This meme is making the rounds. Naturally people are going "this isn't real". Well, I can't attest how much Musk was inspired by the original, but Internet Archive lets you play the PC and Apple versions in browser:
@textfiles I can't confirm that the body design yields a good coefficient in the wind tunnel test, I've tried to get as close to the chassis in the screenshot and my coefficient was only about 0.33
You know that thing where something disappears and people go "I remember all the stuff they had, there was nothing like that, it was special, I'm sad it's gone"?
Well, that's the Internet Archive, and the contributions collections are brimming every day with stuff I constantly go "I had no idea anyone ever made a PDF of that obscure emphemera".
@textfiles if it wasn't for the diligent work of the Internet Archive, we wouldn't have a very thorough archival of the Nintendo Wii U's miiverse, a legitimate cultural snapshot from its birth to its death and I can not stress enough just how much I appreciate the work everyone at the archive has done to keep record of all of the things happening in this world "important," or not.
@textfiles I actually watched the CBS morning show segment and it was pretty good. They interviewed Larry Lessig, and the point that Walt Disney has been using the IP of others for a century was emphasized.
MIT Press maintains a set of their books that are listed as "Open Access", and of them, 297 different books and documents provide a helpful PDF edition of their titles.
I have "ported" these over to the Internet Archive where they live a life and have links back to their original MIT Press pages should you want to buy a hard copy:
Internet Archive now has a menstruation information and history library, since we now live in a world with Florida bill 1069, which bans the mention of periods before sixth grade in Florida public schools.
I acquired (with help) a killer audio cassette digitizing rig, and then IMMEDIATELY had to spend over 2 months digitizing 90+ cassettes from the 1999 Game Developers Conference (via a slow-and-steady workflow that got the job done without being too disruptive to any other work I was doing).
So, here we are, it's done. Go enjoy 70+ hours of presentations about all aspects of game making and producing, in 1999.
@textfiles So cool! Circa 2001, when I was a high schooler, I bought a lot of used game development books off of eBay from a person I'm pretty sure was a professional reviewer. Lots of pre-print editions, but also, the GDC proceedings books from the late '90s. I'm so sad I don't have them anymore, but they didn't make it through the many moves one makes as a young person. Can't wait to browse this!
Using IA Copilot (an experimental AI interface to Internet Archive) I could load in a book from the archive, and ask questions about the book. The answers are basically accurate.
I strongly consider Algorithmic Intensity (AI) to be at what "self-driving" is - you really have to sit with it and take over/discard choices when it gets things wrong. And just like you wouldn't ask a "self-driving car" to "drive around to interesting places that are fun for cars" and get a non-weird answer, this sort of approach works better with the dataset when you're just using it like a dumb Watson to your Sherlock.
@textfiles IS NOBODY GOING TO COMMENT THAT THE TAPE IS FROM 2004 BUT IS CONSIDERED THE HOTEST RENTAL IN 2007 BECAUSE THAT’S HOW LONG FILMS TOOK TO GET HOME RELEASES IN THE 80s???
@textfiles ad copy like this is why I've never bought a PlayStation: many years ago, Sony aired a commercial for the "PlayStation 9", and I'm holding them to it.
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