2026-05-11T06:54:41Z https://yabu.me Garrett Wollman https://yabu.me/npub1a96jh4anuaz6cr859dgsyatrl05n8el7evndfslea0vufzx5z9zsz5fm30 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/362/213/050/908/126/original/f113aca49204c482.jpeg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/362/213/050/908/126/original/f113aca49204c482.jpeg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspjgqxw3xs0exk6h87xea9sh29rj50xpdegvg7388zzkgnjzkqmmgzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg525wwf3u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz75u3mdn327p4eg96uhpk3kkrvqw58dy62fjzh3e4kxggwxjdu3qmr3cnl'>nevent1q…3cnl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I always thought the original Athena explanation-in-dialogue paper was quite clear, even when I was 16. Of course it was about v4 which is now long obsolete, and v5 adds a bunch of complications for Microsoft&#39;s benefit (some of which other implementations also use). Wish I could remember either the titles or the authors. 2025-11-04T02:57:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvgpgvfsk6vgf5vagm47jmm3u3h2fpsjqxujppgp35lc67630ajeszyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52z3a9j2 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdcz6ah3dukqn76u8gvvmr9s5ak5e59xm5dhw3hc7p4cw6mwwnd3ggh4zhe'>nevent1q…4zhe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No, it&#39;s much worse than that. Firing the person responsible for reporting jobs numbers just ensures that nobody trusts the jobs numbers going forward. 2025-08-01T21:57:05Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfyehwqxq6wey0tmmkxu6242rhmf660ackz0kq6u8vhqcmsfp5vvqzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg529szw02 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8qrgpugd9wx5mu87d6u93waq0pqw3nunn4tyzttpr0pdzhq9zy0g7tf946'>nevent1q…f946</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was bored today and went looking for reviews of a book that I know well, that has been important to me for more than 30 years.<br/><br/>This book has a child rape scene, told from the PoV of the victim. It&#39;s important to the resolution of the central issue in the story.<br/><br/>Many of the amateur reviewers said, to paraphrase, &#34;sigh, yet another rape scene, why do fantasy authors have to resort to sexual abuse as a source of trauma for their characters?&#34; 2025-07-17T02:26:39Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8qrgpugd9wx5mu87d6u93waq0pqw3nunn4tyzttpr0pdzhq9zy0gzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52n4zuzd I&#39;ve written a few times before about my philosophy with regard to literature, which can be roughly summarized as &#34;let the text speak for itself&#34;, avoiding extratextual sources of information about the writer&#39;s motivations, intent, or career path. I&#39;ve found one case, though, where this is clearly inadequate, the text can&#39;t speak for itself, but the author can. (cont&#39;d) 2025-07-17T02:23:57Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs8zrvsw7t3way3r0fwp5xuhst2smuc27uznt7kwn00q9apvthdzwqzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52747xwn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq2jtgfj7glq5e8pu93twy72zsy0fn3plnnzqfsqjcms40c84t9mgu4tmf7'>nevent1q…tmf7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You could argue that I was cheating because those buffers were all empty. We can fix that:<br/><br/>(defun make-buffer-recursive (i limit)<br/> (if (&lt; i limit)<br/> (progn<br/> (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer &#34; test &#34; t)<br/> (insert &#34;foo&#34;))<br/> (make-buffer-recursive (+ i 1) limit))))<br/><br/>Adding another 400 buffers each containing the word &#34;foo&#34; changes the virtual size not a whit, but resident set increases to 74808, so that&#39;s about 5,150 bytes per buffer. 2025-05-16T20:49:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq2jtgfj7glq5e8pu93twy72zsy0fn3plnnzqfsqjcms40c84t9mgzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg5264pn0l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgmpkar84ysg8anjv73c5vywtjghc2snw9w5cm7q55qq68s89r92smm6m4j'>nevent1q…6m4j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>It&#39;s a Lisp, I could just do it recursively (although I don&#39;t think Emacs Lisp has tail-recursion optimization) but ugh.<br/><br/>ok fine.<br/><br/>(defun make-buffer-recursive (i limit)<br/> (if (&lt; i limit)<br/> (progn<br/> (generate-new-buffer &#34; test &#34; t)<br/> (make-buffer-recursive (+ i 1) limit))))<br/><br/>After running (make-buffer-recursive 0 400), virtual size increases from 114076 to 114332, and resident set size increases from 72496 to 72796. (Positively svelte!) 