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This is very good. Super snappy and gives me what I'm looking for. Great write-up too.

How much more would it cost to use a multilingual tokeniser? I realise this is somewhat pointless for an English blog, but services like Uber Eats have something like that going on (server-side of course, and they may just be translating queries).

Implementing in native code and compiling to WASM would make for a good compromise.

Thanks for the additional information information, but with the "ecosystem gripe" I meant that most Overleaf projects are inadvertently designed for pdflatex simply because it's the default. No matter how much better other compilers are, pdflatex is the de facto standard in certain circles, even if few within these circles are aware of this (e.g. university laboratories), so I've had to begrudgingly switch back to latexmk for most projects to accommodate this.

A tool like this is sorely needed for LaTeX, and Tectonic is especially intuitive to embed into other applications, but the divergence of XeTeX from pdflatex makes it incompatible with most Overleaf projects. This is just an unfortunate ecosystem gripe, but for most workflows I end up having to reach for latexmk instead for this reason.

This seems incredibly useful, but it's somewhat a shame you can't just organically grow language support through LSPs.

I've started using parentheses with notes/tangents to circumvent any false accusations of AI usage. They're nice to write, but bad form, so LLMs don't use them much.

This is sold as an emulator, but couldn't it inadvertently replace AWS entirely in production too?

I suppose I should also note the vast majority of people developing on mac books (in my experience anyway) are actually targeting chrome.

Point taken. Most developers probably make do with Linux containers rather than MacOS VMs.

This is a really cool article, but the existence of such an arbitrary limit on any serious development platform is weird.

I've been there, but it definitely felt like more of an enthusiast experience. Someone who's just looking into getting their first mechanical keyboard would do better at a larger shop stocked with cheaper keyboards and a greater variety of common switch types.

That being said, the shop is located in a surprisingly quiet area, surrounded by other small enthusiast shops. I especially liked "High Beam" a few stores down, which specialises in handheld PCs.

But it's blazing fast though

People look for tells, systems detect word distributions. Though neither is as reliable as active fingerprinting using an encoded watermark.

This is an entire Unity project that won't load due to however many content blockers I've got running on my phone. The incompetent one loads instantly, though it's admittedly laggy.

I think it's mostly just that a subscription seems weird for a tool like this. Most users would probably only need it occasionally, and with a subscription you can't just add it to your toolbox to grab when that time comes.

The real story is in the poison fountain dataset this uses:

https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

[...] we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.

This almost strikes me as roleplay, but maybe I'm childish for finding it difficult to empathise with this genre of hacker ideology.

This video is about the recent LightLLM security breach.

How many compatibility issues is MacOS realistically expected to spur? Windows DX felt unusable to me without a Linux VM (and later WSL), but on MacOS most tooling just kinda seems to work the same.

That's like avoiding the West because of fancy cutlery rules. Japanese people are not as thin-skinned as lists like these lead you to believe.

Aura says a targeted voice phishing attack against one of its employees led to unauthorized access to about 900,000 records [...]

Employers are often surprised when I ask for less access, but I firmly believe no random employee should have personal data access like this. Ideally you'd want to require the customer to be in the loop to access their data as employee.

Nitpick, but it bothers me that your logo icon is not vertically aligned with your logo text. (Neither is it visually aligned.)

You probably already know, but iNaturalist allows you to filter by CC0 licensed observations.

I love how stylised it is while remaining more responsive than the vast majority of websites today.

I think these recent outages are caused by me recommending CloudFlare to an important client a few months ago.

Maybe it's a matter of code switching? I've read that some Japanese teams prefer English for practical reasons, since a shared second language prevents anyone from getting bogged down in formalities. That is not to say Japanese is unable to be formulated with just as much precision.

Somewhat related: the most prominent lottery in the Netherlands is government-run, but you wouldn't know it based on its ruthless advertising. At least it's going into the national budget and charity, I suppose.

In a decade's time we'll have many companies willing to envelop its customers in fictions like these. Even if "IQ" plateaus, optimising for "EQ" has too much financial incentive to be anything but inevitable under current economic conditions.

I am not arguing for tipping culture, but I question the incentive for rejecting a tip as a US Starbucks employee. I very much doubt that playing a part in desired society-wide change overcomes the immediate incentive of the tip itself.

I always love seeing what people dedicate their time to when money is no longer a factor. May we all be so lucky.

Isn't this directly taking money out of their own pocket, or are tips going to corporate?

At Schiphol they offer tipping options to presumably prey on Americans, but the attendant physically reached over the counter to reject it after I ordered in (native) Dutch. Can't imagine how much trouble locals had been giving the shop before training staff like this.