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The word Apocalypse is on the table and if you agree that ignorance of History invites Doom then my brief perspective here may appeal to you (otherwise tl;dnr) ... From the AI Apoc…

also from ^ article on Lockheed Martin Corp space shuttle software group ... Importantly, the group avoids blaming people for errors. The process assumes blame - and it's the proce…

> The exercise didn't necessarily feel easy to deduce within the 20 minutes I tried, I admire your breakdown, and I felt your pain. My frustration was with opening a new tab for ea…

Apropos, from Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One (2018) ... The shareholders won't be happy. Sorrento: It's not our job to make them happy. It's our job to make them money, but on…

At least one human has functional tetrachromacy (ie 4 cones of retinal perception not 3) ... The dimensionality of color vision in carriers of anomalous trichromacy (2010) https://…

> I think the editor just liked the juxtaposition of "humanoid robots" and "human workers". or perhaps we are far enough along this timeline that the AI editor preferred the distin…

> It is based on the premise of making work easier for workers. The objective is to thoroughly eliminate waste and shorten lead times to deliver vehicles to customers quickly, at a…

The hover-text for the OP's linked xkcd cartoon is : I find that when someone's taking time to do something right in the present, they're a perfectionist with no ability to priorit…

In case you actually mean you want DF website font-size increased, Gruber actually has a page for that as a site-wide setting ... https://daringfireball.net/preferences/

R.I.P. Copyright It seems to me that copyright doesn't exist anymore as a reasonable notion and effective right for an individual creator--A.I. being the final stake through the he…

> What used to look professional now looks generic. What used to look weird now looks human. > The signal you want to send isn’t “I spent effort on this,” because that signal is no…

> Good documentation includes background and decision information that cannot be derived from the code. It is hard to imagine any foreseeable software or robot that could collect t…

> "People think they want to interact with a robot that totally mimics a human, but they really don’t," Simmons says. There were those used to try hard, carefully yet hopefully, to…

> Maybe nobody will read it. These comments are now many hours old and HN has a way of walking away once they have had their turn shouting into the void. All that is gold does not …

Google's blog post promoting what their Stitch AI can do for you to rapidly design and make a UI by voice in realtime has this gem [1] : > You can easily extract a design system fr…

Kudos on your site effort and I immediately see your point. In fact I took your topmost entry with no helpful site/update tags and dove in a little to try to understand why a RSS f…

Isn't this a simple compute opportunity? ... > March 15 there were 1,251 updates [from feed of small websites ...] too active, to publish all the updates on a single page, even for…

While XML/XHTML aren't spec'ed/evolved to support your fun font sans attribute challenge, certainly modern html does ... @scope { font-family: "Arial" ; } Prospero: Where in the wo…

Some things never change ... "Send the Marines" -- satirical song lyrics by Tom Lehrer (1965) and in the public domain https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/send-t.…

Rather than just looking at Apple's motivations as to address ~new customers, I'd like to point out Mr. Gruber surprised himself: > I am in no way arguing that the MacBook Neo is a…

Also earlier credit due to Isaac Asimov in Second Foundation [1953] "... The same basic developments of mental science that had brought about the development of the Seldon Plan, th…

finally found a non-paywall version of your SDAM [1] cited: (A)phantasia and Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory: Scientific and Personal Perspectives. https://oro.open.ac.u…