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I'm pretty sure the robustness of watermarking has been a solved problem for at least 30 years, I remember visiting the mit media lab in the mid 90s and they were explaining how they could watermark digital audio by imperceptibly adjusting the acoustics as if the walls of the room the audio has been recorded in were changing distance relative to the microphone according to a wave function

> The precise location in the sky where the signal apparently originated is uncertain due to the design of the Big Ear telescope, which featured two feed horns, each receiving a beam from slightly different directions, while following Earth's rotation. The Wow! signal was detected in one beam but not in the other[...]

This part intrigues me, or at least seems like an important piece of the puzzle, ruling out local causes of the signal that would affect both horns.

> ## Other organizations

> These are organized along a spectrum of AI friendliness, where top is least friendly, and bottom is most friendly.

This section is an extremely useful reference

I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else.

The article's argument is not only thoughtfully made and unusually well-written, in my opinion it's correct. There's nothing sexy about essentially staring at something in your hand for an hour or more every day. Smartphones provide a level of private immersion in silent, "socially-flavored" dopamine consumption that's antithetical to robust, vibrant socialization. Which is decidedly not sexy.

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"He'll see everything! ... He'll see the big board!"

+1 for Terminator, my first install for 15+ years on Linux. Solid

This would answer the question that i've not heard anyone asking:

what incentivized the bad decisions that led to this catastrophic failure?

> Sometimes they can sleep up to like 18 or 12 hours a day. That is a lot of sleeping for a cat.

Can we just put the author of these pages in charge of the whole Internet please?

Wow. The interstitial music from Dr. Katz just started playing in my head unbidden. What a fun show that was.

I forgot there were column/line restrictions on FILE_ID.DIZ files

You're right. Having hobbies IS fine. Totally agree.

(Is it either/or?)

> It has gorgeous display.

This is a huge factor for me. I have linux on my desktop but my laptops are Mac - I do a lot of graphics and video editing and the color reproduction of Mac displays is reliably faithful at both the hardware and software level. And the M1 is a champ, its performance seems like a miracle for such a quiet cool machine

This game was so perfect. One thing I miss about this era was the cacophony of various games as you walked into the arcade. All those machines blaring their sinusoidal siren songs at once. The audio design of Galaga was extraordinary and a huge part of its charm in my opinion, but to truly experience it, you really need to be standing at the machine, fully bathed in it, with a backing chorus of all the other machines chirping and crooning their tunes.