2025-05-16T20:47:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0k56cqe94vd2d76cjya9artefhzhefuu7dtufk5zurwhh6ajqjdgzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52a226fm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrgkleexcvcrcz7n9yc0evdwvecsrhjzwtkdrkfycpm24z5xwpy0s9wu3p8'>nevent1q…u3p8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was thinking I could just code it up and measure the memory usage when I realized I forgot how to write a for loop in Emacs Lisp. 2025-05-16T20:27:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv3v3jk97jpgycmeqc4xg6escsel8e0xgdshacs7usndf7evqnfhszyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52g8lq6w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw3ny86epu2l4tq24tvk8a8pg6hhgfg7t57g65w3capm9rc3y9aeczrmuz5'>nevent1q…muz5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Don&#39;t see why not, a buffer&#39;s not that big a data structure even in Emacs. 2025-05-16T20:25:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgkvvr44pce3jsk3savzwyxz673m2gh9vwzgrcjmmwrv7fw5tq9mqzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52s92qks In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9aqdar70046fllvvshk6ew29c5xyvcsxydsf2txxnyfsk43jf2fqaj7pfc'>nevent1q…7pfc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>LLMs are approximate information retrieval systems. Asking them to generate something that isn&#39;t well represented in the training corpus is going to get you a linear combination of stuff that is. Sometimes by coincidence that happens to be right but the model isn&#39;t capable of knowing. 2025-04-27T03:28:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9640wexfvl66fhltj46gmj4en0szkfp2jkx75fq7gmt8jzmxpwkqzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52n694n0 Back before the pandemic, the EU was working on revoking the Summer Time Directive and eliminating semiannual time changes. Come the emergency that didn&#39;t seem so important, but has this effort been completely dropped or is it still out there lurking in Brussels? 2025-03-04T14:58:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdx8tnu5yr9rsfw33jahwucaazq7v8jufrd84cszjn9qr5q9ftmugzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52yussg4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvwyv3fs6aet6rp7p05gfse6v87xhucsee6d39l47kat2lrxhmjqqx4lapa'>nevent1q…lapa</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>When I was a lad, that was the whole excitement of computers! Here was this thing, it sat on your desk and you could make it do stuff! 2025-03-02T23:41:59Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsftga0ujtltszw5ry5mj097r5m9lkxa5v2hmkx2gwqev7973el3dgzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52p9pgp9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8tnf0ad5hfg4ndlvnk7qkzh43ulsaye2m8ppudrdu4jlmujgv4uqjh68c4'>nevent1q…68c4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I would really confuse that student given that I have Emacs open all the time (one frame for mail and one for other stuff) but then constantly run vi (not vim) from the shell because it&#39;s faster than opening the same file in Emacs (assuming it&#39;s even on the same machine).<br/><br/>Remember when Emacs was said to be an acronym for &#34;eight megabytes and constantly swapping&#34;? Those were the days. I&#39;m guessing VS Code is closer to eight GIGAbytes, amirite? 2025-02-07T06:05:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs04407mpglcc0d3gf2k8l9cdkxyrkc2jwxntug4n6zqn2semlwnpczyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52vk9nze In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw64mygtjhz7ug8lgf0ahumgdcaugcdlpc7jg2u55nv3ngkgqgugcelxk7m'>nevent1q…xk7m</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Comment dit-on &#34;meh&#34;? 2024-12-24T20:09:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsthpfdys584lku6yy0uy9scw2kurnh7qhyg36jq6pdkpp8prjcqkczyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52w9vrxc Asked on Bluesky and got no responses, so I&#39;m going to ask here where there are more techies and fewer poasters: is there an actual specification for the RFC 1035 &#34;master file format&#34; representation of TXT records? #DNS 2024-11-14T02:13:22Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9ttashz2ljhu5r40d2v3hmdthesk2mrvhwuay6zrtkemfqn6vqvgzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg526vje2y In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszhjjvp4nc95vmaac5mv6y2c44gpcpc0lttl372l67rskx6en3pcsx656x5'>nevent1q…56x5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I hope you&#39;re right. (My ballot is already at the clerk&#39;s office but I&#39;ll still be very anxious on Election Day proper and hitting refresh constantly.) 2024-10-10T02:59:14Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrtq3pgaz0cwf3z9hptzvnde49xuzjlplkwv689jm9xwklh5zc0sqzyr5h227hk0n5ttqv7s44zqn4v0a7jvl8lm9jd4xrl84an3yg6sg52na6gmp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst0ahxcu96f8fxfql9wsyes80kjm7qyhs6p9y0w6zhch8ty42ltzcqmt2mw'>nevent1q…t2mw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What we need is some bollards (and Newbury permanently closed to non-emergency vehicles, except perhaps for deliveries 5a-10a). 2024-09-08T21:19:31Z