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what do you think of peter f. hamilton? i like the prose, but i am not sure about character development. “The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself…

There is still Linux and/or OpenJDK to run on intel or powerpc macs

conventional algorithms https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html

Perhaps you mean stereographs, if so they work because you get a separate photo for each eye up close, with a seperator, with or without lenses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stere…

hi initramfs, i responded to robottoaster who referenced patent encumbered mp4, as alternatives there are vp9 and av1. image formats are more backward compatible, but at some point…

there are vp9 and av1 as well

Perhaps humans can one day regrow their teeth for better food ingestion when elderly and cognitive function.

It can with: KRVR - https://krvr.app/ ALVR - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/alvr/id6479728026

This dopamine phracking reminds me of neal stephenson's "snow crash". "[.] a counter-virus (known as the nam-shub of Enki), which, when delivered, stopped the Sumerian language fro…

Yes! It's similar to people sharing a simple url within a QR code only. I find it insulting and inconvenient - i can remember or jot down and type in a url - i don't need a smartph…

Games I currently play: - Race for the Galaxy A fast paced SF card game. Players build galactic civilizations by simultaneously selecting roles (like Explore, Develop, or Settle), …

For example: ASUS ROG Phone 9 Pro, Nubia RedMagic 10 Pro, OnePlus 13, Realme GT 5

Cool, I'm having all kinds of ideas about the use cases. Would using Loglish (Ben Goertzel's english adaptation) be practical? https://www.goertzel.org/new_research/Loglish.htm I'm…

That doesn't answer the question, I'm curious too. I think there's a speed and battery advantage on the A19 Pro chip compared to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, but to know for …

Qwen3.5-9b and Qwen3.5-27b are pretty coherent on my 24G android phone

dear apple, please bring back the wedge shaped design of the macbook air m1 https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/03/04/after-14-years-ap...

* playing shortlarps * using short boardgames to measure cognitive performance on various metrics * creating simple 3d boardgames with raylib kolibri_engine * dancing and studying …

Seirawan Chess, Euroshogi, Fischer Random/chess960 (or chess18) or Crazyhouse are other ways to make chess more interesting or less predictable. In this video Fischer briefly and e…

I am working on ways to measure cognitive performance throughout the day and the impact of supplements or activities that supposedly help

I'd be ok with it if it's possible to use all the insights and software from after that, we'd just be constrained by the hardware - the Amiga 4000, Apple Mac Quadra 840av 128 MB or…

yes, but there would be dbase, berkeley db, borland database engine and mdb though - good enough

I loved the deoxy site, it was one of my favorites :-) Next to the site and writings of the esoteric Brother Blue, who was he? It eventually caused me to go in a reality tunnel for…

The rise of Islam in light of the christological debates and power struggles is a fascinating topic to me, and I am glad the discovery of this Maronite document sheds more light on…

I helped my mother out with a computer, gave her a mac after she called twic a wee about a windows popup. Eventually she became a grandmother, and later in old age, with dementia s…

I can confirm, running glm-4.7-flash-7e-qx54g-hi-mlx here, a 22gb model @q5 on m4 max pro and 59 tokens/s.