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My scroll wheel covers about 12 states per inch of travel. Did the stubby pencil work and it would take about 9.5 years to scroll through them all if the wheel surface was moving a…

>And has a woman ever looked as seductive as Sean Young smoking a cigarette as she's being interviewed by Harrison Ford at Tyrell Corp? It really is for me a pinnacle. I sometimes …

>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we get much better at manipulation? Yes.

I’d like to see a human one shot a pelican on a bicycle in raw svg.

Agreed. I've started calling our non-production infrastructure environments 'engineering' rather than dev, and nobody's invited. We'll pull in platform teams that are exposed to th…

Indeed. Likely a bit of both.

Operationally (and anecdotally obv) we've found that accessing Claude via AWS Bedrock has been notably more stable than direct to Anthropic.

Roughly equivalent to the percentage of startups that fail. Lower numbers don’t mean we’re doing better, it means we’re trying less.

You would still need the sun shield in place obv.

The wild thing is that, if I understand it correctly, if you were floating in a spacesuit at the same spot you'd also see that resolution (likely highly distorted) with the naked e…

Yeah if the lower 48 states (~2800 miles) span the width of my entire screen (2560px), each pixel represents just over a mile. The satellites at that level were rendered with dots …

Yes https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/05/starlink-blocks-acce...

My truck (Ford) has some cell connectivity that I’ve never paid for. At scale it’s likely very inexpensive.

What a goofy comment. Pedestrians are *also* subject to right-of-way rules, just like everyone else on the road. Many examples of people running between parked/stopped cars and get…

It’s also surprisingly reliable given the physics of it all. I built a house out in the country in 2007 and 10Mbps DSL was all that was available for terrestrial connectivity up un…

Great comment! >I thought was kind of the most fascinating part of the damninteresting article was the revelation that the evolved programs were inseparable from the single physica…

Just saw glow worms for the first time last month. Very cool critters. Not sure I even knew they existed before that.

Vendor diversity is a longstanding risk management principle. For it to work you need to invest in it as you build, not when the rug is pulled.

Very cool idea. I'm sure this can be annoying when people do this, but I can't help myself lol. I wonder if you could operate in a different modality and find discontinuities in ma…

I've noticed that more and more of my mental attention while speaking is observing the words that come out of my mouth rather than 'generating' them. I split time between rough pat…

Reminds me of this old article - https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ One of my favorite little morsels of internet goodness.

Take a look at extropic. AFAICT it's a form of analog computer.

It's probably not going to be an auto-rejection, it's just going to sit in a queue that looks like this Screened Applications [13] Unscreened Applications [39148]

Same. I still say please and thank you as well. It's not for the LLM, it's for me.