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> Because what loosened those patients’ grip on reality was prolonged exposure to a voice that sounded informed and assured, and always felt supportive and patient. Clearly Opus 5 …

It was more an expression of surprise than anything else. The defining feature of the 29K, when I was introduced to it at least, was what appeared to be an enormous register set an…

Yes, I had an architecture professor that was a fan of it (and so your work, presumably!) It's the only way I'd encountered it, sadly. That was back around 2000 at Loughborough in …

How is the phrase "register window" not in this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_window "The AMD 29000 improved the design by allowing the windows to be of variable …

The single most frustrating thing about being in Canada is they can't even work out how to use their current grievances to deal with, you know, getting out of our own way like the …

> Fundamentally though this is a common American attitude. Look at something that's new and different and say "This would be bad for these reasons" Among the other bits of wrongnes…

> smell of fried croquettes drifting onto the streets, small shops run by the building owners, easy public transit access The genius of the BBC is to gloss over that in a culture t…

One of the most tedious ideas of recent years is the "great engineers are great writers" meme, unsurprisingly spread by writers.

A major feature of React (like Java) is the ability to reduce the blast radius of errant colleagues through much stricter boundaries. In the AI/vibe coding world this becomes even …

The underlying problem is the programming industry completely resisting learning the lessons of Objective-C because it doesn't like them. It didn't like them when NeXT tried sellin…

There was persistent noise even back in the 90s that the icon bar was inspiration for the Windows task bar in Win95. Quite the basis for it, or if it was nonsense, no idea. (HN has…

Indeed. I specifically recall my logic lecturers in a compsci course expressing the view the one purpose of computers is to work towards enabling automatic proofs, partly because t…

As someone that grew up using Acorn Archimedes it's hard to express to those that were never involved just how difficult what has been going on here is or how surprising it is they…

Furthermore, any attempt to pretend otherwise is an appeal to the idea we are in literal fact haunted by our own internal demons that are inexplicable to science or mathematics. On…

To the point you have to wonder if the reduced reading for pleasure levels in many places are due to understandably not being able to tell what is worth reading, especially given t…

It would be luckier if the government actually listened to him.

Damien Hirst, among many other prominent modern and historical artists, famously employed teams of human assistants to execute the bulk of the work. In the Hirst case that extended…

You are deliberately skirting the core problem which is your perception of value is completely warped by supply and demand. If you have a surplus of something then it will cease to…

My guess is energy gets redirected towards sport, and everything associated with it. It's already often an abstracted form of things that used to be work (sailing, hunting etc.), b…

What if other LLMs were charged to read the work as well? And those other LLMs were actually in the persona of aspiring authors hoping to learn so they can later sell their work? T…

Surely having the idea and curating the result actually is work? And pricing is determined by what someone else will pay for something, so if people want to read it and the author …

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The truth is much "pursuit of art" is a status exercise by those with the leisure capacity to do so, and this only maintains status because most people do not have the spare time a…

> and valuable, subjective literary articles There you go again. I suspect if everyone on earth produced subjective literary articles at the rate of ten a day you would cease to co…