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Over all time, there'll be 4.7 trillion galaxies visible to us.
98.6% of them have already slipped past the cosmic horizon.
The light of 60,000 stars is lost to us every second, forever, due to the expansion of the universe.
via @startswithabang.bsky.social
98.6% of them have already slipped past the cosmic horizon.
The light of 60,000 stars is lost to us every second, forever, due to the expansion of the universe.
via @startswithabang.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Over all time, there'll be 4.7 trillion galaxies visible to us.
98.6% of them have already slipped past the cosmic horizon.
The light of 60,000 stars is lost to us every second, forever, due to the expansion of the universe.
via @startswithabang.bsky.social
98.6% of them have already slipped past the cosmic horizon.
The light of 60,000 stars is lost to us every second, forever, due to the expansion of the universe.
via @startswithabang.bsky.social
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"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"You say you are an anarchist yet you keep building state machines, interesting"
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The single most important scaling law is that “All exponential curves eventually turn into S curves (and a lot turn into bell curves).”
I call this Smil’s Law, after Vaclav Smil’s magnificent book GROWTH. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
I call this Smil’s Law, after Vaclav Smil’s magnificent book GROWTH. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
GPT-5, a new release from OpenAI, is the latest product to suggest that progress on large language models has stalled.
www.newyorker.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The single most important scaling law is that “All exponential curves eventually turn into S curves (and a lot turn into bell curves).”
I call this Smil’s Law, after Vaclav Smil’s magnificent book GROWTH. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
I call this Smil’s Law, after Vaclav Smil’s magnificent book GROWTH. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
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I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image
August 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I genuinely think before anyone joins social media for the first time they should be required to read a thread from 4chan demonstrating how quickly a bunch of strangers can track down your physical location by comparing the tile in the background of your selfies to a 6-year old google earth image
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Been in upstate NY for maybe 14 hours and weirdly aware of how city-adjusted I am, it's like I'm at a different frame rate from the landscape
August 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Been in upstate NY for maybe 14 hours and weirdly aware of how city-adjusted I am, it's like I'm at a different frame rate from the landscape
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Turning sine waves to color:
color = cos(hue + vec3(0,1,2)) * 0.5 + 0.5
color = cos(hue + vec3(0,1,2)) * 0.5 + 0.5
August 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Turning sine waves to color:
color = cos(hue + vec3(0,1,2)) * 0.5 + 0.5
color = cos(hue + vec3(0,1,2)) * 0.5 + 0.5
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MAKE THE COMPUTER GOOD AGAIN - GET SHIRT OF THIS AT DASHARE.ZONE - dashare.zone ADMIN
July 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
MAKE THE COMPUTER GOOD AGAIN - GET SHIRT OF THIS AT DASHARE.ZONE - dashare.zone ADMIN
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a real "damn the staggering multiscalar horrors got hands" kind of day
July 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
a real "damn the staggering multiscalar horrors got hands" kind of day
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If you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.
True happiness comes from finally getting that `:%s/foo/bar/gc` regex just right on the first try under vim/vi, not from someone else.
True happiness comes from finally getting that `:%s/foo/bar/gc` regex just right on the first try under vim/vi, not from someone else.
July 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you're not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.
True happiness comes from finally getting that `:%s/foo/bar/gc` regex just right on the first try under vim/vi, not from someone else.
True happiness comes from finally getting that `:%s/foo/bar/gc` regex just right on the first try under vim/vi, not from someone else.
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We need to have Birthright but for rural American kids to visit New York & LA. Like… see for yourself, kid. These are *your* great cities, too. You might actually have *a great time* there
June 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We need to have Birthright but for rural American kids to visit New York & LA. Like… see for yourself, kid. These are *your* great cities, too. You might actually have *a great time* there
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#ZebrafishZunday: Simultaneous tracking of 100 zebrafish larvae using open-source software. Credit to FastTrack (www.fasttrack.sh). 🧪
June 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#ZebrafishZunday: Simultaneous tracking of 100 zebrafish larvae using open-source software. Credit to FastTrack (www.fasttrack.sh). 🧪
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Read this month's Lightspeed Magazine selection, 'The Twenty-One Second God' by Peter Watts, right here on io9.
A Cosmic Tech Mystery Results in Literal Lost Souls in This Sci-Fi Short Story
Read this month's Lightspeed Magazine selection, 'The Twenty-One Second God' by Peter Watts, right here on io9.
gizmodo.com
June 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Read this month's Lightspeed Magazine selection, 'The Twenty-One Second God' by Peter Watts, right here on io9.
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City Man Touches Grass, Vows To Never Do It Again
June 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
City Man Touches Grass, Vows To Never Do It Again
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Tech people have laptop stickers of laughing pizza slices and upside down smileys and inside is like the most gnarled async code holding up a distributed system for 10 million users
June 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Tech people have laptop stickers of laughing pizza slices and upside down smileys and inside is like the most gnarled async code holding up a distributed system for 10 million users
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Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead
May 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead
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The Incident Pit is basically: murphy's law is a gravity well.
One tiny thing going wrong, causes another thing to go wrong, etc, and the time to fix your shit before death rapidly goes down to zero
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...
One tiny thing going wrong, causes another thing to go wrong, etc, and the time to fix your shit before death rapidly goes down to zero
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...
July 25, 2024 at 10:53 PM
The Incident Pit is basically: murphy's law is a gravity well.
One tiny thing going wrong, causes another thing to go wrong, etc, and the time to fix your shit before death rapidly goes down to zero
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...
One tiny thing going wrong, causes another thing to go wrong, etc, and the time to fix your shit before death rapidly goes down to zero
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inciden...
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QOTD: "Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” – Nicholas Negroponte
May 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
QOTD: "Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.” – Nicholas Negroponte
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Also, speaking of nerds and television, I made a quilted winter cover for the window-unit air conditioner in my TV-less living room.
November 28, 2024 at 12:49 AM
Also, speaking of nerds and television, I made a quilted winter cover for the window-unit air conditioner in my TV-less living room.
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the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...
For Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.
aftermath.site
November 27, 2024 at 5:15 PM
the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...