ChainOfFools

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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
"I may add that I did not enjoy the short time I spent in the company [Wallie] commanded. He could never grasp the neighbourly principles which, by the tacit agreement of the troops, were held to govern trench-warfare, and to which I w
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> it's more apparent than ever nobody has anything interesting to say, Krugman's observation, so often maligned and mocked for the past 20 years, to the effect that he was ignorantly claiming to have seen through something he h
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I believe all of the colors of butterfly wings, and of all feathered animals are produced in the same way? I've always assumed that "simulation" has a local definition in the study of biological color reproduction, where ligh
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
A big contributor to the problem is that the word conspiracy has become too broad to be useful as a test or label anymore. Everything novel in the world arises as a result of a recursively self-propagating memetic function, one that could b
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Exactly what I was thinking of with respect to kludges necessary for backwards compatibility. I think Commodore made one monitor that supported a bi-modal scan rate, and it was something like twice as expensive as the the regular Amiga moni
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
How much of this issue (specifically affecting the spaceflight project), if any, do you think was instigated from talent being lured away?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
got my vote! Except maybe the jail part, but I know you're probably being a little bit hyperbolic
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I'm starting to see more and more homes in the area where I live, Southern California in the LA region, switching from green unsustainable lawns to some form of hardscape/ xeriscaping. one of the rising trends is the use of old ti
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
As an avid recreational cyclist, I would much rather be active on a bike in Sweden in the winter time, then in virtually anywhere in the USA's south east or southwest, and even in the northeast, during the summertime. I'll still d
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Well it can be both can't it. Car makers, conceding that they have to incorporate some sort of non-startle noise if they're building an ev, decide to lean into it and pretty soon the pr and marketing departments are trying to come
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The people were talking about are slapping shitty cat deleted straight pipe exhausts on what are typically engineered to be economy or family cars, or small displacement motorcycle engines. People who don't see the offensively selfish
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Unfortunately idiots who will run the mower over their own cord, or absent minded who consistently forget to plug the thing in to charge it, also exist. And more neutrally there is a certain laudable economy in not throwing away a perfectly
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
This is the point that makes all of the miserable noise pollution from modified cars so much more grating, knowing that whatever is making excess noise means potentially useful (in a performance sense) power is escaping as sound somewhere i
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Not soon enough, and even though I'm a parent frankly it's for my own sanity as much as for that of my kids. I have no sympathy, in fact negative sympathy shading into election year issue territory, for the small but growing minor
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Wait till they find out about the Human Fund
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> chatgpt is now the default tool for the vast majority of people writing these papers. I'm in a similar sort of circle and I can say that this, though I've not measured rigorously, does strongly square with my own anecdotal ex
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
As would 97% of all conversations, if people had the patience, curiosity, and lack of anything immediately productive to do.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I was also curious about this. a bunch of BASE jumping hats dropping off a building is exactly the sort of project I would momentarily think about doing and never seriously entertain due to being certain that sooner or later someone, somewh
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Or use lasers and tiny gum-shaped smoke bombs to sample and model the local air column currents, pre soften and flatten a portion of the gum paper-thin with some sort of wettimg/rolling assembly, stage, then let it drop and form its o
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Why does this remind me of something out of a certain old point and click adventure game, it was one that had the verb USE apply to every type of action. click>(GUM) click>(SELF) click>(USE) "You used the GUM on yourself. Noth
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Any resolution with 400 pixel vertical scan on the Amiga was interlaced, no exceptions until too many years after the first OCS and ECS chipsets released. and when the solutions did come they were burdoned by kludges necessary so as not to
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
You're technically correct but I think rather missing the point. I got the scale wrong (guessed at the tolerances involved rather than looking them up), but obviously resolving a mechanical position to meet the actual tolerances is alr
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
They could also be staggered in tiers, one row offset from the other. I feel like there's an alternate universe where this is exactly the design that was adopted and someone is out there suggesting our universe's setup instead, as
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I used to be (and still am) one of the biggest Amiga fans anyone is likely to encounter, but I have to concede that the Amiga's graphics architecture was ergonomically terrible for the vast majority of dtp work. Most people found wor
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
And probably the biggest "like living in the future" advantage out of all, true preemptive multitasking. However with the major Achilles heel of no memory protection; message passing done through pointer exchange was wonderful for
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Knowing that ambidextrous thus means "both right (hands)" makes me marvel at how such a brazenly politically incorrect figure of speech has for so long remained undetected by the cultural police thanks to a linguistic camoflauge
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Another thing I was always curious about is why swing-arm actuators stuck around all these years, rather than moving to a single fixed rail with a strip of individually addressable read regions, and another rail separate (and upstream) from
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
When I first heard about how mechanical hard drives work, back in the days when the highest end 300 MB (yes MB) drives ran a stack of four or six platters, and some drives still used a sort of rack and pinion positioning setup rather than a
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
After decades of doing this I have finally come to my senses and now only engage in arguments of this form where I could add a stage 0: buy leveraged options on my unpopular but obvious observation, and a stage 6: wildly profit from betting
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> >you can't make coffee cup rides not sickening by software. > Plainly false. I'm not sure how this is false, but I'm also not sure what the person you're replying to is getting at. coffee cup rides have no dri

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