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__patchbit__··on Unicode 18.0
Raku and Racket are language oriented novel programming languages. They may adapt more easy.
__patchbit__··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
macOS has the prior keycombo for 'home' and 'end' occupied for other uses.

   command + up/down arrow
I don't know how to read to the bottom of a webpage and jump immediately to the top of page.

Plus, the global key at bottom left fails for keyboard shortcut input when defining new binding for managing windowing rearrangement.

__patchbit__··on Beijing hits back at Anthropic CEO's call to curb China's AI development
Wasn't long ago before 2016 when Alphabet toured Beijing with AI Go that working youth in China's Disney land were incapable of facial human emotion.
__patchbit__··on Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
The future we want. Not the wasteful F-35 'Fat Amy' lemon future noone except the fighterjet mafia wants..
__patchbit__··on What Happened at the White House That Marc Andreessen Says Sent Him to Trump
Ukr Warlab AI field testing
__patchbit__··on Larger Pacific Striped Octopus
The nautilus is a genetic precursor to the octopus on the cephalopod branched tree of life and takes 20 years to mature.
__patchbit__··on Larger Pacific striped octopus
The deep-sea octopus Graneledone boreopacifica has the longest known observed 53 month egg brooding period.
__patchbit__··on Which would you prefer: an iPhone Duo, or an iPhone 18 Pro plus an iPad mini?
iPhone Uno with single panel narrow display pocketability feel, and with option to plus up to iPhone Duo and dynamically switch everyday.
__patchbit__··on Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
Uber eclipsed by Tesla Cybertaxi FSD.
__patchbit__··on Knuth: Literate Programming
Can Cognitive HPC common sense automate away the tedious housekeeping chores? and let work flow.
__patchbit__··on Programming is Art
At one extreme an artist may have only one art object in them to bring to this world.
__patchbit__··on Black Hole of Los Alamos: Seller of surplus nuclear research materials (2011)
Used to be an online Los Alamos computer store.
__patchbit__··on Research carried out using NetBSD
NetBSD 11 with Firefox 151 from pkgsrc on a custom CTWM is a usable daily driver for Emacs daemon mode GUI/TUI and console tmux simultaneous use. Remote in from a Windows or macOS desktop.
__patchbit__··on Ask HN: Books Recommendations?
concept of mind by ryle

on minds by rosenbloom

__patchbit__··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
Is Emacs the planaria species of text editors?
__patchbit__··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
Emacs and AI go hand in glove.
__patchbit__··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
The Moon Landing Project text editors may not have survived
__patchbit__··on Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange
A quantized inertia theorist says DM is bogus and a waste of attention.
__patchbit__··on Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products and Spineless Capitulation
"Supersize Me" iPhones.
__patchbit__··on The U.S. Munitions Crisis
AI ammo must have a "learning rate" sticker.
__patchbit__··on RISC-V is now officially supported by CPython
Unison.
__patchbit__··on Singapore Switches on Biological Computing Rack with Living Human Neurons
Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Ukraine? wonder what spermaceti does at biological scale attached to compute over 9P.
__patchbit__··on Poll: Are You Aphantastic
Play blindfold chess. Once you get used to that, you "see" the state of the chessboard from beginning to end of a game, ply by ply, forwards and backwards, total recall 12 hours after.
__patchbit__··on Ask HN: If I am 16 what should I learn? Which books should read?
Faust from the West.

Three Kingdoms from the East.

See the reading list on topics of interest in the podcast "In our time." Thumb nail sketches of powerful people is a work by a Greek tutor transmitted somewhere in there.

__patchbit__··on Why did the CIA chief go to Moscow? We have to assume the worst-case scenario
To say, "Thank you." in recognition of the state of affairs in the global agenda propaganda media and foreign controlled domestic national interest politics.
__patchbit__··on Screen time at ages 1 and 6 may matter more than parents realize
At 6 they sat in a circle and took turns at quizzing the AI on the Google smartphone.

At 12 they say, "We don't trust AI."

__patchbit__··on Supermicro Super AI Station (GB300, 20 Pflops FP4, 748GB Coherent Memory)
Needs a performance model pulling puppet strings on an ant's body counting slots, hooks, loops and spirals in motion and demonstrates the puppet master's intent in storytelling.

The supermicro font is blehck and the word length is too long on the logo. Go pure geometry.

__patchbit__··on Emacs 31.1 Released
Outline on what's new is found in the following file

  emacs-31.1/etc/NEWS
__patchbit__··on China Axing Microsoft Windows from State Agencies Ahead of Plan
China would move the needle on innovation outsmarting seL4 kernel and 9front userspace concepts and minimalist design.
__patchbit__··on China joins Europe in scrapping Windows for Linux
Does the Microsoft tax go towards the Epstein class?
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