8bitsrule

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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Water storage is great, the cat's meow ... in places where water is plentiful. But there are HUGE tracts of land in the world where there isn't any water. But people still need the energy, when the winds are calm and the skies are
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Considering how the load at Linux Mint's forums has recently increased to the point that some of it is being re-directed to gitHummed (a minute ago there were "3362 users online :: 35 registered, 3 hidden and 3324 guests" &gt
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
That's the pay-off of our 150-year rush to monetize as much of the Earth's natural resources as possible -- while making stringent efforts to keep quiet knowledge - or suppress any efforts - to utilize the benefits of free solar
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Part 2: https://www.starwars.com/news/mythic-discovery-within-the-in...
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
I also moved many times in the past. Once CD-quality settled, I gifted my vinyls to a thrift store. (The 'art' was immaterial.) 20 years ago, I ripped all of my CDs into 192K MP3s (perfect enough for my ears) using an online metad
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
'Very small'?? Depends on your perspective. "The amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere via photosynthesis from land plants is known as Terrestrial Gross Primary Production, or GPP. It represents the largest carbon exchang
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
If empirical observation is 'technical', then keen eyes can spot the grifters before they can be elected or corrupt the already-elected. Then we just need the will to permanently deter them.
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by 8bitsrule 9mo ago
Not sure what 'blaming capitalism' has to do with the content of the video in the link we're supposedly discussing. (Advantages ... for whom?) It's speaker says that our situation is post-capitalist, and that we're
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
This is a great tool to avoid the constant de-railing of headline topics which is the biggest bane of HN. Too often serious news falls victim to misdirection ... which requires time spent poking endless hyphenated closures to work past. It&
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
According to Gigazine (Osaka, est. 2000), "In 2024, there were 296 internet shutdowns in 54 countries around the world, with Myanmar, India, Pakistan and Russia accounting for about 70% of the total." https://gigazine.n
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
I remember a time when the word "smart" referred to a high level of intelligence. Rather than a marketing ploy aimed at the innocent.
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
>created her Did you mean 'them' ?
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
Cool how the computer versions seem to work well as long as re-normalization isn't involved .
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
"A new theoretical analysis ... provides evidence that large language models, such as ChatGPT, are mathematically constrained to a level of creativity comparable to an amateur human.... The study highlights that human creativity is not
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
>the tech PMs are autocrats and have such a bizarrely outsized impact on our lives. They're the ones who are just asking for it ... they, themselves need more forceful training. It's up to us to move slower and fix things.
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
I was born less than a mile from Canada, and I've gotta say: if the US invades Canada, I'm migrating.
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by 8bitsrule 10mo ago
OTOH, back in that period of the Cold War, the odds seemed long that we'd still be around by the time it was found, out in the endless vastness of space. Discussing those odds at length would no doubt decrease them.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
Same thing with time ...
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
Same here. By the time I was old enough to have an income, reading comics had already made it possible for me to -not even see any - advertising. That carried over to newspapers, magazines... all those advertisers were wasting their money.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
Interesting timing ... 6 western Irani provinces had flood warnings 4 days ago. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/land-use-biodiversity...
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
I looked it up in Merriam, it said origin, unknown. HOWEVER: cur , from the 13th-century, can mean: 'a surly or cowardly fellow'. THEN: dudgeon , from the 15th, can mean 'a fit or state of indignation'. Why so often a
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
"At present, atomic power presents an exceptionally costly and inconvenient means of obtaining energy which can be extracted much more economically from conventional fuels.… This is expensive power, not cheap power as the public has be
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
I'm so old fashioned I still keep all the data I have and want to share in my wallet. Hasn't failed yet, no battery included.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
>Imagine a world where your data isn’t trapped in distant data centers. Instead, it’s close to home—in a secure data wallet or pod, under your control. Imagine a world where all rivers flow north, the wind always blows from the East, and
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
When I added it, and went to Youtube, it instantly started generating tabs in some kind of loop ... had to shut FF down to stop it, and even then had to kill the loop manually.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
It was not sad for me to have lookup the name Geraldo Rivera.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
Revival, yes! I mailed off for so much weird stuff from WEC ... stuff I'd never known about before ... from all over the hemisphere. Unusual teas and bakeries, kinnikinnick, oddish books, even some chair-caning materials (used on one
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
Terence McKenna could say 'told you so'.
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by 8bitsrule 11mo ago
As an early WP editor, I can relate ... the project caught -a lot- of crap back in the early days. This is a smug but accurate, simple recounting of that sordid tale, and the value that WP retains now that AI is around to cite it. I don&#x2

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