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maxwell··on How Cathode Ray Tubes Work [video]
CRTs are still in production.

https://www.thomaselectronics.com

maxwell··on 3D Printing My Teeth
Reminded of the guy who straightened his teeth in 16 weeks for $60 (with access to a university 3D printer):

https://amosdudley.com/weblog/Ortho

maxwell··on How a Bicycle is Made (1945) [video]
72 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=max3bL3bTbg
maxwell··on 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch
It's always the accent that gives away time travellers.

Only real possibilities to avoid exile/asylum/imprisonment/execution for most of history would seem to hinge on predicting celestial events and making gunpowder, as Twain observed.

maxwell··on 1/25-scale Cray C90 wristwatch
Set where? Gambling was criminalized in the UK in 1541 and Europe's first legal gambling house didn't open until 1638.

Maybe they learn roulette strategy and show up right after Pascal invented the roulette wheel while he was trying to produce a perpetual motion machine (which could play a role in the time machine's tech itself too, which could resemble a "grande roue," visually akin to a g-force centrifuge or particle accelerator).

maxwell··on Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
Modern civilization is multi-special.

From a calories-per-unit-of-labor standpoint, dogs and cats have now clearly eclipsed humanity, using their emotional intelligence to create a post-scarcity Marxian utopia where they can mostly do whatever they want all day while humans toil for them.

maxwell··on Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
Chickens are bipedal. There are tree frogs with opposable thumbs. Elephants and cetaceans have strong social behavior. Other hominids have all these.

What other animals make fire? Cooked food was the game changer.

https://www.livescience.com/5946-chimps-master-step-controll...

maxwell··on Humans began to rapidly accumulate technological knowledge 600k years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvWSsAgtJE
maxwell··on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
No, the center of European power needed printing presses for their own propaganda.

Instead the center of European power banned heretical works with the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and executed heretics like Giordano Bruno, Jan Hus, Michael Servetus, Aonio Paleario, and Lucilio Vanini. Even if they were already dead, like John Wycliffe.

maxwell··on Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
How about data URLs?
maxwell··on Pop culture has become an oligopoly (2022)
Risk profiles change though. Option 1 was a better bet in the late 1970s and early '80s, when the Old Hollywood franchises had been thoroughly wrung out and demand was there for new experiences.
maxwell··on Apple set to be first Big Tech group to face charges under EU digital law
And that's illegal under federal law in the United States, hence the antitrust suit.
maxwell··on Child safety advocates disrupt Apple developers conference
Demanding surveillance and censorship for safety and the children.
maxwell··on Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs
"Comes with NO GAMES"?? I switched to Mac for Apple Chess. And I was very glad to hear yesterday that they've committed to putting all of their wood behind it going forward.
maxwell··on Show HN: Land Use in the Netherlands
Read it on first pass as "Neanderthals," didn't rescan until I hit "Roads & Railroads"!

This looks nice. I'd like to see a rendition for each United State (and for other hominids!) but taking a quick peek at the source this looks closely tied to specific NL data sources/schemas.

maxwell··on Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq
Laboratories of democracy.
maxwell··on Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent
Hence the calls for crackdowns on speech under the guise of "safety," i.e. only the multinational-approved models are to be deemed "safe."
maxwell··on Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent
Gear trains are the killer robots' weak point, eh?

Good to know.

maxwell··on The world has probably passed peak pollution
They were called such due to the decline of written material: the written record went "dark" compared to antiquity and then modernity.

Definitely in another dark age in that sense, due to the postmodern decline of meaningful written communication on paper.

maxwell··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
Executive dysfunction seems the root issue. Tim, Phil, and Craig have been running on Steve and Jony's fumes for years, and now have no ideas beyond incrementing numbers and buying back stock. It's like ol' Gil all over again.

Apple is the default choice for grandparents again, but they don't even have the schools anymore (Google conquered edu with Chromebooks).

maxwell··on Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'
My Gen A son enjoys his Meta Quest and jokes about the Vision Pro.
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maxwell··on New seafloor map only 25% done, with 6 years to go
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_sea_mining
maxwell··on Ask HN: Are there any real world blockchain / crypto use cases already?
And with comparable privacy.
maxwell··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
Didn't they already do that with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in 2021? Or are you referring to other regions of CCP-occupied China?
maxwell··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
That would be great! Do Apple first.
maxwell··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
Clearly long past time to fire Tim, Phil, and Craig.
maxwell··on Epic says Apple will reinstate developer account
Those are the two that seem like pure poison.
maxwell··on Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management
triple*
maxwell··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
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