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"The shocks I experienced as DOCTOR became widely known and “played” were due principally to three distinct events. 1. A number of practicing psychiatrists seriously believed the D…

if you can!

This is very much what apple wants you to believe; they have very good PR. In actual fact, though, apple is a very effective fifth or sixth mover, and has been for a very long time…

So, we can anticipate that the new Anthropic browser will now have the interpreter Ken Thompson previewed for us 41-odd years ago?

> Soon ChatGPT will start to weave ads into their output because they'll need to make $. you have no reason to believe this is not already the case.

> If they'd just kept on quietly making the best IDEs available while everyone else in the industry has lost their damn minds, they'd be golden. I recently heard this referred to a…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canary_trap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_of_Lisieux also bears reading. Her "Little Way" is well worth chewing on.

I started using RSS in ~2007, and I haven't stopped. I think i used thunderbird first, then google reader, then feedly, then a self-hosted freshrss for the last few years. I have a…

> Oh... the "worst protein powders" section is just a link to: > https://www.consumerreports.org/health/nutrition-healthy-eat ... paywalled.

Good old vdiff: https://catb.org/jargon/html/V/vdiff.html Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search. The term optical diff has also been…

In this vein of work, I also heartily recommend Kingsley Amis' "Lucky Jim" (1954), which arguably began the "campus novel" genre.

Or do anything with GPS.

> to just make up an answer supported by no direct evidence for something you can't explain. It sounds a lot like religion in fact. Well, it sounds like the Aether, really.

See also, "Blueberry Earth" https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.10553 This paper explores the physics of the what-if question "what if the entire Earth was instantaneously replaced with an …

especially with fennel on top, i can certainly see the uses and appeal! coming from mostly python, i miss a robust stdlib.

https://github.com/nobiot/org-remark handy, if you’re in the emacs ecosystem.

thou is the singular intimate. (compare the tu- form, in french). You could be singular or plural, but it was always formal. (compare the vous- form, in french) Knowing this puts a…

yinz needs worsh. it'll cool y'off.

I will continue to not care, i think. Why would I want a TV when i can get a monitor and stuff a soundbar on the bottom, and an apple TV into HDMI1?

but how about an entire city? http://pac.tom7.org/

The first — and maybe only, or at least sufficient — use of tissue engineering at scale is not going to be growing organs for implantation, growing meat in a lab for human consumpt…

Chris: So, I talked to him. Mitch: You did? Chris: Yeah, and he used to be the number one stud around here in the 70’s. (whispers) Smarter than you and me put together. Mitch: So w…