Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 6mo ago
I think it's gotten way, way worse over the past 20 or so years. I recall having friends spanning several political parties, countries and religions hanging out with barely a sense of tension in the room.
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by Kon5ole 6mo ago
The remarkable part of your anecdote is the behavior. Seems to me some humans nowadays are less tolerant of any difference in opinion, AI is just the current reason to pick a fight. Wonder why that is, and if we'll grow out of it peace
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
The problem with UBI is not that people would stop working, it's that the value of whatever amount is given as UBI will drop very quickly due to inflation. UBI is basically the same as saying "everyone should earn above average&qu
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>Solar panels charging old thinkpads suddenly doesn't work, or are we reliant upon software that requires cloud services to function in your scenario? It's your scenario, you said you had no batteries and had to drill holes by
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>This is false. There absolutely are people that fall back on older tools when fancy tools fail. >They other week I finished putting holes in fence posts with a bit and brace as there was no fuel for the generator to run corded electr
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>This is not hard to understand: Making a profit by selling valuable nuclear energy during evening peak consumption while buying cheap intermittent solar during low consumption time is an easy game. It is also easy to understand that the
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>> France had to nationalize EDF due to the exorbitant cost of their nuclear fleet >That's just wrong. No, it's correct, the total costs of the 2022 bailout was almost 10bn, and that was to get control over a company that
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>Given 1/6 adults admit to using it That seems high to me. (sorry) ;-) Seriously though, by the time I was 15 several of my classmates were drunk most weekends and smoked cigarettes regularly, but even decades later I have still nev
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
>I think it became socially acceptable because there’s not a huge reason to hate on it. That may be but I see no reason to encourage it either, which is what I feel is happening.
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
American media has really been shockingly pro weed/cannabis for the past 20 or so years. Really astounding to witness considering the well known downsides to human health and cognitive function. Main characters smoke weed as a cool dis
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
The feature that applies a hearing test as an equalizer setting make the APM sound pretty damn good, so much so it ended my 20 year long headphone-collecting hobby. Before hearing-tuned EQ became a thing, trying headphones was like trying f
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by Kon5ole 7mo ago
Like many others I started feeling it had legs during the past few months. Tools and models reached some level where it suddenly started living up to some of the hype. I'm still learning how to make the most of it but my current state
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
I think you are missing his point - the items are desireable because of the brand. The stories, the movie stars, the songs and so on. They don’t possess a universal, objectively valuable beauty that motivates the desire. If they did, fakes
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
The star trek society is is a remote possibility here. One can hope.
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>First is the replacement of white-collar labor, then blue-collar labor once robotics is solved. On the road to AGI, your employment, and the ability to feed your family, is a minor nuisance. My attempt to talk you out of it: If nobody h
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>As a kid I could fiddle with config.sys (or rather autoexec.bat) while nowadays wrestling a file path out of my phone is a battle and the system files of my phone are kept from me. I think the magic happens at different levels of abstra
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>You buy 1 BTC at $60k in 2024. In 2025 it’s valued at $100k, so you pay taxes on $40k gain. Right, and at this point in the argument it’s also worth asking ”pay taxes with what?” which also quickly makes the idea of taxing valuations ob
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>I'm feeling people are using AI in the wrong way. I think people struggle to comprehend the mechanisms that lets them talk to computers as if they were human. So far in computing, we have always been able to trace the red string ba
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>Even if that were accepted as fact (it isn't), tech complicity in fascism and genocide shouldn't ever be among such issues. As I understand it, this place is about technology and curiosity, not fascism and genocide, There are
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
I have to admit I'm flip-flopping on the topic, back and forth from skeptic to scared enthusiast. I just made a LLM recreate a decent approximation of the file system browser from the movie Hackers (similar to the SGI one from Jurassic
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
A silly movie but I love it so much. Such nostalgia too. In the spirit of hackers I have to share this - I just asked Claude 4.6 to make a file system browser that works kinda like this, and it took 5 minutes to make something that actually
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
>These aren’t opt-in issues. I get that you are upset but they should certainly be opt-in issues, here. If people from Kyiv, Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Congo, Venezuela or Rwanda can come here and contribute to topics of tech and curiosity with
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by Kon5ole 8mo ago
It's hard to comprehend the scale of these investments. Comparing them to notable industrial projects, it's almost unbelievable. Every week in 2026 Google will pay for the cost of a Burj Khalifa. Amazon for a Wembley Stadium. Face
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
I have several computers attached to the screen and run Windows, Linux and MacOS. Of these I think Windows has the best solution with a utility called Fancyzones (part of a collection called Powertoys). I can define areas of any size and sh
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
>The other part is that you should have the entire picture in your eyesight w/o moving the neck. I agree, but that is still the case here. The difference is that the "full picture" no longer occupies the whole monitor. The
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
I don't think it will work very well as a "normal" monitor (meaning placed at normal monitor distance on your desk). My 55 is borderline too big already, and the main issue is actually the height. Tilting your head or rolling
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
55 inch 8k tvs make for great monitors. Basically your whole field of view is a retina canvas for apps, equivalent to a 2x2 grid of 4k monitors. The last ones I saw for sale were below 600 usd in physical stores from name brands (LG). Mine
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
We used to read books for 12+ hours, then we started watching films.
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
He doesn't have infinite money, he is allowed to borrow infinite money thanks to the valuation of his holdings, which lately are weakening on the fundamentals. Hence the shenanigans.
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by Kon5ole 9mo ago
We need water and we need to save energy from renewable sources. Surplus electricity can be used to make hydrogen from salt water, and when hydrogen is burned to generate energy it releases desalinated water. It is inefficient yes, but sola

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