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Extremely fake, just like how no one can ever remember that "Bernstein Bears" is actually spelled "Berenstain Bears".

Robbie Williams the pop star actually doesn't exist. Not a real person. It's just Mandela Effect, you think you remember him because they made that chimp biopic movie. He was created in 2015 as a stunt by a UK social media company. His real name is Bill Roberts, and he's from Long Island.

No gods, no masters, no borders, no nations. Solidarity forever.

The thing is, the whole point of Jews is diaspora. Being an internal other to big, wealthy populations is how you get the happening cultural production. And Israel has shitty fascist aesthetics and bad, non-nuanced ideas because, as Jews of all people should know, "homeland" is a false god.

a man in a suit is sitting in a chair with a microphone in front of him Alt: vince mcmahon fainting in his chair

but “This lets you harm your workers, and it will kiss your ass nonstop day and night, no matter how abusive you are towards it, and all it costs is all your investor’s money, which it also frees up more of” is like, vince-mcmahon-fainting-in-his-chair.gif type shit

Companies that *are* seeing efficiency gains (and there legitimately are quite a few!) are trying to hire, they're not doing layoffs. Efficiency is not a reason for layoffs, it's a justification for to put *more* Capital to work!

The job to be done by current AI, the purpose of this tool and the benefit it provides to Capital's aristocracy is:

- Destroy objective truth.
- Make the working class anxious.
- Be relentlessly and creatively sycophantic, no matter how much it is abused.

"Efficiency" is a cover story.

Multiple things are true at once. Learn nuance.

AI is a useful tool that can do some cool stuff. Also, the telos of current AI tech, the "job to be done" is not about efficiency, that's bullshit. If tech makes your business twice as efficient, you don't fire half your staff, you double revenue.

The best place to deploy "I accept your apology, just please don't let it happen again" in response to "I'm sorry" is at a funeral.

Listening to AI dorks talk is like watching a version of Pinocchio where the Blue Fairy never showed up and it's just a sad man trying to convince everyone his doll is alive and also lies to him.

Google’s end game reveals itself.

The snake is the eel of the land and the eel is the snake of the water. There are also water snakes, which are the land eels of the water. Sometimes eels go across land as well, which makes them the water snakes of the land (distinct from water snakes, which are land eels of the water, as mentioned)

Dark City. I lost respect for everyone who emphatically told me that I’d love it. It’s a very bad movie, on every conceivable level.

Swirling yuri in a wine glass and sniffing it.

Sets it back on the table, disappointed

“Waiter, you told me this yuri was toxic. Clearly, you gave me supportive and affirming yuri by mistake. Take it back. And don’t you dare look at me in the eyes, girl.”

telltale sign of people who are concerned only with who operates the orphan grinder, not with whether it should exist

people who insist that trump is the whole problem are super dangerous because they will prevent us from addressing root causes

One thing I think no one had on their bingo card for the development of tech was that we managed to use massive data centers and linear algebra to create computer programs that are confidently very bad at math.

That chart is in log scale. The slowest Match approach is still well under a ms, while the RegExp approach blows up to 34 seconds in the worst case tested. There were many more cases, but I set the test to time out at a minute. `p=N` is branch count in the `a*a*...` pattern, `s=N` is string length.

a chart showing that a naive implementation of a Thompson NFA pattern matching algorithm, while slower than a regexp in the case of pattern match success, is immune to catastrophic slowdowns when a recursive pattern does not match, triggering exponentially explosive backtracking ReDoS behavior.

Seriously, why do we have RegExp's in JavaScript that are subject to catastrophic backtracking? This seems like an obvious win for security, that would prevent the most annoying and disruptive security vulnerabilities.
Anyway, here's what a pretty naive NFA approach to glob matching can do:

It’s not enough.

Also, was thinking it might be interesting, since I have this graph structure of the pattern, to perform the match in reverse. Maybe send walkers to the front from the back, and if they meet in the middle, that's a match. Again, the negation makes it a bit dicey, though.

It's a little tricky, because JS is slower than C, and like I said, negative extglobs. But, even though it's slower than regexps on matches, when it _fails_, it's much faster (like, 1000-10k times faster, in pathological cases), and it slows down basically not at all as the string/pattern increases.

It'd be a pretty neat flex for minimatch to be the only pattern matching library on npm that is actually impossible to ReDoS.

The algorithm is similar to the NFA algorithm from Ken Thompson's 1968 paper dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

The "pass" is 51 'a' chars, the "fail" is 50 'a' followed by a 'b'.

Been whittling down the JS implementation until it's just pointers and numbers, maybe port to C and do it in wasm. It does still use RegExp for character classes. Could probably eek even more perf out of the JS, might be enough.

Little thing I been hacking on in the evenings while my kid falls asleep:

String len: 51
glob a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a*a
pass: 0.4ms
fail: 0.695ms
RegExp ^a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a.*a$
pass: 0.054ms
fail: 33.284s

Negative extglob is still tricky. Passes slower than RegExp, but 100% not ReDoS-able.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Apple family account management is impressively bad. I have to create a whole new iCloud account now for my kid because Apple decided to permanently and irrevocably disable their account when I reported that the restriction settings weren’t being enforced.

if your naomi be wolf,
oh buddy, oof,
if your naomi be klein,
turns out also,

A cat and a rodent share a meal from a plate on the floor.

“It’s just a time out, you know.”
“I know.”
“It doesn’t mean that we’re cool.”
“I get it.”
“This is pretty tasty.”
“I know, right?”

Yah, but my opinions are correct and true, and the opinions of others are wrong and my enemy, and this is my mentions you’re in, not theirs.