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I ask myself these same questions every workday. Are you cooking any new articles on this topic, Gwern? Reading your (thoroughly researched) thoughts often helps me clarify my own.…

I think I asked Nathan B all of my important Flickr-post-your-aquistion questions at a 7CTOs event way back in 2019, but that was a lifetime ago. Do you make enough money off my Fl…

Maybe it's because the comment you are replying to is from a new account posting paragraphs of LLMese in multiple comments in the same minute. It's unsurprising that soulless LLM o…

I bought a SpeedQueen washer-dryer set to have a dedicated wool wash option to care for my Gustin wool flannels and various 100% merino wool sweaters. Does that count? I would imag…

I saw Penske Truck Leasing trailers on fire at Kentucky Truck on WHAS"s helicopter footage from last night. 15 years ago, I'd be there once a week doing parts runs from the PTL bra…

https://www.sec.gov/enforcement-litigation/litigation-releas... A fascinating investor. I just finished re-reading Microserfs . The buzzwords may have changed between 1993 and 2025…

And then, 20 years later, I meet a kid on the local playground who claims to be the son of one of the Cloudflare co-founders or CTO. I was thinking, wait, isn't JGC in Britain, not…

Treewave used something similar, to great effect, on his Cabana EP. Prominently here on Sleep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKx8bZ5eq8 He hacked up the firmware of a dotmatrix …

This makes me tired. I know it's supposed to be humorous self deprecation, but it's soul crushing to see the pseudo real-time thought process behind the fantastically over-engineer…

Ah, Lars-Christian! No one wants to talk to you in real life about your blog because you're in Norway . If you lived here in the United States, you'd have a perpetual string of ver…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis A prolific poster on Hacker News before his death. You'll need showdead enabled to see most of his comments.

Or Operation: Inner Space. It used the file system to generate sectors to visit to clear viruses from your EXEs, and collecting non-contaminated EXEs to use as currency. It works g…

Was the reason for the Shazam office in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego because you were originally from San Diego before moving to England? Lawn Love rented a suite above theirs from 2…

>The Millennials were largely spared from the carnage because all but the last few years of them were beyond puberty when the phone-based childhood swept in. Every generation think…

Even if you can't have personal connections with the founders of 80 companies in a batch, having hundreds of companies in each batch--twice a year!--is seriously diluting my own wo…

The cyberurinals coupled with the bleak sculpture garden[0] outside Eddie's truly do make for a great Stephenson aside, come to life. It's only missing Gibson's combat hovercraft t…

For posterity, I'm pretty confident Anamanguchi were the first men to send Italian food to space, for the Endless Fantasy music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdr-Fiv92c T…

Definitely some are lurking out of sheer addictive habit. But there's fewer reasons to leave comments because a) the community grew and there's already someone who articulated your…

A big shout-out for Winco--albeit their ~140 stores is dwarfed by the Kroger, Albertsons, and Publix triumvirate. Winco is without a doubt the best non-luxury grocery store I've be…

So, statistically, how many more years will it take for me to be hit again? Writing something less useless and and more frequently would probably decrease that epoch. On the lightn…

Sometimes, it turns out the wind carries your voice farther than you thought. I submitted my blog to Hacker News a few years ago to see if I could get some sweet, sweet SEO juice f…

https://www.tsa.gov/about/tsa-mission >Mission: Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce. >Vision: An agile security agency…