wheybags

Someone at the onion needs to see this.

They forgot the biggest downside: when you REALLY need to stop RIGHT NOW, you're not thinking about what kind of brakes you have. You're running on instinct, and that instinct probably says "do a grabby motion with your hands", but that doesn't work, and you don't brake on time.

Source: I have a bike with one coaster brake and one normal one. Have never intentionally used the coaster brake, have used it unintentionally many times.

I have a post-edit hook that asks the model if this edit introduced any comments, and if it did, remove them. This was the only reliable way to get it to stop that I found.

Basically the only relevant question, and it's the one they didn't answer

That thing looks like giant pillbox bunker.

Yeah, also that's probably not the kind of error a human writing this post would make... I stopped reading at that point

I'm not super familiar with the jpeg format, but iirc h.264 uses 16x16 blocks, so if jpeg is the same then padding of 16px on all sides would presumably block all possible information leakage?

Except the size of the blocked section ofc. E.g If you know it's a person's name, from a fixed list of people, well "Huckleberry" and "Tom" are very different lengths.

I know this is likely to be an unpopular take but: I wish it was normal to ship your compiler in your source repo.

Modern compilers are bloated as hell huge things which makes it a bit impractical, but if it was a normal thing to do then we'd probably have optimized the binary sizes somewhat.

I just really like the idea of including _everything_ you need for the project. Also ensures that weird problems like this dont happen. As an extra benefit, if you included the compiler source and a bootstrapping path instead of just the latest binary, then you could easily include project specific compiler / language extensions with no extra effort.

Would be nice to see some qualitative analyis to know if it's just slop, or actually more interesting projects. Not sure how to do that though. I think just looking at votes wouldn't work. I would guess more posts causes lower average visibility per post which should cause upvotes to slump naturally regardless of quality.

Edit: maybe you could:

- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)

- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time