Nate ZEC
@natezec.bsky.social
A status update for the #Zcash Trailing Finality Layer project:
We've published v0.1.0 of the book which links to a hackmd for the Crosslink construction, an Ebb-and-Flow hybrid PoW/PoS protocol.
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-traili...
We've published v0.1.0 of the book which links to a hackmd for the Crosslink construction, an Ebb-and-Flow hybrid PoW/PoS protocol.
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-traili...
November 15, 2023 at 11:31 PM
A status update for the #Zcash Trailing Finality Layer project:
We've published v0.1.0 of the book which links to a hackmd for the Crosslink construction, an Ebb-and-Flow hybrid PoW/PoS protocol.
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-traili...
We've published v0.1.0 of the book which links to a hackmd for the Crosslink construction, an Ebb-and-Flow hybrid PoW/PoS protocol.
forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-traili...
LLM feature request: automate git commit message generation.
Or: given a proposed git commit message, automate the code diff.
;-)
Or: given a proposed git commit message, automate the code diff.
;-)
November 7, 2023 at 5:15 PM
LLM feature request: automate git commit message generation.
Or: given a proposed git commit message, automate the code diff.
;-)
Or: given a proposed git commit message, automate the code diff.
;-)
Today's UX gripe is brought to you by Chrome™!
Bookmarks in a menu, bookmarks in a manager widget, bookmarks in a panel on new tabs (which has a drop-down menu for overflow bookmarks), bookmarks in a sidebar!
Make up your mind!
(Each context displays/interacts w/ them differently, for extra fun.)
Bookmarks in a menu, bookmarks in a manager widget, bookmarks in a panel on new tabs (which has a drop-down menu for overflow bookmarks), bookmarks in a sidebar!
Make up your mind!
(Each context displays/interacts w/ them differently, for extra fun.)
November 1, 2023 at 3:22 PM
Today's UX gripe is brought to you by Chrome™!
Bookmarks in a menu, bookmarks in a manager widget, bookmarks in a panel on new tabs (which has a drop-down menu for overflow bookmarks), bookmarks in a sidebar!
Make up your mind!
(Each context displays/interacts w/ them differently, for extra fun.)
Bookmarks in a menu, bookmarks in a manager widget, bookmarks in a panel on new tabs (which has a drop-down menu for overflow bookmarks), bookmarks in a sidebar!
Make up your mind!
(Each context displays/interacts w/ them differently, for extra fun.)
One of my favorite Infosec UX Antipatterns: you click on what appears to be a link, only to be taken to a dialog/interstitial page warning you it's on a different website.
Like… um… have you heard of the world wide web? It allows hyperlinked content across any site. It's pretty sweet, try it.
Like… um… have you heard of the world wide web? It allows hyperlinked content across any site. It's pretty sweet, try it.
November 1, 2023 at 3:14 PM
One of my favorite Infosec UX Antipatterns: you click on what appears to be a link, only to be taken to a dialog/interstitial page warning you it's on a different website.
Like… um… have you heard of the world wide web? It allows hyperlinked content across any site. It's pretty sweet, try it.
Like… um… have you heard of the world wide web? It allows hyperlinked content across any site. It's pretty sweet, try it.
I caught wind there's a US Executive Order or some other dino-boomer busybody "rule" that restricts access to data that was processed with too many floating point operations.
If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…
If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…
October 31, 2023 at 4:53 PM
I caught wind there's a US Executive Order or some other dino-boomer busybody "rule" that restricts access to data that was processed with too many floating point operations.
If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…
If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…
Ok, since I can link to AT Protocol (e.g. bsky.app) threads so that anyone on the web can read them, it is definitely way better than Twitter.
October 31, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Ok, since I can link to AT Protocol (e.g. bsky.app) threads so that anyone on the web can read them, it is definitely way better than Twitter.
My sketch comedy idea: take all the UX papercuts that bug me, and for each make an analogous scene were some characters represent users and some represent the UX.
October 31, 2023 at 4:44 PM
My sketch comedy idea: take all the UX papercuts that bug me, and for each make an analogous scene were some characters represent users and some represent the UX.
How can I share a URL so that people can publicly read AT Proto posts/threads (with no account, signup, etc…)?
October 31, 2023 at 3:49 PM
How can I share a URL so that people can publicly read AT Proto posts/threads (with no account, signup, etc…)?
New ChatGPT unlock: I was asking multiple questions like "does `git commit --amend` run the `pre-commit` hook?"
Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds.
It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!
Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds.
It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!
October 31, 2023 at 3:45 PM
New ChatGPT unlock: I was asking multiple questions like "does `git commit --amend` run the `pre-commit` hook?"
Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds.
It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!
Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds.
It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!
Has anyone written a wrapper for `rustc` which inserts `ChatGPT` project-specific advice for each error?
October 26, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Has anyone written a wrapper for `rustc` which inserts `ChatGPT` project-specific advice for each error?
Reposted by Nate ZEC
This is my point.
People tend to assume UBI is "guaranteed income for people without work" but in reality it implies work: proving you are human.
If we're not careful it might replace jobs where people do something valuable with a "job" of just proving you are human.
People tend to assume UBI is "guaranteed income for people without work" but in reality it implies work: proving you are human.
If we're not careful it might replace jobs where people do something valuable with a "job" of just proving you are human.
October 24, 2023 at 2:50 PM
This is my point.
People tend to assume UBI is "guaranteed income for people without work" but in reality it implies work: proving you are human.
If we're not careful it might replace jobs where people do something valuable with a "job" of just proving you are human.
People tend to assume UBI is "guaranteed income for people without work" but in reality it implies work: proving you are human.
