This reminds me a bit of the octree quantization implementation I hacked up to improve speed of generating Racket's animated gifs.

* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/6b2e5f4014ed95c9b883...

* https://github.com/racket/racket/commit/f2a1773422feaa4ec112...

Thank you for bringing this up. I had not read this before, but it speaks to my deep concerns.

Thank you for organizing this. It's been a long time since I've listened to these last, and I remember these were enjoyable for Knuth's gentle humor.

I'm sure the folks working on protein folding are losing sleep over role-playing chatbots.

You may want to read the history of banana republics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic.

Given the wildness of that particular dark corner of our history, I'm looking forward to reading about the history we're living through now. Hopefully after some emotional remove, like in another ten years.

I misparsed this as

   Two Years (With Emacs as a CEO and now CTO)

as opposed to

   Two Years (With Emacs) as a CEO and now CTO.

and it greatly confused me: how could Emacs act as a CEO? It's not that smart, is it? (Or conversely, being a CEO can't be that trivial, right?)

Perhaps rephrase to: "Using Emacs for two years as a CEO and now CTO". The parse tree is still ambiguous, but a little less so.

There's a very nice article about how single-page web applications work that explain the mechanics of using the location API.

https://blog.pshrmn.com/entry/how-single-page-applications-w...

He's also a co-author of Lex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)

It's human nature to demonize folks.

> He's also a co-author of Lex.

Your point is?

> It's human nature to demonize folks.

Is that criticism of Schmidt or the parent comment? If Schmidt, he was not so much demonizing people as just not giving a shit about them.

And we hold our leaders to higher standards than the common man. In prior generations, our "elites" held themselves to higher standards as well. Not any longer, it seems. Regardless of how high you rise in society, as long as you can claim decent from the middle class, you hold yourself responsible for nothing outside of yourself and your in-group.

> Your point is?

Probably that the "everything wrong with tech" statement was a bit strong if I could speak for the person you responded to. I'm not sure I'd go as far to say he's "everything wrong with tech", would you? He's certainly done lots of good too, along with bad.

The comment was "he represents everything wrong with tech", not "everything he's ever done is wrong". There statements are not identical.

... and people ask why browsers are so complicated.

Example reference: see the "abbreviations and acronyms" section in: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a

Hilariously enough, "Nasa" is specifically called out as an negative example from the English Wikipedia style guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi...