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Yesterday #UAW4811 rank and file successfully picketed unionized maintenance and delivery workers trying to work on water damage in #UCLA's Engineering 4 building. Today that building is shut down due to water damage. THAT is how you strike

I'm really really really not interested in computers getting more powerful.
I am super interested in them being more repairable and modifiable, drawing less power, lasting and being supported for way longer etc. That stuff still gets me excited

I was so excited I forgot to add the video! This is a single 7.5W laser running at 30kHz sample rate, the tracking is essentially a travelling salesman algorithm. Oh and the laser control software is all Seb’s too. Go check out Seb’s work! Truly terrific stuff https://seblee.co #asteroids #laser #emfcamp

As a general rule, the state should over-supply services. There should be slack in the system almost all the time. Relaxed GPs with lots of time to talk to their patients. So many teachers that the main trouble is finding rooms for them all.

Not only does this see a better quality of service mostly, but it also cushions the system in the event of an unexpected shock.

If you have just enough professionals to deliver at 100%, you don’t have enough professionals.

For a while i've been talking about the "Fedi Tapestry", how each server essentially adds to a locality of fedi - how it creates a "local bubble", that doesn't become an echo chamber.

It's difficult to explain why, I often refer to the fact that open federation enables people to connect with others.

But why doesn't it turn into something like the large social platforms, the so-called "Public Squares"?

I think it has a lot to do with the fact how each server has an overlap with other servers, wrt social elements.

See the below image, here i use colors as a single dimension of "social likeliness", but there are incredibly many different spectrums and factors that influence this, so just see this as it is; a simplified model.

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New Paper: On the application of Bloom Filter Hierarchies representing
Sub-word Token Bigram Occurrence to Probabilistic Full Text Search

This is a note regarding a prototype I've been working on for a few months in the domain of Decentralized Search (and Indexing)

It covers a data structure with interesting properties that I've been playing with, and documents some experiments regarding naive full text search performance.

Comments/questions/critique welcome.

PDF: https://sarahjamielewis.com/decentralization/search/ftsbloom.pdf

It's a long shot, but it would be really funny if Microsoft and Google both capsize when the AI bubble pops, resulting in Valve taking over as the dominant home PC OS and buying the xbox brand for cheap, a sudden surge of corporate interest funding ReactOS, and a bewildered Viktor Lofgren waking up one morning to discover that Marginalia had become the world's dominant search engine over night. Chrome users however would still continue to refuse to switch to Firefox.