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one thing that largely undermines even the notion of US whiteness is that 50 years ago the definition of white was very different. Italians were swarthy and not properly white. Iri…

you can't fault people for being confused. just because some people in the US have latched on 'cultural integrity' as their new favorite racist dogwhistle doesn't mean that it make…

every single time taxes for the wealthy were cut, it was argued that the laffler curve would make up for the loss in federal tax receipts, thus leaving us with the same level of se…

or, if you upped the pin diameter, you could thread a hole through the pin and throw a washer on top

I got tricked into doing this once, for Mercor. didn't have much else going on, and I'd never actually talked to an AI before. what struck me as very odd is that instead of being o…

not exactly right. the first is an abrasive disc. that's the right guy for steel, but doesn't work great in aluminum because its very sticky and melty. the third is a metal skill s…

I've run 30w led modules for 10+ years by - using real power conversion components, making sure they have sufficient cooling and running them at 75% of their rated current. they st…

I'm pretty sure that's some stock output from CAIDA, looks like a traceroute graph from the inset

there's some great stuff in here, particularly the direct-to-binary codegen, threads instead of processes and sync batching. you must have some intuitive notion about where the per…

general enforcement of federal law as a special exception of the 4th amendment doesn't seem to be in the charter passed by congress in https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/6/211…

in autistic-land, doesn't it seem like the power to perform searches by border police should be directed related and limited to their function - that is the inspection of material …

that's some real anti-truth you've got going on there. because we shouldn't assume that others are acting in our best interest, that any random assertion that there is collusion ag…

under what circumstances as user would I want to explicitly agree to have my browsing history sent to tens or hundreds of third party tracking aggregators?

I guess I am mildly discomfited by the red flower. if the program is going to tell me every time I fail to think through things properly, then my role here is kinda limited to driv…

don't forget 'actually making decisions'

if 5% of the work that I'm reading to keep up is slop, that's a shame. that's time I spent puzzling over connections that weren't real, trying to impose some kind of logic on the a…

some guy left a few hundred pounds of steel in the loading area of my workshop for stupid reasons. maybe about $80 worth in scrap. he kept coming by and claiming someone was going …

also no real mention of body construction or bed dimensions. nice to see a 2 door though I guess

I agree that something like *lisp would be a welcome relief from the hairball that is CUDA. while the lisp part was actually compiled, the parallel part reduced pretty 1:1 onto Par…

yes. Calton Pu. is that really such a problem? JITs seem to work pretty well, I'm pretty sure synthesis was more about creating custom paths than being strictly self-modifying, but…

it could also be a real advance, a valuable tool, lead to a bunch of great ideas and products, and still not be a good return on the trillions that have been dumped into it mindles…

I certainly see that the OS interface is limit to language innovation in that it assumes a lot the things I mentioned, and these tend to get shoehorned in and turn into a series la…

that's really unlikely. in the 80s the US military had several AI labs and was working with academia...I worked with some. the focus was nearly exlucsively on logic programming and…