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The publicly elected can demand respect ... but that generally backfires. As I recall, 'A Boy and His Dog' was set in Kansas. "Lack Of Respect, Wrong Attitude, Failure To Obey Auth…

> That people say that the fear of war (nuclear or not) is "quaint" means that the wealthy and privileged first world has forgotten about war... Apart from perceptions, however rea…

There are several legal digital formats (e.g. PSK31, FT8, RTTY) that, while not encrypted, will render 'reading the mail' hard for anyone not aware of those formats and/or the righ…

> The map couldn't load. This usually means an ad blocker or privacy extension is blocking Google Maps... > Try disabling blockers for cheapfoodmap.com, Try disabling your goofy ex…

Gotta spend all those revenues while they're still worth something!

Who's this'Al' I keep seeing in the headlines?

Perhaps ... but the lesson in trusting AI math was worth it.

A few months ago I asked a model how many primes are divisible by 35 with a remainder of 6. It confidently replied 'none'. Counterexample: 35 + 6.

Interested. I got far emough on the site to have a couple of questions. (Maybe the answers are on the site?) 1) Does device record ALL MIDI sent to it? (Including e.g. SYSEX and no…

Thanks for that ... impressive!

One more step on the way to the day when you can get help identifying that old tune that's been running thru your head for days.

Very well done, & interesting, thanks!

Revealing that, after 30 years of Internet, someone's actually confronting this situation for the first time. So's the word 'gaps' ... as if the English Channel is a 'gap' for swim…

Yep. Momentum seems to be the source of our intuition. Something going 'twice as fast' has twice the momentum. OTOH, KE, being momentum * velocity, is more abstract.

Hmmm, fancy indeed. With 150kW feeding a dipole at 700 feet, I imagine that a cat's-whisker [0] would have done well-enough in London... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_d…

This bacterial faculty for trans-generational memory reminds me of human epigenetics. "Epigenetics refers to how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the wa…

I've been looking for an excuse to get a RasPi for a long time ... this could be it!

The chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770 seemed to have a consciousness to its viewers. The viewers were encouraged to think that it did. The Turk's human chess opponent knew that…

>wonder if the website owners realise at all how many actual users they lose by this sort of "protection. Yesterday cloudflare blocked me from visiting the MX-Linux site ... includ…

I'd guess that, if this experiment produces enough value from a few dozen of the fragments, then all the work needed to OCR thousands of them will be easier to pay for. Hopefully s…

Article: >There is only one market that large: the global labor market. Dispute Owen's claim, the global felony and bullshit markets are bigger.

Addition of a source-paper link to complex science studies like this should be encouraged (if not mandatory) at the top of posts like this. Real-world reports can be valuable to so…

The world is just as complex for machines as it is for humans. Analog will still resolve more than digital. Quality will still beat quantity. That which hasn't been resolved for ce…