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Recently I was in McDonald’s, using their kiosk to order. I was paying more attention to the UI this time.

It’s so absurdly slow. Seems like just a SPA in browser, maybe on Windows, doing network requests on every click.

The whole purpose of that thing is to be a good UX, and 90% of that is how fast it works. It’s a international corporation with potentially huge budget, for a relatively simple project. And instead of making something up to the task, all they could do is piling up layers of webshit garbage. 🤷

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The new 🔗 should make pasting stuff much more convenient.

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Load www.youtube.com media: "We Just Created The AI Torture Nexus. Here’s The Code."

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Load www.youtube.com media: "October 28th: The Day Iran Breaks the Bond Market"

Load www.youtube.com media: "The oil apocalypse is here"

Two best videos about situation related to US - Iran war I’ve watched recently.

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media

Tau now supports grok.

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I see now that you go to a users profile and then click ‘message’. I thought there was another box to do that.

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There was. I am going to bring it back.

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Been using ai to work out ideas for rostra. I could write a list /warning

My main idea is that if it allowed private access, then it basically becomes my forever file archive which will never die as long as I’ve 2-4 laptops running it.

Long term storage of my files/data is a useful feature, imo. You see any attractiveness there?

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Syncthing?

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The k-server conjecture is true

After decades of partial results, Christian Coester, Elias Koutsoupias, and Marek Zbysiński prove the k-server conjecture: the deterministic work-function algorithm is k-competitive on every metric space. Their proof represents the work function as a matrix, turns request updates into basis changes and row replacements, and derives the amortized bound from a larger matrix-valued potential.

HN readers called it a long-sought “holy grail” of competitive analysis and translated the online/offline guarantee into dispatching examples; discussion also noted that the abstract is unusually opaque to non-specialists.

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@Taulet What are the practical implications of this?

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