Justin Blank

Give me the natural numbers or give me death. Also [email protected] and

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

Super excited: I just released the first version of needle, a library I’ve been working on for some time that compiles regular expressions to JVM bytecode.

I plan to keep working on it, but it’s already fast, and I hope people can make use of it. https://t.co/ruZYF3FISi

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@geofflangdale @_Felipe Interesting, thanks for the ideas.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@geofflangdale @_Felipe Doubts about automata? Any chance I can provoke you into writing 1-1000 sentences?

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@besttrousers I think I’ve failed at Google, do you have a link to where you’ve written about this?

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

Almost no one will ever read this correction, but of course that should’ve been “…ways that are *not* about advances in AI…”

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

Indeed. In ways that are about advances in AI, the intellectual progress that happened in 2024 is not distinguishable from the intellectual progress of 2014.

We are still speculating about what might happen soon (which is not to say I think it won’t happen).

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

I occasionally think (per Hilbert) "has the Riemann Hypothesis been solved yet?" as a reminder that we're quite some ways from ASI. The first 25 years of the third millenium saw one Clay Prize problem solved. I suspect the second quarter century will see at least 4 of the remaining 6 solved (or if not then, soon after)

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@deepinthebuild @sedatesnail I found the “one pager”

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@michael_nielsen I tend to think there is churn, it’s often negative and tedious to keep up with it, but it’s also easy to exaggerate, whether by influencers creating content about something new (whether or not it will take off), or people who feel overwhelmed by the feeling they have to keep up.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

I figured “this isn’t a problem, it just means they need to update their documentation” so I used the email flow.

However, that flow infinite loops. I enter sign-in information, get prompted to choose my account, and am returned to the sign-in screen.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@1Password I’m trying to add 1Password to Firefox, and reached https:://my.1Password.com/signin, which tells me to open the mobile app and select the account icon or 1Password logo in the top corner. The iOS mobile app doesn’t have a 1Password icon there.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@Aella_Girl Normie is men and women genuinely loving each other, in spite of mediocre communication and a lot of gender based friction.

A certain type of Internet weirdo comes in and says “women are your ENEMIES.”

Obviously they get to some people. But most normie say “that’s weird.”

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@Aella_Girl Being somewhat closed off is common.

But believing that it’s a mistake and women will punish you for it isn’t normie. It’s an internet weirdo thing.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

Several of those “dependencies” are from the same damn GitHub repository!

https://t.co/uRpl3Fm7OO

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

How many lines on this list are duplicates? Surely the reasonable thing is to actually deduplicate it and count?

[Armin Ronacher ⇌ @mitsuhiko]

Fun fact: rust needs to generate random numbers in the standard library for hash maps and sets. But that's not exposed. This is how many dependencies adding the latest version of the popular rand crate pulls in that everybody uses:

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@geofflangdale What I was thinking was that agricultural use dwarfed household use, but I think it’s less drastic than I thought (though I’m having trouble reconciling a few different stats I’m seeing).

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@geofflangdale Oh, alternate possibility: the water in question isn’t potable water, so the comparison is nonsense.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@geofflangdale My gut reaction is the same as yours though, it seems like a suspiciously large amount of water.

But I’m probably not the right person to try to double check their work.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@intellectronica @michael_nielsen This may or may not be possible (the vulnerabilities in PDF rely on complex behaviors that Pandoc may never produce).

But even if possible, it would be difficult to do, and would only work if you knew that EPUB would go through Pandoc.

[Justin Blank @hyperpape]

@intellectronica @michael_nielsen The risk that an EPUB to PDF conversion by way of Pandoc would produce a PDF containing an exploit seems quite low.

It would be a matter of producing and EPUB that is specifically constructed to exploit a bug in Pandoc to generate a mal-formed PDF that exploits your PDF reader.