imglorp

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by imglorp 6d ago
> featureless suit coats Not a fashion expert but mandarin jackets seem like one of those prospective futures from the 60s that never came to pass. Probably that was the time culture in the West just started discovering Asian culture. Eg
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by imglorp 8d ago
If the community isn't proactive with safety nets for elders, let's say the childless ones, those elders will become everyone's acute problems. Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. Some might call
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by imglorp 9d ago
I was just coming to say the prediction markets are probably way, way worse for society; sports or otherwise. For one thing, they'll be around a trillion dollar market in a few years[1]. How is that in any way a good thing? For anothe
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by imglorp 10d ago
It doesn't need to be crypto, or payment processor based. My ideal experience would be I load $20 into the browser somewhere like a wallet in one block (that could be a payment processor step). If I visit a participating page, it decre
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by imglorp 11d ago
Micropayments would solve so many Internet problems. It's not too late to adopt. Content creators could charge by page instead of depending on malware/ad/surveillance revenue. Spam is cut if there's a charge per mail. Sc
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by imglorp 11d ago
Right. It's nice to hear about other products, but OP made it sound like Minio disappeared and was not an option. Neither are true. Yes the company moved on but the old source is sitting there and that version is pretty good as-is. We&
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by imglorp 11d ago
They're not dumb; everyone knows this. It's like the old "mutually assured destruction" image of two people standing in a pool of gasoline, each with matches at the ready. So one option is they're not planning kinet
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by imglorp 11d ago
I'm just fascinated by the massive volume of new legal implications that keep arising. Copyright holders vs scraping and training. Psychologically vulnerable people vs chatbots. Hiring discrimination, defamation, wrong face rec, priv
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by imglorp 13d ago
Heat and pollution emissions. All those unregulated gas turbines, starting with Grok and extending to everyone else through EPA dismemberment. https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company...
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by imglorp 15d ago
It's a pretty foolish business plan to depend on wrecking the planet. I get one small comfort knowing that Wall Street will be increasingly under water as the climate disaster progresses (remember Sandy?).
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by imglorp 15d ago
The Al Jazeera headline is "Houthis hail operation as they take over Red Sea coastline". An explainer further down is "Houthis capture Yemeni town of Mocha: Why it’s important". All three headlines seem pretty neutral,
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by imglorp 15d ago
tldw, per Blancolirio: unstable approach, crew should have done a go around at 1000 agl but did not attempt one until it was too late, then aborted the go around.
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by imglorp 15d ago
They've changed business model from selling software (windows, office, terminal server) to selling services (cloud services, user surveillance/exfil, advertising). The OS is just a vehicle to drive those service streams: maybe it&
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by imglorp 16d ago
Then VAX would have been an option, especially since there were migration tools from PDP. And VAXen cluster for scaling.
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by imglorp 16d ago
"meat proxy"
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by imglorp 17d ago
Was the whole SC endeavor to avoid buying PDP-10s?
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by imglorp 17d ago
Bob is a genius, sure, and has a little voice acting, and yes dark comedy, but why would he have been especially fitting for Looney Tunes style silliness?
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by imglorp 17d ago
The video explains it pretty well. There's a spring loaded plunger in that IBIS sensor that can be seen visually by mechanics on the ground. When the pressure drops, the plunger retracts, showing a visual indication. At the same time,
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by imglorp 17d ago
Found some photos of the SC-40 deal at bitsavers. https://bitsavers.org/pdf/compuserve/ Ooh, and these SC-40s have compuserve tags and a stack of disks! I hope someone preserved the data. https://online
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by imglorp 18d ago
I'm most curious what happened to the Compuserve server software, and could some of it be resurrected as an interactive exhibit? Some paper was preserved by CHM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848845
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by imglorp 19d ago
If someone spends a trillion building out AI while saying the quiet part out loud, "stop hiring humans", then maybe they should be paying half of that towards a Ubi fund for everyone they're displacing.
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by imglorp 19d ago
PS, my technical means are keeping my TV off the internet.
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by imglorp 19d ago
There is absolutely no reason to read those contracts any more. As Louis Rossman keeps pointing out, most of them now include the ability for them to change terms at any time. That's basically the null contract. Since the legal system
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by imglorp 23d ago
This reminded me about the US nutters advocating return to the "way things were": they would do well to consider life expectancy. My draw from 1881 Mississippi would max out at 36.
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by imglorp 23d ago
There's a button for that.
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by imglorp 23d ago
Downdetector reported a spike for that too around the same time as the others. Looks like it was a shared infra problem hiccough to affect so many at once.
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by imglorp 23d ago
The system is not equipped to check and balance multi-trillion dollar corporations.
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by imglorp 24d ago
If neutrons are on the list, how are they ruled out from a random decay event emitting particles, from some mineral in the surrounding rock?
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by imglorp 24d ago
You could say the same about the dishwasher, lathe, and whatever else. I guess the use case is a humanoid bot can use all the human things without modifying them.
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by imglorp 24d ago
Hands yes, for all the human actuated things. You don't need 2 legs to do that. Cantilevered wheels might be better for stair climbing around the house. A better obvious use case for fully humanoid is vehicles. Jump into a forklift, co

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