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Shades of Neo interpreting the green scrolling crawl to understand the world without seeing it...

I think you’re a bit optimistic about the quality of a triple-A game’s codebase that was rushed to a holiday release date. I have slightly more tolerance for bugginess in a game.

A Faraday for heat, eh?

Around the time Mantle/Vulkan-type APIs entered the scene, I ended up hearing a lot of "yes, these APIs much more complicated to use, but fewer people need to touch D3D/your graphics API anymore with these freely available engines." Was my impression correct?

Well, that kinda reverses the formula of a TPU next to a CPU…

Hmm… I’ll say I’m not the biggest fan of the empty chasms of space left by the docks and menu windows. As much as NS/OS got right, they really think people would want to maximize their windows.

Now I'm curious: what was in the watermark that would trigger Outlook? (I'm having some fun speculating. My guess right now is a ye olde "bu¥ vi@gr@ ch33p!!!!" spam trigger.)

> more complex that biological systems

If that was the case, I wish that would translate itself to better understanding of dementia, as someone caretaking for a parent and at risk myself…

It looks like exc.el is built on top of a reactive UI framework, which, well, would have been incomprehensible to the first users of GNU Emacs on PDP-11 UNIX…

https://github.com/emacs-taf

TFA begins before GNU Emacs proper, but, still: does age and portability make Elisp the ultimate write-one-run-everywhere language?

> One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations in US History

Huh – I always thought GSA was still full of Elon's minions.

And to think some people are paying SEO firms millions to pollute crawl material...

Also in Oregon (Portland), slow-walking the release of names associated with "identifiable" IDs:

> https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/anonymous-police-id-num...

Hey, according to the Snowden leaks, what’s a little spying among friends?

Update: all of the certificates are rejected as of Trust Asset Version 1013 (as of UTC 2026/10/23, 11:30AM).

“I am eMudhra!”

Luckily enough, they now have no reason to answer these questions and keep shtum forever…

My own bet is that a deity gave these numbers to someone in a dream, like the most idiotic retelling of Ramanujan's life story.

If my career was ever exciting enough to let me participate in a key ceremony, you'd bet I'd go all in on the Seriousness and Gravity. Hell, I'd come in a monk's habit.

I think it was sold precisely because the foundation didn't want to care for it going forward:

> “There were a lot of people that were hiking on the property, and while we welcome that, we wanted to ensure that the proper stewardship was overseeing it.”

IIRC, it was a fairly hard trail -- the hike in has ~500ft elevation gain in only ~1 mile. That does need a lot of seasonal upkeep.

macOS users – I think you'll need to disable SIP; then it's easier to search for "emsign" directly in Keychain Access.

If you went to PSU, was the geology department still in that damn basement?

I'm looking forward to installing a TOTP authenticator app, as awful as it is in principle.

Hey, modern versions of Excel have a GPU-accelerated computation engine.

As a statistician, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention bootstrapping - theoretically distinct, but another demonstration of the power of randomization techniques.

> moat widening between the model providers, their government partners, and the public.

Part of me wonders whether the NSA/other TLA has either (a) an unrestricted model from a lab with less scruples like SpaceX, or (b) an in-house model, either abliterated or with data they've bought themselves.

Having heard that neutrinos explained the scientific basis of zodiac signs on personality, I'd hope that they'd be more busy trying to set up their underground neutrino detectors /s.