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I still love Mark Ferrari’s Living Worlds from 1995 which changes with the time of day & the month. Handmade and ad-free of course.

https://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

Interesting, something about the phrasing and pacing felt like AI to me, but not a model I’m familiar with - I guess that’s why. Usually I close articles once I realize they’re AI written, but this one was mild enough that I finished the whole thing.

I hope you post this again when you do - I was presented with the "0.00080" difference a couple times, and it looks like this is where it becomes actually impossible because of this issue.

It’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generation in my mind. Unfortunately, this might become something like the em-dash—where artists start tweaking their work to look less like the AI’s that are copying them.

The gyro permission request doesn't work on iOS since it's not tied to user input. If you're feeling brave, you can paste this into your phone's javascript console to add a button that requests permission.

var b=document.createElement('button'); b.textContent='Gyro'; b.style='position:fixed;z-index:999'; b.onclick=()=>{DeviceOrientationEvent.requestPermission();b.remove()}; document.body.appendChild(b);

It’s different if you have influence over the network, like a government might. I spend a lot of time in China, and they’ve done a good job of blocking VPNs in recent years, including my personal WireGuard connection to my home network. Not that any technical solution is impossible to bypass, but a motivated state government could make VPN use difficult if it wasn’t for the whole Constitution thing.

Pretty lacking in math for an article that mentions math a few times.

I looked into this a few years ago when I was trying to see if we were really in the worst housing market ever, and came to the opposite conclusion. https://arriens.us/articles/housing.html

I used this method to check some of the lights in my house a few years ago. The slow-mo video mode on my phone used a rolling shutter which captures one row of pixels at a time, meaning you could see the flicker in part of the video, even when it’s a multiple of 60 Hz or above 240 Hz. The flicker and camera frequencies also aren’t exactly synced up, so you can see the dimmed parts move across the screen.

You can get a pretty good idea of frequency, depth of flicker, and if the LED’s colors are flickering in sync from this, and I can confirm that Philips LEDs, specifically the EyeComfort series, are good.

Ironically, it's a titles/links only aggregator. My way of browsing social media antisocially.

I browse Hacker News through a custom aggregator. This post is how I found out it’s susceptible to HTML injection - a (2020) was marqueeing across my screen.

For those who are interested in learning more:

"All failure is shear failure" - this is a simple explanation of Tresca's Yield Criterion. For materials with higher compressive than tensile strength, the equivalent is the Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_failure_theory

Discussed at the time:

Loom EGA/VGA Comparison https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445522 - March 2021 (77 comments)

I mean, this just appears to be fixed nominal returns, minus a fee, multiplied by a factor from an actuarial table.

Contrast it with a calculator like this [0] that uses combines historical return and inflation data with actuarial data to show the variance of outcomes, not just average returns.

For instance, your calculator shows a scenario of investing in bitcoin and withdrawing >20% of your portfolio every year which makes zero sense once you account for variance of returns.

I like the idea of tontines, I'm glad someone is trying to bring them back, and I don't doubt that your product could help with longevity risk, but I haven't seen anything so far that actually shows that.

I'd like to see actual results from backtesting, or a prediction that takes risk into account, not just a fixed return.

[0]https://engaging-data.com/will-money-last-retire-early/

Those rates and risks are meaningless without a baseline, as Einstein and 28 other Nobel Prize Winners may agree.

If you're familiar with the early retirement community, the simplest strategy is withdrawing a fixed percentage of your initial retirement portfolio, adjusting for inflation every year. For an 100% equities portfolio, these are the odds of success over a 30 or 60 year horizon[0] when backtested against Shiller's total real return data from 1871-2018

4%/30 year: 97%

4%/60 year: 89%

3%/30 year: 100%

3%/60 year: 100%

Hence my comment about spending a little less or saving more - 4% to 3% makes a massive difference in success rates. I'm sure you've done some backtesting of your offerings, and hopefully would be able to share some withdrawal amount vs success rate comparison, even if it's not an identical time period/comparison.

[0]https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/12/14/the-ultimate-guide...

Before having children, I was quite interested in the idea of, and the math behind early retirement.

Most of the interesting math happened at the margin: you’ve got just enough money that you could retire, but you’re susceptible to risk of a market crash in the first few years of retirement or an abnormally long life expectancy combined with a middling market.

Tontines fascinated me as an interesting piece of the puzzle for those who don’t plan on leaving an inheritance, and I’ve reread this guide[0] a few times - but ultimately it’s just another way to possibly move the margin a little bit, and the real solution is to save a little bit more, then spend a little bit less.

[0]https://rpc.cfainstitute.org/sites/default/files/-/media/doc...

Sam Kriss has at least two posts that came later about AI:

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/a-users-guide-to-the-zairja-...

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-cacophony

The second one is a bit closer to touching on the same themes, but both are a little more allegorical than TFA.

Found a site with a lot more manuals, if anyone needs their memory jogged.

https://radioshackcatalogs.com/science_fair_kits.htm

I had the 130-in-1. Yesterday, I was thinking about it for probably the first time in 20+ years - what a coincidence that this link popped up today. I was a bit too young to actually learn much from it beyond the basics, but I remember having a lot of fun with #85, the "Falling Bomb Sound".