trevithick

Still bad for the scientists. They get little money and zero recognition.

Thank you. I heard about The Guns of August when I was looking for related books after reading A World Undone. Then I forgot about it. I never heard of March of Folly but I'll read them both.

How does that book fit in the timeline? It was published in 1984.

Thanks. I like the spirit of this.

I will not assume any liability for damage caused from running this code. Especially if you are running it as root. In fact, we both know that this will cause damage to the system, and that's why you want to try it. You have been warned.

I need to know more about this.

Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, it's from Aliexpress, so who knows if it's even really a Topton.

Interesting, thanks for posting. I never heard of this either and read EDM as

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

Which kind of makes sense.

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it.

What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibly very old machines tied to very obsolete hardware that can't be virtualized (e.g. manufacturing controls).

They're referencing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZhPuDYqbU

Sometimes the message is different. I think it depends on the recipient server. Trying to scp to a dropbear ssh server on a router gives

   sh: /opt/libexec/sftp-server: not found
   scp: Connection closed

The -O resolution works.

Yes. I've always planned to stay dead forever after I die. AI is not changing that.

True, my question assumed AI "progress" and adoption follow the hype trajectory. Reality could be closer to the scenario you laid out. The bubble pops, some AI tools maybe improve things in some areas, societal disintegration gets kicked down the road a few years.

I have not heard or read anything about AI that could be construed as positive for an ordinary person. Step one is "lose your job with no possibility of finding another one, but still have to buy stuff to survive." That will also be the last step for a huge number of people. Is there a bull case for some hypothetical regular person with a desk job? I haven't seen one.

I had the same question. I briefly joined the Slackware IRC a long, long time ago when I had questions, but now I wouldn't even know what to do with this client.

People on HN are younger than you think.

Six pack rings were the first thing I thought of when I saw the picture. The article says they made the parachutes out of paper and cardboard too, but if history is any guide they'll end up making them from plastic. "What if it rains!?"

I hope the paper and cardboard construction they mention is feasible for commercial use. Otherwise I'm picturing a future where drone deliveries are commonplace and these plastic parachutes litter our streets and waterways.

Very minor nit: "It's clear that we this structure,..."

Cool article, it's a clear explanation of something I never knew about.

Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

Why blur what's almost guaranteed to be RFC1918 private network info? My IP is 192.168.1.56, come and get me hackers.

Why do you not want those features? What is your use case?

Why is parent's advice ironic? I, like probably most people, would have more time for relationships I value now if I had followed their advice. Your first sentence reads as if their advice was "earn money at the expense of relationships and well-being" and that isn't the case at all.

> The Infinitely Large Napkin is a light but mostly self-contained introduction to a large amount of higher math.

> light

1,044 pages.

It won't be a problem for them. They'll find a way to make it not enough - disable functionality that people want or need and then charge a subscription fee to enable it. And more ads. Easy peasy.

> Douglas, procrastinator that he was, was already a year past his deadline for delivering the manuscript for So Long And Thanks For All The Fish to his publisher … and he hadn’t yet written a word.

Jesus, I feel anxious just reading that.

Since you brought up the topic--in the snow picture, is the red vehicle on the right an older 4Runner with some kind of pickup truck cap on it? Something that turns it into a Chevy Avalanche configuration.

Shout out to FEMA's FIRM/FIRMette maps:

https://msc.fema.gov/portal/home

Your experience is common enough that The Simpsons addressed it.[1] It's interesting to see the positions being taken in this thread. There are supportive comments like yours, and legitimate opposition to OP's advice.

Someone on either side of the argument who follows this advice may find it's not what they expected, for better or worse.

[1] https://i.redd.it/f2yrbleee7v81.jpg

> Im genuinely curuous, how does this work in regular law? Does anyone ever check all the citations, etc?

Yes. At higher levels (state supreme courts and above), there are staff checking every single citation. It's often checked in a paper copy of the original source, which in rare cases could be a book from e.g. the 1700s.