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... and what would he think of us, 2000 years later thought has led us to amazing advances in technology that would be inconceivable to him. But the sort of things the people of his day thought about, virtue, happiness, how to live the righ
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Over 2000 years ago a chap called Philodemus sits in the library of a luxurious villa owned by a rich guy who likes collecting art and writing. He writes his thoughts on pleasure, and the relationship between the quantity of something and t
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I cant find the source right now but when Shyamalan wrote the Sixth Sense, it was a complete script on about the fifth draft before he even _thought_ of the twist. And I think thats why its such a great movie. Its like a twist that gives yo
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I don't think many people really use parental controls on Android or iOS. Its a feature thats there to make consumers feel safer, but anyone that tries to actually use it is going to quickly give up. Small example: On iOS 'Screen
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Will go down well with people looking to make TDD even more performative and uneconomic
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Yakity Yak Yak Yak! https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/500532946070783132/
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Yes! I always write it like that on shopping lists now https://twitter.com/jamiesmart/status/1691482826472828928
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The first iPhone was pretty terrible Before Steve stood on that stage in 2007 and demoed the first iPhone, most people had never even seen 'swipe to scroll'. The first iPhone absolutely kicked the arse of everything else. So wha
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We could replace those with a singular, more personal screen — that will sit on our face Its not going to happen. Strapping something to your face is fun for a little while but its not going to become the primary means of doing _anything_
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Sabine Hossenfelder is a German Physicist. This is not about your election. Look at her twitter feed - no mention of american politics https://twitter.com/skdh
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I have a fossil hybrid with e-ink screen. So good, only have to charge it once every two weeks
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This illustration of two knights playing chess from a book written 741 years ago really made me stop and think how old Chess is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess#/media/File:KnightsTempl... (To be clear, i
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Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is probably the best sci-fi I've read in the last 10 years. Its won the Arthur C Clarke award and recently the series (the other two books in the series are also great) won a Hugo
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This is why the Turing Test gets talked about a lot (although I gather Turing's original 'imitation game' suggestion had slightly different emphasis). If you can reliably reproduce a situation where a human can't tell wh
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30 years time Mistral-human alliance resistance fighter is cornered by Meta tank Meta tank: Well taking all things into account I think we can conclude that I have you cornered. Usually in these situations the next course of action is f
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Ambiguous landing The tiny LEV2 spherical rover looks cool, hope it made it https://global.jaxa.jp/activity/pr/jaxas/no088/03.html
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controversial for hn
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I remember when Soundcloud first launched and it was specifically aimed at musicians to encourage collaboration, so its nice that it still occupies that niche pretty well. “We both came from backgrounds connected to music,” co-founder Alex
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Like model cars, model airplanes, and model trains, mathematical models aren’t the real thing—they’re simplified representations that get the salient parts right. Once a year the New Yorker rings up Dan Rockmore and asks him to try and ex
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Do they have humans test cars? I guess they assume that the human will be spending more than a handful of hours with the car and will be able to read the quick start guide etc. I don't think they optimise for renters. He didn't
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3.7GB seems like a lot, but modern appliances are highly efficient, a lot of those bits just circulate between the laundry and the router to cool down between wash cycles ... people just don't understand how much data they use when han
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Here's a system audit manual from Jan 2000, part of the inquiry evidence. Lets figure out how this thing worked. https://www.postofficehorizoninquiry.org.uk/evidence/pol0002...
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Thanks. While we're talking about this here's a few other things I've found: Computerphile video from 2 years ago about the bugs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10 Fujitsu casestudy PR document from
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Hey you're right, from two years ago, good catch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10
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It was a bunch of different bugs We're trying to figure out the architecture over on this other thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38954516 But basically it was based on a sortof replicated XML database that
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Thats interesting thanks. re: Riposte: I found some old pages about it on the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20000706232447/http://www.escher... "Any fear of complete local failure is
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From the published details I've been trying to work out the architecture. The 'server' piece seems to be based around an XML message store (hey it was the 90s dont forget, XML was the big new thing) called Riposte build by Es
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Why isn't more software just... made good? Because you can make almost as much money making it badly as you can making it properly. Especially in 1998. And especially with huge government contracts. In fact with huge government contr
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Actual VB6 code sample from Horizon, taken from a code review document from 1998 that became part of the recent inquiry: Public Function ReverseSign(d) If d < 0 Then d = Abs(d) Else d = d - (d * 2)
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A lot of tutorials/books that say they are about "music theory" are really just about "music notation". Actual music theory (why is the major scale arranged the way it is? Why do chords often have neat frequency rat

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