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·4 ay önce·discuss
Longtime HN user morphle, who commented elsewhere in this thread, has researched and designed chips and hardware for that purpose (edit: for scaling that form of computing). He has been trying to find funds and partners to bring them to market.

Disclaimer: never met or spoken or worked with him
glompers
·5 ay önce·discuss
The entire County of London[0] had an average population density of 60 people per acre (38,400 per square mile) in 1911 and 42 per acre in 1961.

60 per acre being averaged over nonresidential land uses meant that it was still common to find residential densities higher than 40,000 people per square mile (15,000 per sq. km) at that time. Only Tower Hamlets and Islington remain around that density to this day.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_London

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_p...
glompers
·5 ay önce·discuss
Connections to HS1/Europe, and to Leeds, Golborne, East Midlands, Manchester and finally even Crewe have all been cancelled so now extra expenditures will focus instead on Euston Station. That's not the large section people were interested in riding. Perhaps Old Oak Common should instead have been tunnelled the same distance through to Waterloo International (whose international platforms are now deleted).
glompers
·6 ay önce·discuss
The Assad dictatorships in Syria and the Hussein regime in Iraq were proponents of Baathism. The former had occupied Lebanon and invaded Israel while the latter had invaded Iran in 1980 and annexed Kuwait in 1990.
glompers
·6 ay önce·discuss
Orators learned the "palace of memory" trick for remembering long speeches. In that same vein, then, it does seem less demanding to simply be able to see where you put things.

Whether that's done by walking around, or just by glancing around on a 3D overlay (as suggested above for the Vision Pro), I like neither to have to search through stacks or folders of icons, nor to use Spotlight search fields. But perhaps the different types of cognitive loads result in what some people call different personal organizational styles or preferences. The "Clutterbug"[0] quadrant taxonomy comes to mind.

[0] https://clutterbug.me/what-clutterbug-are-you-test
glompers
·8 ay önce·discuss
Did having such a person in charge make a qualitative difference in the atmosphere of how work proceeded among people there?

If so, do you think it would have played out similarly if the organization had had an equally effective "glue person" who wasn't in charge (therefore didn't have any authority to delegate or divide most tasks) and was required to manage upward [sic] to coordinate things for people?
glompers
·8 ay önce·discuss
Not to me. This post in question could be easily expanded into a recognizable Paul Graham essay and no one would bat an eye.
glompers
·9 ay önce·discuss
Arsenal of democracy is something that Detroit specifically was called during WWII, so historically it isn't a wild phrase. Ford Motor Company itself built complete B-24 heavy bombers too.

Edit: also an FDR quote https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_of_Democracy
glompers
·10 ay önce·discuss
Without more prominent melody or harmony I could not find what is finer about it than conventional approaches to jazz. Could you please elaborate on what its quality is?