JKCalhoun

5 ms·

91.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Pretty sure Star Wars destroyed mainstream science fiction in film.
92.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
There are some acting missteps that unfortunately flaw the film for me. Harrison Ford is not very good in it—perhaps not a great actor generally. His pretending to be a nerd/fan in Zhora's dressing room is too cringey to watch it&
93.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I read a little. I suppose my own excuse for not reading more is that I am too often disappointed in the stuff I have read—been recommended to read. I would however like to write a thing that I would like to read . (If that makes sense.) I
94.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
True. But a fundamental reshaping of the laws of the U.S. (who gets to set economic policy for example) could help. In short, attenuate executive power.
95.
DefCon 34 – Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video](youtube.com)
11 points by JKCalhoun 2mo ago|0 comments
96.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Does it work with local LLMs?
97.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
RC2014 is the real deal: https://rc2014.co.uk Why I have not picked one up yet… I think I just have a sweet spot for the 6502 and keep putting together KIM-1 kits. (EDIT: Finally after years, I just pulled the trigger on their C
98.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Had to look up "Maralago Accord": https://marketwise.com/investing/what-is-the-mar-a-lago-acco... Wow, a global Great Depression II really does look like it is in the cards.
99.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"BTRON's desktop was decades ahead of where computing actually went" Trying to mentally parse this… I had to laugh, what does that even mean?
100.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"Crash" I know of by reputation. I can't see the dystopian music of John Foxx's Ultravox! (or Gary Numan for that matter) without seeing it through the Ballard/Crash Zeitgeist of the "New Romantics". (
101.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Thanks. There was a time of course when you could pull my books down from archive.org as PDFs. Perhaps that time will come again. I'll look into libgen.
102.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
My take was generally: the loss of Alexandria's collection represents a calamitous loss to our collective culture. (But my knowledge of Alexandria extends only to episodes of "COSMOS" and "Connections").
103.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"I’m glipping balls like everybody else." Well, that's a new one, ha ha (guessing "tripping balls" on GLP-1). (And here I am too, about to be glipping balls … like everybody else, I suppose.)
104.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"I imagine they are only buying one copy of each book…" I doubt that corporations of this scale do that extra kind of… book-keeping. They more than likely buy books by the pound.
105.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I've scraped all the stuff I am interested in. There's a whole r/datahoarders so I'm not alone. ;-)
106.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
If you are suggesting that air conditioning, plumbing, democracy, and human rights are bad for society then I am missing the analogy.
107.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
It's likely more along the "fool me twice" category of wisdom. The opposite would instead be a kind of naive thinking.
108.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Copyright law eating itself…
109.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
It's probably good to remind ourselves though of how disgusting they can be.
110.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Is there a difference with regard to the metaphor?
111.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I love how sci-fi authors like Ray Bradbury toyed around with a similar issue but then got it so wildly wrong.
112.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I'm only one person, but I scan old books that had an impact on me growing up, and upload them to archive.org. Thankfully there are others that do the same. (And to be sure, FWIW, these are books that have not been printed for about 50
113.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Also, why would they ever share their collection? Book scans, secreted away, are worthless to the public.
114.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I can't read that fast. Maybe this is interesting for an agent?
115.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
"That design paradigm sounds familiar" In fact sounds like an expert system from decades ago.
116.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I live in fly-over country and I am offended by their use of "hickup".
117.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Found the famous Shibuya crossing. It doesn't look like I can link to it? It appears to be from a YouTube feed anyway ( https://www.youtube.com/live/dfVK7ld38Ys ).
118.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I'll guess: imaginary WMD?
119.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
Agree, vote for the most wildly corrupt.
120.
by JKCalhoun 2mo ago
I sympathize with your point, we should still blame the voters, but the 1% wouldn't be throwing billions of dollars into politics if they were seeing zero return on their money.

More ›