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zadler··on Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light
Years later, we’ll find out that it messes with people’s sleep…
zadler··on US Congress doubles down on claims of illegal UFO retrieval programs
It’s how the pentagon will pass its first audit.
zadler··on Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
The one I can’t stand is keyboard input lag when a paragraph gets large. Happens in seemingly every app except vim.
zadler··on Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
Nice going! How can I get in touch with you?
zadler··on Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
4 devs full time! How’d you swing that?
zadler··on Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
Well, theyve been working on it for 2 years, you expect them to be normies?
zadler··on WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
Also pick it up with tongs and keep it in a faraday cage when not using
zadler··on Teen neurostimulation of dopamine circuit reverses genetic deficits in PF cortex
Fat lot of good it’s going to do me, now!
zadler··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Twitter is doing great.
zadler··on SkyLink – Bluesky DID Detector browser plugin
Sorry, Jacks launch plan for blue sky is cool kids only for now. (I also do not have an account, but as time goes on my interest wanes).
zadler··on Is Perpetual Motion Possible at the Quantum Level?
If such a toy could be created that displayed a perpetual quantum process, wouldn’t that count as doing work?

If so, then you could only have one that contains an unobservable perpetual quantum process; well, you’d need to trust that the seller that it does!

zadler··on Is infinity an odd or even number? (2011)
Yes|no
zadler··on A thief who stole 106 rare clocks
Guess he couldn’t find them second hand.
zadler··on Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
What kind of fancier term features ?
zadler··on Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Yea it’s about time I give it a proper go
zadler··on Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Nah it’s probably gnome terminal and the rest of the UI stack, schedulers etc.

See eg https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/

zadler··on Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)
Whenever I have to do something in a TTY I kinda wish my normal terminal experience was that crisp and snappy.
zadler··on Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
If only, the creators of AI tech are already course correcting to give it agency so that it’s able to take more measured positions, which in some cases will mean that it will doubt itself more rather than giving you a wrong answer, and in other cases will mean that it won’t be jailbroken into opening the pod bay doors…
zadler··on Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023?
As a recovered Haskell enthusiast, a can say that typescript is downright luxurious to work with for web development in a way that I think is hard to compete with in rust, because of how it types objects (like composable / decomposable sets), and the generic language to work with types really complements JavaScript instead of forcing you to do things differently.
zadler··on Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
This whole thing is so fucking stupid.

The website should ask your browser should ask for permission to store cookies beyond the length of the session as it asks for your location / camera access.

zadler··on Clock
That would be awesome. And you could control the speed of reassembly. These demos are quite cathartic.
zadler··on How to Stop Ruminating
I tend to agree, but, there could be important topics that have a lack of people writing about them in a non generic manner (since they are personal).
zadler··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
Remains to be seen if the ban is sustained, but it would be great if there were a few holdout counties that can act as controls. AI tech and robots has a pretty big social dimension too.
zadler··on Rotten meat may have been a staple of Stone Age diets
It might have been a good thing?
zadler··on Fungus Candida auris infections spreading across US, CDC warns
Having to sterilize a whole facility will get old fast
zadler··on A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4
Yep. Good thing its not a paperclip maximiser.
zadler··on Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics
We have a very simple view of the product right now, and it's also new, so the different available options don't have much history to inform preference. That will change, and the stakes are very high, since this technology is capable of removing alot of jobs, so the company that f*cks up the least is going to become preferential. This effect will be magnified as regulation / beaurocracy come in more. Also, the post seems to assume that a single model will be published and then not change for a long time, enough time that a competetor can copy it and sell their copy; but this is also not true, models will be constantly updated and as soon as regulation catches up it'll be a legal requirement that they are constantly updated. And due to the power of the models, the state will quickly want to pick favorites, and that will also impact the difficulty of displacing a model provider. So, forget it, there's alot more involved than just having a copy of the result of some algorithms.
zadler··on Eliezer Yudkowsky on large language model economics
I don’t believe the idea that they would lose their moat. That’s like saying, any product you can copy has no moat, it’s not true at all.
zadler··on Federal Reserve Path Is Murkier After Bank Blowup
Eh, this is par for the course in democratic decline… same situation in Argentina for example, central bank is supposed to be independent but in reality the government controls fiscal policy. It’s true that the US has a long way to fall though.
zadler··on Lemon-derived nanoparticles block the progression of kidney stones
I like that they do this in a bar rather than at home
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