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> cyberpunk is NOW a playable game I never had problems with cyberpunk but I think I know why: I built a new PC right around its release and it was good enough to play it smoothly …

Ah yes, American Psycho was shot in Toronto wasn’t it?

One Linux kernel please, the 87320be9f0d24fce67631b7eef919f0b79c3e45c vintage

The death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy is bleak, humane and fairly short. I enjoyed it like a good Charles Dickens

On the other hand, after reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, you realize that as far as narratives go there’s nothing new. It’s all been done to death, remixed and rehashed for millennia…

>So one way to keep it from getting enshittified, again is to make the barrier to entry just a touch higher, or add friction. We already had that, it was called crypto mining. Prof…

One of my hobbyist workflows involved transcribing ETF prospecti into yaml for an optimizer to optimize over. Used to take me maybe 10-20 minutes per sheet. Then I got codex to whi…

How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query? Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…

Rockwell Automation has a facility in Katowice, Silesia which was/is a major centre of coal mining and locomotive manufacturing since the 1800s when it was part of Prussia, and con…

A family member told me they knew of someone who once visited Poland from Yugoslavia and found, in their opinion, that Polish was a Slavic language perfectly suited to the Latin sc…

Argh… I still can’t wrap my head around the esoteric humour. What is a feeduck and seeduck anyway?

Superscaler sounds too much like superscalar…

Pretty sure Duff was a heavily filtered macro beer. Not saying engineered beer is necessarily bad- Sapporo and Asahi never disappoint- but I imagine you would want to stick to unfi…

Posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626116

Bet your shirt AND the farm from the comfort of your phone

I started dressing nice at work, reasoning that looking sharp would buy me a few seconds or minutes of grace to allow my social deficiencies to catch up - just in case an executive…

And I don’t wanna talk to a scientist Y’all MFs unable to address the replication crisis, and getting me pissed

Great article. Personally I have been learning more about the mathematics of beyond-CLT scenarios (fat tails, infinite variance etc) The great philosophical question is why CLT app…