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You are going to die, and it's a painful ugly business. The right to die humanely is the single most under-regarded and under-valued aspect of life hygiene.

Wirth designed Pascal as a teaching language, per his book Algorithms + Data Struvtures = Programs. So it's to be expected that Pascal has serious limitations for engineering a who…

Monty Python's Life of Brian: — Reg: Romans have bled us white, the bastards! They've taken everything we ever had! And not just from us, but from our fathers, and from our father'…

Prompt Gemini with: "does trump lie a lot in an official capacity?" Response: Yes! A lot! Egregiously! Well documented!

Want jibber-jabber? Here's some more: U.S. doesn't need to be dispensable or indispensable. U.S. can and will change politically as a reaction to Trump, and economically as reactio…

There's an overlooked aspect of AI performance: Due to the very diffuse statistical nature of the mapping of the input to the output, some will be experiencing extraordinary approp…

There's a latent agenda to this style of journalism that's about the business of business: //When she and her colleagues experimentally boosted mitochondrial output in the rats, th…

To summarize report, there's not anything you can do to avoid old age dementia because its causes are not understood. The biggest attendant factors are vision or hearing loss. Note…

> Show HN: Bookmarker is now a macOS app  The appearance of  in unicode is weird. The Googlez say that Steve Jobs rejected the use of  on Apple keyboards as a "overuse" of the b…

When the author of a programming how-to on using magic beans to create apps feels he must inform the student that prompting "fix my app" can work better with some situation context…

Light from panel is diffuse; it can't project rays, so will not look like daylight. Perspective of view always totally wrong. As screens age they'll drift or fail and not match eac…

" Something is something than you think", part 42

Today working class income is eaten by ever-increasing rent. Add UBI. What keeps it from also being eaten by increasing rent?

Beehive offered as any analogy for a new media paradigm of otherwise unspecified structure > A hexagon is the most efficient shape in nature because it maximizes area while minimiz…

The idea of a languages being separable to the brain is a misunderstanding: The root of language is a common biological trait that works irrespective of the cultural situation.

"Even if it works?" How do you verify that it works?

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Invited the vampire in? Don't be surprised when he drinks your blood.

"Haven't been happier"? If I say "it's all downhill from here" does that mean things are getting better or worse?

"reduces friction..." What a turn of phrase. Every major AI service claims be-all end-all capability, yet cognoscenti run merry-go-rounds for burgeoning specialist offerings. Richa…

Why would one brain assume one brain handles only one language when the idea of separate languages is a pure manifestation of one brain?

Anyone who is familiar enough with archive.ph links to expect them to be posted knows enough to just use the archive themselves

Wish I could run my life like this: I'm adding value by blowing other people's money and acting like I'm rich. "Ok so here's the deal, you front my incredible lavish lifestyle and …

Incurable ignorance is a perfect position for a long passionate arguments.