Simon @spoltier@qoto.org

#inktober day 9: Sun

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration

increasingly unhinged facts:
- there is an HBO documentary about bitcoin
- it shows some IRC logs from 2013
- the IRC logs are using the interface from a website i've been maintaining since ~2011
- the IRC messages in the HBO documentary aren't on my website
- because i've added the channel in 2015
- the screenshot of my website appears to have a bit of irssi edited into it using image manipulation software??

What school/university courses are using Tidal or Strudel? I've heard of a few..

would you use bioengineering to turn your milk glands into glands that produce spider silk?

(ref: https://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.html)

Practically speaking also, I reserve my right to simply be afraid enough of cars that I do not want to cycle around goddamn SAN DIEGO where one of my friends had a life-changing brain injury from being hit by a car on their bike. I hate these "be the change" takes and these "be brave about confronting cars" takes. Like, what?!? I'm Being The Change by staying alive??? Being scared of cars is sensible.

@grimalkina "In the coal mine, strive to be the canary" doesn't have quite the same inspirational ring to it.

Llama 3.2 is out, and it's a much more substantial release than the 3.1 to 3.2 version bump might indicate

Four new models, including Meta's first two vision models (11B and 90B) and two new text-only small models (1B and 3B)

My notes so far: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/25/llama-32/

RTO or GTFO? Last week, Amazon announced that starting in 2025, all employees will be in a physical office 5 days a week. While putatively to strengthen culture (as "the world's largest startup"), this is proving unpopular with many. Will other companies follow suit? On today's episode, @ahl and I are going to talk about remote work, RTO mandates -- and the physicality of both innovation and organization. Join us and share your perspective, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1287787453599584327

@TomF I'm right handed and started having minor issues with my wrist while using a mouse - so about 15 years ago I started switching my mouse hand on my work machine to left and (back when we still went to offices) my home machine stayed mouse-right.

It took a few weeks to really get used to it, but it wasn't bad. And now I'm mouse-ambidextrous and generally free of wrist troubles.

In the course of my unachievable hobby project working on SAT model counting I've figured out a neat trick, which is a reasonably efficient method for doing set operations on SAT problems in CNF form (without increasing the number of variables). e.g. taking the intersection or set difference of two SAT problems.

Is this a known thing? I've not seen it before but it seems like it must be.

@sandofsky

"The fairy photon enters the aperture and sings as it makes its way to the CMOS chip.

What's that? The permission troll just crawled out from under the Broadcom WiFi chip where it spends most of its time punching mean Internet traffic, and swatted the fairy photon away!

Oh no!

Halide needs your help, fair wise iPhone owner.

Close your eyes and make a wish and tap your heels together three times.

Tell the permission troll to stay away! Let the fairy photons come home to CMOS."

Dickens: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Schrödinger: Nice.

Here’s a statement from Bloom’s 1986 /The Closing of the American Mind/, with which I’m unhealthily obsessed:

“The best point of entry into the very special world inhabited by today’s students is the astonishing fact that they usually do not, in what were once called love affairs, say, ‘I love you.’

Were you a student in 1986? Did you, at that time, say “I love you” to a romantic partner?

Mastodon instance with a "scramble suit" functionality where every time you make a post it comes from a random account handle with a random display name and a random avatar

Ok I made this into a blog post, you're welcome

https://hazelweakly.me/blog/cache-me-not-cache-me-cache-me-not/

But seriously, caching is hard, it's really hard, but you can make life WAY easier for yourselves when building an SPA if you do this super simple thing.

Break down all your content into two axis:
1. push vs pull
2. owned vs user

Whenever possible, turn your pull assets into push assets and all of your user assets into owned assets.

What do I mean by that? Let's break it down further 👇