his Coca-Cola can appears reddish, though it consists of black and white random dots.

it's interesting how the 50s, 60s, 70s were all were very crisply-defined landmark decades, in terms of style and culture

but none of the generations since then really had anything comparable to this

(90s grunge or 2010s smartphone era are not comparable imho)

Why does the Internet hold the opinion that 'Civil War' is a long intro and outro around a Jesse Plemons scene?

I thought it had a lot more going for it than just that

Does anyone know of a good website that simply has URLs to debunk each of the 20 most common arguments against AI risk?

I'm tired of explaining for the 100th time why 'just unplugging' a smarter-than-human AI isn't a sufficient safety plan

factorio 2 is coming out soon. if you work in frontier model research at open ai, anthropic, or deepmind and would like a free copy, I would be very happy to buy you one! please feel free to reach out. people don't do enough for you guys

I'm kind of disappointed this story fizzled out

It seemed like there existed potential for far more aggregate comic relief than we actually got

we randomly ran across some bunny ears in the Barski household

happy extremely belated Easter

my day today:

'what, the store is on this road going steep uphill? grrr'

'ok I'm at the gym, now how can I possibly burn the most calories in 1 hour'

I recently visited such a time capsule Barnes and Noble as well

The only difference I noticed from the old days: All the information in the computer magazines was already outdated by several months, and hence there was no point in browsing them like there used to be

nice.

Alternate universe where Bill Gate's Law was true, instead of Moore's Law

(It turned out nobody ever actually did need more than 640K of memory, all computation can be done within that limit)

Philosopher Daniel Dennett has died. dailynous.com/2024/04/19/dan…

Happy Halving Day everybody! #bitcoin

Finished REDE, a Regex IDE which visualizes the structure and evaluation of Regex/NFAs for my submission to Handmade Network visibility jam

little-known fact that historically, most cave paintings used s-expression syntax

inside of you there are two wolves:

seek immediate medical attention.

That feeling when a contractor/maintenance/technician van arrives at your house for an appointment, but then they first sit in their van for 5 minutes (some sort of unspoken universal rule among contractors)

And you stand inside your house, waiting for the situation to resolve