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zeckalpha··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
This sphere goes further back: There's direct connections to Extropianism and onto many more: Transhumanism, Julian Assange, Alcor, Timothy Leary, John Perry Barlow (EFF, Grateful Dead), another VP: Dick Cheney, Nicholas Negroponte, Marvin Minsky, Jeffrey Epstein...

Really depends on how broad of a brush you use. This article makes lots of connections but could connect with all of the above with only a few more.

zeckalpha··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Whistleblowers get ignored regularly.
zeckalpha··on 'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes
Or the other way: The reason the scam was caught was because people were looking for flaws. Society gives a lot of grace to male scammers.
zeckalpha··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Google is targeting a different segment of the frontier.
zeckalpha··on IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
I have thought IPFS (or something like it) could provide a solution to ongoing scraping woes.
zeckalpha··on 'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them
Yet, the government requires these, e.g. in the case of PERM applicants. https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/employer-recruitment...
zeckalpha··on Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
The frontier is a curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_front
zeckalpha··on The shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia
My understanding is that they're not sure if the vaccine will last in your system for more than 30 years, and that subsequent doses may be less effective, so getting it early may weaken you later.

But I am with you. My personal bet is we'll know more about this by the time that becomes an issue.

The earliest cohorts of vaccinated children are approaching their 30s, so we should learn about long term efficacy this decade.

zeckalpha··on I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions
Any of it. TFA references https://loganmarchione.com/2025/09/homelab-10-mini-rack-v2/ which uses standard 10" shelves.
zeckalpha··on I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions
Pedal polarity is inverse of typical barrel plug polarity though.
zeckalpha··on Leanstral 1.5
Curry-Howard correspondence.
zeckalpha··on Language Models Need Sleep
Yet this is how "thinking" models got started.
zeckalpha··on A few interesting modern pixel fonts
Depends on the DPI of your monitor and your glasses prescription.
zeckalpha··on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
Not at all. The Rerum Novarum timing is too intentional.
zeckalpha··on The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
Note that at least Negroponte (mentioned in the article once) also had Epstein ties. https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/05/133159/mit-media...
zeckalpha··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Just like the sun streams lots of power to us!
zeckalpha··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Sure, but mud puppies and Olm also exhibit neoteny.
zeckalpha··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
How much fertilizer does the Iowan farmer need to add to their field to achieve that? How many years can they maintain that yield without eroding the soil?
zeckalpha··on Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge
Not an axolotl, but mud puppies live as far north as Canada and have external gills: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_mudpuppy

Olm in the Balkans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olm picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:P_anguinus-head1.jpg

zeckalpha··on New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production
No one electron goes the 1600 mile distance. An increase of cheap energy supply in one place lowers likelihood of production elsewhere, but it is more diffuse than selling Iowan energy in California.
zeckalpha··on Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Note that the subsequent 12th edition (1922) may be in public domain in your jurisdiction.
zeckalpha··on Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th
I find similar happening with Gemini Pro. Despite paying for Pro, it regularly locks me out, without visibility into consumption. Nothing on the plan comparison page indicates limits. https://one.google.com/about/plans

Edit: I may have conflated these two threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47739260

zeckalpha··on Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again
Yet the article is not using a bitmap font
zeckalpha··on PicoZ80 – Drop-In Z80 Replacement
Not all that different from the MCS-96 HSIO.
zeckalpha··on A dot a day keeps the clutter away
I use a variant of access tracking by treating things like stacks.

My bins are stacked like in the article's photos. When I am done with a bin, it goes on the top. Least recently accessed bin is on the bottom. I need to get better about cache eviction though.

This also works with clothing on a rack. Put clean clothes on the left. Choose what to wear from the right. Eventually, the things you don't like wearing will all be on the right. This also happens to sort clothes by season.

zeckalpha··on A dot a day keeps the clutter away
I think of atime as the electronic version. And to address the cost, you can mount with noatime.
zeckalpha··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
It depends on which direction you are referring to the ownership flowing.
zeckalpha··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
GP was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468179
zeckalpha··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
tract != multifamily
zeckalpha··on I Built a Spy Satellite Simulator in a Browser. Here's What I Learned
thanks for drawing attention to this.

only concern is the scanlines. where does the idea that the IC uses CRTs come from?

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