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This is true if you get pull requests from people since there is a certain limit to how many of those you can get.

However if you get pull requests from robots then you might eventually want to set down some rigid rules. Who has time to argue with the 36ths LLM contributor of the day? As eloquent as they might be. ;)
> You just don't get there unless you are fantastically competent at what you do. Pettiness and immaturity really just is an inefficiency that nobody wants to deal with at that level.

I could list dozens of counterexamples. To burn two bridges that nobody will ever need again, Steve Jobs (even before he made Apple into a juggernaut) and Vic Gundotra would like a screaming word with you. I don't know if Musk was petty and immature before he became essential, but it's possible. Or maybe you mean that people can get there without being fantastically competent, but they eventually fail hard.
Agreed. As a developer it's also a lot of fun because i can toy with creating my own platform and depending on the compatibility i choose to opt into -- ie Mastodon/Lemmy/Kbin -- i get interop and i don't create a silo. I absolutely love that.

I suspect there's tons of issues with ActivityPub, ranging from inefficiency of synchronization to discovery of instances, but those are things we can evolve for ActivityPub.

But i absolutely adore that creating a new platform with unique features can still be compatible with the larger ecosystem. It's like creating a new Reddit client (Apollo/etc) but it can have new features like shared economy or integration to PixelFeed/Mastodon/etc.

Despite not loving some things i'm about inefficiencies ActivityPub, i adore what it's giving us. I hope we run with it.
That's a "bride price"; the opposite of a dowry.
Yeah- imagine paying people for their work.
I would imagine his demeanor would influence how he is perceived.
> What length were these tests run at?

The first example is "assembly code they published for sorting an array with three items" - this isn't an entire general-purpose sorting algorithm, it's just the innermost part.
Is it strange that it's slower in jart's testing but claimed to be faster in the AlphaDev blog post?

jart doesn't provide detail about length of sequences used in testing, and AlphaDev basically says that between 6 and 249,999 elements the optimizations are slower (they only claim improvement for very small and 250k+ element sequences).

The AlphaDev numbers are so curious as well. AFAICT there's extra branching when you splice the tiny-sequence optimized versions (slower), but better sorting for the tiny sequences (faster).

Is it, like, branch prediction gets an edge when the leaf nodes of the recursion are all sorting tiny sequences? In jart's code, it's DFS, which I can only guess would trample a bit on branch prediction. I wonder if a BFS search could be better

No idea what would cause this though, curious if anyone has other ideas, I really don't know.
Rather than forcing a single app solution, I suggest a combo. As a well maintained and feature-rich local FOSS, I chose Zotero + Logseq

https://www.zotero.org/ is not just a citation manager. I look at it as a DB of archived pages, pdfs, and bookmarks.

https://logseq.com/ is an "advanced" outliner. So for gathering thoughts, it is both highly hierarchical (= outlining) and non-linear (through tagging and links).

It is a powerful combo, so it could be overwhelming for simpler use cases.
IP addresses being meaningless to you is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

The job of a firewall is to not leak information. Little Snitch is leaking information. This is a problem. End of story.
Yeah, I suppose there is some ambiguity there. Though I'd argue a standard like "does this harm people?" would even more open to interpretation and prone to abuse. Just about any idea can be framed as "harmful" to some person or group given a sufficient level of motivated reasoning (in fact, almost all modern cases of mass censorship seem to try to justify themselves that way). I much prefer a clear principle with few or no exceptions.

I suppose there may be room for both. "The freedom to exchange ideas" is after all a subset of "freedom of expression" (though not necessarily of "freedom of expression, with a bunch of exceptions").
It was Spore's DRM. It was the only DRM that was flaky enough to require reinstalling Windows every few months. I finally gave up reinstalling Spore, although I did buy it on Steam this year - but I still have not reinstalled it.
First of all thanks for sharing this!

Secondly, not sure if anyone has mentioned this before but in Safari on macOS there's something odd happening. On the page I see a small '1Password' popup and when I click it, it asks me to to unlock 1Password.

However I don't see any login form on the page and I don't see any other text input fields so I'm not sure why this would be.

I'm sure it's a perfectly innocent bug but it's probably something you want to address otherwise maybe it might put some people off.

See screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/3CcDFcg

Best of luck with the app!
As great as flatpaks are for providing sandboxing, the problem with them is that they are upstream software. When Audacity added telemetry it only affected binaries downloaded from them, not distro-compiled binaries. When firefox stops you from loading your own extensions, that's because you're using a binary downloaded from them, not distro-compiled binaries. A decade ago I used to think distro package maintainers were unnecessary middlemen who were just introducing failure points (like the Debian openssl fuckup), but today they are truly the last line of defence from malicious upstreams.

Even if something sneaks into a distro package it's possible to convince the distro package maintainer to disable it, because the maintainer's interests are aligned with you and not upstream.
Does Pixelfed have rigorous instance blocking?

I don't want the very nasty users of that 10M to interact with me or my friends.

This is just opening everyone to harassment we didn't ask for.

Just looking for an open source Instagram alternative to convince my friends to move to.
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Apps can scoop up much more telemetry data about the users.
Not just iOS safari. I believe Firefox on Android is also the same.

Can't believe showing user either controls or address bar at the bottom is consider "user-hostile".
Train your mind and imagine how this video would look on the north pole and south pole! Guess such footage already exists on YouTube.
I think a lot of folks who don't have an agricultural background mistake how different the processes are. Often when a person uses a hoe in modern times (for example, urban gardeners), they use it the way one would use a plough - long troughs or lines, except that they then plant seeds in a a few locations on the line, with the belief that turning the earth has some significant impact. Tilling can be a valuable process depending on what you are growing, the quality of the soil, when it is done, etc, but it is very distinct from using a hoe to plant seeds.

In practice, planting with a hoe is extremely light work, you turn the earth (or even just make a little hole), plant the seeds, maybe apply some fertilizer, or fresh soil, then close up the hole.

With a plough, you cut a long line, usually with pack animal or mechanical assistance, and then follow and plant seeds along the entire line. This can mean managing a large animal, or operating heavy machinery, or both! Plus there is the issue of removing obstacles (dead trees/plants, rocks, and other debris).

Setting aside the physical requirements for the different planting methods, there is also the issue of the capital cost of farming. https://blog.oup.com/2013/06/agriculture-gender-roles-norms-... is a decent high level article that covers how and why this is thought to contribute to gender roles.
While I'm happy to hear you are leaving Reddit, please consider reinstalling Apollo until Christian is able to shut down the app. He is planning to ask folks to forgo the refund much like Twitterific and Tweetbot did[1]. He will give refunds to anyone who takes no action I believe, but if you'd like to support him you'll need to opt-in once he asks, after which you can delete the app.

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/tweetbot_and_twitterrific...
Microsoft has a tool that accepts wav or mp3 and transcribes it.

But I do not think it can distinguish between speakers.

How well does Whisper work in terms of correctness for single speakers?
The Opera mobile app used to have an appearing/disppearing navigation bar too, as I recall. It's a handy standard to have.