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Condé Nast turned Wired and Ars from being magazines for tech workers interested in long-form articles, into magazines for VC bros who want to read about Porsches and Burning Man. They became catalogues for Silicon Valley Money to keep in a rack next to the toilet.

"Planting the Seeds for the Belter Rebellion, Today."

I thought this would be about the First Programming Language that nobody remembered, the ur-heimat incubator of some obscure syntax that became everything from FORTRAN to Ruby

"Technology Connections Did It" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tg--L9TKL0I

This is precisely my hypothesis. We imagine that our human consciousness differs from animals when in fact it it exactly the same, but with a more-expressive language system on top.

Have you ever been under anesthesia like propofol?

I feel like most of what we call "consciousness" is converting short term memory into selected long-term memory, facilitated by language. Because then you're under, you can even be "interactive" but you're not conscious of it because your short term memory has been disabled.

As to "human intelligence", honestly, I think that human languages that let us convert our "consciousness" into a shared hallucination is the key evolutionary advantage. Human intelligence comprises a hive mind in a sense, that our experience of the world is hugely affected by the shared social experience where language transfers memory from person to person.

My first "my own purchase" PC was a 486sx. So as a _line_, "the 486" wasn't guaranteed to have an FPU.

Quelle Suprise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Reception

Business bank on ignorance and only nationwide exposure by constant taxpayer-funded monitoring can fix it. See also Boeing.

Aren't these also in FLOPS? The rpi isn't exactly a floating-point monster. Hell, until the Pentium, Intel CPU's weren't guaranteed to even have an FPU.

As to ARM in general, here's a post about how ARM-1 compared to the 387: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/24826/did...

"Oh, this from the posing somdomite" - Wilde's contemporaries.

The EPA and the FDA ensure that you can't have a state decide that "workers in the sausage" is acceptable, then sell cannibal sausage to states with laws that protect workers and consumers, or to protect you from a state deciding that all of that benzene flowing into the river is YOUR state's problem.

If you can't see this because you believe "why would someone do evil?" Then you are hopelessly naive or intentionally pushing a bad take.

Over the past ten years, lenses have gotten unbelievably better. Apsherical elements have done some of the lifting, and glass formulas another, but how much have computational tools changed how lenses are designed?

All of these use cases are a huge argument for "home hub" standards and aggregation and (user controlled) filtering.

None of which would happen because then "the product" would stop letting the exploitation happen.

LLM's have really made me realize that "using language" is a shallow skill, but detecting bullshit is a deep skill.

And anyone who read Velikovsky and thought they had made a good argument, is someone who needs to hone the deeper skillset.

Debate isn't genius. There are famous politicians who were RENOWN in law school for their debate skills, who are clearly idiots. Holding up debate skills as an intellectual achievement is like praising someone for their ability to hold in a fart.

As someone who grew up sad that we didn't have giant swing-wing American-Steel-bodied Boeing SST's, I have been hurt before and I don't believe for a minute that there's an airline that would buy any of these for passenger service. This is going to be one of those "ultra-elite Musk-Class threat" planes used by like less than a hundred people worldwide.

The purpose of Capitalism is to extract as much profit as possible. If we attended to "worker safety" (and extend it from "putting railings around the meat grinders" to "setting office hours that don't slowly give seated workers metabolic disorders"), Capital extraction would halt! Think of the shareholders!

These are folders on the boot drive, which is always mounted on /boot?

Embrace.

Extend.

Extinguish.

...standard MS behavior.

Unix has gotten better while everything else got worse.

We no longer have dinosaurs like LISP-M or TOPS-10 for the Unix-haters to get rose-colored nostalgia for.

And Windows NT proved how terrible the alternative could be. The NT api and Powershell is basically the "Monkey's-Paw" version of what the authors wanted. Be careful what you wish for.

I still have the barf-bag.

Also jwz is still a salty old man.

Part of the perversion is that web standards demand "more than one implementation" (see WebSQL) so if we did the same thing and just "put TeX in the layout pipeline" that would get punted faster than SQLite was.

Text layouts being undefined is the last great tragedy of HTML, and we should fix it.

That's an entirely different monster.

Plus: doesn't magnesium oxidize more readily than other metals? I would worry that grandpa's magnesium ladder is a death trap.

I'm sure Peter Thiel has no power motive!

"Why would employees stand up for Sam if he were the guilty party?"

800,000 reasons is a lot of reasons. I've never cracked 200,000 reasons, and that might be enough.

This entire thing has seemed to be the board saying "don't be the guy who went behind our back to summon the Devil" and everyone saying "but the Devil promised us Unlimited Moneys!" And HN agreeing that Unlimited Moneys are what startups are for, and everything else is excusable.

I think what we're going to discover is that AGI isn't One Thing, it's many Intelligences, and "human level" composite AGI is actually pretty dumb. So we'll make a smarter one, and that'll be the singularity done and over with.

Ignoring "Don't be Ted Faro" to pursue a profit motive is indeed a form of incompetence.

"We cant imagine why US that has multiple time-zones already in a single country"

Because "The USA" spans from GMT+10 to GMT-10. Your Solar Noon only varies by an hour between Kolkata and Mumbai. Without time zones, the continental U.S. would see a solar noon difference of three and a half hours. And that's not including Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam, which gives us a 20 hour span. You want all those places to be in the same time zone?

Self-driving cars by Christmas! General AI by new Years!