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It is Kevin Buzzard. It's kinda small font on my phone but if you look at the "about xena" link it says it's his site.

There have been bills in the past like "The improved digital identity act of 2023" that never get out of committee. The latest incarnation seems to be "H.R.7270 - Stop Identity Fra…

They seemed to have missed peter turchin "In 2010, Turchin published research using 40 combined social indicators to predict that there would be worldwide social unrest in the 2020…

Surprised there was no mention of brief. That was my favorite editor for programming for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brief_(text_editor)

Pretty sure it will work on JAL at least right now. They just asked for an email. But it was also a new service so maybe to wanted people to try it. It occurred to me at the time t…

I think the name refers to the limits some airlines have. JAL for instance offers one hour free on some flights.

In the US there is a bill that's been floating around Congress for a while called the improving digital identity act. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/884..…

You can run the model for free on openrouter.ai. I have played around with lean, slowly working my way through mathmatics in lean. I was stuck on this problem in section 3.6 theore…

That's so funny I had to check something was working with an llm API last night and that's what I asked it, but just in jest.

I find the most consistent explanation for Donald Trump is he does whatever is going to keep himself the top news story in the media. I don't think there's any deeply held belief o…

Silicon Valley meets Bret Easton Ellis and Less than Zero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_than_Zero_(novel)

I was going to say I have a old twiddler 2 (wired usb). There was this program I used to learn called "twidor" that was like a type tutor but had graphic that showed you the chords…

I don't know, it's hard for me to know what the author means by "fundamentals". I looked at the table of contents from the amazon website, and somethings that I consider pretty fun…

I have a twiddler and tried doing this a long time ago i.e. emacs with a twiddler. For me I really needed to use a sticky cntl and alt key because I just couldn't press the cntl bu…

My org capture template from bernt Hanson's website clocks in and out giving you a timestamp. There is a "note" capture type. https://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html

Tailscale, ssh and emacsclient in terminal mode makes it pretty easy to access and update notes from different machines without syncing by just say leaving your main laptop on and …

Honest question. What's happens to Microsoft's investment then?

Exactly what I want know! A non profit is a corporation for public benefit. They bylaws state how the board gets elected, but there is no such thing as voting shares. So there is n…

I guess it matters how long it is and if you need to know it exactly, and how long you need to retain it. I had to memorize 50 to 100 word phrases and I chained them together with …

Maybe if you are a non profit based in CA. There's probably some other corner cases I'm not aware of, like it might be simpler in some cases like an LLC for holding family property…

It means the child of a first cousin. I'm a native speaker of English and I find the phrase confusing also.

I use this one seems to do what I need. It's pretty easy just to Google the cli case. https://github.com/sameerdhoot/wolweb

Hey I'm a long term emacs/org mode user. This look super interesting, one quick suggestion, even though I'm confident I can make the installation instructions work, a lot of people…