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wigster··on How Perfectly Can Reality Be Simulated?
i'm sure dark matter is a consequence by some efficiency boosting lazy instantiation routine in the sim! ;-)
wigster··on Future of Humanity Institute shuts down
and everytime they do, they ARE closer to being correct
wigster··on Tesla Cybertruck deliveries halted for 7 days
why does the truck not just use the same accelerator as the (proven) car?
wigster··on Show HN: 5 Years Ago I made the Recovery Kit, I just made the RK2
wow i just got banned by panasonic - rate limited
wigster··on Amazon increased US plastic packaging despite global phase-out
> What’s the alternative to plastic straws?

not using straws?

wigster··on Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game
i beat AN with FEN to win - i was expecting to lose due to defender +2 bonus.
wigster··on Someone has been attempting to DDoS us for weeks and we do nothing
THATS not a DDos attack! when i were a lad...
wigster··on NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++
happy days. at last
wigster··on Who's Behind All the 'Pussy in Bio' on X?
it is a pure junk site now. mr musk, i assume, is just pushing the three wheeled wobbly trolly along, just far enough to aid getting trump back to the whitehouse
wigster··on A Stabilizing Robotic Tail for Floating Astronauts
one day we'll all be space monkeys!
wigster··on Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
coincidentally bumped into this time axis GoL animation today: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2hoRnFsmQW
wigster··on Swept away: $500k sand dune built to protect US homes disappears in days
wait til they get sued by the folks two miles down the coast who's beautiful sea front gets swamped with sand
wigster··on HIV in cell culture can be completely eliminated using CRISPR-Cas gene editing [pdf]
probably great for humanity 2.0

amazing and scary stuff

wigster··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
apple cars, vr, losing out big time in china. cheerio tim time?
wigster··on London's Great Stink
a descendent of Bazalgette invented the Big Brother reality TV show. I always think they reversed the process established by their ancestor and started pumping shit back into our homes.
wigster··on Amiga Emulator: WinUAE 5.2.0
perhaps with the passing of time and the state of AI, people might mistake it for an actual girl friend emulator! ;-)
wigster··on More wood: The story of Manuel Soler and the largest xiloteca in Spain (2020)
making the images less visible as you hover is QUITE annoying.
wigster··on In loving memory of square checkbox
the horizontal switch has doomed us all. terrible design. i absolutely loathe them.

is it on or is it off?

erm, hard to tell

so let's put a little mark inside it to show its on. a little mark. a check mark. you know, like a check box.

ffs

wigster··on Japan's precision moon lander has hit its target, but appears to be upside-down
maybe they used nasa code, but forgot that they were starting from the other side of the earth
wigster··on Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England
my brother is a welder and he made a similar thing during his training (30 years ago)
wigster··on Researchers claim first functioning graphene-based chip
its made out of sellotape/scotch tape and pencils! ;-)
wigster··on Random Animations
i was thinking the same. cthugha where are you know?

we had a big glass lens we'd place on the monitor to project it onto a ceiling.

i picked the wrong decade to stop smoking dope

wigster··on AlphaGeometry: An Olympiad-level AI system for geometry
the hounds of tindalos will be sniffing around this
wigster··on Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling
genius. works for my trip to dudley castle!
wigster··on The worst kind of programmer
> sleep-oriented-programming

nice. ;-)

wigster··on Electric eel’s zap can transfer genes to nearby animals
i wonder is there more measurable evolution/diversity within the vicinity of e-eel habitats? or cancers?

NB. i too know not one jot of which i speak

wigster··on Porting Stunt Car Racer to the Apple II
i had it on my a500. mind blowing realism at the time. super fun game.
wigster··on DOS_deck: Play DOS games in the browser with full controller support
very slick - i'd forgotten the horrible heretic music
wigster··on Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said
i remember a friend of mine had falcon for the amiga 500. i don't think he EVER managed to take off without some "cheat" being activated.

a rather difficult game.

f16 however was a joy. happy days

wigster··on Major outages across ChatGPT and API
its alive!
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