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mkmk··on The Aaronson Oracle
Such a cool concept and demonstration, but utterly exhausting to read the claudeslop.
mkmk··on Wax motor
Solubility is a function of temperature.
mkmk··on Factoring RSA 260
This is so well written as to be refreshing
mkmk··on How the Meta Settlement Could Change the Internet
https://archive.is/yaTF1
mkmk··on Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry
Beautiful and quite neat to 'walk' up into the ceiling and look down. Feels like you're either quasimodo or God, depending on how nuts you are.
mkmk··on OpenAI Acquires TBPN
Yes but also think of it as 'generates content from 11-2pm PT, with each hour giving 12+ small clips that have the chance to be shared, go viral, etc.'
mkmk··on Parseword – new game from the creator of Wordle
Ah, I see. Prune cuts down the word plant. FWIW, just playing the game is better than the tutorial.
mkmk··on Parseword – new game from the creator of Wordle
I genuinely don't understand step one of the tutorial. prune + plant > plan?
mkmk··on Deveillance Spectre I blocks smart devices and AI recorders
$1,200 deposit to pre-order. Privacy really is becoming a luxury good.
mkmk··on Hacking an old Kindle to display bus arrival times
I was glad to see the note about battery life down at the bottom. My biggest challenge with the old Kindles I have laying around is that most of them won't hold a charge!
mkmk··on Declassifying JUMPSEAT: an American pioneer in space
Declassification memo: https://www.nro.gov/Portals/135/Documents/foia/JUMPSEAT%20Re...
mkmk··on How to turn 'sfo-jfk' into a suitable photo
API limitations? Why not have the script run for a few days collecting images and then crank through all of them in an hour?
mkmk··on Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k
I’ve been close to some people who tried to make a living as a professional athlete. This is a really special way to help passionate, hard-working people live out their dreams and potential.
mkmk··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
How would you distinguish this from the case where they turned the 'magnify dissent' filter down from 200%?
mkmk··on I'll pass on your zoom call
Reminds me of the saying "Pessimists are often right. Optimists are often rich."
mkmk··on East Germany balloon escape
The photo of the balloon here really helps put the story into perspective.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190408181736/https://www.museu...

mkmk··on $5 whale listening hydrophone making workshop
Yes, https://www.projectceti.org/ is working on whale translation!
mkmk··on Size of Life
Nice that the back button works.
mkmk··on Anyone here work on Amazon Kindle iOS app?
The app reopens to where I am reading when I open it, unless I've manually quit the app. If I quit the app, the it still frequently opens to where I was last time, although there may be some reset period after which it opens the 'your library' page. In that case, an icon representing the book I'm currently reading is visible in the bottom left, and I can open it with one tap.
mkmk··on X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls
Wonderful and reminiscent of the Vesuvius Prize [0], of course. Broadly, makes me wonder if there are other categories of 'lost' information that will emerge in the years ahead as imaging tools and AI analysis improve.

[0] https://scrollprize.org/

mkmk··on Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death
Why not?
mkmk··on 'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction
This barely works for me because it seems like stuff always gets cached either at the browser or the OS level.
mkmk··on Thnickels
The best giveaway is that the sentences are short and punchy. If it were made by the character it claims to be made by, it would actually devolve into a long ramble, and nobody would make it to the bottom of the page.
mkmk··on Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names
This is exactly the stuff that prevents innovation and drives entrepreneurs out of those economies. Physical address?!
mkmk··on Satellites Spotting Depth
This type of tinkering with data and imagery is so satisfying. Wish I had more opportunities to chase stuff like this in my life!
mkmk··on Art the Whale
The last section about the whale’s name is absolutely delightful.
mkmk··on Google to buy Wiz for $32B
Cloud configuration can create compliance issues that are distinct from codebase compliance issues
mkmk··on macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)
Chrome dev tools > the three little dots at the top right of the window > capture full size screenshot.

I always look for it in the three little dots that are next to the 'x' in the dev tools drawer, but it's actually behind the dots in the top nav that show screen dimensions, throttling, device orientation, etc.

mkmk··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
It makes more sense if you think about it as something that they need to do in order to make sure that their marketplace attracts a wide range of publishing companies, some of which have very different perspectives on digital piracy, than as a way for them to retain a small percentage of revenue that DRM could theoretically protect.
mkmk··on The White House
I guess being a second-term President gives you a real leg up in terms of patriotic b-roll video footage
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