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“Progressives have been howling about tech company surveillance for over a decade, but they all still have The iPhone in their pockets” https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

Barred owls are invasive.

This is Muratori showing he's a solo programmer who has only ever worked on relative small, simple software that runs on a single machine.

There’s a reason why every nearly spacecraft intended to operate more than a couple of days and be able to maneuver and make trajectory or orbit changes has used hypergolic fuels. …

At this point, a paper airplane folded by a third grader could take on Boeing.

That sucks, sorry to hear it. Have you tried seeing if a tablet handwriting recognizer can be trained on your writing?

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-13060909/cambridge-un...

This almost throwaway line from the article struck me as an example of what we can do with technology, if we choose to put our billions of dollars towards it: "I downloaded the BC3…

Stephenson mentions the Pilot G-2 Gel, and it is a great pen, especially for left-handers. I've found one that improves on it: the Pilot Acroball. It's a better G-2 and though it m…

Don't hold the pen too tightly. Find a pen and paper combination that doesn't require force to write. Ball point pens on cheap notebook paper are notorious for requiring too much f…

I think tablet handwriting is fine. I had some six weeks of down time a while back and took advantage of it to go through the Getty-Dubay book Write Now: the Getty-Dubay Program fo…

Fun examples of the strange and wonderful mess that is Date: https://jsdate.wtf/

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/ reports the area rates a 2 "average dark sky" on the Bortle scale, just short of an "excellent" score of 1. It's location halfway between Santa …

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=prompts-model...

Right up until you cut that fiber cable or gas line.

It also made it way orders of magnitude more expensive.

Revolutionary concept: have the second stage take off and fly up to meet the first stage, already in flight.

Respect alone is not always enough, though.

We call human die-offs "war", "genocide", "drug epidemics", "pandemics". There was a spike in 2021, of course, but the world death rate has been edging up slightly every year since…

Consider the following scenario. You're a beginner or with very little experience go on a popular programming forum to ask a question, in the typical way someone with little experi…

This happened in rapid succession in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. First rodents and small scavengers multiplied rapidly, but then the easy food ran out and their predators showed …

Agent Smith: I'd like to share a revelation during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on t…