The_Blade

i learned how to write BASIC on a Tandy Color Computer 3 but that is not what I am most proud about. I was officially (statistically) the worst salesperson at Radio Shack in northern Ohio one summer in college. I looked like a dynamo of productivity, but in actuality I was mostly spending time talking to a Ham radio operator about diodes or a musician customer about King Crimson and Can. Take your name and address. Pffft, I would often make something up so nobody noticed. I sold a computer to a woman for her daughter going to college and felt dirty but there was no other way she was getting a computer. I hope she went on to become an astronaut, or principled House member

i just learned there are about 100 Tandy Leather stores out there if you want to pay tribute

oh that doesn't count, it is part of the Plymouth Syndicate

but doing a little legwork it looks like Flock has done that in Evanston and Cambridge. rollin' in hot with the Fall River Five

> They've even been caught putting them back up or re-enabling them in places where the contract has been canceled.

Where? I live in Denver, are there clandestine Flock folks running around in fake electrician outfits like a cheap imitation of the Town? we could use a little Situationist urban guerilla theater here, complete with the vacant commercial space repurposed for data centers

nonsense. here's your pillowcase, but you have to supply your own knobs

Scientismic is a cool word, RIP Habermas and you may say to yourself

Tasty wombat secretions... with club sauce

carved by gummi artisans that work exclusively in the medium of gummi

> 86-88: Oh it was Solozzo (Binance) all along, not Starlink.

who is Barzini and who is Tattaglia, just so i can call the latter a pimp

It's hard to discuss "the map is not the terriory" without a reference point to the person who coined the term, Alfred Korzybski. I don't know General Semantics enough to guess whether he and Alex Karp would be besties today or not.

On the subject I also really like a story by Borges titled "On Exactitude in Science." In it depicts an empire so precise its cartography is 1:1 with the empire itself; hilarity ensues. Now, who hasn't felt that way about [insert whatever SDLC] from time to time?

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

> C'mon... First, there's no infrastructure in the US to process the gas and purify to semi manufacturing levels

Not true. As an example, Air Liquide tanks take semiconductor grade pure helium from Ladder Creek in Colorado to international semi labs:

https://electronics.airliquide.com/who-we-are/our-markets/se...

https://tumbleweedmidstream.com/

(I noticed now because Colorado has a weird Natural Gas bill on the docket)

well that explains a lot about Gemini

$20 can buy many peanuts

Sheeeeeeeeeeit

string theory Ouroburos

no i'm sciencing i want my victory tokens and your victory tokens and your victory peptides too 15.10.26 hn ref uncareer doubleplusungood rectify

this seems a bit odd to me (change the link to 1 day)

https://polymarket.com/event/nobel-peace-prize-winner-2026-1...

Yulia Navalnaya (widow of Alexei Navalny) had a ton of play, and Navi Pillay didn't even have a market?

edit: and what dang just added about the US - ICC sanctions

perhaps someone else can speak to the technology in play here; all i know is that i want to make some onion, butter, and water soup now with a crust of bread i traded my sunglasses for

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

> If you build the world’s fastest train, start it up with no driver and don’t finish the tracks, when it crashes, it’s just your fault. Not the train’s.

i call the big one Bitey

what percentage of people who have contributed on this thread do you think have read the Constitution AI? my guess is 8%. i went through the thought experiment of reading it alongside The Spirit of Law

RIP

as a non-pure engineer: I, Cringely helped me so much

> The Browns did bottom out to get Baker Mayfield; how’d that go?

Browns fan in. Baker had them legit good the COVID year - beat the Steelers in the playoffs, then lost to the Chiefs in large part to a hugely controversial call. Then Baker hurt his non-throwing shoulder trying to tackle someone on and interception that happened because the sprinter masquerading as a wide receiver (Anthony Schwartz) stopped his route. Then Jimmy Haslam, already famous for being a criminal and drafting Johnny Eightball when told to do so by a houseless person in downtown Cleveland told him to, made one of the worst trades in NFL history. Andrew Berry has had really good drafts the last two years which underscores your point.

Funny that Aaron Rodgers thought he would go #1 to his hometown 49ers who instead took Alex Smith. And that SF is killing it this year with Mr. Irrelevant Brock Purdy (further demonstrating your point).

I was also in Boston when Tom Brady happened; earlier that year I nearly physically ran into Drew Bledsoe. Just to keep things nerdy on HN, later that year I brought down the uni's network but it was not Harvard. Maybe I shouldn't have paid attention to sports so much

that is why this post is looney tunes

because he is a charlatan who doesn't like being called out for being unoriginal

> I have read Cline's work. He is not the original source of the ideas on bronze to iron transition. This is a very well studied topic in archeological metallurgy.

have you? i don't understand what you are bringing to the table. any real scientist discusses the shoulders they stood upon

my favorite details? this is like someone claiming to discover The Calculus in 1732 and conveniently forgetting to mention Newton or Leibniz

in theory, a delicate ecosystem built around Bronze collapsed. to make weak sauce Iron work you had to be a) very desperate and b) very clever. which scales for those who figure it out

the post in question doesn't even mention Ugarit. or Arsenic. i am genuinely pissed off at the original tome being passed off as genuine discourse:

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

just pure charlatanry

Eric Cline, specifically 1177 BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_H._Cline

that the article or the top post here doesn't cite him is unforgivable

> which presumably could be controlled by the state.

yes, kiln-roasted Linear B in Mycenaean palaces... built on a giant fault line (literally as well as figuratively)

Civ VII 2.0 should bring back Sid's palaces in monolith data centers like The Machine / Samaritan (note: i am only halfway through season 4)

Eric Cline

1177 BC

what about the Irony Age