nico λ
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just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
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the worst of all possible worlds: generative AI manages to pollute the internet with cheap synthetic data, manages to make being a human artist / creator harder
Remembering that the tech industry is being built by people just figuring things out on the fly isn’t just a way to avoid stress; it’s become one of the most empowering bits of advice I can imagine. Because if all those people out there have changed the world while not knowing what they were doing…so can I.
Makinde Adeagbo • Nobody Knows What They’re Doing
, “Almost the only position of spiritual dignity left to men, therefore, is a kind of stoic silence, made bearable by the amusement of seeing, hearing, and knowing the full historical irony that its victims are blind and deaf to, and disciplined by the act of withholding comment on what we know.”
Buckley at 100 - Claremont Review of Books
This is arguably the most foundational principle of productivity. Make fast decisions with limited certainty.
Daniel Kazandjian • Minimum Viable Productivity
A powerful programming language is more than just a means for instructing a computer to perform tasks. The language also serves as a framework within which we organize our ideas about processes. Thus, when we describe a language, we should pay particular attention to the means that the language provides for combining simple ideas to form more... See more
Source Academy
Every progress in science in the last decades, from the moment it was absorbed into technology and thus introduced into the factual world where we live our everyday lives, has brought with it a veritable avalanche of fabulous instruments and ever more ingenious machinery. All of this makes it more unlikely every day that man will encounter anything... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
A SOCKS proxy operates at a lower level compared to a traditional HTTP/HTTPS proxy. Thus, a SOCKS proxy allows you to forward all types of web traffic—including HTTP, HTTPS, but also FTP, POP, IMAP, and other application-level protocols.
Scraping Through Tor for Increased Anonymity
I started noticing how supposedly intelligent, reasonable people would gleefully post and share the pettiest, cheapest, most self-congratulatory trash as long as it fit their opinions.
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The normal course of politics is various coalitions of elites and populace, each drawing from their own power bases. A normal political party, like a normal anything else, has elite leaders, analysts, propagandists, and managers, plus populace foot soldiers. Then there's an election, and sometimes our elites get in, and sometimes your elites get... See more