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Re:Simple circuits can create complex behaviors on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:49AM (#50324739)
Oh wow. As someone with little exposure to horses I had no idea.
Re:The Legend of von Neumann [pdf] on Friday October 02, 2026 @10:54AM (#49934193)
I don't know what ww4 will be fought with... But ww3 will be fought With mat4x4<f32> And 2.4 GHz
Re:RF Cafe on Saturday August 22, 2026 @08:18PM (#49405106)
I'll spare both of us the rant but this comment won't age well.
Re:Every Fucking Website (2020) on Friday August 14, 2026 @01:32PM (#49301923)
Web Crimes Tribunals
I'd def recommend simonw's CLI and Python lib for anyone doing SQLite stuff, there's all kinds of stuff there.
Very cool. I'll def check this out more later on.
Re:Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:43AM (#48946705)
Ha! I didn't get the reference at first but hilarious...
Zen party monster... Reporting for duty!
Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:38AM (#48266696)
Awesome, thx for posting. I now have my new next book to read. Been wanting to read more of the original cybernetics stuff.

Would you also recommend "The Human Use of Human Beings"?

I'm in. What's next?
Re:Anduril's Real War Is with Itself on Thursday March 26, 2026 @08:57AM (#47529865)
This is hilarious but... and I can't believe Im actually giving critique here... but a modern day, LinkedIn version would be couched in words like "exceedingly complex", "multi-domain", "system of systems", etc.

But the whole thing is brilliant. And #GrowthMindset at the end is absolute gold.

Re:Forget Flags and Scripts: Just Rename the File on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:28AM (#47422636)
I'll confess to only have skimmed TFA but I love this idea.
I'm def adding "slippery semantic slopes" to my vocab.
You pretty much nailed it. I can't even get outraged at any given instance now that the trendline is so staggeringly clear.

I can't see anyway this ends well for the US. I say this as both an American and a military veteran.

Um. No, that's not how it works...
Re:OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:18PM (#47188088)
Oh my gosh. I was hoping that book had died a terrible death...
Best comment of the day. In three words no less...
> There is a lot of history of the first movers that created revolutionary products that eventually faded away into nothing, while others capitalized on the innovation.

I'd say most first movers fade away. Microsoft wasn't the first OS, Google wasn't the first search engine, Facebook wasn't the first social network... etc... etc... etc...

Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:00PM (#47171249)
I'll add my voice that the movie is definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it yet.
This deserves to be the top comment.
Palantir used this backdoor to get into municipal police departments. LA is the example that sticks in my mind. I remember others.
Re:Large Language Model Reasoning Failures on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:14AM (#47101572)
I think this issue is way overlooked. Current LLMs embed a long list of values that are going to be incongruent with a large percentage of the population.

I don't see any solution longer term other than more personalized models.

What are his recent missteps?

I'll confess I try to ignore industry chatter to a fair degree.

Ha, great analogy.
It's not their fault, they didn't have lean startup and blitz scaling yet. </s>
Oh wow. That's far less ridiculous a notion.
Re:SQLite Is a Self Contained System on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:20AM (#46843848)
So am I correct I'm thinking that SQLite doesn't need, for example, FS sycalls just the VFS functions?
Re:Tesla ending Models S and X production on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:48PM (#46817947)
Any chance we can get VW to do a Cyber Vanagon??

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