Writing userscripts and CSS filters
becomes more tedious each few years,
especially mucking with dynamic DOM
and complex frameworks websites tend to
use now. WASM and obfuscated/minified javascript made "programmable web" impossible in practice.
Wikipedia is not a reliable source
for anything that is remotely controversial or recent(as in last 20 years), as there always people who have
agenda to 'correct the record' on something.
I just binge watched a dozen videos,
this is probably my new favorite genre.
The complexity and speed are on par
with very fast electronic but far more
pleasant(like classical orchestra). Are all such Black MIDI using only piano
notes or this is just a stylistic convention?
Well, the little tigers can be dangerous and hold pathogenic bacteria in their little claws.
You'd be nervous too if that thing could claw at your eye
at any moment. Plus they could carry toxoplasmosis and tons of infections picked up from street animals.
I'd play it safe and eat only natural sweeteners like inulin/stevia/xylitol. Gut microbes haven't evolved to
expirience the whole array of artificial sweeteners.
It won't work:
Left doesn't acknowledge the benefits of meritocracy.
Right is anti-intellectual and suspicious of progress.
There is no social movement supporting intellectual achievement:
the public is focused on cheap infotainment and sensationalist science
that is 'group-activity' such as "scientists from X find Y, due being funded for Z". Lone genius/inventor doesn't have such appeal as 'Big Science', which is actually collectivist mediocrity rewarding social climbers and salesmen:
Academic science has to justify itself financially and 'discoveries' are usually coming from the above(Y found but funded for Z).
In the past the idea of scientific progress was understood as necessarily, but today the status quo is more comfortable
Perhaps the older lens has more pleasing colors:
normally absorbing a bit more of hi-freq(blue/violet) lens a comfy "orange sunset" effect and warm atmosphere.
Modern digital cameras tend to be "colder"
in color, with sharp blue/violet.
So does this mean chlorella can be mass-produced cheaper than crops?
This would be a second "Green Revolution" if this scales up, it will free up lots of land.
I prefer the flexibility of computed gotos
a GCC extension that is likely the fastest
dispatch method outside of compile-time.
With computed gotos, you can have arbitrary dispatch complexity and structure, interleave
code(e.g./code1/ ;skip_label: ;label1: /code2/; goto *return_loc;) and use assembler-like tricks to
reduce fast paths(e.g. switch off code segment execution or alter control flow on the fly)
consider the baseline state of the world, what pleasures are Not
mindless escapism or illusion of plenty? I don't want to deceive myself
that if i'd have some mundane pleasure it somehow compensates the entire
weight of the world.
The fundamental problem as i see it:
Nuclear is profitable/possible only at large scale,
it cannot 'scale down', unlike e.g. wind/wave turbines
you can't buy a mini-reactor because the industry is very regulated(and for a very obvious reasons).
the closest scaled-down nuclear has got is RITEG , which was built without these regulations(and would horrify Americans as much recreational nukes).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
Easy way to discern if site is social Cookie Clicker:
1.Does it provide a rating/score for content.
2.Does it reward users with larger rating/score?
3.Does it limit users with lower rating/score?
If all three question are positive, then it is
optimizing for content-score engagement type
of users, pushing the lever for extra dopamine hits.
Youtube can be "Trained"
(with a blank profile/container)
into TikTok type content by repeatedly
watching first recommended video and
skipping videos in 2-3 secs.
Back when youtube had a good UI it was
real ratings, you could rank videos 1-5
https://techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/youtube-comes-to-a-5-star-...
then it """optimized""" out the middle ratings(
Middle ratings were the more honest ones,
perfect videos are rare and 1-ratings we often
unjustified)
to 1=dislike 5=like, where everything is simplified to single click mobile engagement.
I would like a 1 to 10 rating scale
and make MORE refined rating choices, not
vague "likes"(currently YT has only 1-5 star
rating for rare question-type prompts with video on homepage for logged in users when it needs feedback). Making 5/10 7/10 and 9/10 videos
rank the same with "likes" lowers quality
of ratings substantially.