hacker news :)

gag. i fled here from reddit after fleeing digg a year or so back.

i feel like i am being followed.

Fine, I'll delete it.

"Which is a sign of how efficient the educational system has been, and the propaganda system, in simply destroying even our awareness of our own immediate intellectual background."

lord god the sky is falling.

my response to ridiculous statements such as this one is always "where the holy fuck do you live"???

teachers struggle to get 99% of the kids to give a damn about anything beyond sports sex music and games. the few who do give a damn can find and read anything they want.

where is it different?

as many others have said, until the internet is as reliable and secure as my desktop, it will not replace my desktop, only augment it. the security challenge can be met. the reliability challenge will be around for a while.

i'm impressed by your brevity. a lost art for sure.

real-time control is one place where science is beautiful and fun.

A topic you know something about?

just enough to appreciate it. i didn't have the math skills to be a controls engineer, but i did design electromagnetic devices for a while, and totally envied the controls people who got to tie all the pieces together - electrical, electronic, mechanical, etc.

my favorite example is the video of the apollo lunar module making adjustments as it approached the command module.