Happy A Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
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...
This coffee shop is just going hard through Evanescence's Fallen (2003) and I am here for it.
A screenshot of my Japanese grammar study site, showing I've started studying N1 grammar points.
It begins
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.
*shrug* if getting real security is too idealistic, I don't think you're already doomed and no Node API choices can change that.
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.
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.
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.
Post elbow-surgery update: today I did 11 chin ups!
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.
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.
A big shout out to Tom's Hardware, which remains a pretty good source for comparative reviews.
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...
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.
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 🙃
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
"Please explain and fix this SVG path syntax" is such a perfect use case for AI. chat.openai.com/share/7f5faf...
Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.
I found my Google Play Store rating history. I guess I have a pattern.
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.
A well-argued counterpoint to optimism about AI progress. thegradient.pub/why-transfor...
And yet... I still want to believe.
No Surface Pro 10?! I've been holding out on an upgrade for the last half-year!
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!
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...
I feel bad for hotels, airplanes, etc. that spent effort modernizing with USB-A charging ports everywhere.
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.
It's been 5 hours since I landed in a non-Japan country and so far I've only bowed to a stranger once!
Haven't caught up yet, but I'm looking forward to that one!
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.
