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What about identifying different instances of the same service?

Sounds like something Macx character from the book Accelerando would do.

One of the best interactive designs of the future I keep wishing were fleshed out is Eagle Mode.

: https://eaglemode.sourceforge.net/


Hey, it's a lot like the one from Jurassic Park!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer


What if subatomic particles are actually whole universes, and their properties are a reflection of... what kind of peoples dominated, conquered their universe, and what kind of automation was left running after them themselves were gone. Some kinds of entropy harvesting automata that perpetually self build and become everything in their spacetime.

We're creating forces bigger than ourselves, and we may reach a point of no return.


I don't totally understand, but I like where you're going with this. I picture a cosmological history, the rise and fall of billions of subatomic universes and civilizations, many of them consumed by their own autonomous pseudo-intelligent technologies for better or worse, which on a macro scale are behaviors of particles. We're currently working on our particle, making collective decisions that will affect the super-universe we're a part of, in a tiny but significant way.

HDMI spec includes ethernet that can be used to connect otherwise isolated hardware

I know of no hardware that actually implemented that part of the spec, EoH is basically dead.

And also bridges the HDMI monitor into his network or does any OS automatically link that ? EoH is mostly for smart TVs

The distinction is that it's not drawing. It's generating an SVG document containing descriptors of the shapes.

It being open source also allows you to actually have a read of the software and guarantee things yourself, which is the harder better path anyway.

I expected companies actually serving an API for LLMs to peruse, but this is a less technical take, and definitely food for thought.

History of invention in the science of mathematics would show that there is nothing that's useless in the long term. It's all pieces of a puzzle.

I agree with you in principle, but in my mind there's a slight disconnect between a proof of a theorem that can freely be built upon by the mathematical community and the social media integration no one asked for that a 5 person point-of-sale startup writes months before going bankrupt.

New mathematical concepts are usually published in scholarly journals so it's possible to dig them up decades later when they're needed. But most companies never publish stuff that doesn't work, and don't even make any effort to learn from it internally. So they make the same mistakes over and over again.

Nah, most remain useless.

Inventions that were initially useless but found application later, are still in the very small minority.


One can deprioritise health but what does it bring long time? I know it sounds cliche, so I will add that sometimes sacrificing health a little bit is worth pondering.


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