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Sabine Hossenfelder's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxmTqIkToTg

News release from HSBC https://www.hsbc.com/news-and-views/news/media-releases/2025...

http://archive.today/tKfmh

I hope for the good of humanity that a difference here is that Twitter has some utility, whereas the comparable code bases at large tech firms are mostly useless features/products …

What are the implications on quantum gravity?

Basically the same article from Purdue.

How interpreting PDF in Postscript became untenable

I was wondering how the "io" module was involved when the exploit claimed to not use any import. The answer is "io = open.__self__" [1]. Allowing "open()" would be an oversight if …

From the article, "Indian-origin people account for just about 1% of the US population and 6% of Silicon Valley's workforce ..." Really? In tech organizations (in SV), and we are t…

The writing was on the wall in the summer of '89.

MSFT still outperformed SP500 index this week.

> Basically the only languages with full stackful coroutine support in wide use are Lua and (sort-of) Go. Aren't Javascript Generators also coroutines?

Were there no Japanese spies in the 1930's with similar backgrounds and motivations? What's so new about it?

Let's assume that all the issues are binary (i.e. you are either for or against a proposition). But there are a large number of them. Humans are lazy. We try to use few categories …