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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is getting realer with each passing day. As well as arguing with your front door from Ubik.

Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!

Very cool, but may have some unexpected consequences. E.g., someone can probably use this to synthesize a bacterial genome containing every known drug resistance gene, and this is …

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"Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until after tomorrow"

Philip K. Dick's "Small Town" is found!

Well there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1YrANSmOGY - Not sure if it counts as large, but it's a start.

This may be as good time as any to plug my calculator for finite resistor networks (including grids) [1]. It works by eliminating non-terminal nodes one by one with the Star-Mesh t…

MathJax [1] still recommends this way of using it: Therefore, if you ever used MathJax, by possibly copying the above and forgetting, make sure to patch it out. [1] https://www.mat…

The study is based on a web questionnaire, answered by 589 out of 2552 Ph.D. students. The mental health of the remaining 1963 students who did not take the survey is very likely t…

There is a dark side to this advice. Try calling yourself a thinker, a visionary, an ideas guy, a philosopher. Soon you start believing it, then it gets to your head and inflates y…

Someone should submit a series of "boring numbers" to the OEIS. It would include all numbers not listed in any other series. Although it would be hard keeping it up-to-date.

Johnny Cab gets closer to reality with every passing day. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY )

+1 to FILCO, just want to add: Pick one with the letters printed on the sides of keycaps, not on top. This way they last longer. (BTW, my favorite switches are black, then red, I h…

It's also similar to forming words from multiple kanji. E.g. like Chinese "penguin" is combined from "business" and "goose" (not completely accurate translation). Imagine poor kids…

They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not in the best of moods...

These tiny connectors absolutely must be used with a proper crimper. http://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/dupont-and-d...

Berg Electronics was founded in 1950. It blows my mind that we still use this connector after 70 years. https://www.connectortips.com/breakthrough-contact-design-sp...

The article presents a dichotomy between "web" and "app". This fails for users who consider a web browser itself to be an "app", which is indeed well suited for solving a problem o…

Reminds me Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of Its Tree” (written in 1977). "It had been a bad idea from the start, back in 1982, to operate every mechan…