Agreeing with the general point but specifically: proposing a new planet in an era when new planets were being discovered periodically is more conservative than upending all of physics. So people were following Occam’s…
This was my memory of how Turbo was explained to me - keep it on if you want to go fast. We were all learning programming, so that's what we wanted - faster computers.
My observation is that right now AI coding agents lean towards re-implementing everything from the ground up. This of course will not scale. It will scale beyond what humans writing code would scale to, but we will ask…
That is an awesome suggestion, thank you! I found it on ebay and am looking forward to reading it.
I love these kinds of articles, of how we bootstrapped technology. I would welcome suggestions for books that describe the advance of technology from early times. Im a distractible reader so I prefer books that are a…
Haven't heard of optogenetics in a while. I could never decide if it was actually useful for either basic science or medicine or a toy. Looking at the basic science results I could not decide if they were bringing in…
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(This reminded me why I stopped reading magazines: they have low information density. They are more creative writing, journaling rather than terse and factual) My take away on the answer to the headline question is:…
Awesome. I think this is the radio browser pointer: https://www.radio-browser.info/history/973c30a5-a178-4daf-89...
I moved to Fedora from Ubuntu about a year ago for my laptop. My main motivation was not be defaulted to snap packages. I have had a great experience i.e it gets out of the way and it doesn't fall apart when I update…
Agreeing with the general point but specifically: proposing a new planet in an era when new planets were being discovered periodically is more conservative than upending all of physics. So people were following Occam’s…
This was my memory of how Turbo was explained to me - keep it on if you want to go fast. We were all learning programming, so that's what we wanted - faster computers.
My observation is that right now AI coding agents lean towards re-implementing everything from the ground up. This of course will not scale. It will scale beyond what humans writing code would scale to, but we will ask…
That is an awesome suggestion, thank you! I found it on ebay and am looking forward to reading it.
I love these kinds of articles, of how we bootstrapped technology. I would welcome suggestions for books that describe the advance of technology from early times. Im a distractible reader so I prefer books that are a…
Haven't heard of optogenetics in a while. I could never decide if it was actually useful for either basic science or medicine or a toy. Looking at the basic science results I could not decide if they were bringing in…
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(This reminded me why I stopped reading magazines: they have low information density. They are more creative writing, journaling rather than terse and factual) My take away on the answer to the headline question is:…
Awesome. I think this is the radio browser pointer: https://www.radio-browser.info/history/973c30a5-a178-4daf-89...
I moved to Fedora from Ubuntu about a year ago for my laptop. My main motivation was not be defaulted to snap packages. I have had a great experience i.e it gets out of the way and it doesn't fall apart when I update…