HerbManic

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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I do think they care but you hit on a point. Governments just keep trying to force this and eventually wear down the resistance to it. They can try repeatedly as it only has to work once.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I'm glad we could get that cleared up.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Sometimes I do that and figure out how much time I work for something. For many, that is only one or two days of work to get a year of minimum calories. If I decided to go full homestead and grow and process this myself, how long would tha
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Reddit has had a bot problem for well over a decade now but the sheer volume of it has exploded. It is also much more difficult to tell nowadays as the "quality" if you will is now at the good enough stage. Alas, Reddit is basical
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Reminds me when reality TV came a long. Many folks were convinced that it would be a passing fad and that within 12-18 months TV would return to the way it had been before hand. That because the quality was so low people would eventually bo
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
No it's Something IS awful. Sorry, they did an interview about 20 years back were they kept correcting the host to 'Something is awful' I have just called it that ever since.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I heard it said once, "Nowadays the right lives in denial, the left lives in delusion". It is very reductionist but it does sort of hit on althe flavour of how these things go.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
> It also doesn't seem defensible to say we should just slow progress down- isn't that a world where we never get iPhones and AI? Honestly, that sounds kind of OK. A lot of the things I use a smart phone for are things that hav
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I see you are playing the role of Cassandra today. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in tech that are just covering their ears saying "la la la la! I CANT HEAR YOU!!!" as they don't want to hear these things. They aren
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I get why you wouldn't see this as inviting. But we need to merge the humanities with technology because if both sides ignore the other than both sides will blindly walk into the worst out comes of the other side.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I have argued for a long time that Permacomputing will be seen as the missing part of the Free Software movement. What use is free software long term if you do not have hardware you can control, maintain and repair easily? This will mean a
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
While not exactly the same, it does rhyme. More a case of suck up to Donny T and hope they give a tax break or something. Keep the shareholders happy. I suspect you will see the same out of John Apple later this year.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
As they say "If it bleeds it leads" Mentally you tend to equally weigh both good and bad news over a long time span, but negative news gets a much quicker and stronger initial reaction, thus it gets priority. Just an evolutionary
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I get the same thing here is Australia. There is a lot of space with little going on. I mean we have the Nullarbor plain. The name literally means 'No Trees', and it is very fitting. If you ever end up there... I hope you don&#x27
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
It has been called the 4-2-1 problem. 4 people had 2 kids. Those 2 kids had 1 of their own. This means there ends up with a more elderly people with far fewer young to support them. That doesn't look like a recipe for social stability.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I do wonder about this. With demographic collapse coming for almost all nations, or with a notable trend line for it to come, what would happen if other nations basically prevent emigration? Better to keep their people than lose them. Alter
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
This is the structure of catabolic collapse. When the mere maintenance costs over run the capabilities/resources of the civilisation. Funnily enough it may turn out that those nations that just muddled along could have the best long te
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Not OP. I believe it is from folks like this. It is compelling but it can also difficult to pin down the exact details. They rely mostly on statistics based oddities. I do appreciate that they are not interested in over throwing the 2024 el
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
This is why I also like cats. The only reason they don't eat me is that I am 10 times bigger than they are. Other than that, they still seem to be running Lion software on miniature hardware.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Why ruin the surprise ;)
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I see your hand and raise you. Weird Al's straight cover. Al should just do an album like that, would be kinda neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddju6JMSp7g
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Alas RAM is basically a commodity product, unless they could have some design advantage over others like the A and M series chips, there is little incentive to go into RAM. If Apple had the manufacturing capabilities then sure, but they wou
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
I suspect a lot of it is just a premptive cache. My daily runner laptop is a 2009 Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM and Firefox only uses about 1.5GB max when there is about 20 tabs open. It tries to fit in with whatever system it is running on. B
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
The only film I saw in an empty theater was 'The Death of Stalin'. That was kind of odd but a decent film regardless.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Being the Vita/360 versions makes this much more usable. I would be having a little panic attack if I had to go back to working on PS2 only code. I mean you came to like the thing but I'm convinced it was a form of digital Stockho
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
> Turn off the issues tracker and the pull requests or deploy a bare git server for releasing your code. Find a small group of people you really know and trust and work with them on projects, or do it completely alone. About 10 years bac
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
In years to come you will be so thankful that you took that path. As they say, better to be a poor master than a rich slave.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Shows what my gaming preferences are when I have never come across these restrictions here. Sonic Mania is not exactly risque stuff.
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Alas it is the great contradiction. Federated technologies are brilliant for peer-to-peer but many struggle to scale because the designed redundancy tends to crush their efficiency. Really depends on the context. Email works because of its
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by HerbManic 6mo ago
Push back to legislation must be on going and any time it is defeated, the success is only temporary. The government can just line up and try again shortly afterwards and they only needs to successful once. You can win the battle but lose t

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