"for the first time he [Whitfield Diffie] publicly acknowledged his presence at the birth of PowerPoint. It was an odd piece of news: as if Lenin had invented the stapler."
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"for the first time he [Whitfield Diffie] publicly acknowledged his presence at the birth of PowerPoint. It was an odd piece of news: as if Lenin had invented the stapler."
the stable attractor of youtube comments, apparently
while i am not the target audience, it's hard to read these paragraphs and not think this is an elaborate prank
massachusetts is about visiting a random island on a sunny day and finding a placard that says "welcome to Gerry Island! as in the Gerry from gerrymandering"
curious what's guiding the team, is there a big vision or just sifting through user feedback?
no one wants to talk about the inclusiveness of the SAS community willcrichton.net/so-lang-dive...
thankfully matplotlib and jupyter did not put scientists out of a job
people often don't appreciate how dramatically the intensity of knowledge work, especially in STEM, has changed in the last 60 years even prior to the advent of AI. tough to imagine that a scientist would spend most of their time literally plotting data
making a hideout for the blizzard
take heart, friends — there's one shining spot in the games industry
this is @egg.computer thought, but i'm reminded of my favorite wiki epilogue
clicked a broken link to khan academy's website. greeted by four popups and a hidden modal before realizing it's a 404 page. love modern web design
personally just gonna make my kids good at predicting the next token, seems like the rest will come naturally
in 2026, we should be addressing anti-male discrimination like the fact that men can't be tetrachromats. what's up with that? where do i sign up to CRISPR my eyeballs and get some new cones
this is why niche tools rock. it's so hard to find good content on notion and obsidian in the same way it's impossible to google about advanced python and javascript. but these pages have extremely high SNR: eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Sc...
also re: this skeet, kinda an obvious point, but it's so much more valuable to find tutorials from people showing you their deep & well-grooved workflows rather than watching people trying to make you a "notion expert" in 15 minutes
really good video even if you don't care about D&D, cool to see how people use hypertext for stuff like creative writing and worldbuilding, and a great intro to Obsidian
we should be valorizing these people rather than demonizing them. robinhoods of the modern day. give em a TV show
i try hard to be the right level of radicalized on this shit but it's so hard, man. at best, our rich are greedy pricks haggling on insurance for jewelry that could buy a house. then we get to jeff epstein, elon musk, ...
tough to read this stuff and come to any conclusion other than "every billionaire is a policy failure"
every time a former classmate / labmate raises $100MM to build a whatever AI startup i get this 🤏 much closer to selling out
i am an adult with an attention span greater than 3 seconds... you don't need to do this....
it's so embarrassing to search for certain things on youtube because of the now-omnipresent hyperoptimized mr beast thumbnail
thematic guess but i feel like rob pike doesn't have the Heart of the Poster like ted does
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don't think he would derisively refer to the PARC User Interface :-)
guess the computer luminary who wrote this
ok sorry it's pretty sick that i can paste this into opus4.6 and get back an accurate OCR + latin translation w/ historically accurate context on the passages
just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍
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