This was a long rant that I pretty much agree with, except at the conclusion I still don't know what the author is trying to propose. What is this supposed new "WYGIWYM" paradigm? Anyway, every recent time I've had to…
That Lean Rada article is really fun!
I can't help but agree, and sometimes I think about the alternate version of the web where XML realized its full potential as the dominant technology. The obvious problem with XML is that the syntax is so verbose and…
Yeah, XSLT 1.0 has some really obvious missteps, so much so that to my knowledge basically nobody just implements XSLT 1.0. What they actually support is (most of) XSLT 1.0 plus a handful of EXSLT extensions (which are…
Pretty poor reporting here, but let me see if I can get this straight: Georgia ballots weren't truly anonymous, but contained enough identifying information (through these ID numbers) to be correlated to individual…
This is a cool concept and something I was looking into recently! IMHO, XML as a concept is a bit underrated and misunderstood nowadays. Unfortunately the way the culture of XML has evolved over the past decades…
Yes, and I think that's more likely to be the issue with nytimes.com (from my completely unscientific investigation).
> Capable people with decades of experience can successfully automate away a lot of tedious work, and still end up with a final product identical to what they would have done by hand. Come on, I don't think the last…
I completely agree. When the docs are in the same repository as the source code, at least you can keep the documentation atomically synced to the code. No other method allows this (not counting setups with Git…
There was another article submitted today lamenting the slowness of the modern internet, using nytimes.com as an example. Comparing that to this site gives, IMHO, a big part of the answer: don't try to fix what isn't…
> U.S. download speeds increased 174% from 2020 to 2024. 5 Gbps is almost 90,000x the bandwidth I had in 1996. So why are we’re still dealing with slow, bloated websites? Yes, because the web is more bloated now than it…
In case you feel like branching out beyond the digital completely, I'll leave this here (no affiliation): https://inktober.com/rules
> and almost zero explanation as to how his approach was actually different from any other tech company's. > Except the "free classes" part: those were cool, ... Seems like you answered your own question there. As far…
You had me with that one. (I don't mean had...you know what I mean.)
`git add --resolved` is a wonderful idea, and definitely something I would start using.
It's very hit or miss. Abylight Studios (Super Hydorah, Cursed Castilla) seems to do them pretty well, but then I've seen some that left me wondering how they ever made it past QC. (I won't name them because it's been a…
While I pretty much agree with what's being said here, and I certainly agree with the conclusion, I disagree with this point of view: > It follows, Sartre argues, that the act of writing, as a means to convey a thought…
That is not what I said at all. For research whose ostensible purpose is to increase human understanding, the absolutely bare minimum we could ask for is for the authors to understand their own work well enough to write…
This is the journal's policy on LLM use by authors [1]: > LLMs may be used as general-purpose assistive tools. Whichever tools are used, authors are fully responsible for content on which they are listed as (co-)…
Apparently I'm a bit slow today, because my brain started completing the headline as "Diplodocus, Long Thought Extinct, ..." before my eyes could finish reading it. > The animal’s fossilized remains — 14 well-preserved…
Please just write in your own words, and don't filter your writing through AI. Doing the latter will make you a worse writer.
It's not unheard of, like when the South Korean government lost a bunch of its data in a data center fire. Don't have the only copy of your data in a data center, and you won't have to worry about such a thing happening…
It's a clumsily made point, but I think the gist is that the letter asks AI to align to a certain ideal vision of the field of math, that the math community itself is not well aligned to. I don't think the article makes…
If it primarily targets infinite scrolling and autoplaying videos, those are straight-up dark patterns, and having less of them is good in my opinion. That said, I have no idea how likely any of this is to withstand the…
Okay, but I fail to see how this eventuality results in the end of ads. Owners of websites, at least the popular ones, won't stop running ads just because they don't strictly need to. We've seen this play out repeatedly…
This was a long rant that I pretty much agree with, except at the conclusion I still don't know what the author is trying to propose. What is this supposed new "WYGIWYM" paradigm? Anyway, every recent time I've had to…
That Lean Rada article is really fun!
I can't help but agree, and sometimes I think about the alternate version of the web where XML realized its full potential as the dominant technology. The obvious problem with XML is that the syntax is so verbose and…
Yeah, XSLT 1.0 has some really obvious missteps, so much so that to my knowledge basically nobody just implements XSLT 1.0. What they actually support is (most of) XSLT 1.0 plus a handful of EXSLT extensions (which are…
Pretty poor reporting here, but let me see if I can get this straight: Georgia ballots weren't truly anonymous, but contained enough identifying information (through these ID numbers) to be correlated to individual…
This is a cool concept and something I was looking into recently! IMHO, XML as a concept is a bit underrated and misunderstood nowadays. Unfortunately the way the culture of XML has evolved over the past decades…
Yes, and I think that's more likely to be the issue with nytimes.com (from my completely unscientific investigation).
> Capable people with decades of experience can successfully automate away a lot of tedious work, and still end up with a final product identical to what they would have done by hand. Come on, I don't think the last…
I completely agree. When the docs are in the same repository as the source code, at least you can keep the documentation atomically synced to the code. No other method allows this (not counting setups with Git…
There was another article submitted today lamenting the slowness of the modern internet, using nytimes.com as an example. Comparing that to this site gives, IMHO, a big part of the answer: don't try to fix what isn't…
> U.S. download speeds increased 174% from 2020 to 2024. 5 Gbps is almost 90,000x the bandwidth I had in 1996. So why are we’re still dealing with slow, bloated websites? Yes, because the web is more bloated now than it…
In case you feel like branching out beyond the digital completely, I'll leave this here (no affiliation): https://inktober.com/rules
> and almost zero explanation as to how his approach was actually different from any other tech company's. > Except the "free classes" part: those were cool, ... Seems like you answered your own question there. As far…
You had me with that one. (I don't mean had...you know what I mean.)
`git add --resolved` is a wonderful idea, and definitely something I would start using.
It's very hit or miss. Abylight Studios (Super Hydorah, Cursed Castilla) seems to do them pretty well, but then I've seen some that left me wondering how they ever made it past QC. (I won't name them because it's been a…
While I pretty much agree with what's being said here, and I certainly agree with the conclusion, I disagree with this point of view: > It follows, Sartre argues, that the act of writing, as a means to convey a thought…
That is not what I said at all. For research whose ostensible purpose is to increase human understanding, the absolutely bare minimum we could ask for is for the authors to understand their own work well enough to write…
This is the journal's policy on LLM use by authors [1]: > LLMs may be used as general-purpose assistive tools. Whichever tools are used, authors are fully responsible for content on which they are listed as (co-)…
Apparently I'm a bit slow today, because my brain started completing the headline as "Diplodocus, Long Thought Extinct, ..." before my eyes could finish reading it. > The animal’s fossilized remains — 14 well-preserved…
Please just write in your own words, and don't filter your writing through AI. Doing the latter will make you a worse writer.
It's not unheard of, like when the South Korean government lost a bunch of its data in a data center fire. Don't have the only copy of your data in a data center, and you won't have to worry about such a thing happening…
It's a clumsily made point, but I think the gist is that the letter asks AI to align to a certain ideal vision of the field of math, that the math community itself is not well aligned to. I don't think the article makes…
If it primarily targets infinite scrolling and autoplaying videos, those are straight-up dark patterns, and having less of them is good in my opinion. That said, I have no idea how likely any of this is to withstand the…
Okay, but I fail to see how this eventuality results in the end of ads. Owners of websites, at least the popular ones, won't stop running ads just because they don't strictly need to. We've seen this play out repeatedly…