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The premise for this research question is related in part to work from Dr. Eleanor Maguire (who I just learned died last year at only 55) and her team on hippocampal anatomy and careers involving spatial navigation, including taxi drivers. A connection that may be of interest to HN readers: Demis Hassabis was one of Maguire's doctoral students, although he does not appear to have worked on the project most relevant to this study.

Hail u/cperciva.


Or rather all hail u/cperciva for freebsd-update.

> all hail u/cperciva

Colin Percival (FreeBSD Primary Release Engineering Team Lead) longer uses that ID in Reddit.

Instead: /u/perciva

Most recently, in /r/freebsd https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rphd7t/freebsd_14...

All hail.


If you're not interested in the new sets, the core product is readily available. Moreover, enjoy the fact that you can get that bucket of bricks for cheap partly because the expensive shiny high-margin SKUs provide a subsidy.



The real question: did he have Claude write this for him?


Had the same thought. NASA already cracked this nut with Apollo; if you’re gonna crack it again and differently, be real sure your solution is better.


Tangential, but Darknet Diaries has been running a "hacker history" series to kick off 2026, starting with this one: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/168/. The "Hackers" movie gets a few call-outs.


Ah, the other AI: Actual Italian. (w/apologies to Davie504)


lol I saw that video.


Presumably with apologies to Steinbeck: “Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.”


Not your question, but 4xxx-series work seamlessly.


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