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I suspect that this will ultimately be thrown out for a very simple reason which is that the government will have to prove that a duress PIN was actually entered. That is going to …

Annoyingly? Ironically? The best technical implementation of this law would be to make it possible for the "device owner" to tell the OS to set a flag that the user was under age. …

To me, the Hyperion Cantos present a vision of the future that is incredibly hopeful. The path along the way may at times be bleak, and I find the handling of the TechnoCore to rev…

Nope, the client is now 64bit as of Dec 19th 2025 https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail... . Unless you mean linux client, but that is presumably coming at s…

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300382

Linking my comment from (checks notes) 9 years ago on this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12781933 To extend the though there, the main question is not if, not when, but how…

What you have written (copied from an llm?) is utter nonsense. The publication date for this is 1773, nearly two years before battles in Lexington and Concord start in 1775.

Implicitly assuming that there is some well defined state that can be recovered when turning it back on. That's not how the real world works, and historically what revolutionaries …

In case you haven't see it. https://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

I love the idea of pricing all externalities as time required to be around dangerous animal. I think it would really help make the cost of externalities viscerally real in a way th…

Or just get rid of 3 pointers entirely in the NBA.

I'll add a 4th rationale: 4. It will create work for countless developers which is completely consistent with the python core value of disdain for other people's time. If this pep …

Someday, when everyone is trapped in some strange vr future, this will be used to allow them to relive the computing of the 80's and 90's.

> Most people We'll I'm used to not being most people, but I'd much rather be able to produce a single identical binary for my users that works everywhere than the platform specifi…

Fascinating to compare the take on storytelling/worldbuilding articulated at the end of the article to a game at the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Dwarf Fortress which has…

Nurses wear inside of wrist to simplify taking heart rate, or at least they used to back when you actually had to count it yourself. Divers wear inside of wrist to avoid having to …

No need to take the bet, reality is already there. Miku is the endgame for idols. Forever young. Will never have a boyfriend. Always follows the script, or not when the team managi…

> This is why I introduced the concept at the beginning of royalties for AI work. Ultimately AI is not an alien brain generating texts or images from its own imagination. Neural ne…

I was playing Stellaris recently, and a few months later started a rewatch of Babylon 5. The inspiration is striking. B5, despite all its shortcomings, represents a vision of the t…

I'll drop my Quake II anecdote here. Quake II was the first FPS I ever beat (at least I think I beat it). I did it over a week in the summer when visiting a friend out of state (ne…

I have had a long standing suspicion that the proposed attentional mechanism is the same reason why nagging someone almost never actually helps get something done, because it shift…

House at top of hill, school at top of hill. Or in this case, lab at top of one hill, lunch at top of another hill.

A third possibility. Prices could also go up if there is lack of competition, implying a lack of proper regulatory oversight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution ?

> What's more, the price is calculated by the client(!) Somewhere between a chuckle and a facepalm.