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by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago
I'm curious about the "created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts". They didn't pay?
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OpenClaw is the most fun I've had with a computer in 50 years(theregister.com)
3 points by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago|2 comments
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Aristotle and the so-called Tragic Flaw(jonathanbate.substack.com)
3 points by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago|0 comments
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by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago
> "Previously, this level of ire and targeted defamation was generally reserved for public figures. Us common people get to experience it now too." Foaming-at-the-mouth as a service, at affordable prices. Perfect together with
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by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago
I'll have an apotropaic inscription to go, please.
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"Infinite Jest" Has Turned Thirty. Have We Forgotten How to Read It?(newyorker.com)
4 points by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago|0 comments
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by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago
Back in the peak-paper days - when the Sunday newspaper was for the man "smart enough to read it and strong enough to carry it", and the Computer Shopper magazine vied with phone directories for thickness - you could go into a gas
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by B1FF_PSUVM 8mo ago
> Its a demonstration of wealth. This is called Veblen good Just the other day I was reminded of the poor little "I am rich" iOS app (a thousand dollar ruby icon that performed diddly squat by design), which Apple deep-sixed fr
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by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago
Quoted straight from the piece, as written by dude who just made one of the smallest countries around have abandoned farms larger than the whole world ... But many people are really like this, no notion whatsoever of order of magnitude plau
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by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia Area • Total 45,335 km2 (17,504 sq mi) Some people are just oblivious to six orders of magnitude mistakes, and then go off about "folly, mistake, calamitous hubris, neglect, a
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A light from the periphery – Satyendra Nath Bose(aeon.co)
2 points by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago|0 comments
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by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago
> who is too special "Fans are slans."
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by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago
LLMs as DBs (if you squint hard enough)
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by B1FF_PSUVM 9mo ago
It seems to refer to the previous paragraph: > The naive extrapolation of this exponential trend predicts that the 21st century will see cheap computers with a thousand times the raw computational power of all human brains combined i.e.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
Lunar Lander was all the rage back in the day ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre...
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
> then of course, industrialize early. It's extremely convenient to have coal, iron, and waterways in the region where you wish to achieve that early industrialization. There's a map somewhere showing where those happened - Eng
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
AMD was already in the CPU market with bit-slice LSI chips, the Am2900 set of chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900 Those worked in 4-bit slices, and you could use them as LEGO blocks to build your own design
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
> I mind when my Weather program is changed into a stock ticker and tabloid news cornucopia... dagnabbit, I know where to get those, I just want the weather info. "They have no taste" was right.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
Also ... > And news articles in 1990 said Sony dealers would not allow any bickering. [...] no discounts. ... that's probably "dickering", and an amusing typo. ("Hey, you can't squabble here!")
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
It's easier to figure out for people that measure power in watts and time in hours ... 1 kW for 1 hour is 1 kWh. That camel's nose was already in the tent with the mAh thing in phone/etc batteries, now with electric vehicles
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
> big yikes for something coming out of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Besides the unit flub, there's an unpleasant smell of sales flyer to the whole piece. Hard data spread all over, but couldn't find e
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
The flight log data + visualizer is interesting. Apparently not into crossing the equator ... P.S. feel like a private eye perusing the Amazon purchases. Nabokov and Nietzsche, oh my.
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Alternate Timelines Maps from the Internet(alternate-timelines.com)
3 points by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago|1 comments
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
Why do I get reminded of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells? (Yes, I've heard the Ravel before, I mean the presentation style, e.g. Oldfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdMtqKZ6GrY )
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
Good job. I caused the purchase of a couple of 720s (I believe they were, plus a few X terminals mooching off the workhorses, all with megapixel color displays). They served well past the demise of then-rival Sun machines. I think one of th
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
"Pray I do not alter it further." (some obscure movie quote, probably Mark Twain or Lincoln)
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
> body switching is quite common in SciFi, and those aspects are usually completely ignored. I think it was Fredrik Pohl in Man Plus who got that part better sorted out - of course your body/physical experience shapes your brain. On
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
> "Science" of the 1900s Science of any kind, looked at dispassionately, is more of a cult than we're prepared to admit. Not a discussion we're going to have any time soon, not until the miracles run out.
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
What really gets me is the "Map of the strength of the 12-hr lunar tide" in the Layer 4 section of the article posted, which I haven't seen discussed. All the rest is swept away, and you have stretches of coastline with tides
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by B1FF_PSUVM 10mo ago
Sometimes we need dates attached - by the numbers (1838 of current 3176) that's probably some 5 or 6 years before ChatGTP. Or 3 or 4 years after the Netflix challenge.

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