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www.spacex.com 6d ago

Starship's Thirteenth Flight Test

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www.bbc.com 1mo ago

Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs

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x.com 2mo ago

Starship's Twelfth Flight Test Livestream

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museumplantinmoretus.be 2mo ago

The two oldest printing presses

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www.youtube.com 3mo ago

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage [video]

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www.reuters.com 5mo ago

SpaceX prioritizes lunar 'self-growing city' over Mars project

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www.nytimes.com 6mo ago

Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip

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www.youtube.com 7mo ago

Olaf: Bringing an Animated Character to Life in the Physical World [video]

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en.m.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Sutton SignWriting is a writing system for sign languages

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nodejs.org 1y ago

In Memory of Mikeal Rogers: A Builder of Communities

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www.heritagedaily.com 1y ago

Traces of London's first Roman basilica found beneath office basement

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www.cnn.com 1y ago

Island residents are still dealing with the fallout of exploded Starship

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publicdomainreview.org 1y ago

Alfred G. Mayer's on the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies(1897)

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theconversation.com 1y ago

Why medieval manuscripts are full of doodles of snail fights

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www.bbc.com 1y ago

PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle

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www.esa.int 1y ago

Juice rerouted to Venus in first lunar-Earth flyby

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

The Chinese women turning to ChatGPT for AI boyfriends

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d-a-v-e.org 2y ago

The Great Automatic Grammatizator (By Roald Dahl), 1954 [pdf]

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www.forbes.com 2y ago

70 Years Ago, Roald Dahl Predicted the Rise of ChatGPT

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www.europarl.europa.eu 2y ago

EU Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

DragonFire: A British laser directed-energy weapon technology demonstrator

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

New paintings found at Pompeii

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www.washingtonpost.com 2y ago

Elon Musk challenges Brazilian judge over order to block X accounts

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www.cnn.com 2y ago

Southwest Boeing 737-800 flight from Denver loses engine cover

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

Auto-Brewery Syndrome

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romgrk.com 2y ago

Optimizing JavaScript for Fun and for Profit

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www.spacex.com 2y ago

Upcoming launch: Starship's third flight test

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

Pliosaur discovery: sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

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www.waterwayroutes.co.uk 2y ago

The Balmuir drop lock allows boats to pass without opening the bridge

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www.baronycastle.com 3y ago

The great Polish map of Scotland

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Manufacturers may not have the money to do the research themselves, but are highly incentivized to incorporate the improvements if somebody else figures it out for them.

Which incentive is this exactly then if the cost is bore by society? "Polluter pays" creates both that exact incentive and the required funds for public research.

I told some of my coworkers that they should keep in mind that if their job becomes "passing messages between an AI Assistant and their co-workers", sooner or later someone will realize they can just cut the middle man and build an agent that does their job. Use AI assistants all you like but don't forget to add value.

This is what government is for. Tax everybody to provide benefits to everybody. This is infrastructure spending, just like roads.

This is not roads, this is waste management. I pay proportional to the amount of waste my household produces to have it disposed correctly, the more waste I produce, the more I pay. That is what government is for, steering behavior through taxation, instead of letting the most morally depraved enrich themselves on the rest of society.

Dont't be evil, etc... we've seen it all before. Eventually ads will be hidden in the answers, it's just a matter of time, enshittification ensues eventually.

God, how stupid do they think we are?

was quite impressed after building my label maker application [1] and stylex playground [2]. Had some real world needs and both were built in bolt with 99% of edits made through prompts. My tips would mostly center around:

- don't try to fix mistakes, revert and try with an updated prompt. the context seems to get polluted otherwise.

- don't treat it as a black box, inspect the generated code and prompt to write specific abstractions. don't just tell it what to build, but also how. this is where experienced programmers will get way more mileage.

[1] https://courageous-toffee-e5dd6f.netlify.app/

[2] https://venerable-melomakarona-255f96.netlify.app/

Calendar.txt 1 year ago

my dad keeps his calendar in an excel file with almost the exact same format except he omits dates with no entries. Every week he prints a new version of this on a single A4 which he folds and keeps in his wallet. new events are hand written at the bottom and get included in the excel weekly. he's been doing this for as long as I can remember.

But these are communications platforms.

They are mostly advertisement platforms coupled to recommendation engines. The "communication platform" is just side business at this point. And it's being used to wave around as "free speech" when anyone dares to question the detrimental effect of the big mass mind control machine it actually is.

CSS Is Logical 2 years ago

It's not illogical, but it's not adapted to half the applications it's being used on. That's what's illogical about it. "Document flow", "writing mode", the language used in this post indicates what CSS is meant for, formatting documents on screens. Yet half of us try to beat it into submission building highly interactive applications.

I was pretty early in my carreer at the time, working as an engineer, integrating PCS7 in food processing plants across western Europe. Our client had a few stuxnet infections at some point. they immediately put a no usb device policy into place.

I'll add a fifth c-word in there: "coder".

When someone views me as a "coder" they’ve already diminished my work and reduced my pay. They’ve locked me into a specific output and function.

edit: My personal preference is "programmer". Calling a programmer "coder" is like calling a writer "typer" to me

Yep, typechecking performance will be drastically improved. Using the trace generator [0], I discovered tsc spent more than three seconds [1] to locate and parse all source files googleapis pulls in during type checking. Replacing it with the individual packages almost completely eliminated that overhead.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Performance#per... [1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/2109932/176479729-...