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Mmmmm, yeah. And there's nothing wrong with adding in the more traditional foods, and ending up with fish tacos. I'd give anything to run this past my long-gone granny. In fact, I …

Full title: We asked an AI about the future – its answer might scare you. (Hope it's ok to chop part of it off.) In the last half of the "interview" (the scary part?) it seemed ext…

At the plastics plant I worked at in the 2010's, they had seismic emergency valves for the natural gas. At the time, I thought they were such a pain, as the vibration caused by a s…

> Imagine if border guards seize money willy-nilly. This jogged my memory, though I couldn't find the example I was thinking of. But here's an item that is pretty similar: https://…

Great, I've been day-dreaming about this for decades, and when it finally happens, I don't notice it. ;p

Can't help it. I like em dashes in works of fiction (e.g., C.J. Cherryh); I also find em dashes improve technical writing (for me). Sometimes adding spaces around em dashes is not …

Thanks - really got my attention. And, the video makes me sick. I'm still looking at my 10 year-old LG monitor with suspicion, now, but I'm thinking (hoping) it's just too old...

Really nice article (& website). This goes into my scrapbook. Still use cursive after 60 years, though nowadays, less on paper, and more using Gboard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

arggg, here comes my hardware lust again...

Awesome, awesome. My old copy of "Beneath Apple DOS" is still sitting on a shelf across the room - this brings the memories flooding back.

I'd completely forgotten, but this brought it back. In the 70's, the father of a friend in high school was building a plane in the basement. I remember there were pieces spread all…

Whew... the continuous motion started triggering migraine symptoms until I closed the window. But it does have a nice 3d effect. For me, the cycle speed seems excessive. I believe …

Heck yeah! Thanks for posting.

Thanks mentioning acrylics. Now I'm wondering if new technology will eventually improve our printing to allow better colors in news media, and even in prints in art exhibits? Does …

ok, that's amazing - glad ya saved the pic at least

The article is still pretty cool, even though the discussion brings up some issues with their arithmetic.

I probably would have agreed 50 years ago, but it's a bit hard now. Fortunately, select-all boosted the contrast nicely. ;)

I just think it's pretty amazing.

thank god we weren't still using paper tape & punch cards, everything was old crt terminals, and online storage (though not very much)

Used several of these at school in the 90's. IIRC intro classes used VAX/VMS (was the machine called VAX-1170?). But all the higher undergrad classes used Unix on PDP-11/70's, like…

Another ultra-processed foods article; last I found was earlier this year.

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