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Ahhh mIRC, jolt cola and an EDU connection at 3AM...

Zuck is a literal psychopath

What if the original page is untrustworthy and adds JS?

Is there actually video of the talk?

They'll put up thousands more starlinks and track every mobile device on the planet simultaneously, might as well have a homing beacon in your pocket.

We thought this was so punk back in the day.

Orbits do not work that way

I'd be curious to hear more about how you do the 2 -> 3 embedding there. In S2 it uses cartesian three space, but points are constrained to be unit magnitude. This has advantage and disadvantages obviously.

I'd like to hear more about the synthetic part of these three spaces, because S2 works exactly as you say, embedding the 2-sphere in three (cartesian) dimensions. S2 points are always three dimensional.

Mars which is literally covered in poisonous perchlorate soil

emacs!

The Box is very frustrating, especially when there's no one handling the other things, yet you're still not allowed to do them because it'd make the wrong people look bad.

Managers can be lazy just like anyone.

At big tech you have to quantify your value like this regularly, so yeah everyone keeps track of the minutiae.