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I wonder if this makes it easier for LLMs to navigate your code as well. They are effectively blind.

It's probably not that, but (separately) both the Democratic Party and democracy for the same reason: if Republicans successfully engineer (what's effectively) a one-party state.

Regardless if the dems still exist in name or not, both them and democracy are done.


Small Web is for you: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web


Or a standard API whereby a user fills out their preferences once in their browser, and the websites ask the browser for this information.


We could do this by sending a header to the website.

What should we call this.. mmh..

"Do Not Track" is a bit long, maybe we just shorten it to DNT?

Nah thats dumb. /s

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...


Surely you’re joking. They have virtually nothing in common.


Well, they have “no stated mechanism of action” in common…


One thing I’ve been looking for in an ID generator is a way to supply a blocklist. There are a number of character combinations I’d like to avoid in IDs, because they might be offensive or get stuck in filters when copy-pasted (e.g. in a URI).

This can be solved in user space by regenerating if the character sequences are detected, but this a) skews the distribution, and b) potentially takes time, especially when the ID generator is made to not be “too fast”. I want to generate a single ID that passes the blocklist in a timeframe that is not too fast, if that makes sense.

Is there an ID generator that takes this into consideration?


Just take out the vowels and numbers that can look like vowels. Nixing 0 means no b00bs IDs, and avoids 0/O; I usually take out 1/I as well.


That goes some of the way, but I can think of a few problematic sequences that are only consonants and/or numbers.


Some dialects at various states of maturity:

CLR: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr

LLVM: https://jank-lang.org/

Erlang: https://www.clojerl.org/

Python: http://hylang.org/


The article says Datascript. https://github.com/tonsky/datascript


At the same time, the supposedly rational opponents to this does everyone a disservice by judging all of it based on the loudest fraction of people. And then we can’t have scientific inquiry into anything, because baby/bathwater.


Agreed, mainstream 'scientific' establishment scientific inquiry is a sham. It's a modern form of religion.


> At the same time, the supposedly rational opponents to this does everyone a disservice by judging all of it based on the loudest fraction of people.

Not really. The UFO community is synonymous with gullible crackpots and conspiracy loons. If the community wants to be take seriously, they themselves need to sort themselves out before they can expect to be taken seriously.

It's the boy that cried alien.


> If the community wants to be take seriously, they themselves need to sort themselves out

How do you propose we collectively do that? Appointing a UFO Pope and excommunicating the heretics?

Yes, there are folks out there who see any dot in the sky doing anything they are vaguely unfamiliar with and jump to the conclusion that it must be a bona fide alien spaceship. However, this doesn't mean the UFO community is uniformly like that. Nor is the available evidence limited to bright dots in the sky, either.

There will never be "scientific" evidence without scientists willing and funded to obtain it. And if we label every person with an interest on the subject as a "gullible crackpot and a conspiracy loon" then how likely is it that we will fund their research, and how unbiased are we to listen to the results of that research unless it fits exactly within the boundaries of our preconceived ideas of what is even possible.

I don't have the answers to the UFO hypothesis. Never seen one, never want to see one either. But I appreciate any systematic effort to collect data of the objects in our skies and identify them. If nothing else, we will at least be protecting our airspace from foreign adversaries.


> The UFO community is synonymous with gullible crackpots and conspiracy loons.

It's worse than that. There's definitely a religious element to their beliefs. The UAP hearings last summer suggest that there's "UFO-believers" in leadership positions in the Department of defense. These people are SPENDING GOVERNMENT MONEY on insane fiascos and have been able to get a lot of attention lately.

The AARO report (https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/37...) goes into detail.

The sad thing is that some politicians have latched on to this and are using it to appease their conspiracy-laden constituencies.


> There's definitely a religious element to their beliefs.

Such as? I haven’t seen this attitude you’re claiming to exist.


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