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2024-07-05 18:08:20

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Also as programmers our laziness has been our defining characteristic, and why we've changed the world. This leans into that and should be celebrated

2024-07-05 18:07:07

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Most untrained people, myself included, are probably not going to do a good job writing alt text despite sincere efforts. I think an LLM can do a great job generating a first pass of alt text with potential human edits afterwards

2024-07-02 23:50:19

This is really cool -- the fifth busy beaver number has been verified to be 47 176 870.
I love busy beaver numbers because they're both an interesting pastime and also define the boundary of what is knowable in mathematics.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/amateur-mathematicians-find-fifth-busy-beaver-turing-machine-20240702

2024-05-27 01:01:14

More and more websites have anti-adblock measures these days, some going so far as to tell you to uninstall your ad blocker altogether. I understand the impulse, but you are basically telling your users to meaningfully reduce their security for your benefit.

2024-05-20 22:44:58

Got unreasonably excited about this new, incredibly straightforward count-distinct algorithm. The CVM algorithm is a direct replacement for HyperLogLog, it nerd-sniped Donald Knuth for weeks, *and* it can easily be taught in an entry-level CS course.
h/t @npub1ph0…dtxv
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-invent-an-efficient-new-way-to-count-20240516/

2024-04-26 22:26:32

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I am absolutely not advocating that people should ban anyone who disagrees with them on anything, or whatever. Diversity, including some level of "viewpoint diversity", is valuable. But have some principles -- not all views are worthy of respect

2024-04-26 22:20:31

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If a bunch of white nationalists want to use nextest, they can, but obviously I'm going to ban them from project spaces on sight. they can run their own fork, I don't care

2024-04-26 22:19:33

"Are we supposed to start policing who is allowed or not allowed to use open-source and free software projects, which goes against these licenses themselves and their requirements?"
FOSS lets anyone *use* your project, but you can (and should) have lines on who you allow to *participate* in the project