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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · 14/11/2023

Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 08/11/2023

At a talk about the demographic decline in Japan and the speakers are throwing around projections about what things will look like in 2100... It's a weird contrast to listening to podcasts predicting an intelligence explosion/singularity in the next 15 years. www.astralcodexten.com/p/slightly-a...

astralcodexten.com

Slightly Against Underpopulation Worries

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 04/11/2023

This coffee shop is just going hard through Evanescence's Fallen (2003) and I am here for it.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 25/10/2023

No. I envision that if you have untrusted code you run it in a different process from where you store your secrets. In practice most people trust their dependencies and this idea of malicious, un-sandboxed dependencies is fiction.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 25/10/2023

*shrug* if getting real security is too idealistic, I don't think you're already doomed and no Node API choices can change that.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 25/10/2023

I don't think it's good to claim things would be more secure if this same-process free for all nature was hidden better. If you want security, use process boundaries.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 25/10/2023

Remember that any memory in the same process is already accessible to anything else in the process. So indeed this doesn't look like a security issue to me.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 23/10/2023

This gym has reached the stage in its lifecycle where they realize their original matched set of squat racks is not enough, so they start pulling in mismatched and smaller ones wherever there's free floor space.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 13/10/2023

Post elbow-surgery update: today I did 11 chin ups!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 12/10/2023

Some apps (e.g. Facebook Messenger) will force-reload. This seems good. Even better would be if they force-reloaded themselves in the background, after checking that I had no unsaved state in the DOM.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 12/10/2023

I have a number of long-running apps in pinned tabs. It's interesting seeing how many of them fail to do an SPA nav (usually with infinite loading spinners), when you come back to them after a few days. I suspect the issue is server-client version skew.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/10/2023

A big shout out to Tom's Hardware, which remains a pretty good source for comparative reviews.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/10/2023

It would have cost ~$237 extra to get everything except the motherboard from Amazon (the motherboard is out of stock there). Maybe I should have done that for ease of payment and potential returns. We'll see...

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/10/2023

Total cost looks to be about $180 more in Japan that it would be in the US. I hear there are some electronics tariffs that cause this. What can you do.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/10/2023

Buying these parts required signing up for three different Japanese PC part sites, which was... an experience. I bounced off several more that wouldn't accept my credit card when trying to buy the CPU, and finally found one that used Amazon Pay. One store will be getting a bank transfer 🙃

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/10/2023

I've been upgrading graphics cards (1080 Ti → 2080 Ti → 3080) for a while, but finally my 2017 base-build has gotten behind enough in everything else that I'm doing a new one. Hello my beautiful 4090, with an AMD CPU this time! pcpartpicker.com/list/6PN3yg

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 05/10/2023

"Please explain and fix this SVG path syntax" is such a perfect use case for AI. chat.openai.com/share/7f5faf...

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Interpret SVG Path Syntax

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 26/09/2023

I found my Google Play Store rating history. I guess I have a pattern.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 24/09/2023

The next generation or two of models really does seem key. If we get something that jumps from "intern programmer" to "senior programmer", or from good at synthesis and analysis to good at novel scientific research, then we're in for a wild ride: at least steam engine or internet-level disruption.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 24/09/2023

A well-argued counterpoint to optimism about AI progress. thegradient.pub/why-transfor... And yet... I still want to believe.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 21/09/2023

No Surface Pro 10?! I've been holding out on an upgrade for the last half-year!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 20/09/2023

Museum pro-tip: if you run out of time to see everything, just stop by the gift shop on the way out. They'll have prints and postcards of all the best stuff. If you hold them up close to your face it's subjectively just as big as the real thing!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 18/09/2023

Spain's fertility rate is ... lower than Japan's? (1.23 births/woman vs. 1.34). I guess there's some other explanation for why there are so many more ill-behaved kids in cafes/restaurants/public transit...

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 18/09/2023

I feel bad for hotels, airplanes, etc. that spent effort modernizing with USB-A charging ports everywhere.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/09/2023

I jinxed it. A kind fellow tram rider paid my fair when the tram police revealed that no, the trams were not free. In response I bowed profusely and repeatedly.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/09/2023

It's been 5 hours since I landed in a non-Japan country and so far I've only bowed to a stranger once!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 08/09/2023

Haven't caught up yet, but I'm looking forward to that one!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 08/09/2023

What made it so good? A bit hard to say, but I'd gesture at how they would jump straight into the parts of metaphysics that would be engaging to a lay audience, while still probing those parts with some depth. Their at-times contrasting opinions came out to play, which made it extra fun.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 08/09/2023

I just finished one of my favorite podcast episodes ever, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social interviewing Katie Elliott with an introduction to metaphysics. Sean is as always a great interviewer, and Katie was one of the most engaging guests he's had to date. Highly recommended!

