tech history

mel. the man whose beautiful and insane optimizations are admired by hackers around the world.

proposal for a new operating system in the age of touch (video). from 13 years ago. people just haven't needed a pc touch os yet. a keyboard is enough. or simply touch the screen of an ipad/iphone.

hp-15c for sale again. 1982 rpn calculator with 4.9/5.0 on google reviews

fruit ninja designer on how he designed fruit ninja (video). same guy also did jetpack joyride. halfbrick studios

ai

anthropic constitution. this is more like a bill of rights. it's a list of things that are excluded, not a definition of what the ai is permitted to do

using gpt to search internet assets. first query I tried didn't quite work. ai is generally good at search

misc

postrationalism. enlightenment, great awakening. rationalism, postrationalism. rinse, repeat. nothing ever changes.

don't ask about x when you need to do y. i saw this happen bad last week…

what do you do if you don't like a book at the library? exactly what you expect

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p.s. posting from a phone should be easier… i had to use the desktop view. adding links is hard. images are even harder. at least twitter has a good mobile ui

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