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Recurring events in my search engine work: Finding easy optimizations that reduce the requirements by 90%, and finding bugs that drastically improve result qualities based on some like easy list-ordering tweak. I don't know how many times this has happened. They just seem to keep cropping up.
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http://nausicaa.net/miyazaki/interviews/miyazaki_kurosawa_p1.html
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http://www.lileks.com/misc/scifi/index.html
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It turns out you can skew PageRank to heavily bias toward a certain subset of pages. It's even suggested in the original PR article. So I set it to skew toward personal blogs. The result is kinda amazing.
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https://meatfighter.com/castlevania3-password/
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Today's search engine gem: https://www.tim-mann.org/trs80/doc/Guide.txt
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I wonder how many E-presses "O_CREAT" has saved since it was introduced in the posix standard.
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This was a strange and deep rabbit hole. While testing my search engine, I found this. http://www.wild-seven.org/ It linked to this: http://www.zeruda.org/, and this http://ohmydarling.org/, and there's this https://psyche.nu/ ... there's even more if you poke around. It's the first time in a while I've felt like the Internet is gonna be ok.
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http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.html
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My landlord has send me several emails and text messages reminding me to fill their anonymous tenant survey. Just... let that scenario marinate for a while and you'll get it.
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You would think my search engine would at least struggle a bit when faced with a HackerNews front-page. You would think.
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Another find. Sometimes it's hard to draw a line between shitposting and art: https://www.floppyswop.co.uk
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gemini://marginalia.nu/projects/edge/top-20.gmi
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Another interesting article: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2019/03/22/
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This was amusing: https://worthdoingbadly.com/nn-adversarial/
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Building a search engine is nothing for an instant gratification junkie. I think I've made huge improvements, but I won't know for certain until the dust settles in about a week.
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You know, when I say link farms a big industry, I don't most people quite get the scope of just how big it is. I blacklisted over 20,000 domains today, from what looks like a single operation. Most of them expensive .com-tlds. That's a quarter million dollars a year in registration fees alone.
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https://search.marginalia.nu/ will be (somewhat) useless the next 12-24 hours. I'm rebuilding the index. Sorry for any inconvenience. It will actually (probably) improve search quality though, so it's for the greater good (tm).
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This was an interesting analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f5Xt5pZZZM
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What would it take to make a text-focused mobile web browser, one that renders the most minimal of styling and disregards css and js? Like a w3m for android.
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Removed 2 characters of code and saved myself 600 Gb of disk-writes per day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Just looked at the reddit front page for the first time in a long while. Not signed in. Christ on an actual bike. Every other post is an ad, and what isn;t an ad is hot garbage. What has happened to reddit, and when did this happen? How does it still have users?
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Oops, my capsule is a bit of a hard-to-navigate mess right now. I'm attempting to bridge https://memex.marginalia.nu/ and gemini://marginalia.nu/ in a way where both makes sense. Right now (I think) the HTTP version is better. But I'm working on bringing the gemini version up to speed.
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Hello from my laptop! I installed Debian Bullseye on my HP Spectre x360. After some coaxing with the installer, it works. Like, surprisingly well. I was expecting a lot more hardware jank than I'm seeing. KDE5 deals with HiDPI very well. I honestly even prefer the touchpad behavior over what Windows 10 gave me.
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Hot take: How much do you need to type before the time lost learning DVORAK at 7 WPM is made up for by mastering DVORAK and typing maybe somewhat faster than with QWERTY?
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It's fascinating how some designs follow as a logical conclusion from basic principles. LISP is a great example of this; EMACS is its logical conclusion. Hypertext is another one of those simple designs that have the ability to grow into something incredibly powerful if you let it.
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Been playing around with Floyd-Steinberg dithering using a weird color palette all day for an upcoming project (also because I like the aesthetic). Here's a car I rasterized: gemini://marginalia.nu/pics/volvo-raster.png
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Honestly, I'm pretty impressed with the traffic I'm getting on my gemini server. I'm getting about 50 unique visitors on my gemini server every day. I get that on HTTPs too, but they're almost all bots and scripts.
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I made a telnet ingress to my gemini server. Just log into marginalia.nu:9999 with putty or telnet or whatever, and enjoy. I guess I wanted to show the silliness of all these layers of abstractions we keep piling on. Fun project.
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It turns out that if you put 50 million small files in an ext4 filesystem tuned for large files it fills your kernel up with inode information. Neat.