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TBH I think classic Mario when I hear "Nintendo". The new stuff is a Wii or a Switch. Granted I was born in 1984.

Who watches the birdwatchers?

Saw Alive 2007 in Tokyo at Summer Sonic. It was epic. So glad the album lets me relive the performance.

Microsoft invented those principles when they added UAC to Windows Vista. Also, Al Gore invented the Internet.

ELI5 why he needs to please the Dutch royal family?

CIA Factbook was mundane things like population, land area, system of govt, major exports, etc. Stuff that is now on the right-hand sidebar of Wikipedia. Presumably it was made for US govt employees to have a basic understanding of other countries. It was useful to do a 7th grade research report on Uzbekistan circa 1997.

AI math: "We believe this resolves all remaining questions on this topic. No further research is needed." https://xkcd.com/2268/

The issue is not that SAML is XML per se, but rather: (1) auth happens over public internet rather than server-to-server, allowing the user to MITM the message flow and (2) the various XML parsing libs in various languages do not have consistent behavior when it comes to looking up a node by name (i.e. if there are dupes) or finding a child node. MITM can exploit these divergences for auth bypasses, etc.

A SAML lib needs an extreme amount of XML sanitization, while still handling all the various “in-the-wild” XML format funkiness

It’s what old cowboys do when they get Alzheimer’s.

Arxiv is a good blueprint for what we should build on. Terry Tao gave a recent talk about how "canonicalization" is the key bottleneck. The limitation of Arxiv is that is non-canonical, non-peer reviewed. However, there is no reason that journals should have a monopoly on peer review (it should be noted that peer reviewers aren't even directly compensated for it, granted it is supposedly "priced in" to academic salaries.)

The issue here is not AI--it's academic papermill culture and paywalled journals.

AI gives us greater freedom to "stop and smell the roses", explore hidden structures, etc in mathematics. It is a dream come true for curious minds.

Sounds like the plot for Good Will Hunting 2.

I'd talk to your Amazon rep and see if you can get them to agree to $800 million as a compromise. They are usually pretty good at that stuff.

> Inventing completely new mathematics

There will be fewer good mathematicians, but more great mathematicians!

Also, should we capitalize the "C" in "Capitalism"? One might think we should, because C is a capital letter. But capital itself is lowercase, and therein lies the paradox.

I'm looking for the tablet that says "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune..."

You're forgetting about property taxes (adverse possession / squatter's rights.)

In rare cases, yes. https://nypost.com/2009/04/16/small-tree-found-growing-insid...

No, they are tax cheats. It has been notoriously hard to arrest them and send them to jail however.

meh just put the head on the end of the tail, a lot less effort and no one will be any the wiser.

> Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour.

OK I missed this. The intro paragraph explains "what" not "why". As this "why" is not immediately obvious (nor is something I've ever considered a "problem"), would suggest to put something short in the intro.

The site doesn't explain--what's the actual point of this? If we are seriously concerned about characters (which is generally silly in a gzipped CSS) why not just use 3-char hex like #a5c?

Was recently discussing N64 games with friends in Japan. Nobody here knew Goldeneye.

This is a game released in 1999. It's silly that source code isn't released for games this old.

The elephant in the room is AI. The frontier LLMs seem to prefer Tailwind by default. And they do a good job with it--likely because coupling style definitions to your HTML document structure is the least overhead way for an LLM to write code. The alternative--reasoning about a platonic ideal CSS structure, mapping the document structure to that an inferring how the layout will look, then juggling all that while making iterative edits--is a lot more "cognitive" work!

> The robot scarecrows are used to ward off bears in rural areas

Two thoughts on this captioned image: (1) holy $&!# that is horrifying (2) if its designed to ward off bears, isn't it a scarebear?

So corrupt even the reporting of corruption is corrupt?

I think he means an owl that gets progressively angrier/sadder/more emotionally manipulative if you stop counting cards.

I tried to replicate this but Claude was already down https://status.claude.com/

The honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.