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I didn't realize Ello was so young! One of my kids went from barely a reluctant reader to a proficient reader near the start of your lifetime then, I am deeply grateful we had trie…

In sum, the author proclaims that without human death, nothing people do has a time limit so people wouldn't have any incentive to do. But this is false - even if we were a soverei…

Already addressed: "While the family spells its last name with a B, the New York Times stylebook spells Hapsburg with a P, which brought no shortage of scolding emails upon publica…

My understanding is that it's an expected value based on coverage in each of the ensemble scenarios, not quite as simplified as "how many scenarios was there rain in this forecast …

Many keyboards use the qmk firmware these days, qmk.fm, which can be programmed with the Vial configurator, get.vial.today . Here's one typical qwerty-ish layout for 42 keys: https…

Super minimal finger travel. I have a 34-key layout personally, and while I give up the F-keys, everything else is not very difficult to access and I really love how little my fing…

It's OSS and self-hostable. And it's got a great UI and the most joyous technology I've ever had the pleasure of using. https://zulip.com/self-hosting/

I mean, we're already having democratized geoengineering: Make Sunsets ( https://makesunsets.com/ ) allows you or anyone else to fund deploying high-altitude clouds for geocooling.…

See also: the first part of A Canticle for Leibowitz.

Have you seen k0s or k3s? Lots of stories about folks using these to great success on a tiny scale, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43593269

Note also that, on Linux, RSS is not guaranteed to be accurate: "For making accounting scalable, RSS related information are handled in an asynchronous manner and the value may not…

Fuse over io_uring has just been merged: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-FUSE So has uncached buffered IO: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uncached-Buffered-IO-Linux-6.1... …

Despite Silk Road explicitly banning CSAM, and the feds not charging Ulbricht with it when you know they would love the positive PR if they could?

Yes, kudzu is incredibly good forage and produces some of the tenderest, sweetest meat you'd ever taste.

Sonic.net or various other ISPs? https://www.theverge.com/2013/7/21/4541342/isp-owner-describ...

Harand Godwinsson still reigns in my heart.

A well reasoned article that fundamentally downplays both the pace of innovation and the exponential increase in capabilities per dollar happening over time. AI is rapidly accelera…

They did - and the first one failed so they did a second: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test_2

I don't think this is correct. As far as I understand it, Elon/SpaceX did attempt a previous investment in satellite internet, but it had died long before Starlink came to be in 20…

I am curious why you avoid ads - personally I view them as a tremendous good for the world, helping people improve their lives by introducing them to products or even just ideas th…

This seems very much the beginning of the situation predicted by Aschenbrenner in [1], where the AI labs eventually will be fully part of the national security apparatus. Fascinati…

Its unsafe, and there are warning signs everywhere warning you to supervise the fuelling and not leave it unattended. You could walk away from a fuelling car... but the failure mod…

Location: Greenville, SC, USA Remote: neutral Willing to relocate: yes, particularly to Boston Technologies: Linux kernel: FUSE, device-mapper, filesystems; C, C++, Python, Make. R…

>* How one retires at 25 when working at Google which is way past IPO and the 100x return on stock option which is only possible at the earliest stage? levels.fyi reports a L4 aver…

West Point Bridge Designer maybe? That was such a good educational tool.