* This is similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's "harmless" vs. "mostly harmless" debate -- thousands of person-years of work has been expended to move the needle to "almost nothing".
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
* This is similar to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's "harmless" vs. "mostly harmless" debate -- thousands of person-years of work has been expended to move the needle to "almost nothing".
Maybe "almost nothing"?* archive.org for one has amassed over 20 million books and texts over 20 years. Though it's only ~5% of the volumes at the British Library or Library of Congress, it's slightly more than nothing archive.org/details/texts
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Maybe "almost nothing"?* archive.org for one has amassed over 20 million books and texts over 20 years. Though it's only ~5% of the volumes at the British Library or Library of Congress, it's slightly more than nothing archive.org/details/texts
Um, 1kW "around the clock" is 24 hours * 1 kW = 24 kWh. Which is about 40% more than 17 kWh, and 66% more than the 14.4 kWh the graphic says are delivered. Right?
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Um, 1kW "around the clock" is 24 hours * 1 kW = 24 kWh. Which is about 40% more than 17 kWh, and 66% more than the 14.4 kWh the graphic says are delivered. Right?
Though announced in September, my guess is that they've spent ~6 months transmitting petabytes to the new EU copy of the Internet Archive, reducing capture frequency to free up bandwidth: mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkah...
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Internet Archive Europe progress: new network router is now installed in central switching point. Onward!
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mastodon.archive.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Though announced in September, my guess is that they've spent ~6 months transmitting petabytes to the new EU copy of the Internet Archive, reducing capture frequency to free up bandwidth: mastodon.archive.org/@brewsterkah...
Like Cochrane reviews for journalism, the nytimes public editor was a must-read for me, always at the intersection of current events and institutional inertia, exhaustively researched and fact checked. The fact that they were a PITA is a 100% necessary feature to force journalistic introspection.
October 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Like Cochrane reviews for journalism, the nytimes public editor was a must-read for me, always at the intersection of current events and institutional inertia, exhaustively researched and fact checked. The fact that they were a PITA is a 100% necessary feature to force journalistic introspection.
I'm feeling like there needs to be a version of this, but for the reclaimed semiotic frogs.
October 12, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'm feeling like there needs to be a version of this, but for the reclaimed semiotic frogs.
Presumably, 2 hrs was chosen because of the amount of surveillance video to be reviewed. Perhaps the video could be pre-processed to reduce the manual review needed? No AI needed.
October 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Presumably, 2 hrs was chosen because of the amount of surveillance video to be reviewed. Perhaps the video could be pre-processed to reduce the manual review needed? No AI needed.