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rosywoozlechan··on Windows recovery environment and bootable USB creator in 200kb
There's no license specified for what it's worth.
rosywoozlechan··on Don't Invent XML Languages (2006)
JSON is basically a subset of JavaScript. Parsing XML sucks, everyone rolled their own RSS and it was basically a nightmare having to deal with invalid XML. JSON has always been really strict and simple. If JavaScript in a browser couldn't parse it it just didn't work. libxml was also a nightmare, XSLT pages looked terrible and honestly there where just a lot of bad XML ideas out there despite gems like SVG. SOAP was horrible, and still is for people having to interface with a SOAP API like Netsuite.

But what was really the end of XML was the end of XHMTL and the HTML5 working group that said they weren't going to do XML HTML and it was funded by Google's large sums of money and involved talented people work at a hot new browser called Firefox and the web dev community went their way and everyone followed.

rosywoozlechan··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
Isn't Zeplin a competitor?
rosywoozlechan··on System-wide open source ad blocker for Mac, Windows, and Linux
The way Charles does this is by generating a root certificate dynamically and makes it really easy to remove by giving you instructions for how to install and remove it just for Chrome for example:

https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/proxying/ssl-prox...

https://www.charlesproxy.com/documentation/using-charles/ssl...

rosywoozlechan··on OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
I'm sure that this even happened at all isn't good for anyone. I can't for the life of me understand how the people who made this decision did it in the complete absence of talking to investors, stakeholders and even the OpenAI employees in leadership positions. And then to provide no explanation. Even the community and people who were using their APIs deserved one. They behaved so irresponsibly.
rosywoozlechan··on OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing
I think Altman must have worked in the past with lots of ycombinator founders to resolve disputes. Then to end up in his own, completely blind-sided and cut off. Nobody is immune to bad founder relationships.
rosywoozlechan··on Air Accident Investigation Branch: film lights caused window damage on A321neo
Can LEDs be used to create the same brightness without the heat?
rosywoozlechan··on RIP Google Groups Dejanews.com Archive?
> fully-asm coded polyfill (flat shaded) and it uses NO variables, only registers

As someone who writes small hobby OpenGL 4 games with zig for fun and because I'm not using a game engine I think I'm doing low level stuff, but this really appropriately puts what I'm doing into perspective. This quote is pretty awesome. I love how we got to where we are these days. Early game developers were true pioneers and we owe you so much!

rosywoozlechan··on OpenAI is too cheap to beat
The service quality sucks. You're getting what you pay for. We switched to Azure Open AI APIs because of all the service quality issues.
rosywoozlechan··on Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
This is a myopic take, the attacker could not spend the bitcoins because of the public ledger and the value of bitcoin would drop to nothing once it is realized that wallets are not secure. They'd burn bitcoin for no gain, for a loss even, because they would reveal their capabilities and maybe even who they are.
rosywoozlechan··on Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 2)
I find it amazing that I can write an original story or a poem, give it to chat-gpt and talk about what it might mean, what the character's motivations might be, how they might be viewed as others, and have meaningful conversations and explorations. Idk man. I don't know how it works, but it's still amazing to me even now.
rosywoozlechan··on Most promoted and blocked domains among Kagi Search users
This third party browser extension looks like it hides UI contents whereas with Kagi your preferences are used in what is actually returned from the search engine and in what order. I don't think these things are all that similar.
rosywoozlechan··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
I used to have a lot of respect for the quiet and reserved Elon who put rockets into space and had an interesting car company. Now's he's spreading misinformation about mass shootings where children died and just being unbelievably awful and toxic. Turns out he's an absolutely horrible person all the way down. He should have just stayed quiet and built his companies.
rosywoozlechan··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
It's vastly different, you're being disingenuous or just don't know anything about Twitter.