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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Time – Sean Carroll

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Tom @brutish.dev · 05/09/2023

This must have taken so long before copilot

/**
* Validate a decimal input. Ensure the value only has up to 3 decimal places
* @param value Value to validate
*/
const validateDecimalInput = (value: number) => {
if(value === 0.001) return true;
if(value === 0.002) return true;
if(value === 0.003) return true;
if(value === 0.004) return true;
if(value === 0.005) return true;
if(value === 0.006) return true;
if(value === 0.007) return true;
if(value === 0.008) return true;
if(value === 0.009) return true;
if(value === 0.01) return true;
if(value === 0.011) return true;
if(value === 0.012) return true;
if(value === 0.013) return true;
if(value === 0.014) return true;
if(value === 0.015) return true;
if(value === 0.016) return true;
if(value === 0.017) return true;
if(value === 0.018) return true;

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 03/09/2023

This is cool. Caltech (my alma mater) was worried that the requirement on high school students to take calculus/physics/chemistry was bad for DEI. So they added an alternative path: Khan Academy, or test out using AP/IB exams. Same standards upheld, but more opportunities to meet them. 👍

latimes.com

No high school calculus, chemistry, physics class? Caltech has a new admission work-around

Caltech is dropping requirements for high school calculus, chemistry and physics courses for students without access to them and will offer other ways to demonstrate knowledge in those fields.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 02/09/2023

I spent 100 hours in Cyberpunk 2077 before I finally recognized the innuendo in this (very common throughout the game world) hotel sign.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 21/08/2023

You might think defining min() and max() in C would be simple. But you would apparently be wrong? github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/mast…

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 13/08/2023

SOMA gave me a visceral first-person experience of uploading and transporter thought experiments. Better than any sci-fi novel or movie in evoking thought and emotion.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 11/08/2023

In general, ChatGPT excels at explaining "what's the difference between" questions, which language teachers often struggle with because to them it's intuitive.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 11/08/2023

Interesting to compare: ChatGPT explaining 峰 vs. 岳 characters, both with external sources chat.openai.com/share/3a58f277-a283… and without chat.openai.com/share/ee73c1dc-0aff…. The without is honestly better?

chat.openai.com

Difference: 峰 vs 岳

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 09/08/2023

What don't you like about it? (It's been a while since I interacted with it seriously.)

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 08/08/2023

This is a work of art. Don't forget to check the release notes too.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 07/08/2023

OK, well, it was actually a very confident hallucination. Sigh. GPT-4 remains unbeaten.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 06/08/2023

I just fed a 3074-line FreePascal file, plus a 7-line diff, into Anthropic's Claude AI, and asked it to spot the bug. And... I think it did, using its knowledge of FreePascal string semantics. Living in the future is pretty great, isn't it?

github.com

Recent <ref> changes do not work for long reference names · Issue #153 · whatwg/wattsi

E.g. in the live https://html.spec.whatwg.org/ now, we have [JSIMPORTATTRIBU] and [CSSVIEWTRANSITI]. No idea why this would be happening... 4cabebb#diff-c1f20712f6803c4501d76807b80642566e51f13847a8...

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 06/08/2023

WTF how did ai.com change hands from OpenAI to X AI?

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 06/08/2023

I went under general anesthesia a few days ago. I still feel like the same person, despite the discontinuity of consciousness! It's nice to get some first-hand confirmation that uploading will preserve my identity.

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 30/07/2023

One page they linked to that seemed really insightful compares 98% comprehension to 95% and 80% comprehension, with English examples: www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/20….

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 30/07/2023

I just found some resources on learning Japanese that look really interesting: docs.google.com/document/d/10bRzVbl… and docs.google.com/document/d/1LH82Fjs…. A lot are about "how to learn".

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 29/07/2023

Not clear; the internet says common causes are "arthritis" (so I guess, getting older?) and weightlifting (which I do). Crazy that this can just happen!

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Domenic Denicola @domenic.me · 28/07/2023

Observables are to event subscriptions as promises are to callbacks: first-class objects you can transform, pass around, and build on top of. @domfarolino.com and @benlesh.bsky.social are looking to make them a standard part of the web platform, and I'm optimistic about their chances!

github.com

GitHub - domfarolino/observable: Observable API proposal

Observable API proposal. Contribute to domfarolino/observable development by creating an account on GitHub.

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