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by postmodest 3y ago
Condé Nast turned Wired and Ars from being magazines for tech workers interested in long-form articles, into magazines for VC bros who want to read about Porsches and Burning Man. They became catalogues for Silicon Valley Money to keep in a
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by postmodest 3y ago
"Planting the Seeds for the Belter Rebellion, Today."
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by postmodest 3y ago
I thought this would be about the First Programming Language that nobody remembered, the ur-heimat incubator of some obscure syntax that became everything from FORTRAN to Ruby
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by postmodest 3y ago
"Technology Connections Did It" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tg--L9TKL0I
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by postmodest 3y ago
This is precisely my hypothesis. We imagine that our human consciousness differs from animals when in fact it it exactly the same, but with a more-expressive language system on top.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Have you ever been under anesthesia like propofol? I feel like most of what we call "consciousness" is converting short term memory into selected long-term memory, facilitated by language. Because then you're under, you can e
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by postmodest 3y ago
My first "my own purchase" PC was a 486sx. So as a _line_, "the 486" wasn't guaranteed to have an FPU.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Quelle Suprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Reception Business bank on ignorance and only nationwide exposure by constant taxpayer-funded monitoring can fix it. See also Boeing.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Aren't these also in FLOPS? The rpi isn't exactly a floating-point monster. Hell, until the Pentium, Intel CPU's weren't guaranteed to even have an FPU. As to ARM in general, here's a post about how ARM-1 compared t
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by postmodest 3y ago
"Oh, this from the posing somdomite" - Wilde's contemporaries.
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by postmodest 3y ago
The EPA and the FDA ensure that you can't have a state decide that "workers in the sausage" is acceptable, then sell cannibal sausage to states with laws that protect workers and consumers, or to protect you from a state deci
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by postmodest 3y ago
Over the past ten years, lenses have gotten unbelievably better. Apsherical elements have done some of the lifting, and glass formulas another, but how much have computational tools changed how lenses are designed?
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by postmodest 3y ago
All of these use cases are a huge argument for "home hub" standards and aggregation and (user controlled) filtering. None of which would happen because then "the product" would stop letting the exploitation happen.
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by postmodest 3y ago
LLM's have really made me realize that "using language" is a shallow skill, but detecting bullshit is a deep skill. And anyone who read Velikovsky and thought they had made a good argument, is someone who needs to hone the de
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by postmodest 3y ago
As someone who grew up sad that we didn't have giant swing-wing American-Steel-bodied Boeing SST's, I have been hurt before and I don't believe for a minute that there's an airline that would buy any of these for passeng
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by postmodest 3y ago
The purpose of Capitalism is to extract as much profit as possible. If we attended to "worker safety" (and extend it from "putting railings around the meat grinders" to "setting office hours that don't slowly g
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by postmodest 3y ago
These are folders on the boot drive, which is always mounted on /boot?
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by postmodest 3y ago
Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. ...standard MS behavior.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Unix has gotten better while everything else got worse. We no longer have dinosaurs like LISP-M or TOPS-10 for the Unix-haters to get rose-colored nostalgia for. And Windows NT proved how terrible the alternative could be. The NT api and Po
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by postmodest 3y ago
I still have the barf-bag. Also jwz is still a salty old man.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Part of the perversion is that web standards demand "more than one implementation" (see WebSQL) so if we did the same thing and just "put TeX in the layout pipeline" that would get punted faster than SQLite was. Text lay
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by postmodest 3y ago
That's an entirely different monster.
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by postmodest 3y ago
Plus: doesn't magnesium oxidize more readily than other metals? I would worry that grandpa's magnesium ladder is a death trap.
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by postmodest 3y ago
I'm sure Peter Thiel has no power motive!
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by postmodest 3y ago
"Why would employees stand up for Sam if he were the guilty party?" 800,000 reasons is a lot of reasons. I've never cracked 200,000 reasons, and that might be enough.
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by postmodest 3y ago
This entire thing has seemed to be the board saying "don't be the guy who went behind our back to summon the Devil" and everyone saying "but the Devil promised us Unlimited Moneys!" And HN agreeing that Unlimited Mo
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by postmodest 3y ago
I think what we're going to discover is that AGI isn't One Thing, it's many Intelligences, and "human level" composite AGI is actually pretty dumb. So we'll make a smarter one, and that'll be the singulari
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by postmodest 3y ago
Ignoring "Don't be Ted Faro" to pursue a profit motive is indeed a form of incompetence.
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by postmodest 3y ago
"We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country" Because "The USA" spans from GMT+10 to GMT-10. Your Solar Noon only varies by an hour between Kolkata and Mumbai. Without time zones, the
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by postmodest 3y ago
Self-driving cars by Christmas! General AI by new Years!

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