If we're not careful it might replace jobs where people do something valuable with a "job" of just proving you are human.
Github used to have a widget for "processing" events of interest, which showed them in a list, and when you viewed an item (e.g. an issue page) it would insert a widget with next/previous, "mark as seen".
Did they remove that?
It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.
Did they remove that?
It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.
October 24, 2023 at 2:46 PM
Github used to have a widget for "processing" events of interest, which showed them in a list, and when you viewed an item (e.g. an issue page) it would insert a widget with next/previous, "mark as seen".
Did they remove that?
It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.
Did they remove that?
It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.
Hm, to publish on crates.io I must use github OAuth therefore I must grant crates.io the ability to read all "private" repositories on Github for every organization of which I'm a member?
I can think of no reason crates.io needs to read any github state other than the "is a legit user" bit.
I can think of no reason crates.io needs to read any github state other than the "is a legit user" bit.
October 20, 2023 at 7:52 PM
It's high time for a Brazil-like dystopian comedy where people's full time occupation is just solving increasingly absurd and baroque CATPCHAs.
October 20, 2023 at 7:46 PM
It's high time for a Brazil-like dystopian comedy where people's full time occupation is just solving increasingly absurd and baroque CATPCHAs.
A fun operational engineering practice: whenever writing a delay/poll loop (e.g. `while cmd; do sleep $X; date --iso=s; done`) pick a randomish prime number for `X`.
Why?
The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …
Why?
The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …
October 19, 2023 at 4:50 PM
A fun operational engineering practice: whenever writing a delay/poll loop (e.g. `while cmd; do sleep $X; date --iso=s; done`) pick a randomish prime number for `X`.
Why?
The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …
Why?
The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …
I'd love to see a UX movement take over design of apps to support my particular needs/usage. One feature of my usage is desktop-per-task:
I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.
I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.
October 18, 2023 at 4:29 PM
I'd love to see a UX movement take over design of apps to support my particular needs/usage. One feature of my usage is desktop-per-task:
I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.
I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.
I'll be ready for a neural link just as soon as I can install sovereign open-web-trained me-aligned FLOSS AI on a deterministically built FLOSS software stack on silicon I've self-fabricated in my personal mobile fablab from scavenged and recycled electronics junkyards.
October 17, 2023 at 2:27 PM
I'll be ready for a neural link just as soon as I can install sovereign open-web-trained me-aligned FLOSS AI on a deterministically built FLOSS software stack on silicon I've self-fabricated in my personal mobile fablab from scavenged and recycled electronics junkyards.
Can we start civilization over without any homoglyphs like O vs 0?
kthxbai
kthxbai
September 5, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Can we start civilization over without any homoglyphs like O vs 0?
kthxbai
kthxbai
The twitter diaspora plus the emergence of a multitude of social networks is like when people at a party segregate from the big center to the nooks and crannies in smaller groups, ie when the party gets good.
So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)
So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)
August 30, 2023 at 2:58 PM
The twitter diaspora plus the emergence of a multitude of social networks is like when people at a party segregate from the big center to the nooks and crannies in smaller groups, ie when the party gets good.
So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)
So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)
Reading Streamlet (eprint.iacr.org/2020/088.pdf) and it's *soooo* helpful! Feeling grateful for the authors' effort.
Is there a general name for the pattern of researchers consolidating a field of research into a simpler form aimed at pedagogy?
Is there a general name for the pattern of researchers consolidating a field of research into a simpler form aimed at pedagogy?
August 30, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Reading Streamlet (eprint.iacr.org/2020/088.pdf) and it's *soooo* helpful! Feeling grateful for the authors' effort.
Is there a general name for the pattern of researchers consolidating a field of research into a simpler form aimed at pedagogy?
Is there a general name for the pattern of researchers consolidating a field of research into a simpler form aimed at pedagogy?
Reposted by Nate ZEC
My son is now at that age where he's curious about the human body.
I guess I'll have to hide it somewhere else now.
I guess I'll have to hide it somewhere else now.
August 18, 2023 at 12:05 AM
My son is now at that age where he's curious about the human body.
I guess I'll have to hide it somewhere else now.
I guess I'll have to hide it somewhere else now.
Reposted by Nate ZEC
My doctor looked over the blood test results and said, “dear god, you have reversed DNA!”
I was like, “…and?”
I was like, “…and?”
August 20, 2023 at 12:05 AM
My doctor looked over the blood test results and said, “dear god, you have reversed DNA!”
I was like, “…and?”
I was like, “…and?”
Reposted by Nate ZEC
Why did the hipster burn his tongue?
Because he ate his food before it was cool
Because he ate his food before it was cool
August 20, 2023 at 6:05 AM
Why did the hipster burn his tongue?
Because he ate his food before it was cool
Because he ate his food before it was cool
Reposted by Nate ZEC
I like this feature of my new smart watch that displays my status as "OK".
Leaning across the couch to look, my partner informed me, "That's your fitness tracker telling you you've travelled a distance of 0k today."
Leaning across the couch to look, my partner informed me, "That's your fitness tracker telling you you've travelled a distance of 0k today."
August 25, 2023 at 1:05 AM
I like this feature of my new smart watch that displays my status as "OK".
Leaning across the couch to look, my partner informed me, "That's your fitness tracker telling you you've travelled a distance of 0k today."
Leaning across the couch to look, my partner informed me, "That's your fitness tracker telling you you've travelled a distance of 0k today."
Reposted by Nate ZEC
What’s worse than raining cats and dogs?
Hailing taxis
Hailing taxis
August 26, 2023 at 8:05 AM
What’s worse than raining cats and dogs?
Hailing taxis
Hailing taxis