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A webtoy I have been building. When you zoom in, the whole earth remains visible, with higher and higher scales towards the middle.

It does mention the Insight Meditation Society.

>I wish the description of the video was like an abstract. Business opportunity something something AI

Ah ha! I had searched the article to see if there was a way to do that. Because while it would be awesome to have a file like this, creating it sounded like a pain.

The white square is the designer. Try double clicking on it.

I worked at company_name when the .xxx top level domain became available, and my boss was sure that we should buy company_name.xxx. I talked them out of it. Luckily no one has mali…

"with even very moderate practice, humans can match Ayumu’s performance." The article is misnamed, the actual score is 1 to 1.

Meh. About as useless as blockchain, I guess.

Capital oriented companies can lead to the correct outcome if the consumer has enough information to distinguish the superior product. One solution to this problem that capitalism …

They didn't say constant maintenance, they said endless maintenance. 20 minutes a month is a never ending commitment of time. They have better things to think about.

In Richard Feynman's book, "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" he tells the story of his exploits in safe cracking. And the eventual "solution" that the bosses come up with... not …

_those are for playing MP3s off a flash drive._ I am reminded of the workaround people used to use for inputting streamed audio to their old car stereos through a cassette tape ada…

"Then last year, on a whim, the Millers bought a 15th-century, 52-room castle" Translation: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/translation-of-a-new-yor...

What is artcasting?

Took hints from, ergo "an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation"

Canary in the coal mine...

In ETL work I often come across a nightly job that is harder to implement than most for some snowflakey reason, and I just start my day doing it manually, which might just take a m…

That is a funny word. I am a big proponent of in-word dashes, which in this case could help clarify. It is "undo-able", not "un-doable".

The article mentions Chrome OS Flex, which is a version that doesn't require the Google security chip so it runs on a regular Intel PC. That is "de-Googled" I suppose, though I am …