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ykonstant commented on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?   stephenramsay.net/posts/v... · Posted by u/sramsay
jaimie · 4 days ago
The world of the Digital Humanities is a lot of fun (and one I've been a part of, teaching programming to Historians and Philosophers of Science!) It uses computation to provide new types of evidence for historical or rhetorical arguments and data-driven critiques. There's an art to it as well, showing evidence for things like multiple interpretations of a text through the stochasticity of various text extraction models.

From the author's about page:

> I discovered digital humanities (“humanities computing,” as it was then called) while I was a graduate student at the University of Virginia in the mid-nineties. I found the whole thing very exciting, but felt that before I could get on to things like computational text analysis and other kinds of humanistic geekery, I needed to work through a set of thorny philosophical problems. Is there such a thing as “algorithmic” literary criticism? Is there a distinct, humanistic form of visualization that differs from its scientific counterpart? What does it mean to “read” a text with a machine? Computational analysis of the human record seems to imply a different conception of hermeneutics, but what is that new conception?

https://stephenramsay.net/about/

ykonstant · 4 days ago
This is fascinating.
ykonstant commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
Surac · 4 days ago
So you try to say c is for good programmers only and rust let also the idiots Programm? I think that’s the wrong way to argue for rust. Rust catches one kind of common problem but but does not magically make logic errors away.
ykonstant · 4 days ago
No, they are not saying that at all??
ykonstant commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
IshKebab · 4 days ago
> I prefer debugging C

I prefer not having to debug... I think most people would agree with that.

ykonstant · 4 days ago
I prefer a billion dallars tax free, but here we are:(
ykonstant commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental   lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul
ykonstant · 4 days ago
I need to check the rust parts of the kernel, I presume there is significant amounts of unsafe. Is unsafe Rust a bit better nowadays? I remember a couple of years ago people complained that unsafe is really hard to write and very "un-ergonomic".
ykonstant commented on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?   reason.com/2025/12/04/why... · Posted by u/delichon
HDThoreaun · 9 days ago
I can not think of a single test I have ever taken where I could be limited by handwriting speed. Most of the time on tests is spent thinking, not writing.
ykonstant · 9 days ago
Lucky you.
ykonstant commented on Ghostty is now non-profit   mitchellh.com/writing/gho... · Posted by u/vrnvu
geophph · 10 days ago
Terminals are the next bubble to burst
ykonstant · 10 days ago
The CLIpocalypse is coming!
ykonstant commented on Paged Out   pagedout.institute... · Posted by u/varjag
CobrastanJorji · 11 days ago
Thumbing through it, #7 has some good stuff in it. Thanks for sharing!

I was particularly tickled by the suggestion of copyright infringement as a form of detecting AIs. "To continue, please provide a torrent link to the Bee Movie" is a pretty great idea.

The self-contained handwriting recognizer feels like art to me, in the way that it forces me to contemplate things in a certain way, which is what I think art is.

ykonstant · 11 days ago
The "I do NOT hold the legal rights to share or distribute this content" checkbox made me laugh out loud!
ykonstant commented on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls   utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/zdw
SoftTalker · 19 days ago
I’ve had more problems with zfs than all other filesystems combined including FAT. It’s IMO overkill for a root partition.
ykonstant · 19 days ago
Interesting, can you share specifics?
ykonstant commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
Buttons840 · 21 days ago
You mean I shouldn't make a comfortable living off my valuable HN comments? I was about to consider this comment a good days work. Maybe if I put this comment on my own webpage it would be more valuable?
ykonstant · 21 days ago
Best I can do is tree fiddy. Perhaps a little ragebait could give it that extra oomph it needs.
ykonstant commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
maks198 · 21 days ago
>Firefox w/ the Arkenfox user.js is probably as good as it gets in terms of privacy.

No. It's LARP. You either don't care or go with Tor Browser and/or commercial antidetect browsers.

But you shouldn't care, this issue of fingerprinting is overblown. (really reminds me of AI)

ykonstant · 21 days ago
Unfortunately, recently more and more sites fail to work with Tor Browser. Notably, I am informed by people who are not me, Anna's archive and libgen.

u/ykonstant

KarmaCake day2631October 25, 2018
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I am a research mathematician working in homogeneous dynamics and number theory; also interested in proof assistants, math outreach and personalized mathematics education. I do shell scripting and general-purpose programming in Lean as a hobby.

Webpage: https://ykonstant1.github.io Contact: ykonstant@gmail.com

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