There's a bunch of new features that nobody uses, like communities. Blue checkmark comments for days before you see good comments on popular tweets. The for you feed is full of people I don't want to see, and that was my favorite feed before. Ratelimits, and just overall skyrocketing negativity across the board. The only good thing is spaces. A lot of good people stopped tweeting. It's vastly different.

rosywoozlechan··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
yes, they have to address EU compliance requirements before they can release it there
rosywoozlechan··on Threads Surpasses 30M Signups
I really want the old pre-musk, before blue checkmarks, Twitter back so I've been trying to give it a real go. Something's gotta fill that void I have now. It can't be Twitter, it is so terrible now. Bluesky and Mastadon just haven't done it for me either.
rosywoozlechan··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
OpenAI is a nonprofit, it owns the for profit org that it created. It's not acquirable.
rosywoozlechan··on Diagnosing cancer by profiling the immune system
All the really interesting stuff is always written in python, (AI, science research stuff like this). Here I am and I haven't written any python in over 10 years now, ever since go overtook python after it's v3 debacle.
rosywoozlechan··on Substack is the biggest threat to newsletters ever
I appreciate the context you provided about what makes Substack appealing and how it may mitigate some of the threat. However, I believe the main point of the article is that Substack represents yet another example of money being poured into disrupting existing channels. When the funding dries up and the music stops, we may lose more than just Substack. We may witness a diversity of providers going out of business because they couldn’t compete with deep-pocketed investors throwing money around. In the end, we could be left with a spam-riddled Substack struggling to make any money at all, while the old services are gone because they couldn’t survive the onslaught of VC wealth. It’s a bad bet that could leave us with nothing but craters and scorched earth where a thriving newsletter community used to be.
rosywoozlechan··on Substack Notes Launched
Whenever someone criticizes Elon Musk I just remember he sent a car he drove, a car built by a company he leads, into heliocentric orbit using his own rockets via his own space launching tech company. I don't know how you can talk about the guy without that context. People talk about him like he's just another jerk on Twitter. His car is in space. He's also the wealthiest person on the planet. And his car is in space.
rosywoozlechan··on Substack Notes Launched
What did they spend their $25 million on? What's the tech they have that costs this much to build? Their hard problems are a building a CMS or are otherwise solved by using fastly and sendgrid?
rosywoozlechan··on Exploring the Gameboy Memory Bank Controller (2020)
it's interesting that with game cartridges not only did game developers have to write code, they also had to possibly design and manufacture circuitry for the cartridges they would ship their games on.
rosywoozlechan··on Supercentenarian records show patterns indicative of errors and pension fraud (2020)
Purely speculating for entertainment, but the switch could have started it for the reason of obtaining benefits, and not a thing shared with others, by the time she got to be old enough to be famous for it, had been going on for so long nobody cared or was alive at the time to remember maybe?
rosywoozlechan··on Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.
rosywoozlechan··on Federal Reserve lent $300B in emergency funds to banks in the past week
There was an article in the WSJ today how the San Francisco Fed cited SVB multiple times in 2022 for their risk to rising interest rates, and how SVB's models were wrong. SVB believed the rising interest rates would improve their outlook, not be a risk.
rosywoozlechan··on Kottke.org is 25 years old today
I remember subscribing to kottke.org with Bloglines :P
rosywoozlechan··on Changes at YC
> bad look for YC

I guess don't apply to them for seed funding for your next big idea if you don't like the way it makes them look.

rosywoozlechan··on Changes at YC
> is so different that the success of YC in early stages doesn't translate

that's not a claim made in the article. It just said the late state was different enough to be a distraction from their core mission of being an early stage investor. A company with just an idea and 2 founders and nothing more is obviously very different from a company with many employees, a revenue stream and a long list of customers. It should be obvious how different that is.

rosywoozlechan··on SVB in talks to sell itself after attempts to raise capital fail
Per bank and per account with different ownership categories, so if a company had multiple accounts in different ownership categories those would each be insured up to $250,000
rosywoozlechan··on AI: Practical Advice for the Worried
Or we don't want to spend the time we have left feeling anxiety the entire time.
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