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> Nobody really knows or cares about Mr Jumper There's no place in polite company for comments like this, and you could be trolling. But since you also simply might not know: John …

The art style under "A Sillier Solution" [1] reminds me very much of the cover of Dragon Magazine #100, August 1985 [2]. [1] https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/media/a-silly-diffuse-s…

> This means OAI won't need ads. Just rev share If OpenAI thinks there’s sweet, sweet revenue in email and calendar apps, just waiting to be shared, their investors are in for a bi…

> robotaxis are just electric bikes and scooters of 2025 Ubiquitous, and life changing for the millions of people who use them daily?

The microwave oven is a strange choice of metaphor here, considering that even now microwaves sell 100's of millions of units every year, are nearly ubiquitous in households in the…

> Can use rust, go, or whatever compiled language you want and it'll probably be much more performant starting up than any interpreted language. One additional bit of context is th…

> "There's no reason for this to be a NYT link." I respectfully disagree. The NYT paid the author, Gina Kolata, to research and write the story, which contains more details than ju…

One interesting bit of context is that the author of this post is a legit world-class software engineer already (though probably too modest to admit it). Former staff engineer at G…

> “Amazon might be a good analogy here. I'm old enough to remember when Amazon absorbed billions of VC money, making losses year over year. Every day there was some new article abo…

It may please and amuse you that this fellow child of the 70's, growing up across the pond in Boston, could have written that exact same comment, nearly word for word. The impact o…

From the announcement: "We're excited to share with you a new library called Keras Core, a preview version of the future of Keras. In Fall 2023, this library will become Keras 3.0.…

> "$25,000 was not enough money to retire on for sure, even in 1996." $25,000 in 1996 is $42,000 in 2021. Seems like a modest incentive for top tech talent, even back then. * To re…

I’m the co-author and maintainer of the OpenSearch syndication protocol and I posted in support of reusing the name here: https://groups.google.com/g/opensearch/c/gi-iVJZgfdA

"Road directionality" being only 98.9% accurate seems to be a huge problem for a navigation app!

Not Vonnegut to my knowledge, but Pynchon in _V_.

Yay! Welcome back!

Public libraries have been a thing since the 1800's, which are equally amazing in terms of bringing tremendous impact to millions of people who wouldn't have otherwise had that ben…

14-bedroom, 11,000 sq. ft castle on 94 acres. Not too bad. By way of comparison, this is what $3.3M buys you in SF: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/2070-Beach-St-94123/...

Neat project, unexpected title. I thought the PDP-11 (and the PDP line in general) was designed as an explicit alternative to "Big Iron", i.e. a minicomputer. http://www.wolfgang-h…

For those that find this interesting, I highly recommend Tailscale ( https://tailscale.com ).

Thanks! Mostly I just hated to think that a developer might fall into protracted customer support discussion asking for their account to be refunded, if the $25 turns out to be a h…