Johanx64

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by Johanx64 4mo ago
> The masses work because they want to consume, not the other way around. Hell, no. Masses work, because they have to. It's not under threat of violence, it's under threat of sleeping under a bridge and starving. Which, frankly
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by Johanx64 4mo ago
Pentium 1 133mhz ran Quake2 pretty darn well as long as you had hardware accel. Without hadware accel it was ass. (maybe even Pentium 100)
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by Johanx64 4mo ago
Before FB acquisition: Yes, really, it ran on potato feature phones you've never even heard of. That can only happen if you really bend backwards to make it happen. Massive userbase with very tiny team.
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by Johanx64 4mo ago
> Why? It’s repressive if done to cap a natively-growing population, since that means government controlling reproduction (à la one-child policy). There's a point where caping even natively growing population is actually the right m
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by Johanx64 4mo ago
I remember "playing" it briefly somewhere within PS2-era. And the absolutely horrid framerate is the thing that I remember most about the game. It absolutely ruined the experience for me and made me stop 'trying' to play
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by Johanx64 5mo ago
> A stunning number of people have been raised/educated solely by the internet. That’s the source for knowledge, not other people. On the internet you can learn from and sometimes interact with the best of the best, so the barrier o
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by Johanx64 5mo ago
For all I know maybe you are an expert, but as a general rule of thumb - people are sick of "experts" eager to share their "expertise". It's simply the case that the supply of "experts" wanting to share &q
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". I doubt most people wouldn&#x27
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
Should Antarctica be counted as habitable then? It constitutes something to the tune of 9% of Earths land mass. And it's already inhabited by millions if not billions of people? Really? Is Sahara-Desert habitable also? Not the tiny par
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
> I don't think you're discussing this in good faith. 134m^2 is well over 4 acres of land for a single person! 134m is a distance you can walk in a minute and a half. And you're already in somebody elses land. The only wa
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
> I think your intuition of 140m x 140m being a small parcel of land is rather odd. I actually went into google maps/satellite of some very familiar places to me, and drew out a 140m x 140m meter squares just to get a feel how much
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
> I'm not sure if this emphasizes how few humans there are, or how massive the Earth is. But it's the same point in both cases. It emphasizes neither! What you've described is a mass grave. Quite literally so. If you kille
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
Lets say, you have 47 years left to live. Does that make those 47 years irrelevant - just because they will end? There's no contradiction there. It just makes these last-remaining fossil fuels even more valuable. Moreover oil use hasn&
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
I mean something undeniably WILL happen as the world has roughly 47 years left at current consumption rate of oil. Whether what's going to happen will be whatever it is you're imagining is completely different story entirely. Ne
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
Familiarize yourself with this: https://www.worldometers.info/oil/ Top reserves by country, historical data on consumption (including by country). These basic data points explain US foreign policy better than anything
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
What do you think American Empire is all about if not controlling the oil rich countries in middle east, as well as extremely oil rich countries like Venezuela? The only failing here is that America has decaying, hallowed out industrial bas
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by Johanx64 6mo ago
> how can anyone justify the United States of America and Israel attacking ANY country? Every military action will have an on-paper "justification". It's kind of irrelevant frankly. But to cut bullshit, it really isn'
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by Johanx64 7mo ago
You're presuming that if they had a choice, they wouldn't accept it. The reality is that chinese goverment is - overall - delivering results. People will accept things that bring good outcomes. There's also upsides from the s
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by Johanx64 7mo ago
For quite a while i was thinking how we're in the phase one: mountains of unmaintainable garbage code being generated... and once the shit hits the fan, some maintainability ceiling gets reached - "the real programmers" will
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
The issue is - fundamentally - whether you think life is "mostly good" isn't based on measurement. Lets say you had a device that could accurately quantify and measure how much pain/suffering and joy/pleasure you ex
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
I stand corrected, it doesn't have "insane fertility rate". That's still a high fertility rate for a country with stats like this: https://www.globalhungerindex.org/bangladesh.html > 25.1% of children
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
> once you get bored of mindless work/consumption cycle, go ahead and get to the good part! The good part is spawning another entity which has to slog through mindless work and consumption cycle, (experience the misery of aging, wit
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
> Only if the mothers in aggregate truly believe that their children will have good lives, then will they have them. Parents have never truly cared whether or not their children will have "good lives", certainly not in any - &q
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
At minimum medical industry is good for providing various measurements regarding the state of your health and environment. This can get quite pricey quite fast.
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
You'll benefit from: 1. Less stress, better rest from better living conditions, that are quiet and have superb clean air and delegating stressful things to others 2. Waay better food 3. Comfortable stress-free vacations 4. Personal tra
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
Such a strange comment. Wealth has nothing to do with longevity and yet here's all the ways how wealth CAUSES longevity.
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
SSD1306 is just 1KByte for a second buffer, so even a rather low-end MCU likely can spare that. And you'd absolutely just draw normal lines if you use a display like that. It's very easy to use it as a generic bitmap display, ther
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
Depending on MCU, you can chain DMA transfers together, so you can have many small writes without extra CPU involvement per DMA transfer. DMA channels are a limited resource however. There's quite a few ways to do this, you can do a DM
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by Johanx64 8mo ago
The same isn't true for modern embedded devices, they don't have tile rendering hardware. If you connect a i2c/SPI screen (SSD1306, ST7735), you write all the pixels on the screen (or pixels to some subregion of the screen),
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by Johanx64 9mo ago
> none of this is going to improve people's lives. I have some old borderline senile relatives writting apps (asking LLMs to write for it them) for their own personal use. Stuff they surely haven't done on their own (or had the

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