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> An LLM scraper is operating in a hostile environment [...] because you can't particularly tell a JavaScript proof of work system from JavaScript that does other things. [..] for …

Is there a way to download it? It would be nice to decide to play even while offline.

Huh, now I have to check.

The rat scroll removes points from the board (replaces monsters with 1hp rats).

Oops. Then it must be ---

" This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera duri…

I'd say those drivers and libraries are the backbone of an OS. Everything else is on top of them.

--. on Linux.

I'm not sure I'd call anything using libhybris "Linux-based". Their low-level elements come from Android with all the problems that implies, including Android being Linux only in t…

The typical 4-function calculator doesn't even allow multiple subtrees of computation, so I think it works out to having something like 2 entries on the stack.

There were calculators in the '90s where the display would go faint when you covered the tiny solar panel. Perhaps the battery was already drained. Quite common I would say.

RPN is definitely easier to implement. I helped someone do that as a student project and while it was minimally complex, there were no edge cases with the operators. You pay for th…

What's with the advice about interrupts and undebounced signals? What does it mean that a flip-flop gets confused? What kind of undesired operation could that cause? Because, quite…

The environmental impact grows a lot more with the number of sold product than the maintenance burden. For a business that sold a thousand units with a handful remaining, the calcu…

Who do you think spam classification false positives are going to be pubishing if not real users? At least with a captcha, you have some idea that you were rejected before you put …

That's an uncharitable read. Connections can be made, not only received. Networking is different kind of work than sitting at a desk, but it's still work. The benefits of that work…

Can it even be blocked completely? Every layer of material geometrically reduces the proportion of rays going through. Or am I wrong about that?

And yet, there is something, therefore the odds cannot be zero, revealing a flaw in this line of reasoning.

> You're one out of 8 billion people, the only known humans inhabiting an incredible vast cosmos with billions of galaxies and billions of years of timespan. That you are sitting h…

Assuming that the amount of value you create corresponds to the amount of money you are rewarded with - within the same market, then it's just about revenue. In your examples, you …

Admittedly, the paragraph is not very upfront about it, but to me: > My pulling back started in ~2023 this sounds like significantly reducing the amount of work. Okay, this could a…

Does inertia matter? Or is it just another way of saying that the revenue is low? I'd rather have X in my pocket instantly after creating the value rather than have half instantly …

I'd have kept my keyboard shut if the implication presented was "work and little revenue is bad business", but here I'm seeing "no work and no profit is bad business".

> My pulling back started in ~2023 after 8 years of thinking, 24/7, "what's the next thing I'm gonna write about?". I was tired and the biz wasn't sparking joy like it once used to…