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From my perspective, I do not perceive the world as "falling apart" and I wonder how much of your perception of the state of things (as if there was a universally defined "perfecti…

I believe it's more that the library contains the finite set of all books which have a (unique) permutation of the language's characters to size N. The challenge to finding the cur…

Aside from the low-effort snark and lack of empathy towards someone's project, this is also how you filter people out of caring about software development at at a young age, and th…

Yes, with lasers or nuclear energy

Thoroughly uninteresting

Why

I still whistle. I whistle when I'm happy, when I listen to music, and when I'm summoning the dog. I'll whistle while I work, and I'll continue to whistle until I physically can't …

I'm glad that you find achievement in the personal challenge. At home, I'm just getting things done. Small things, bigger things, and best of all I get to pet the dog more while it…

Don't consign us here in Mississippi, voting in every election, to not be represented in a democratic society. It's hard enough living here without getting dogpiled by external peo…

I'm sorry, you didn't say anything about your reasoning behind your ad hominem attack, so I can't properly evaluate your point. I eagerly await your clarification as to the relevan…

If you haven't experienced a spinthariscope, I can highly recommend it. I bought one as a Christmas present for a buddy and we both enjoy its demonstration of radioactivity.

Or wait 20 years for the panels to degrade...

POSIWID, the Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. A quick way to cut through bullshit and "But I meant for X to do Y"

Claude will routinely tell me to get some sleep and cuddle with my dog. I may mention the time offhandedly or say I'm winding down, but at least it will include conversation stoppe…

>Sooner or later one of them will hurt a human, and then what do we do? Considering this took place before I was born, you might not be aware of the multiple times it's already occ…

Typically you use a pulse train and filter your train from the noise

I believe The Light of Other Days has slow-glass that you expose to a scene, it drinks it in, and then plays it back later.

If I recall correctly they didn't miss Mars. Quite the opposite, really.

The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. Whether it is stated (or even designed) to protect kids, if it does anything more or different from that goal, it will perform those action…

Instead of building common cause among your allies, got it. Thankfully I presume you are not in a position where your decisions drive policy.

Real shades of "that cable shouldn't have been dressed like that, in a dark and narrow channel, clearly marked on navigation charts(to mitigate exactly this scenario, from good cap…

I don't care about industry metrics when I'm building my own AI research robotics platform and it's doing what I ask it to do, proving itself in the real world far better than any …

>>"I think 2025 was less productive" I think 2025 is more productive for me based on measurable metrics such as code contribution to my projects, better ability to ingest and act u…

A research robot for exploring AI/human/etc interactions. Someone put the wrong price on Thor for some reason and it arrives tomorrow.

Instead of casually dismissing the idea, perhaps they considered it and found recharging had its own engineering costs, namely the potential for a swelling battery on your finger, …