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Yep. The way to break the cycle is to address whatever is pushing people to the edge, but that would [lower property values / give people things they don't deserve / invalidate the hard work I did to get where I am / etc].

We all saw the police go "mask off" in response to the George Floyd protests in 2020, showing us how they're more interested in violence against people challenging their power than they are in our actual safety. Why are they being allowed to keep growing and taking root in more of our institutions?

I believe most big farms in the US are family farms. It's not synonymous with small scale.

Are you planning to release code search as open source? I can’t find a link to the source code anywhere.

CA HSR is now actively being built. You can track its progress at https://buildhsr.com/.

It’s impossible for an organization the size of Microsoft to behave according to a consistent set of values. Don’t rely on their “good graces” for an instant.

This type of thinking might be acceptable if access to necessities like housing, health care, food, utilities, child care, and education didn't require you to make money. As it is, the end result of your efficiency is real human suffering.

Today's HTML spec defines precisely what will happen for any input—feed modern browsers all the tag soup you'd like!

I've never heard of solder with mercury in it. I'm surprised anyone would sell something like that.

Complete tangent, but why don't they put simple AM radio receivers (or even low power transmitters) in cell phones? Imagine the cool stuff you could do with an AM radio API!

Are there any organizations working toward the abolition of intellectual property in the US? I agree with you that it's ridiculous and would love to do something about it.

There’s a third path here, which is to target WebAssembly directly, with no wrappers. Then you can import just the functionality the module needs to work.

The benefit is that you can actually understand what your code is capable of doing to its environment (instead of working with the “one size fits all” type of interface that has produced so many security issues on existing platforms).

It's not exactly daily, but Leah Neukirchen's Trivium (the successor to the original "tumblelog", anarchaia) is a fantastic link-only blog: https://leahneukirchen.org/trivium/

std::unordered_map is forced to be slow and make lots of allocations due to iterator invalidation requirements. It's usually a good choice to avoid it (and use a different hash table implementation) if you care about performance.

The trick is to slay the dragon and then go home. If you stick around the gold and treasure for too long, that’s when it starts to get dangerous.

In my experience, avoiding GC is necessary to hit consistent a 60 FPS. GC pauses will mean randomly dropped frames.

Yeah, exactly -- if you're curious, here are the 1:1.5 ratio 6-rectangle dissections after disabling all the code that removes duplicates: https://i.imgur.com/jbZcpFT.png

Hey, that's me! Though I mention it in the post, I also want to give a shoutout here to libcalcium, which handles the somewhat magical task of representing and comparing exact algebraic numbers: https://fredrikj.net/calcium/index.html.

It's hard to imagine what role this type of mass facial recognition technology would have in a healthy society.

ChatGPT, the free encyclopedia that no one can edit!

An induction stovetop. It really does boil water as fast as they say.

When I was messing around with C64 programming, I used dasm (https://dasm-assembler.github.io/) and the VICE emulator (https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/). But I'm sure there are better tools out there. This text file is a fantastic reference on the VIC-II video chip: http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/c64/vic-ii.txt

I'd encourage anyone interested to download VICE and try putting a sprite in the sideborder yourself. It's quite satisfying to see it working!

How would (e.g.) strings work in this FFI, considering that wasm doesn’t have a built-in string type or any way to pass variable-length data to a function without allocating space for it in the instance’s memory, and languages have different native string representations (UTF-8 vs UTF-16 vs “UTF-16”)?

The idea that an AI would act like this is surely reflected in the dataset for these language models. So maybe it’s a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy—the model is generating text in a way that reflects our cultural ideas of how an AI might behave.

Is there a tool like this that can modify part of the HTML without changing the formatting or inserting new tags unnecessarily? I know it's a difficult problem given the complexity of HTML parsing, but I'd like to be able to work with parts of pages programmatically without messing up the hand-written formatting in other parts.

Are there any applications of zk-SNARKS outside cryptocurrency?

Hashtag search works cross-instance, just not full text.

It's exciting to see a truly open social network getting so many users.

This is designed for touch, but it works with the mouse too. If you're on an iOS device with a 120hz ("ProMotion") display, you'll have to go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features, turn off "Prefer Page Rendering Updates near 60fps", and turn on "Web Animations custom frame rate" to experience the animations at full fidelity.