Right, giving up is actually how these things end up becoming principles/laws. Power centralizes because people become complacent and ignorant on matters of power, so there ends up being a power vacuum, to which others seize the opportunity. But absolute power centralization almost never occurs, due to the delegation that is necessary to wield that power in practice, and so these two forces end up balancing each other. As such, the equilibrium point (or point of maximum entropy) ends up being some type of oligarchy. But anyone can take steps to address this and adjust this equilibrium point, but it takes active work.

I have no eyes and I must take a vision test to prove I'm blind.

I would hope that "any physician taking one look at you in the waiting room" would be a sufficient test.

"Cover your left eye .... look straight at that chart and tell me what the third line from the bottom says ..."

> It was never used in real work

Does this mean I need to return all my paychecks from 2004 to 2007?

Are you talking about UberMedia? I used to work there!

This site might be able to help also: https://www.vacuumland.org

This reminds of the internet classic VerizonMath: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-...

Can one be nostalgic for articles like this? Every few years I see this linked and I read the whole thing every time.

Very much so. I can't believe it happened over 15 years ago!

Ha, never heard of this before. I had to hunt the audio down (found it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShv_74FNWU) but it was definitely worth it. Very funny! Thank you!

There's Emoji Mashup Bot+ - "Tries to create new emojis out of three random emoji parts"

https://twitter.com/emojimashupplus

Nice! A more "old-school" procgen-like approach, but that makes it all the more elegant in how effective it is in its simplicity

Page 16, from a review of the "Disposable" Commodore 64: "It works great, but it's not destined to become a family heirloom"

No computers of that era (or any era) are going to be heirlooms. The C64 shipped with a power supply that failed often and in a way that fried the computer.

https://retrogamestart.com/answers/replace-c64-power-supply-...

RDU (between Raleigh and Durham, NC) has one: https://www.rdu.com/observation-park/

also conveniently the best spot to wait to pick up an arrival (as they like to keep traffic flowing outside the terminal)

While I was reading the article, this appeared in my inbox: https://i.imgur.com/FbaML9A.jpg

Retargeting? I did sell them an iPad mini a few months ago.

They probably saw that a New York Times article mentioned them and emailed their customer base to catch anyone who was reminded by the article.