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My home node's internet went down. I have a full bitcoin node running at the office and was able to
- spin up lnd
- open a channel
- add Alby Hub
- attach to SN
In about an hour after - nearly all of it spent waiting for transactions to confirm.
It's held up incredibly well. His predictions are conservative and wise; he implies the technology exponential, technology that improves technology, when it was more mistakable as linear.
He also associates automation and communication in a way that's maybe obvious with the internet, but I'd guess was not obvious then. Even now, I think most of us think of improving communication as side effect of automation not "fundamental" to it. It reminds me of Block's view of AI as a communication medium.
I am a smash burger thusiast.
Also, I wrote about ZIKI's disappearance. Oh and my general (and under-experienced) Austin recommendations.
According to Dream Machine von Neumann was a genius among geniuses.
Also likely to evolve fast—and quite apart from nuclear evolution—is automation. Interesting analyses of recent developments in this field, and of near-future potentialities, have appeared in the last few years. Automatic control, of course, is as old as the industrial revolution, for the decisive new feature of Watt's steam engine was its automatic valve control, including speed control by a "governor." In our century, however, small electric amplifying and switching devices put automation on an entirely new footing. This development began with the electromechanical (telephone) relay, continued and unfolded with the vacuum tube, and appears to accelerate with various solid-state devices (semi-conductor crystals, ferromagnetic cores, etc.). The last decade or two has also witnessed an increasing ability to control and "discipline" large numbers of such devices within one machine. Even in an airplane the number of vacuum tubes now approaches or exceeds a thousand. Other machines, containing up to 10,000 vacuum tubes, up to five times more crystals, and possibly more than 100,000 cores, now operate faultlessly over long periods, performing many millions of regulated, preplanned actions per second, with an expectation of only a few errors per day or week.
Many such machines have been built to perform complicated scientific and engineering calculations and largescale accounting and logistical surveys. There is no doubt that they will be used for elaborate industrial process control, logistical, economic, and other planning, and many other purposes heretofore lying entirely outside the compass of quantitative and automatic control and preplanning. Thanks to simplified forms of automatic or semi-automatic control, the efficiency of some important branches of industry has increased considerably during recent decades. It is therefore to be expected that the considerably elaborated newer forms, now becoming increasingly available, will effect much more along these lines.
Fundamentally, improvements in control are really improvements in communicating information within an organization or mechanism. The sum total of progress in this sphere is explosive. Improvements in communication in its direct, physical sense—transportation—while less dramatic, have been considerable and steady.
yep! three of them iirc
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My order is so chaotic from them, e.g. "six flying dutchman with grilled onions," that I wouldn't notice.
We are debugging custom domains in prod today. I'm also materializing our plans for internal wallets, and trying to fix our social preview snapshotting service.
For anyone without an ft account, this is being widely covered: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/28/sam-altman-open-ai-elon-musk-trial
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