detourdog

I have been collecting Autonetics artifacts off ebay for decades. What I find interesting about this time period is that Autonetics made 3 different efforts for digital inertial guidance. The first version used vacuum tubes and was never commpleted. The second version used the new discrete components developed by Sprague Electric. This version went into production. Autonetics then set about exploring the lithographic process to shrink the discrete component version into an IC based system. Autonetics essentially built the same computer using 3 different circuit construction methods. Here are some pictures of pieces of all 3 systems. The IC's are from about 1967.

One of the 2 nerds in the photo is Richard Stallman next to the Autonetics D-17B. An early inertial guidance system distributed to universities to study as real time computers after decommissioning.

There are also the hard disks(which the D-17B used as a clock) and gyroscopes that served as inputs.

https://www.icloud.com/sharedalbum/#B1iG4TcsmGWIVSf

The governance of the company is also prone to scamming.

The thing with General Magic is they were Mac team members without a lot of imagination. They thought the next GUI environment had to encompass the real world as the connected world. The problem statement is solid. Unfortunately they looked at the MAC’s desktop metaphor and decided the next logical step was to add legs to the metaphor and bridge the gap to the real world.

I have a Sony Magic Linknthat doesn’t boot.

I my younger self had a terrible sleep schedule. I suffered pre-occupied thoughts of either what did or was about to happen.

I have a very consistent sleep schedule now and it is a real pleasure. I my sleep schedule has 2 or 3 3-4 hour stretches of solid sleep. I make my own schedule now so sleep is usually available when I'm ready.

I heard that the story of the Exodus and Moses was to unite the northern and southern kingdoms of Judea behind a single figure.

My comment was not a gateway drug reference is was intended to point out that a drug users have a heart attack is often using cocaine

Compression in image, video, sound, and text. These items to compressed are all created by humans and we will say represented by files. The difference between an instant of reality and the files is vast. Reality also doesn’t stand still and each instant needs to be captured and interpreted before AI happens.

AI can be just like compression but currently the compute power is no match for details.

Finally these reality details need consideration in any successful implementation. Which means the implementator needs to be aware of the details and successfully relate them to everything else in the model.

I think anyone surprised by these things is not fully engaged with what they are doing.

Nothing more biological than looking for rewards.

I believe it’s an “artificial” reward mechanism for some people. The ability to control one’s own rewards is an easy habit to take up. If the rewards aren’t coming from externalities one needs to get them from somewhere.

Not to mention cocaine.

Those books were captivating and I was really surprised when I showed up at College and met the source.

This has always been the trade off. One of my first design jobs was working for Simco. They made boxes with fans and ionizer and you could design what ever you want as longs as it’s bent sheet metal. I’m trying to develop a small run manufacturing facility. Last step is a 9 month composite construction certification course in September. I think composites will provide freedom in the final form and flexible tooling.

The author David Macaulay taught illustration at my college. His original series started with buildings like “Castle”. The way things work was a breakout hit.

Not impressed with the quote from Zuckerberg. I see it as a very shallow analysis. I think the stated goal of Agentic development is too amorphous to know what might work. I assume they thought there were too many voices in the development so they had layoffs only to find that wasn't the issue. Why would layoffs make work happen faster.

They can sell subscriptions to people who buy them and allow self contained as possible. For securities sake requiring off-site storage of a security system is a non-starter.

The idea of not naming G-d is based on the concept of being human comprehension and not within realm of human language. G-d can name things in our world but it’s a one way street. For humans it’s presumptions to assign a name to G-d. it implies an understanding that can’t exist.

I’m not sure you thought this through. Why would G-d want to or care to make one have thoughts.

Reading this somewhere in the Atlantic on a sailboat by myself. Nodding yes. A few days from now I will be at home after an almost 2 year journey of learning what sailboat ownership. I still can’t tell if I like the sailboat life. I’m going decide in the fall of 27 If I really want a sailboat. I had to try it or give up the dream. Maybe I’ll go back to my dream of running a small run manufacturer if facility.

Apple is hardly a random big company. Apple's customers specifically chose to purchase the product. Most of their customers don't realize the significance of the exposure to copy and paste between Apps. Apple has taken the position that monitoring this exposure is part of their duty to the customer. Anyone that is aware of this shortcoming in Apple's product is free to purchase a different device.

My favorite part was due to it being a digital line there was no modem negotiation.

Verizon in NYC was trying to make ISDN happen in the home in the mid 90's. I had it. The hard part was getting an ISP that supported SLIP.

CuSeeMe certainly was being used before 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe

The governance issues seem much worse than the other issues with pricing and inclusion.

The Gripen is also a very practical design and much simpler to support. Canada can host the data locally as opposed to in the USA. The F-35 is very sophisticated and but maybe to a fault. I'm reminded of how technically superior Germany's vehicles were in WW2. The simplicity and field serviceability the USA vehicles had made a difference in combat.

Thank you I will look for it.

The book "The Machine Stops" was posted here a a while back it's a 100 years old and just as prescient as "Brave New World" and "1984". https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster/short-fiction/...

I will look up We.

I’m gen-x and used wild in of my my HN comments and it seemed to trigger some responders. I was using as a synonym for unexpected. Next time maybe I’ll use whacky instead.

The movie “The treasure of the Sierra Madras” does a good job of putting gold in it’s place.

I well stocked research library had phone books from all over.

The mailroom of my apartment building in college in 1988 was full of phone books that were unclaimed. I took enough to make a platform for my futon.