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thewakalix··on How we manage 200 open-source repos
What addons are you referring to?
thewakalix··on Wilhelm Reich on pleasure and the genesis of anxiety (2021)
Speaking of Cloudbusting samples, how about Orgonon Gurlz?
thewakalix··on Making a music library without a SPA
> With our ‘zero JavaScript’ happy paths now covered, we can have a little more fun when JavaScript is available in the browser.
thewakalix··on Who invented the alphabet?
If you're unaware of what "snarky" means, I suggest consulting https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snarky.
thewakalix··on Exploring Linux command-line space time
TFA covered more than just C programs.
thewakalix··on Programming is hard
That is not the ternary operator.
thewakalix··on FAA authorizes Zipline to deliver commercial packages using drones
GGP:

> If cities want better traffic, spend more money renovating or widening roads...

thewakalix··on Tidal energy is not renewable
If we're still around in 500 years and producing that much energy, I don't expect we'd be limited to Earth anymore!
thewakalix··on Wikipedia search-by-vibes through millions of pages offline
It's worth noting that every result you wanted here does have a Wikipedia article. (If they hadn't, then their absence wouldn't be as strange.)
thewakalix··on Why does all() return True if the iterable is empty?
`any` corresponds to the existential quantifier, not the universal.
thewakalix··on Math proof draws new boundaries around black hole formation
Would that short story be "Into Darkness", in Axiomatic?
thewakalix··on Graceful behavior at capacity
From my armchair, I'm not sure that "random drop" actually does decrease latency. Most clients will just repeat the request, resulting in an "effective latency" of however many times it gets randomly dropped. The queue is now implicit, and I'd guess that it's less efficient to carry out several request/drop cycles than to just leave the client in a straightforward queue.
thewakalix··on Bram Moolenaar has died
https://martinwguy.github.io/xvi/
thewakalix··on Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
Could you elaborate?
thewakalix··on Fixed Bits of Version 4 UUID (2015)
That's Benford's law, but I don't think it applies here. From Wikipedia:

> Benford's Law tends to be most accurate when values are distributed across multiple orders of magnitude, especially if the process generating the numbers is described by a power law (which is common in nature).

thewakalix··on Manifesto on the Teaching of Mathematics (2015)
Relevant: Lockhart’s Lament (https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/Lockharts...)
thewakalix··on The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection
The full quote is

> AIs can be as sentient as we like without being any threat at all, as long as their goals are aligned with our actual best interests.

Cutting it short changed its meaning. Quote-mining is dishonest.

thewakalix··on The Io Language
Typo: The Ackermann function is misspelled as “Ackerman”.
thewakalix··on Kodezi - Autocorrect for Programmers
What does it mean to “run optimize”?
thewakalix··on AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
That seems difficult when Stable Diffusion has already been freely released. It’s futile to apply artificial restrictions to libre software when they can just as easily be removed!
thewakalix··on AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law
How are you using the word “copy”? It doesn’t seem to match the standard meaning. For instance, most people would not consider a brief summary of a movie’s plot to be a “copy” of that movie, or protected under copyright.
thewakalix··on How the blog broke the web (2017)
No, some are simply social.
thewakalix··on Life Is Short (2016)
“Life is too short” isn’t disregarding reality, it’s just having an opinion about it.
thewakalix··on Life Is Short (2016)
I wouldn’t want to die tomorrow. Is that desire “objective reality” or not? If it is, how is that different from not wanting to die a century from now?
thewakalix··on Machine learning with Unix pipes
cat and grep generally aren't builtins, so shells can't rely on them to have any particular behavior.
thewakalix··on DwarFS: A fast high compression read-only file system
That depends on whether they are bytewise similar, which in turn depends on the details of the image encoding of the format you’re using. I would expect that, by default, no.
thewakalix··on Talos Linux
By Talos, this can't be happening!
thewakalix··on “I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle
They're the same picture.
thewakalix··on “I don't know the numbers”: a math puzzle
First the 14th floor, then the (14 + 13 =) 27th floor, and so on.
thewakalix··on Regular blood donations can reduce “forever chemicals” in the bloodstream: study
There are two kinds of “no evidence”!

https://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/08/doctor-there-ar.html

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