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There's also the simpler 'atc' from BSD games. Text interface only.

Well, maybe information that is for sale on the open market to anybody that's willing to pay is no longer considered 'insider' information? i.e. trader Jane Doe can't complain that…

> ... opposite directions ... Yes, I'd forgotten that detail. Still, though, chaotic bifurcation could be present with Il Niño and La Niña driving high & low extremes. Same mean, m…

> Some (e.g. right to repair, sadly) will achieve almost nothing at all. I'd be curious as to why you say that. I feel that, right now, you would be correct. But if we could move s…

I think a 3.5-sigma event being a 1/1000 probability is only under the assumption of random data - a constant climate would deliver more-or-less random data around some mean. The a…

I think I'm one of those to whom you refer (except that I'm already "awake", or at least I like to think so). I'm normally pro-EU but this chat control is anathema to me. I'll be v…

There's a graphic novel by Cixin Liu "The Wandering Earth" where they not only stop Earth's rotation with this method, but also propel Earth out of the solar system (for what appea…

I've often thought that the target* grid phase should be encoded into a high frequency signal, say at 50kHz. Generators without inertia can immediately switch to the required phase…

> anyone who's using them to actually ship product without a human actually digging into it is opening themselves up to a world of risk. Maybe it's just me, but it seems that compa…

Similar story from just a month or two ago: BBC tech reporter wins non existent competition "The Best Tech Journalists at Eating Hot Dogs." https://www.scientificamerican.com/podca…

I'm not aware of the composition of lunar regolith - but if it can be turned into many solar panels and batteries and a few large railguns then wouldn't it effectively be very econ…

Fund, but had my CPU maxing out (on firefox).

They're going back to the stone age, remember? The Geneva convention wasn't around then AFAICR.

IIRC nuclear doesn't really work well as the last 5-10%. Start-up and shut-down for nuclear reactors is a slow process. When it's generating, it needs to just keep on generating. N…

This is even more true with international grid connections. Europe in a cold spell? Solar countries import, wind & hydro export. Europe in a heat wave? Flip the switches the opposi…

I've commented elsewhere about an 4D maze ( https://urticator.net/maze/ - I am not the author) which mimics this by creating two 3D retinas in red/blue stereoscopic mode - when you…

I can't play this online (no webgpu) but from the description and comments here it sounds like the 4D Maze from 2002! https://urticator.net/maze/ The advantage of this one is that …

Pure speculation here. Driving is a sedentary occupation which might increase the percentage of deaths attributable to a sedentary lifestyle, with consequent decrease for Alzheimer…

In most cases I agree with this, but maybe not for potentially dangerous things like cars? What if someone roots into their car and disables some essential safety feature - maybe e…

Umm, assuming you have the same opinion as grandparent comment, you don't want google tracking your payments but you'll happily trust google's pinky promise about your fingerprint …

I'd add oil as another dimension - sunflower oil, olive oil, butter, lard, whatever.

I always enjoyed the Terminator movie series, but I always struggled to suspend my disbelief that any humans would give an AI such power without having the ability to override or p…

I would much prefer to see a ZK system that, by design, CANNOT reveal info neither to the website nor to the authority. e.g. in the new EU system, it is (afaik) conceivable that th…

Hmm. There might be 10^80 atoms in the universe, however there are 2^(10^80) possible combinations, more than 2^800.

Replying to myself here. Maybe coding will eventually be simply learning how to give an AI the right prompt. e.g. instead of "Hey AI, create my new banking app with such-and-such f…