BirAdam

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by BirAdam 3y ago
If I understand what you’re asking, the term would be emergence. In philosophy this means that that behavior, property, or attribute arises from parts or components that do not show that behavior, property, or attribute themselves either in
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Anathem is my personal favorite of his for precisely this vision of near future history, and what the world does about it.
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So, I look at the entire genre of cyberpunk as well as related genres as pulp sci-fi. It isn’t always “good” if we’re comparing to Asimov, Heinlein, or Herbert, but there are often some entertaining ideas and interesting themes in them. I
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I’ve been off and on into conlanging since I was a young child, and when the smartphone started becoming a thing with later Blackberries, Treos, and then with iPhone and Android, I began using the same word to mean leash and phone in most o
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Debatable. How much did he dictate to a ghost writer?
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The pretty equation, however, will help get one published and will help get his or her funding secured.
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Author’s point about environmental cost is a frustration I share. Most people in the tech industry are at least somewhat concerned about the environment but their use and endorsements of technologies don’t follow at all: cloud technologies
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The last 10% is always the hardest, longest, most frustrating bit.
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Don’t be so sure. AI enthusiasm has existed before with major breakthroughs, and when things didn’t go as well as the hype suggested, it led to AI winter. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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Acorn’s original ARM chip was impressive but it didn’t really capture much market share. The first ARM CPU competed against the 286, and did win. The 386 was a big deal though. First, software was very expensive at the time, and the 386 all
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Everyone acts as though Intel should have seen everything coming. Where was AMD? Was AMD really competitive before Ryzen? Nope. Core 2 series blew them out of the water. Was ARM really competitive until recently? Nope. Intel crushed them.
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It was an open source branch of Solaris that Ian Murdock worked on while he was at Sun under the name Project Indiana. It descends from UNIX SVR4.
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Intel’s compiler was a bit better than some but still wasn’t great. Largely, Intel quickly lost interest in Itanium when AMD64 started selling well. HP had their own tooling, and HP was pretty much the only customer buying Itaniums. Intel q
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Do it, do it, do it!
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The Itanic Saga(abortretry.fail)
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GrapheneOS. Other than dumb phone, it’s your best bet. However, your phone’s ISP will still collect your location data and sell it to Google and everyone else.
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The virtualization stuff and extreme energy efficiency are reason enough for Apple to get back into servers. There’s also the rack mount Mac Pro. The thing is, many server use cases would benefit from remove a lot of macOS end-user user-spa
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Plenty of people use Windows for development, Linux for development and gaming, and macOS for everything including servers. It’s all about preference.
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Both versions find their origins in Latin: exprimere. Both have the same meaning. More importantly, the purpose of language is communicate. If the sender and recipient achieve mutual understanding then language has been used effectively. Sp
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The hype train has no brakes. This kind of stuff will continue until some of these companies have such steep declines in revenue due to crappy products that they file for bankruptcy. I just seriously hope this doesn’t lead to another AI win
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IME, Intel’s Clear Linux is unbelievably good. Most people never give it a chance, but it runs great on core i3 from 2017 with just 8GB of RAM… and this is an OS that uses containers for almost everything. Just wonderful work by Intel’s tea
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Well… sort of. C has become a standard with several implementations. It gains supply chain security by being decentralized. Likewise, it has many package managers with different repos for language specific things, and it then has many packa
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The best integrated graphics are about equivalent to a 1650. This assumes that the machine also has decently speedy RAM.
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They are most definitely correct. If, right now, all oil stopped flowing, many people would die. Oil is needed for bulk transport across the seas, in the air, and over land. It is needed for agricultural production, and a decent amount of e
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I wrote a few bash CGI scripts. With those in place, I just toss my markdown files into a posts/ directory and they become entries. Then, there are just 3 limitations. The title starts with #, the date starts with ##, and those must be
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Where I live, you have to pay extra to have recyclables picked up, and the local waste facility actually just puts it all in the landfill anyway.
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It also serves as deterrent for smaller companies, and as regulatory capture occurs pulls the ladder up behind the big tech companies.
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An automatic watch is “self-winding” but fully mechanical.
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I am usually the first to say that Rust evangelists are annoying, but… your argument isn’t valid. That any tool can be dangerous when used wrongly enough is not an argument in favor of or against rust. Additionally, that any given tool migh
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Just because something is better than an alternative doesn’t make it “good,” it just makes it less bad.

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