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I thought the article was going to be about countless millions of minds trying to win the internet lottery and merely reinventing the wheel or failing. I'm not worried about AI tak…

> Apart from increasing society-level anxiety, that focus on the dramatization of nuclear war is considered to have turned people away from nuclear power. Imagine the different pot…

Ya this problem was solved 20 years ago with Varnish cache and Coral cache/CDN. I think what's really going on is that bots expose how underpowered web servers has gotten in recent…

I've held the notion that money behaves in a log-linear way for decades, so it's nice to see that formalized finally. A river exhibits different behavior than a lake or the ocean. …

For what it's worth, Scheme was the first programming class that I took at UIUC around 1995, as I recall. I had used C++ for several years to make shareware games, so I took a test…

I just favorited your comment, which joins a vanishingly small list of revelations which completely blew my mind

Winter sunrise would be almost 9:20 am where I live in western Idaho: https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/idaho/locking-the-cl... Our representative Mike Simpson voted for it. …

It's interesting that this is a parody, but that no real-world alternatives exist. Some come close, ranked from lowest to highest gatekeeping: - https://www.gofundme.com/ (personal…

The wrong people won the internet lottery. I sympathize with the author. I started with HyperCard in the late 1980s when fax machines were an up-and-coming business. Then learned C…

The brain’s workspace is sustained by recurrent loops—signals cycling back through the same circuits over time. In contrast, Claude’s workspace evolves over a single pass through t…

Catering to the top of the k-shaped economy is indistinguishable from evil

I wish we had a license like "this project merely extends the project it's based on to add features and fix bugs". So that we could justify immediately switching to the fork that s…

Thanks, that means a lot. I cringe after posting this stuff, caught somewhere between ego and soul. But I agree with you that having a written record of our experience is important…

Revisionist history will tell it differently, but I remember that from the mid 1990s until about 2000 when the economy was booming yet prices weren't rising, Greenspan publicly ind…

Export controls and banning foreign nationals sound like cover stories for favoritism towards OpenAI and Grok. We can't determine anything without evidence, but it will be interest…

I started with System 3 on a Mac Plus with floppy disks back in the late 1980s, and ported original C code from around System 7 all the way through modern versions of macOS X. Appl…

I want to do an engine swap in my 1980s Toyota pickup (like on Back to the Future) from a 100 hp 22r to a 150-250 hp fuel injected inline 4 or turbodiesel to raise the thermodynami…

Ya I forgot to mention that the reason I chose microplastics and PFAS is that those are relatively new compared to when Gen X was growing up in the 70s and 80s. We had BPAs and lea…