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I didn’t say invented - I said recent breakthroughs.

I think it is weird that the recent breakthroughs in sodium batteries have come from China; I would have assumed they would want to keep everyone reliant on their rare earth minerals.

I really like the books listed in the link to American Scientist's book recommendations[0] on that page.

[0] https://www.americanscientist.org/article/100-or-so-books-th...

Engineering and math follow logic - they model reality / self-consistency and always correct themselves because of the scientific method. However, computer science is a chase of what is the most popular at the moment. Those are decisions based on the crowd, not anything close to an objective opinion, and the wrong choices are compounded every day[0][1].

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1622123.1622147

I got this when I told Gemini "post office loss retirement prepaid" because of other articles I have read that I cannot remember.

"In 2006, Congress passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA). This law forced the USPS to do something virtually no other government agency or private corporation has to do: prefund its retiree healthcare benefits 75 years into the future[0]. Essentially, they were legally required to fast-track billions of dollars into a fund to pay for the future retirement health benefits of current employees, and theoretically even future employees who hadn't been hired yet."

[0] https://apwu.org/the-usps-fairness-act/

Those are some odd hours though, why would evening time be peak hours? Usually (in the western world anyway), 9AM - 12PM would be peak hours.

The original submission was to [0] which I feel must be mentioned.

[0] https://zcode.z.ai/cn

Is the point of this privacy, offline analytics, or eliminating server costs, and does that survive the download cost of 95 megabytes?

Reminds me of this from "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid":

"Let me rephrase these last couple of sentences without using the slightly technical term "isomorphism". When a system of "meaningless" symbols has patterns in it that accurately track, or mirror, various phenomena in the world, then that tracking or mirroring imbues the symbols with some degree of meaning - indeed, such tracking or mirroring is no less and no more than what meaning is. Depending on how complex and subtle and reliable the tracking is, different degrees of meaningfulness arise." - P-3

EDIT: I initially wrote "G.E.B." instead of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" which was too cryptic.

Kind of a non sequitur: I bought "The Genius of Lisp"[0] and it is not what I thought (a book entirely devoted to the history of Lisp - from MIT to Common Lisp and then to Clojure). Would anyone recommend another book?

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Lisp-Cees-Groot/dp/1069886416/

'Slop' getting better every nanosecond is part of the singularity curve too.

What I find interesting is not only that this is a cool alternative Lisp but that it is developed by a Korean company called Naver[0].

[0] https://github.com/naver

[1] https://www.naver.com/

Are the people here not looking at the article or bots? How on Earth does anyone read this?

Yeah, endorsement matters. It can represent the whole. You have to be careful with it.

I have always wanted a version control system that was basically Emacs/Vim/Neovim's undo-tree[0] but persistent and social. Why do I have to manually talk to git? You are a computer, track every modification I make while editing and let me decide (or help me decide) on what a checkpoint is.

[0] https://i.sstatic.net/4vbd9.png