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> ## Other organizations > These are organized along a spectrum of AI friendliness, where top is least friendly, and bottom is most friendly. This section is an extremely useful re…

I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else. The article's argument is not only thoughtfully made and unusually …

"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"

+1 for Terminator, my first install for 15+ years on Linux. Solid

This would answer the question that i've not heard anyone asking: what incentivized the bad decisions that led to this catastrophic failure?

> Sometimes they can sleep up to like 18 or 12 hours a day. That is a lot of sleeping for a cat. Can we just put the author of these pages in charge of the whole Internet please?

Wow. The interstitial music from Dr. Katz just started playing in my head unbidden. What a fun show that was.

I forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files

You're right. Having hobbies IS fine. Totally agree.

(Is it either/or?)

> It has gorgeous display. This is a huge factor for me. I have linux on my desktop but my laptops are Mac - I do a lot of graphics and video editing and the color reproduction of …

I'll never forget seeing Steve Mann roaming the halls and conferences at ACM '97 in his full gear [0], antenna rising above the crowd. I remember thinking, this guy might be on to …

This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs …

Same. I was lucky to see it on film once, and the theater projected it without masking, so you could see one of its most brilliant touches, that it has two aspect ratios (1.66:1 an…

What I want is an FDD sound simulator for various historically significant computer models. The Tandy 1000 is burned in my memory, and I'd love to hear it again without having to v…

Yes you did. One of these a day, please. I really like the hand-drawn / doodled style.. it disarmed me, which was good because solving this required me to be patient and to unwire …

My first "a ha" moment using lisp, when i suddenly got my first glimpse of understanding the whole code-is-data-is-code thing and what it makes possible, was my favorite moment usi…

The prince doesn't stop on a dime, this was a design choice. This recreated version plays the same as it did on OG hardware. If you're having difficulty, focus on holding and relea…

I've been a Firefox advocate for years, but after the recent update to 94.0.1 I removed it from my Mac, Linux, and Windows machines because of how it obscures multi-account contain…

If I may add my own recommendation — Ralph Kirschbaum's 1993 recordings of Bach's cello suites (blue cover). My entire Spotify subscription is basically "let me listen to this one …

It's insane how many nuclear explosions occur unreported on this planet

Thank you!

I agree, I use += as shorthand, I wasn't aware it was fundamentally different under the hood.

Savvy - for me Bitwarden's implementation of self-hosting is the biggest gesture of mutual trust that makes it feel so solid

Absolutely, and wars waged without declaration that were equally traumatic. Within the lifetime of the Internet, I think 9/11 is the major inflection