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I envied you young kids from my Model I with Level II Basic ROM w/ expansion bay and 4 floppy drives running LDOS. The chip upgrade to display lower case letters was a godsend.

> Since there’s only one world

The next frontier: dividing its world into Earth A and Earth B with alternative facts.

Might want to take up bird watching: an early indicator of cognitive decline is the loss of an ability to pick up on subtext.

That’s some grade A B.S. — Elon talking about elites.

We should never have allowed this private citizen to be in a position where he has a hand in the spigot of defense infrastructure, dictating the outcome of foreign policy by fiat because he’s a company owner.

He only has allegiance to himself.

Supporting Ukraine’s defense against invasion has had better ROI than most domestic defense spending. For a pittance we’ve let a major adversary weaken itself considerably. We should do more.

I would have expected the HN crowd to be more accepting of the meta-level strange loop shenanigans of Nathan Hofstadter I mean Fielder.

0.45 Scaramuccis

Most complaints about AI writing are people telling on themselves for not reading broadly.

The same administration who, just yesterday hired a new press secretary who was very obviously not hired for qualifications but instead for being a blonde.

I thought his portrayal of Herbert I. McDunnough was on point.

Sort of. Back in the day I could play TA on my Mac.

> has not formalized the original "natural language" idea of Navier-Stokes incorrectly

Did you mean “not…correctly”?

Until this moment, I hadn't even thought that economics might be a scientific field. Do they really see themselves as one? It hasn't seemed like one from the outside.

Most of Nebraska’s water comes from a rapidly depleting source that renews very slowly.

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

Still can’t tell if it’s a language, library or framework

Maybe it’s fixed now, but works on my iPhone 17

Yes, they did it to break the association with their brand (“reputation laundering”) and then they got into 3D to throw some chaff. Seems to have worked for them.

I so want to see this.

> …prosecuting foreigners commiting crime on our soil.

Unitary executive theory has diverted justice resources towards more pressing matters like seashell arrangements on beaches.

I can’t believe some still believe that humans are intelligent, despite there being no place where matrices are multiplied. All they have are these networks of interconnected cytoplasm-filled microtubules, which is no proper place for intelligence to live.

Moving the goalpost metric from rank to MAUs just to make sure you can properly glaze the fascist. Nice.

Jack was just working within the limit set by fucking Friedhelm Hillebrand.

But whose success is it? Twitter was ranked 13th largest in 2021 before he bought it. Let that sink in.

Does that mean that the ARM processors in the writeup are not satisfying IEEE 754?

My favorite Negativland work is “Prologue/Helter Stupid”. It never fails to hit me in the feels by the time that final “that is correct” lands and you hear the sirens in the distance.

“Novelty” is a stretch. There’s a lot of headless code in the world.

the long pause is the JVM starting up

I'm still not sure the real difference isn't just where people draw the line in generalizing what it means to "see" and "hear" things.

My dreams are more vivid than when I imagine an apple, but I still call it "seeing something in my head"—even when I know that it isn't exactly like "seeing"—and the sensation is different enough that I wouldn't blame someone if they chose to avoid calling it "seeing" something.

How can we be sure that we're not just labeling the experience differently?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the only model with a sense of where a ferris wheel operator would be.

What’s it like to dream while you’re sleeping? Do you ever “see” anything then?