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Simplicitas··on The Society of Mind (1986) [pdf]
How long before "ChatGPT" is just "Chat", as in "I just asked Chat and it said ..."?
Simplicitas··on Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
Why is no one calling this "zero-knowledge" service or zero- knowledge encryption?

Did the term fall out of fashion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_service

Simplicitas··on Grabby Aliens: A Resolution to the Fermi Paradox
This Grabby Aliens hypothesis assumes civilizations remain constantly driven by raw, innate impulses.
Simplicitas··on Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics
Yup. "Match [human] intuition" is the operative phrase in all of this. Thanks. Hope Go addresses this soon.
Simplicitas··on ‘Blade Runner’ at 40
Arguably one of the best reproduction of an artist's

https://bleedingcool.com/movies/philip-k-dick-blade-runner/

Simplicitas··on Speeding up this site by 50x (2014)
It's time for everyone to put the date at the top of every document.
Simplicitas··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
Stunning how many well-informed people here are still so distrustful of nuclear energy despite all the advancements.
Simplicitas··on Write documentation first, then build
Good luck convincing management of that.
Simplicitas··on Top navy admiral wants rust-free ships
How about reducing the Navy budget because current spending is beyond wasteful for equipment that's hardly used since wars are becoming so rare. For the minimum set of future ships, sure, lets look for technology that'll save tax-payers money.
Simplicitas··on Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
https://twitter.com/2obvious2/status/1516848142775463940?s=2...
Simplicitas··on As creation stories go, the big bang is a good one
Exactly.

It's conditional.

Simplicitas··on Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet
lol .. it's always the same story with these .. lol
Simplicitas··on Weightless cats – Do space cats land on their feet? (2011) [video]
In a priori, isn't this kinda obvious ... LMAO
Simplicitas··on The Society of Mind (2011)
Thanks for sharing this
Simplicitas··on iCloud+ custom email domains should be better
Couldn't agree more.
Simplicitas··on Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers (2019)
The https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/downfall_the_case_against_b... documentary is a good take on this
Simplicitas··on Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy
Ok .. let's pack it in, and kiss our tails goodbye then .. lol
Simplicitas··on How UTF-8 Works
I still wanna know in WHICH Jersey diner it was invented in! :-)
Simplicitas··on Why isn't there a replication crisis in math?
Steven Pinker takes a decent crack at "Statistical Significance" in his new book Rationality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationality_(book)), which underpins a lot of this and is mentioned in this piece. And I'm still grappling with this part of the book. lol
Simplicitas··on The Casio employee behind the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae
Yup. I'll never forget Darryl Hall saying that music is a continuum, which is why most of the times he allows his Hall & Oates sounds to be sampled by Rap artists ..
Simplicitas··on Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online
I wonder if this statement from the Royal Society is more about this situation in Britain, rather than the rest of the rest of the world.

Rationality is probably the only remaining weapon humanity has to survive, and it sure is threaten, especially in light of the modern social medial business model.

Simplicitas··on Brian Kernighan on the Origins of Unix
I'm sorry they don't talk more the New Jersey area where all this was taking place. Obviously, Jersey is a technological inspirational landscape.
Simplicitas··on I quit caffeine
Everyone has their own love/hate relationship with caffeine. To each their own.
Simplicitas··on Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
As with every other human institution, the issue is "trust", or "civilization" as Bruce Scheneier has pointed out.
Simplicitas··on Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust
Rust and Electron haters can do all the hating within this one post here.
Simplicitas··on OpenDrop: An open Apple AirDrop implementation written in Python
BTW, is there one to share between iOS and Android?
Simplicitas··on Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility [pdf]
You may be right, but it does play into accepting some of Taleb's arguments when one lacks his intellectual caliber. I certainly feel that "intellectual honesty" plays a little bit into how harmoniously a great thinker "sells" his or her frameworks. This is one reason why I hardly question the good-will behind a reasoning Chomsky or Pinker or Dawkins, or any other great thinker who consistently shows a more reflexive humanity. Tabeb may be a genius, but his a-holeness indeed makes it hard for me to comprehend him better. Admittedly, the same was probably said of Newton and many others :-(
Simplicitas··on E.O. Wilson has died
Can't recommend this book enough
Simplicitas··on Step Away from Stack Overflow
So what are some of the more efficient ways of doing it, if it's not too much to ask? :-)
Simplicitas··on DNS doesn't “propagate”
"SQL" originally stood for Structured Query Language
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