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The Daimond Aige: Or, A Young Person’s Illustrated Prompter

"Speak, Friend, and Enter!". Based on Durin's Door from Lord of the Rings, I built a working door with glowing Elvish inlay that appears like magic, opens when you say the secret w…

Healthy skepticism is certainly laudable, but too many llmuddites seem rather aggressive while whistling past their own graveyards.

I’m embarrassed to admit how readily I overlooked the “on” in “buttonhole”, and even more embarrassed how afraid I became when your post still made sense. Well, for certain fringe …

“Luck favors the prepared.”

Huh. I also have that personal policy. Yet this time I jumped first to the comments before reading the article. I’m not certain why. Perhaps I subconsciously intuited that the ambi…

Your video is so pedagogically beautiful. The subtext of what you’re doing in those two minutes hints deeply at the cyclical, iterative process practiced by most engineers and many…

Regardless of whether that final line reflects reality or is merely tongue-in-cheek snark, it elevates the whole post into the sublime.

Unknown, but for anyone under-resourced, this experiment from the site loaded instantly for me: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html

As Diane Rehm once lamented on her radio show about two decades ago, as she was interviewing some cutting-edge engineer about his work, “why does it have to be so haaaard?!?”

We thought he was a goner.

I will make some personal comments to Lars privately, but let me say this, publicly: I read between 10 and 100 articles or posts linked from HN every single day, and I have for yea…