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“Judging from the comments, everybody got here by accident and everybody is glad that they did. I am glad too.”

I like that part 3 is “Ray tracing for the rest of your life”

we’ve sat through some poor AC games because we’re always hoping they get back to recapturing the magic of AC2

I only really played the first two but this tracks

key is to know what you want to say, before anything else

“If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come”

open-source one-time password app published by Red Hat

improves thinking, and increases compatibility of people who contact you

We’re already doing things like decoding whale song with AI, or figuring out molecular structures of all proteins. But why stop with datasets that induce languages with “grammars” that can be rendered legible to us? Could you make a “Large Solar Flares and Sunspots Model” (LSFASM) and learn to talk to the Sun and ask it where it might flare up next? How about a Large Oceanic Model that allows ships to talk to ocean currents? Or a Large History Model that works as a Prime Radiant for Asimovian psychohistory? Maybe a Large Climate Model constructed out of weather data can talk to us and supply strategies for climate change?

What is this simulation made out of though? What are its functional parts? How does a squishy, wet, and electrically intertwined sponge generate the 3D simulation you are inhabiting right now? The Brain as a Non-linear Optical Computer (BAANLOC) theory proposes that the brain enlists electromagnetic waves to create a powerful computational medium. In other words, evolution has co opted the EM field for its massive parallelism, holistic behavior, and self-organizing tendencies, to unleash its computational potential with non-linear wave interactions. In this article we describe supporting evidence for the Brain as a Non-linear Optical Computer theory and speculate on how it may be implemented by existing neuronal mechanics in the brain.

At first, I had “ask nothing of you” but it didn’t quite feel right. It felt too detached, like they wanted nothing from others, like they never invited you to things or asked for commitment, and this isn’t true of the people I’m thinking of. The most charismatic people I know, who seem to have this radiant, magnetic quality to their presence, are actually those who actively invite you to things with your best interests in mind but are totally okay with you declining, and they really mean it.

making the made-up bridges from Euro banknotes real

A very sad one. Software gets slower more than computers get faster

not recommended

beautiful exchange.

Top comment from HN thread had funny timing with Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply?

“Whatever you see now or whatever is happening now.”

LOTS of little details on type and design choices from WALL·E

a 3 hour podcast about skunkworks

this is awesome. And top HN comment mentions glicol which also looks very interesting.

camoflage, reduced reflectivity/shininess when wet (but only for some sizes of netting, apparently).

I enjoyed the wii music

more evidence of reduced quality in modern clothing from optimising for production cost minimization

damn these machines

TL;DR: I created a patch called EmperorLauncher, which modifies Emperor: Battle for Dune to run well on modern systems, with:
High resolution support
Working online multiplayer with direct ip connection
Coop Campaign mode

Writeup and high res would have been enough. Fixing multiplayer was amazing insanity

it can become impossible to make some structures again!

I mostly just liked the phonetic similarity of the two words