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Comment · 8 days ago
Nice to see they've replicated the slight lighting uneveness near the sides when you turn the backlight on!
Comment · 9 days ago
Do tell?
Comment · 20 days ago
All 7, ordered by launch date (going off the top of my head, feel free to correct):

snopes.com (1994)

gamefaqs.com (1995)

archive.org (1996)

wikipedia.org (2001)

tvtropes.org (2004)

openstreetmap.org (2004)

github.com (2008)

I really think they encapsulate the best of what I like about the internet. I've been formulating this list for quite some time. Limiting to just 7 keeps things interesting! For example, it's a pity steampowered.com had to be left out but I see it less as a "website" proper. I wonder (ha) how my list differs from everyone else's.

Comment · 20 days ago
Opened the link just because I've always been mystified by how detailed that region is, and it ended up being a fascinating read. One more reason why OSM is one of my personal 7 Wonders of the Internet.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not wrong to bring it up, but the other comment did not "bring it up". It purported to correct someone by categorically stating "it is not intelligence, you are wrong and I am right", while not once saying what, then, intelligence is.

One thing is clear: LLMs at least already are capable of 1) not making the same mistake that person made, and 2) clearly seeing why the other person's post was "wrong" in both reasoning and tone.

Comment · 1 month ago
The thing is, it currently doesn't matter if AGI objectively concludes that a particular thing is or isn't copyright infringement, because the human arbiter who holds the last word might still disagree.
Comment · 1 month ago
humans when a machine better than them at spotting patterns appears:
Comment · 2 months ago
One thing I've always wanted to ask the aphantasia crowd: think of the Mona Lisa (or the Eiffel Tower). What happens?
Comment · 4 months ago
I absolutely applaud you. I'll try running it on a PowerBook G3. About the emoji support: is it something that could work system-wide?
Comment · 5 months ago
The article was interesting to read not necessarily as a generative spark but as a datapoint, a symptom of how effective, in the long run, the response from those who saw the internet as a threat was.

Only someone who's lost the plot (or arrived late) would summarily conflate Barlow's 1996 Declaration with "one of those sovereign citizen TikToks where someone in traffic court is claiming diplomatic immunity under maritime law". The article itself has fallen victim to the weaponized co-optation whose framework it describes.

The author says "I remember thinking it was genius when I first read it. I was young enough [...]", believing it was due to being impressionable, but it's more likely that it was due to having lost something along the way. Or rather, it was stolen from them and they didn't even realize.

The Declaration was right, it was just naively optimistic and severely underestimated its opponent + incorrectly presumed digital natives would automatically be on the "right" side. Now we are where we are. And it's just the beginning of the pendulum's counterswing.

Comment · 6 months ago
As someone who's been trying to do something VERY similar (port Mac OS 9 to the Nintendo Wii U), all I can say is I'm 1) absolutely impressed, and 2) absolutely encouraged, as my project keeps telling me "this is impossible" at every opportunity.
Comment · 11 months ago
Reminds me of a funny WWII story:

Kenneth Arrow and his statisticians found that their long-range forecasts were no better than numbers pulled out of a hat. The forecasters agreed and asked their superiors to be relieved of this duty. The reply was: "The Commanding General is well aware that the forecasts are no good. However he needs them for planning purposes."

Comment · 11 months ago
> scrolls down to read more

> "subscribe" popup interrupts my reading

> ctrl-w

Comment · 1 year ago
Few things brighten my browsing day as much as a virtual ode to dithering.

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