Domenic Denicola @domenic@schelling.pt
Joined Dec 2022
This is some real Susan Calvin robot psychologist shit https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation
@TetraspaceGrouping Ah OK, best of luck then!!
@TetraspaceGrouping Did you get hard ("Rigid Gas Permeable") lenses? I had both hard and soft before LASIK, and it was amazing how much more annoying hard was to get in.
Or maybe soft lenses are also hard for beginners, I don't really remember...
At one point in time Chromium tried to prevent busy loops inside unload / beforeunload by... overriding how the JavaScript Date object worked!? https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/48612/webkit
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I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.
Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.
The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.
The place: 1920s Portugal.
The crime: Counterfeiting.
The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.
(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)
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If you’re annoyed by those floaty prompts on websites to sign into them with your Google Account, you can turn them off for your Google account! Link: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/permissions
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Fantasy worlds with magical teleportation also tend to be very young, like “created by the gods 30,000 years ago” young. This is because of grabby aliens.
@dbaron Now that I'm on desktop, I can tell that Twitter web uses lang="ja".
Interestingly, my Linux desktop (Firefox) still gets it wrong. Maybe I don't have Japanese fonts installed there.
https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/for background on this problem. The supplement of which contains this fascinating info on "discretionary ligatures"...
Why is Twitter on Android displaying this Japanese tweet in Chinese fonts? (Look at the 今 and 連絡 characters.) There are hiragana in the message...
Is there a system or app setting I can fix?
The Nier Automata anime feels strange. They made a video game where all the action, music, costumes, etc. are aimed at making the player feel like they're in an anime. And then... they reprocessed that video game into anime form.
@Mara Lots of side-by-side examples where Rust makes you do more work or be more explicit, with an explanation of why and how to think about the delta. Aimed at making it automatic for the reader to go from problem -> Rust solution, like they currently can go from problem -> C++ solution.
@ZachWeinersmith Some ideas:
- Programming, especially with an exciting goal like "make a computer game" or "make a program to automate (x)"
- Popular science books. Maybe start with "What If?", since it's fun, but if she finds an especially-interesting field (e.g. astronomy, quantum stuff, social sciences, ...) she can go deep.
- Popular math/math-history books. As a kid I especially liked "A History of Pi", "E: The Story of a Number".
Each has a chance of awakening a thirst for knowledge.
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As a maintainer of OpenSource libraries and packages, there is something that kept feeling off in the whole Software Supply Chain discourse. I think this comes down to something simple.
I am not a Supplier.
You can read more explanation there https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier
Some fun reads on memory safety in C++: https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/safety/ and https://danakj.github.io/2022/12/31/why-subspace.html. As someone without much expertise or experience, it's still quite interesting to see smart people at work on such a hard, practical problem.
@foolip This is good. "EA is about maximizing a property of the world that we’re conceptually confused about, can’t reliably define or measure, and have massive disagreements about even within EA" is a very concise statement of the difficulty.
Just finished Disco Elysium. My next PC game should be:
Joined Dec 2022
