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Comment · 11 months ago
Right. Also, when it comes to the other aspects of TLS, such as preventing middlemen from making sense of what information flows between you and the server, what exactly is the threat in this case? I mean, it's a public blog post, which you only ask to read and so you are served.
Comment · 1 year ago
Besides just porn or nudity, maybe we could also add violence into the arsenal of engagement. For example, maybe the viewer could use a virtual sword or shotgun on some key concepts in the presentation to initiate a tangent going on a deep dive on the concept, and then come back to the presentation once done with the rabbit hole.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Does anyone know of other major projects written in as strict a style as esbuild?

As in any random major project with focus on not having dependencies? SQLite comes to mind.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's also not an exhaustive list anyway. At least Helsinki, Finland is missing. I think Finland is unambigiously Europe.
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe some positions are or feel worthy only when performed in physically social context. Jobs dealing with human problems have this tendency more often than those dealing more with non-human problems.
Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know what the question implied but generally speaking it is a known effect that making AI do the things you used to do accumulates cognitive debt which seems intuitively true too. Physical exercise is a good analogy perhaps.
Comment · 1 year ago
Offtopic, and no one asked, but I'm going to advertise anyway: Helix is a good alternative to (neo)vim for anyone who wants a terminal editor with vimotions(ish) but doesn't like configuring or scripting. That was the selling point that made me stay with it: The out-of-the-box experience was close enough to what I was hoping to end at but gave up with neovim due to the hassle required. It is opinionated of course, but the default behavior and appearance of Helix felt much more appropriate than that of neovim.
Comment · 1 year ago
Many commenters have pointed out the frustration that even in these kernel level anti cheat system using games there are still cheaters and therefore the sacrifice of submitting to such privacy and security hole is close to worthless.

When it comes to the problem of cheating in games, I think the only solution is to bind the gamer's identity to a real life identity that is not trivial to change. That way the cheater only needs to be caught once.

Comment · 1 year ago
It's not the target that is now requiring new instructions, but one of the components in the build tools.
Comment · 1 year ago
As far as I understand, there was a similar mess with CPUs some 50 years ago: All computers were different and there was no such thing as portable code. Then problem solvers came up with abstractions like the C programming language, allowing developers to write more or less the same code for different platforms. I suppose GPUs are slowly going through a similar process now that they're useful in many more domains than just graphics. I'm just spitballing.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you implying there exists a better way of making UIs that just hasn't taken over the world for some reason?

I also don't like the state of the web.

Comment · 1 year ago
Chat bots require a special API I suppose, but an intelligent agent would just learn to use the existing way for programs communicating with other programs over a network. Unfortunately the I in LLM stands for intelligence.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
I have no experience in this whatsoever but I feel like it's good to have some transparent bureoucracy even if it's slightly inconvenient if the alternative is to toss around billions in an opaque and corrupt manner like the way bookkeeping (or lack thereof) in global scale climate funds works. Note that I don't have experience in the latter either nor sources to give, yet this is the impression I have. Feel free to correct.

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