sue it isn't some guy in an Armored Personnel Carrier?
described in the delightful "Tent Life in Siberia" by the abovementioned George Kennan. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12328
Anyone remember the Proteon token ring? Seemed much simpler/cheaper than IBM, but they had to switch to IEEE 802.5.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-h...
everything can be deterministic until you lose the token.
the token bus combines the one-user-at-a time of a bus with the potential-token-loss of a ring. IEEE 802.4 token bus standard was withdrawn polled buses with a master are pretty common when you don't mind the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
mmmm! Brain-aaS!
another Sam in play here who can see anything you tell your AI and will use that against you.
yeah, sooner later everybody is "the enemy".
Chinuk Wawa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon> a trade pidgin with a simple vocabulary of several hundred words. in common use in the Pacific Northwest a century and a half ago, and still appears in many…
I might have gone to the same college, in the 80s. I was a TA helping students punch FORTRAN on cards - already pretty obsolescent. One thing about the CDC - it had perhaps the worst command interface I've run into.…
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v1... "Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins", an alternatate take by David Reich, who has done a lot of work…
what's the Salmon thinking? https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign... > At the fish counter, he spoke the words that will echo down the centuries as a testimony to the dedication and drive of…
i "altavista'd it.
see also theworld.com
https://upjoke.com/vermont-jokes
> "could" yeah, i've written [supercomputer] code like that
oh, man! i want to see Philomena Cunk interview some of these guys!
see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-968X.12... include a SUMMARIUM in Latin and ΣΥΝΟΨΙΣ in Greek, for that real Scholar effect.
This talks about the "desktop" experience. My desktop is a laptop. I don't have a desk or a large external monitor. Tiling window managers don't work for me. I try to keep windows stacked in different virtual desktops,…
it means they're Going Mobile. And they Won't Get Fooled Again.
Be careful! I hear the old Microsoft Word save files used memory dumps, which became an undocumented nightmare of a file format. You need total control over memory layout of the saved runtime state. No hidden fields. No…
"the fish stinks from the head down"
I'm afraid trust and OpenAI are inconsistent. After all, they're on a mission from Roko's Basilisk!
sue it isn't some guy in an Armored Personnel Carrier?
described in the delightful "Tent Life in Siberia" by the abovementioned George Kennan. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12328
Anyone remember the Proteon token ring? Seemed much simpler/cheaper than IBM, but they had to switch to IEEE 802.5.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/triplet-of-ghostly-galaxies-h...
everything can be deterministic until you lose the token.
the token bus combines the one-user-at-a time of a bus with the potential-token-loss of a ring. IEEE 802.4 token bus standard was withdrawn polled buses with a master are pretty common when you don't mind the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
mmmm! Brain-aaS!
another Sam in play here who can see anything you tell your AI and will use that against you.
yeah, sooner later everybody is "the enemy".
Chinuk Wawa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon> a trade pidgin with a simple vocabulary of several hundred words. in common use in the Pacific Northwest a century and a half ago, and still appears in many…
I might have gone to the same college, in the 80s. I was a TA helping students punch FORTRAN on cards - already pretty obsolescent. One thing about the CDC - it had perhaps the worst command interface I've run into.…
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v1... "Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins", an alternatate take by David Reich, who has done a lot of work…
what's the Salmon thinking? https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/scicurious-brain/ign... > At the fish counter, he spoke the words that will echo down the centuries as a testimony to the dedication and drive of…
i "altavista'd it.
see also theworld.com
https://upjoke.com/vermont-jokes
> "could" yeah, i've written [supercomputer] code like that
oh, man! i want to see Philomena Cunk interview some of these guys!
see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-968X.12... include a SUMMARIUM in Latin and ΣΥΝΟΨΙΣ in Greek, for that real Scholar effect.
This talks about the "desktop" experience. My desktop is a laptop. I don't have a desk or a large external monitor. Tiling window managers don't work for me. I try to keep windows stacked in different virtual desktops,…
it means they're Going Mobile. And they Won't Get Fooled Again.
Be careful! I hear the old Microsoft Word save files used memory dumps, which became an undocumented nightmare of a file format. You need total control over memory layout of the saved runtime state. No hidden fields. No…
"the fish stinks from the head down"
I'm afraid trust and OpenAI are inconsistent. After all, they're on a mission from Roko's Basilisk!