All these sites have been shadow-banned by the usual search engines. I'd love to see one so I know what to watch for.

...laura

What technology did you have in mind?

We have far better control systems and radios and things, but making rockets that don't blow themselves to kingdom come if you look at them the wrong way is as hard in 2024 as it was in 1977. Or for that matter, 1969.

...laura

I was part of one of the first studies on aphantasia maybe a decade ago in the UK.

If I am not looking at something, it basically doesnâ(TM)t exist. I canâ(TM)t describe to you what my kids or wife look like, or my parents. Visual information is recalled as fact patterns.

I dream in audio only, and for want of a better word, a âoesense of placeâ.

Many theories on the advantage of this, but it may make you immune to PTSD. Iâ(TM)ve been in some situations in my life that might have traumatized others, but there are no pictures, and those memories are just abstract facts.

When I am looking at something on a screen, though, I can hyper focus quite easily. Once I learn something, I almost never forget it.

Crazy, how our brains work.

I'll remember that the next time I'm tired and emotional.

My four year old can do math with X.

Math isn't hard. Start there.

I was all set ot load VMWare on my new laptop so I could more conveniently dual-boot Windows and Linux. Those plans have now changed. It's a good product but it's just not worth that much to me, especially with cheaper solutions available. I used Virtual PC back in the day and it worked well. My work laptop booted XP (company politics plus driver compatibility), but to do anything real I booted Slackware under Virtual PC.

At work we use VMWare extensively. I haven't discussed the licensing changes with my boss.

...laura

It has been an open secret in the cryptography community that Hal Finney was the designer of BitCoin from the very start. Hal died in 2014. Or at least he was frozen in liquid nitrogen so not talking either way.

Besides being the first person to be involved in BTC who didn't hide behind a pseudonym, Hal published a paper that describes essentially the whole BitCoin scheme two years before BTC was launched. And Hal never once accused Satoshi of stealing his work.

The reason Hal had to hide behind Satoshi is simple: The Harber Stornetta patent didn't expire until about 9 months after BTC launched. That covers the notion of the hash chain. There is absolutely no way anyone working in the field did not know about that patent or its imminent expiry. Hal certainly did because I discussed it with him before BTC was launched.

So the big question is why BTC was launched when it was, why not wait 9 months to have free and clear title? Well, Hal got his terminal ALS diagnosis a few weeks prior: He was a man in a hurry.

Having launched prematurely, Hal had to wait six years after the original expiry of the patent term to avoid a lawsuit over the rights to BTC from Surety. He died before that happened.

Oh and I have absolutely no doubt Hal mined the genesis blocks straight into the bit bucket. The key fingerprint is probably the hash of some English language phrase.

The real inventor of BitCoin wrote a paper describing the architecture two years earlier under his own name, Hal Finney. He got a terminal diagnosis of ALS a few months before he launched the BitCoin service, the pseudonym being necessary at the time because of the Haber-Stornetta patent on the BlockChain.

No, Hal, did not keep the coins. He invented BitCoin because he was a crank with weird ideas about inflation, not to get rich. Mining the coins and keeping them would have been a betrayal of his principles.

The proof of this is given by the fact that Hal did not in fact get rich from BTC despite being the ''second' person to join the project. Nor did Hal ever complain that Satoshi took the credit for what was very clearly his work. If Hal had been just another person coming along, there would have been every reason to keep the cash.

And we do in fact know Hal ran mining servers from the start and that he ended up in serious financial trouble due to his ALS. The freezing his head thing came from donations.

Craig Wright does seem to be the last of the three early advocates alive but that doesn't make him Satoshi. Wright has never shown the slightest sign of being the sort of person who builds such a thing and in any case, Hal's name is on the much earlier paper.

SNPedia and Promethease are what 23andme intended.

Take your raw data and run it there, then get relevant data from the entire database of medical knowledge.

The problem is the medical establishment prohibits them from giving you this information, as they want to gatekeep it.

This gave me very valuable information for estate planning and and edge on actuarial models for buying annuities.

Take advantage while you can.

Pilots used to navigate with ground-based beacons (VOR, NDB), inertial references, and, sometimes, by simply looking out the window. Everybody is so in love with GPS (it is handy) that they've de-emphasized backup technologies.

...laura, private pilot who flies mostly by looking out the window

This is completely wrong. H100 is by far the most relevant, fastest card for AGI.

Source: Guy who works with tens of thousands of H100s (me).

but I am skeptical there is BROAD appeal for watching other people play video games. There's clearly an audience for it, but I just don't get it.

For most games, yeah. However, I actually enjoy watching long-form "no commentary" playthroughs of games that have strong stories. With the modern graphics we're seeing now, it becomes very cinematic.

But I definitely don't want to listen to some dipshit ranting while waving a controller.

Sorry you missed out.

I've never used Ogg much (if at all), though I'm certainly aware of it.

I'm currently doing some mobile application development. Android will have a go at playing just about anything as a ringtone or notification sound, but since the system sounds are all in Ogg (maybe this is a Samsung thing?), I've included our custom alert sounds as Ogg in the app.

...laura