It's interesting that Twitter sets limits on content size, but not distribution.
What if the number of retweets/comments on a tweet was rate limited, or had a cap for new users Would it promote slower or thoughtful conversation?
C.f. Stack Overflow limiting new user abilities.
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How do you randomly sample from non-uniform distributions? This is a common problem when computing random numbers.
TIL about rejection sampling, where you randomly sample within an area that includes the distribution, until you hit a value inside:
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Tectonic is a fabulous new implementation of TeX that doesn't require a large distribution, doesn't write intermediate files, and automatically loops TeX and BibTeX!
IPFS is a really nice distributed filesystem that is slowly growing in popularity. Netflix has found a good use case: container image distribution.
https://containerjournal.com/topics/container-management/ipfs-emerges-as-tool-to-distribute-container-image
I'm slightly reminded of Usenet: just download content from the nearest server!
