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Just a nitpick - by 1926, about 20-30% of Bell exchanges were already automatic, on Strowger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strowger_switch equipment.

Re the "land lines", I think the answer to that is not "keep 100+ year old copper infrastructure running" but "make our modern infrastructure as reliable as Ma Bell made it 100 years ago".

Of course, neither will happen, so there's that.

I'm envious of the time you spend where it wasn't already.

From the home page of turingtest.live.

“advanced LLMs like GPT-4”

I get this sort of thing constantly because my domain, 3e.org, which I have had for 30 years, is apparently impossible. It's either too short to be real, or starts with a number (obviously impossible).

And like the author, 90% of the time I can just disable their front-end validation and go on my merry way.

No, it's being downvoted because (a) who cares and (b) you wrote a wall of text that makes you look like you have schizophrenia.

It’s always been bizarre to me how bad browsers themselves are at searching their own history. This looks great.

I've still got my well-thumbed https://archive.org/details/c64-programmer-ref

I spent pretty much all of the 1988-9 school year (I was 10) inhaling it.

I'm mostly amazed the author didn't land in jail, which is the normally the response to reporting this kind of thing to authorities.

Most of the world’s money is not, in fact, green.

Similar, my "play with your hands" one: https://3e.org/hands.html

I'm not sure I've seen anyone drive further than about 10 minutes away without Google Maps in the last 5 years.

Or maybe everyone's misunderstanding your question?

To be fair, the vast majority of people are stupid, in one way or another.

Or do you believe that you are smart in every way there is to be smart?

Same. I often feel like my brain is a Ferrari which has a 1 L fuel tank and all the windows are blacked out except for a thumb-sized bit in the passenger side rear window.

My digit span is roughly 4 - terrible working memory. And I have trouble remembering even important things like where and how my wife and I met - terrible long term memory.

I have compensated over the years with complex systems of note taking and journals and in spite of all the above I managed a PhD, but I every day of my life feel hampered.

Given I spent hours timing my signup perfectly almost 30 years ago so I'd get #404, maybe you're the one being woosh'd.

https://slashdot.org/~dmd , look at the top right where it shows user number

https://slashdot.org/~dmd look at the top right where it says dmd (404)

I was user #404 on slashdot.

“I’ve thought about this for five minutes, and it seems so simple. It must be the tens of thousands of vision scientists and psychophysicists who have worked on this for the last century who have all missed how simple it is.”

I know probably 10+ people who have paid more than $500 for a mouse.

I learned most of the best cursing I've ever done from my grandfather. He took pride in teaching his grandkids to curse.

He was involved in setting up the radar systems at Pearl Harbor, much good that did.

Yes, those are definitely phrases that are in the article. What are you adding here?

I'm so confused. Does the dev not know that this is what iPhones do by default?

Oh, I think it's actually being flagged just because it's a less-than-24-hours-old railway.app.

And it's getting blocked by three different malware filters.

It would be nice to be able to play with one's own account, so it's not billing you.

I know there's a way to do this with A\ powered apps like this, I'm sure there must be for OAI?

(By the way, you're exposing the key. So anyone can just use up that key for their own nefarious purposes...)

Pretending to be a tree is, literally, the worst possible strategy imaginable if you’re trying to avoid being bitten by a beaver.

That's what the AIs are going to say when they harvest the whole world to make more AIs.

And sometimes, the email bounces, and the sender dies. (Juan was a coworker of mine - this happened in 1998.)

https://xana.scru.org/posts/etiamdisco/nototolaryngology.htm...