15:32 <+A> i found this lately https://foreverdomains.io/
15:32 <+A> something like a one-time fee of $200 for a .forever domain, with the specious reasoning being > The registry for .forever names is deployed on Ethereum and unowned by anyone, so it is completely decentralized. Each .forever domain is an NFT because it's issued as an ERC-721 token.
15:33 <+A> no mention on how or who maintains the authoritative servers that will read the zone info from the blockchain. since y'know the blockchain doesn't automatically run bind9 on its own
15:33 <+A> considering that OVH offers .ovh for $1.99 a year i bet they're making a killing.
https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1947PA.....55..200G
07:12 <+tougenkyou> two random things i've learned today: the von Neumann–Morgenstern (VNM) utility theorem (as opposed to classical bentham-style utilitarianism)
07:13 <+tougenkyou> the flaw of classical bentham / "act utilitarianism" is it's additive, and it is inherently vague; e.g. suppose you have a sinking ship and you have already thrown all material posessions and goods aboard; the only thing left to throw aboard is people;
07:14 <+tougenkyou> if you accept that all people are equal, you might throw the heaviest person aboard, priority queue style, until the ship stops sinking or reaches equilibrium
07:18 <+tougenkyou> VNM formalizes this vagueness by allowing you to define "a set of assumptions over people's preferences is required before one can construct a utility function" (and you can then theorize about things like "throw the richest person off board, priority queue style, and redistribute their money to all the remaining people" )
07:41 <+tougenkyou> some random dude brought up a "square degree" with relation to the earth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_degree in conversation, and he offered the explanation of it being a 50x50 square mile
07:43 <+tougenkyou> consider that https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/steradian.html a radian, "cuts out" a line of length radius^2 on the outside of a circle
07:43 <+tougenkyou> 1 radian = 180/pi degrees
07:43 <+tougenkyou> the earth has a radius of about 3958mi or 6371km
07:45 <+tougenkyou> hence 1 square degree should be (3958**2) / ((180 / math.pi)**2) ~ 4772.06 miles, or a square with a side length of nearly 70 miles
07:51 <+tougenkyou> *a radian cuts out a line of length radius on the outside of a circle; so in 3D it would cut out a square with side radius
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/28130/convert-area-from-square-meters-to-degrees-globally
Zend2 proxies of yore: node.js edition
https://github.com/unix-witch/uniblock
https://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
postgresql is extremely based because you can do nosql-esque complex queries on a JSONB / JSON column **and** return them as rows, so you can chain them with other relational operations like INNER JOIN and such
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-json.html#JSONB-SUBSCRIPTING
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/functions-json.html#FUNCTIONS-JSON-PROCESSING-TABLE
Partial Evaluation, Futamura Projection And Their Applications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation
... is extensively used in GraalVM.
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-aarch64-on-the-solidrun-honeycomb-lx2k/
https://foldit.fandom.com/wiki/Foldit_Wiki
https://docs.observium.org/community/
old boys clubs https://www.kingshigholdboys.co.nz/?page_id=306&page=5
18:06 <A> there are plenty of (in)famous people who don't have fleshed out wiki pages. i wouldn't read too much into that fact alone.
18:06 <A> there's this renowned dude in quant finance circles, graduated from harvard and mit, the whole 9 yards, who has made a killing selling quant interview prep books in his spare time http://www.foundationsforscientificinvesting.com/
18:06 <A> his name's timothy falcon crack (lol)
18:07 <A> he doesn't have a wiki page, though there's sufficient info on his institutional homepages to glean if someone wanted to make one
the bizarre death of anton yelchin
https://origami.kosmulski.org/blog/2022-10-23-fujimoto-books-public-domain
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