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Yup. I remember Google making this exact same promise with AdWords and then slowly but surely rolling it back, quarter after quarter and year after year.

Thanks, that was poorly worded.

The original scans are also available.

It would be great if an LLM could be trained to generate interpolated images between the 10m intervals of the full disk geocolor product. The animations would be fantastic.

I've got about 2.5 years worth of that imagery if someone knows a good way to do this on a budget.

This is cool. I'd love to see a collection like this for date representations. Anyone?

I watched the 1:30 video and didn't see a single code visualization. Not one.

The closest was a "visualization" of a single, unconnected node that can be moved around — all by its lonesome self — on a canvas. For some reason.

We need to make an effort to distinguish “this is a thing for humans” vs “this is a thing for bots” in our naming IMHO. In that respect, “open wiki” is not such a great name. “Agent Wiki” or similar would be better.

Without such a qualifier, “wiki” carries a strong connotation of (usually collaborative) human involvement. That’s literally what it’s famous for.

Thats just my $0.02 on the naming. I definitely think it’s a worthwhile idea. All the best.

That’s just what was officially disclosed.

How many of those other groups have openly lobbied for war? I have no doubt there are a few others TBH. The oil industry comes to mind.

The point being, it's not just the amount of money at play. That's only part of it. But you know that.

Well it's also bad when it's done by highly trained medical experts in a modern hospital as part of gender affirming care.

It's only when performed as part of a pre-medieval ritual in unhygienic conditions by non-professionals in front of a crowd of gawking onlookers that it is totally fine.

You’re right, I don’t see it. I can’t even imagine being against people coming together for a common cause.

What a miserable world that would be.

I'm old enough to remember the 1980's when people largely adopted a strikingly similar "new religion" that advocated for a free South Africa.

The Free Tibet "religion" was also a huge thing for a while in the 90's.

There are countless other examples. All with varying degrees of success.

The point is, there's nothing new about people being passionate about human rights. It has absolutely nothing to do with... well... whatever "degrowth" is.

This is a key point. I don't know if you can still edit your submission, but I think this would be helpful to mention up front. I'm looking forward to testing this.

It’s the same logic behind the Trump tariff regime: “We love capitalism and free markets, except when we’re losing at it”.

Given that Grok is selling all of the compute capacity from its flagship data centre out to a direct competitor sorta speaks for itself.

Does it mean they are out of the race? I have no idea, but things don't look great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037986

Same problem here.

I sure wish 1Password + Fastmail would let you generate them within the 1Password app without requiring a browser sign-up page in the middle.

That's a weird way of saying there hasn't been an election in 20 years.

Many countries use census data to target (or even round up and murder) specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc.

You were asked to back up this claim but haven't cited an example of any country currently "using census data" to "round up and murder" people.

Is China currently using census data to do horrible things? Are other countries? Maybe. I have no idea. I wouldn't be all that surprised TBH. You may be correct for all I know.

But that's not the point... The point is that you made a very specific claim and you still haven't provided any specific examples or evidence.

Of course. But the specific claim you made was about many countries currently using census data to "round up and murder" some "specific groups of people by religion, ethnicity, etc."

I'm not arguing that you don't a valid point - broadly speaking. You do.

But you made a very specific claim, and that was what was being questioned. That's all.

In the original comment, you used the present tense. I think that's what was being questioned.

Thanks, yes they are all perfectly reasonable.

It's just a weird choice to make. It's like they are forgoing the back hotkey to make it seem more like a "native" app. But it clearly isn't, and I can't think of any good reason to consciously omit it. Or... since they are likely using a framework (Tauri maybe? I haven't checked) to go out of their way to disable something that is already baked-in.

<shrug>

The Fastmail desktop app is literally a wrapped version of their website but with the added feature of... get this... no back button (or equivalent shortcut).

My 30 years of muscle memory using webmail is made useless by this "app" because some web developer somewhere wants to cosplay as a desktop app developer now.

It's not an oversight either. It's an intentional choice to not have a go-back-to-previous-page keyboard shortcut. A customer support person said they would add it as a "feature request". Gee, thanks.

I used to love Fastmail, but their spam/phishing filtering (and customer service) have been really poor lately. I don't know if AI is helping or hurting them. My anecdotal experience suggests the latter.

As one example, I'm now regularly getting phishing email from "The IRS" that always comes from some random account that has been taken over. The latest one was literally from a hotmail account (and my address is dot ca so I'm clearly not subject to the US government). If they can't detect this kind of half-arsed phishing attempt, then things are pretty bleak.

Their customer service was pretty bad when I tried to discuss it. The rep didn't even acknowledge what I wrote. I won't be renewing unless they get this sorted.

Trump already accepted a gold pager from his boss (Bibi).

I wish I was joking.

The FAQ on the website says their first study was completed in 2018 and results published in 2020.

Oh wow. I remember doing this as well... with little to no success.

The debug.com binary only showed one measly ASM instruction at a time as I recall. Shudder.

This was part of it as well. At least - as I recall - with the early flat (MarioCart 1 inspired) versions I made. But in that case, the closer "terrain" pixels always became multiple on-screen pixels so my lookup table for each of the 360 degree viewpoints contained only a single byte to add to each x and y coordinate, plus a single byte for each length.

Had to keep the memory use down and multiplication was really computationally expensive.

This is what I was thinking of, thanks.

This is true.

I vaguely remember there was something about the VGA architecture of the day that made this approach much slower, but I might be misremembering. My recollection of it is fuzzy. I'm hoping someone will chime in to remind me what I might be thinking of.

It might also just have been that this approach didn't work well with my lookup table optimization (see my other post).

This sure brings back memories.

I remember figuring all this out as a self-taught teenager (pre-internet) with some books, a whole lot of time, and only a high-school level understanding of trigonometry. I built different versions - first in Pascal, then C, then Assembly.

Figuring out the algorithm was hard, but one of the optimizations I was most proud of was inventing (or so I thought) lookup tables to get around the slow floating point multiplication of my 16MHz 80286 CPU. I also remember "inventing" (ha!) the old bit shift + add technique.

There was something immensely satisfying about squeezing every last drop of performance out of a machine.

Nothing ever came of it. It was more or less a demo, but man did it make me feel like I accomplished something magical. I'd give anything to have a look at that source code today, but this post is the next best thing. So thanks for sharing. This made my day.