Why “sort” is being discussed
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What you're describing is how the watch market bifurcated after quartz watches came out. Mechanical watches were previously utilitarian devices, made to be as thin as possible a…
by ndiddy · Oct 31, 2026
From the MIT-AI Lab's file "AI:HUMOR;PDP-* LIST", the inimitable Marc Crispin weighs in on DEC's PDP's: https://github.com/PDP-10/its-vault/blob/ma…
by DonHopkins · Oct 31, 2026
Does this support local sandboxing/isolation of the app/environment you are working on? If not I'd imagine one could figure out how to make that sort of thing work wit…
by indigodaddy · Oct 31, 2026
I'm all in on that, and I own Moderna stock ... so there's that. But we sort of understand the pathway there: we want to introduce a protein that induces an immune system reacti…
by djierardi · Oct 31, 2026
The climate is going to change. The climate is always changing. ~12,000 years ago oceans were 200 feet!! lower and a large portion of the world was under a mile of ice. This dra…
by StanislavPetrov · Oct 31, 2026
That depends. Is it about cultural enrichment via the arts, or financial enrichment by selling a bootleg generator? I personally am in the camp that capitalism just isn't a very…
by chaosharmonic · Oct 31, 2026
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