith discussion on this topic.

I might've made a fallacy, but this is what popped to mind when I read this comment.

mastermedo··on Private company landing on the moon today
Their desk in the middle of the control room is proof that earth is a flat disk. Surely they would have a spherical desk had the earth been a sphere!
mastermedo··on Periodic Table Gallery
In Google, we have these things called peer bonuses. When you want to thank your fellow colleague for something nice they’ve done you can send them ~$200. Recently, I started a project where I wspend the peer bonus budget on luciteria.com/element-cubes. The grant approximately equals the average price of a lucite element cube. Soon™ I should have a full periodic table at my work desk!
mastermedo··on Cloudflare employee posts layoff call with HR and goes viral [video]
Additional context: https://twitter.com/TheTranscript_/status/165269146916406886...
mastermedo··on Push and Pull
I don’t really understand the pull. It sounds like push is the shoulds and pull is the musts. As far as I understand it, push is the ‘do X’, pull is the ‘hold accountable when they don’t do X, or praise when they do’.

But these seem as two sides of the same coin, not as orthogonal concepts.

mastermedo··on Multi-Layered Calendars
I second the idea of revisiting the calendar. I add events in the calendar of what I’ve been doing every time I context switch. It makes it purposefully annoying to context switch often, and I revisit what I did that week at the end of it. Additionally, I’m able to answer questions such as “What percentage of time do I spend on research vs writing vs coding etc.
mastermedo··on Probability and Markets [pdf]
I remember going through that Pdf when I was interviewing with them. Very helpful stuff. I feel like I learned more about statistics while going through hundreds of Jane Street interview questions than I did during my university studies.
mastermedo··on The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1999)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar often comes in discussions along with the Song of Sisyphus[0], a story of how Sisyphus software became widely used within Google. The use of it spread over bar drinks, completely organically. And Google had a very hard time deprecating it.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/a-case-study/9781098114...

mastermedo··on Ten Thousand Ways to Use Chopsticks
Most of my Eastern friends use the scissorhand grip, while my Western friends use a mix of righthand rule / standard. TIL thanks!
mastermedo··on Clock
Brilliant, the physical version seems like a good gift: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195310640/author-clock...
mastermedo··on SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ and Replaced It with a Postgres Queue
What about messages that uncover a bug in the consumer/message format? After X failed attempts, the data shouldn’t be enqueued anymore, but rather logged somewhere for engineers to inspect.
mastermedo··on How a heat pump works
I'm getting an error when trying to load the page: > Error establishing a database connection

https://web.archive.org/web/20230210134443/https://hvac-lear...

The archive.org is pretty slow on this one as well, as it is an interactive site.

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