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I notice that these things are always in wide open spaces doing gross motor movements like acrobatics and running. They're never chopping vegetables, tying knots or sewing. I don't need a breakdancing robot. I need it to sort and fold the laundry.
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An interesting way to frame this would be: what method gets us the most joules per atom? Because getting joules is going to first mean reconfiguring some atoms so that they release energy in a useful way. Whether that's building solar cells or nuclear plants.
Elon is actually wrong about this and by a very large margin. The vast majority of the energy that we can use here on Earth over the next 100 years is nuclear power and it's not even close. But right now governments are still quite cucked on nuclear, regulators have basically…
he did the bird hands thing, lmao
Anyone having these conversations lately?
bread bucket full of cheese seems like something the English should be able to pull off
legitimate questions being asked on reddit
a FOSS project run by a BDFL or community with a strong telos, even if it monetizes by courting "enterprise," seems to be the most resilient to enshittification.
I’m never googling shit again. I google engagement rings and I get “groom caught cheating with maid of honor at the wedding” propaganda for weeks on every social media platform (especially fucking META) . I google women’s egg count at 29 and I get “you will literally ruin your…
I would kill 10^100 shrimp a day if the costs to human beings did not outweigh the benefits. The moral valence of a shrimp living or dying is zero. I mean really, why is this even a thing
"Okay, so imagine a magic button." "I'm imagining the button." "If you press the button—" "What color is it?" "It's the only button. It doesn't matter what color it is." "Nah, I ain't falling for that again. Last time there was a red button and a blue button—" "That's a…
Okay let's clarify some things. Link below
I want more FPS games that are unironically a nerd power fantasy. Gordon is a physicist in his 20s. All hell breaks loose. He picks up a crowbar and immediately becomes John Wick
I played the first 30 minutes of Half Life 2 for my 10yo son and he was captivated Stop remastering Skyrim for the 18th time and remake the Half Life series Or, better yet, make Half Life 3 goddammit
I'm afraid urbit does not fix this
Product idea: Notion except every keystroke doesn't feel like I'm SSH'd into a server on Mars.
“I changed the definition of this word, but I want all the associations and emotional impact of the old definition to apply to my new definition” I’m tired man
As much as I want to see a harmonized gui stack on Linux... this is the way
TUIs, Hyprland, terminal package management. Linux has its own take on what's a better way to compute. This appeal shouldn't be hidden in the back, it should be front and center. Blow people away with something DIFFERENT AND BETTER not just SAME BUT CHEAPER.
Star Trek TNG was very formative for me, and one of the most meaningful things I took from it was a tech optimism inspired by Geordi LaForge: He was born blind, but technology prevented this from being a disability, even turned it into a superpower. The calloused randomness of…
106 THOUSAND people wishing for the death of a baby?! what the fuck are we even doing here? where do these demons come from?
I can remember hearing early and often, back when Wayland started getting pushed hard by Ubuntu years ago, that X11 had become an unmaintainable big ball of mud. I took it for granted that this was true. But is it?
I’m an ancient person. I live in the eternal space of human nature. If you like my tweet and your pfp was drawn by Bill Watterson, you will be putting yourself in a friendship zone. That’s it. There’s treasure everywhere
Again I wonder: does FP code enjoy any advantages here? Pure functions, composition, immutability... Sure seems like a "large" Haskell code base would lend itself to being broken up into right-size context windows without loss of coherence.
AI coding agents hit a wall when codebases get massive. Even with 2M token context windows, a 10M line codebase needs 100M tokens. The real bottleneck isn't just ingesting code - it's getting models to actually pay attention to all that context effectively.
Why do some groups have a visceral hatred for X11? I know it's reputed to have become unmanageable. If there are people still willing to work on it, so what? Why get catty about it?