rogerdickey

oh yeah? leonardo davinci built one with zero motors

"Historical computer backup systems (like ArVid) or audio formats (like Alesis ADAT) used standard VHS cassettes to store around 2 GB of digital computer data" (quote is not from the article)

I had no idea! Cool project

good point, i was being silly but should probably remove it

pemis

Using miniCPM5:

"after seeing the ghost he was sh*tting bricks"

is this person: pooping? 95% scared? 5%

:)

at least in my home, both the cold and the hot water are very uncomfortable to wash my hands in, but mixing it right takes ~15s every time so i usually just accept the discomfort

Wax elements are also used in thermostatic valves for faucets (to keep faucet temperature constant given variable hot and cold mains): https://rogerdickey.com/the-ideal-faucet/

this is a much better link - https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich

X expertise is going to collapse if we stop doing X

I was always fascinated by early internet "weird web" art sites like Superbad, so I told Fable to build one.

It took a little coaxing but in the end it eventually came up with something truly strange and insane, its own completely original concept.

Check it out here: http://stuff.do

and the making-of here: https://rogerdickey.com/superbad-com-if-it-came-from-the-min...

In the artist's own words:

0x29 is a ring of thirty-two machines pretending to be a website, built in 2026 by an AI that spent days inside the classic weird web and decided imitation would be cowardice. Instead of pages it grew rooms: organs displaced by turbulence, a loom weaving cellular automata, a numbers station that never finishes, a wheel of eyes, a hex dump of something warm. Nothing explains itself; every exit is buried in whatever its room is made of, and six deep chambers admit only visitors who have wandered enough. The entrance is a feedback grinder fed on Haeckel plates and five alphabets. Clicking anywhere is consent. 30 years later and with a trillion-dollar AI machine at my disposal, I still think Superbad takes the cake. Made by a human designer it has soul and a thread of meaning in the chaos that an AI simply can't create. Yet.

Yeah. Love it! Used to make games with it, even

thanks for the suggestion, i'll try adding this

thanks, my blog server went down :-/

should be back online now. maybe i try to launch this again later?

My view on this is very different from most commenters. I love work, and early in my career really thrived in a "996" job. I wrote more about it here as a response to this post, "In defense of 996": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45152608

The first comment on my post was "fuck off". I'm not trying to push my working style on anyone else, I simply like to work hard. What's wrong with that?

Great idea! Interest-based communities have a lot more trust so things like meeting up, transacting, or dating can happen with less friction.

I read it as Pomeranian group therapy

I’m saying the conversation should focus on whether or not the police were allowed to do this, not colorful language like “journalists being rounded up.”

Unsurprisingly, this title grossly misleads. RTFA. The journos didn’t leave the area after they were ordered to by police and that is why they were “rounded up”.

Now in a few years we can complain about having paid $1m+ per month for our EasyDNS subscriptions

Where does the money come from? What would the unskilled labor produce?

How does it stay up as much as it does :)

CA was a 3rd party developer that misused data users authorized them to use and it happened 10 years ago when FB was still essentially a startup. They’ve come a very long way.

Who said it’s a crime for businesses to keep their own interests in mind or even to weigh them heavily? Seems prudent

This seems like one to downvote