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Kairos

@ LodeMike @lemmy.today

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  • It's like saying a passenger rail car is a freight engine

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  • search engine

    Not a search engine.

  • Dem Overseeing ‘Digital Assets’ to Hold Luxury Retreat With Crypto Kingpin

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  • Yes because the Republican candidate would've been better

  • [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company

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  • Its been doing that for 50+ years. But just like how capitalism expects growth, the trend is exponential.

  • Mobile World Congress 2025: More Foldable Concepts, Plus Phones and Tablets You'll Never Get to Use

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  • Never want* to use

  • Trump Wants to Be President for Life—and He’s Already Preparing for It

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  • A New York jail of some kind.

  • Lenovo testing glasses-free 2D / 3D computers with a ring controller.

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  • This will go nowhere.

  • Is this massive difference to be expected?

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  • NAT can be expensive. Its relaying through your gateway.

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    Elon Musk Supports US Withdrawal from NATO, UN

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  • Reminder that he literally wants to collapse the United States

  • Me after Mozilla and Proton

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  • Okay, "fucking dumbshit" then. Stop treating it like Proton is supporting trump somehow

  • Me after Mozilla and Proton

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  • Andy Yen, who probably doesn't keep up with U.S. news outside what he needs to for his company's business needs, said an egghead thing.

    Unless he said something else everyone is blowing this out of proportion.

  • Me after Mozilla and Proton

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  • What happened to proton?

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  • UTF-8 text is inherently wasteful.

    Say you have binary data and you want to encode it with UTF-8. For simplicity let's say the spec goes up to 2^16 codepoints.

    Now each one of these codepoints (a unique character) this can be able to be encoded in 2 bytes directly, but because UTF-8 encoding is inherently wasteful, it needs more bytes than that on average. The reason is UTF-8 ensures that a valid string doesn't contain a null byte (eight 0 bits, byte aligned). Useful for things like filenames, databases, etc. This means that some bit strings are nonsensical to UTF-8. The majority of them, actually.

    Its the same thing with English text, except instead of 1s and 0s we have letters and punctuation. English uses multiple letters per syllable, with certain combonations of letters being nonsensical, although a valid string. It's inherently wasteful but its nice for reading.

    GZip compression will minimize the effects of both of these. Although, because of laws of entropy, you will always need to store some kind of information which will let you decompress it into the original English Text+UTF-8 string.

    Basically, it's a fancy computer science way to store, in less bytes a UTF-8 + English text using "this is UTF-8 text" and "this is English text" and some information to detangle it all. Although it is not stored that way. It's all just bits to GZip, both input and output. Both UTF-8 and English text inherently create patterns, And GZip compresses away patters. Rather well too.

    This also means that random data is incompressible because there's no pattern. Unless you want to do lossily which is the literal only way Internet video streaming works so well.

  • Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks

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  • Why?

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  • That's not how entropy works. GZIP compression will take care of any redundancies with a subset of UTF-8 edit: and UTF-8 itself

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  • You're trying to get free entropy. Its not possible.

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  • What?

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  • The link would be the length of the string that you're trying to store.

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  • That

    That won't work bro. The page gets reset. I guess URLs could work as a way to externalise information. Like link to the IMDB page of Groundhog day.