No pictures from 1832, but I found a photo describing the phenomenon. So low-res one can barely see the effect: https://onehundredmountains.blogspot.com/2008/04/sunrise-on-...

Such beautiful writing. Thanks so much for sharing.

Reading that, the execution is now deterministic but the soundness is still probabilistic and <100%, no? Unless I'm reading it wrong.

Site is down. This should be the same PDF I think: http://wexler.free.fr/library/files/necker%20(1832)%20observ...

I disagree. First we got everything as HTML/Electron apps, now the trend is everything as TUIs. Cross-platform, better, but still worse somehow.

What falls to the wayside are the actual and real productivity and usability improvements afforded by "real" GUI apps over the last 40-50 years.

Don't get me wrong I'm a huge terminal user and absolutely love the clarity of a terminal and flexibility of a shell. But if I have to "learn" to use a TUI app - and they're not as simple to use as their authors might believe - I might as well learn to use the full GUI app with all the niceties available because of it.

It's entirely possible future models will refuse to answer if they notice you're using an external harness.

Instead they'll point you to their respective vendor APIs for the specific use cases.

We're talking about trillions in value to be captured, they'll try everything.

This is possible. Open source model is very important for the whole industry.

Especially Apple. Buying a first gen Apple product hasn't been great since like 1999 at least. Very few exceptions.

Play the Gameboy version. I bought every single official Tetris version and they all suck in conparison.

Gameboy emulators are now available again in the iOS app store or even as a a web app. Or just play on real hardware.

It was so close! I could already see the end of all the predatory publishing and flourishing of open-access. Some even required by law. Knowledge was finally going to be free.

But no, it will presumably get much worse as LLMs are inserted into this equation as yet another and new gatekeeper.

(Disclaimer: I have publications with ACM, non open-access. And ACM wasn't even too bad, it's the others that give me pause.)

My ACM papers are published in full on my website. Not preprints. In fact thats the only reason I have a website, just in case someone actually wants to read them.

The copyright agreement (actually copyright assignment/transfer) with ACM has had a carve-out for this case in it for a while, but it has to be a personal website.

I thought it was more liberal than that but there was always a “preprint” exemption that would get you around it.

A paperclip always worked, even on the slot loading iMacs.