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https://archive.is/nWTrk

Ha! https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649 downvoters get rekt…

I have been waiting for this moment. Whatever AI vendor establishes a strong beachhead in being competent at Excel is going to do extremely well. Microsoft, being Microsoft, will find a way to win n…

> The big companies are better and IT enables them to scale in ways that were impossible before. It makes sense. Ideally the big companies are able to merge into a kind of super-conglomerate (hea…

Is it possible to start a labor union in Gas Town?

I'm a long-time Steve Yegge fan but a major Gas Town hater (now Gas City too, I guess). It's doubling down on all the wrong metaphors. I also simply detest how Gas Town is modeled fundamenta…

I really hope this doesn't have the same security model as Chrome Extensions! I can see the appeal of this feature and I am generally speaking an AI booster. On the other hand...like...wat? This …

You're in for a treat :)

You're welcome! I imagine you already know this one as well but just in case. Learning to Learn by the late Dr Richard Hamming. See especially Chapter 2. A point Hamming makes is that when transi…

Another interesting one from 'aphyr -- I think the points around the Ironies of Automation deserve deeper focus, possibly even a separate follow-up post. I would encourage folks to look at the fo…

I'm sorry...wut?

I've been enjoying these articles by 'aphyr and I think they raise important points. Primarily though, they read to me as polemics of a curiously American nature. The pattern goes something …

The Trump/Nixon connection is deep: - https://blog.nixonfoundation.org/2020/09/unseen-corresponden... - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09&…

"Hikaru, why do you think you guys weren't able to come out with a W tonight?" "Too many passengers."

Damn. Wish you'd told me that before I finished Schindler's List and Angela's Ashes.

An appreciative comment making the original niche poster feel seen.

Wonderful article. The lessons of the Vasa should be required study for anyone who works on systems.

> This is Mark Rubio , and only Rubio.* I think you don't know your US history.

Tu caca, Derrida?

> Like if you have a product, and the government says the product is ok, and it's labeled per regulation and later that product turns out to be deleterious to people's health should the …

Thank you for saying this - foreign people who come to the US generally speaking seem much more willing to work hard than Americans who were born there.

I know a lot of people who worked at VMware through the Broadcom acquisition. Hock Tan sucks.

See Computer Power and Human Reason - many powerful lessons in there.

https://archive.is/ftuwK

If 'aphyr is reading comments here, I'm curious: have you read Joseph Weizenbaum?

"But Black Dynamite! I sell drugs to the community!"

Not sure if you'll find it useful, but this is a prompt I fire when looking at an article. I plug it into all the three main LLM providers, turn on web search (or deep research on occasion) and t…