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I agree. The analogy is using our intuition of how objects move because of gravity to explain gravity. It has always seemed circular to me. I bet there is a better analogy.

Some random thoughts on this situation which I have been in as well. - bring lantus pens - bring a backup pump. If you've been on a pump for more than 5 years you've probably gotte…

I had the space games and the adventure games book as a kid and I was obsessed with them. I’d type in the whole program to play a game and then because I didn’t have a floppy drive…

Interesting! I can picture how the clients could calculate a hash prior to encryption and that would let the server know those files have the same contents once decrypted but how w…

They encrypt files on the client before transmission.

“shoulder surfing” is not the problem. It’s people making videos or live streaming who will risk accidentally exposing password length.

This makes me want to use visidata for my databases.

Poshmark also is not dead.

This doesn’t ring true to me. Having processes which rely on communication between humans using natural language can of course be either structured or unstructured. Plenty of highl…

How about because spent nuclear fuel will be hazardous to humans for the next ~20 thousand years? How do you amortize that cost? You can't just assume someone else will deal with i…

Not from the same guy but here's a quine embedded in the github contribution chart: https://github.com/mame?tab=overview&from=1970-12-01&to=1970...

This article was 160 pages long when printed in the New Yorker. Modern nuclear warheads are around 30x more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima. For comparison sake the equi…

This reminds me of the “drop fix” for the sparc station where people would pick up the box and drop it to reseat the PROMs.

One confusing thing to me was the word "server". An "MCP server" is a server to the LLM "client". But the MCP server itself is a client to the thing it's connecting the LLM to. So …

According to Italo Calvino [1] the universe was created from the impulse to make a bowl of pasta. [1] All at One Point https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cosmicomics/cWMec8TktW4.…

// Beware the SI's broken definition // of Hz. You should treat the radian as being correct, as a fundamental // dimensionless property of the universe that falls out of pure math …

“Were you picking your feet in Poughkeepsie!?”

I’m dating myself but it reminds me of when e-mail hit the mainstream and Microsoft jammed it into every product with no thought for how it would really be used. Like in Excel … ev…

My parents have saved letters from their parents which are written in cursive but in two perpendicular layers. Meaning the writing goes horizontally in rows and then when they got …

This reminded me of that classic Eric and Tim Show episode "Prices" [1]. "Fine European prices! Buy $35.50... for forty dollars." 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9yBgTp9UQ

Fascinating that the Army Battlezone project is what lead them to develop the controller based on a Bradley tank that was later used on Star Wars.

On the cassette tape version of The Wall I had if you flipped the cassette over during this phone call sequence it would end up being right in the middle of another song (can't rem…

The ultimate (and often overlooked) failure mode for using your own domain name is death. You will die and at that point unless you have set up and funded a process to renew the do…

More like “Dad I’m calling you from prison and I don’t trust that I’m actually talking to you and not a deepfake so can you tell me that password we talked about?” Then dad gives n…