Readit NewsWould injustice exist in an alien society if that society didn't recognise it as such?
This is just a market site yeah? nothing that I can sample?
Here's a Strange Loop talk where one of the authors covers some of the content of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4
benjaminjosephw commented on Watchman: Execute a command when something changes github.com/crodjer/watchm... · Posted by u/ColinWright
This project wraps `inotifywait`[0] which I didn't know about until just now. Really useful utility, thanks for sharing!
[0] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/inotifywait.1.html
benjaminjosephw commented on Manifest V3, webRequest, and ad blockers vivaldi.com/blog/manifest... · Posted by u/dagurp
Google made a faux-pas with this one...
Their stated goal is to improve the performance of the web request blocking API.
Their (unstated but suspected) goal is to neuter adblocking chrome extensions.
They should have made extensions get auto-disabled if they 'slow down web page loading too much'. Set the threshold for that to be say more than a 20% increase in page load time, but make the threshold decrease with time - eg. 10% in 2023, 5% in 2024, 2% in 2025, to finally 1% in 2026 etc.
Eventually, that would achieve both of Googles goals - since adblockers would be forced to shorten their lists of regex'es, neutering them, and performance would increase at the same time. Extension developers would have a hard time complaining, because critics will always argue they just have bloated inefficient code.
Ah, the boiling frog strategy. Effective but definitely evil.
Is "don't be evil" still part of the Google's official ethos?
benjaminjosephw commented on Langcc: A Next-Generation Compiler Compiler github.com/jzimmerman/lan... · Posted by u/mpweiher
> langcc is general enough that the tool is self-hosting: that is, one can express the "language of languages" in the "language of languages" itself
There's something deeply satisfying about recursive tools who's inputs can include the definition of the tool itself. Brilliant.
benjaminjosephw commented on Building in community rosie.land/posts/building... · Posted by u/rosiesherry
I think we're still in the experimental phase of lots of novel types of social information exchange.
Building in public is very much an experimental form of communication. It's a new way to think and operate and it's not something with a strong set of conventions and norms. That means that you have to think much more about how you're communicating, not just what you want to say.
Building in community means sharing information with a specific set of people who have a shared perspective. Conventions and norms do exist and you have a good sense of how people will interpret and understand your words. This is the kind of context where it is easier to be more authentic and less performative.
I think that a good chunk of people who build in public whould say that they are actually building in community. They get the sense of a shared perspective and the community has established some its own conventions and norms. I don't think there's always a clear seperation between these two concepts.
As an interesting example of how these two concepts overlap is in the Zig community[0]. The community is decentralized - does that mean they are building in community AND in public?
And not only that, what's most amazing is that it can exceed humans at abilities that many years ago, most people thought only humans could accomplish (tasks including creativity, including creating art, writing poems/literature, interpreting ambiguous human questions and text, doing analogy-based reasoning and problem solving, grasping and explaining puns, making new jokes, etc). And these models can only improve in the future!