NovaVeles

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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Something something, bring back Maxwells house! J/k Glad to see Twit rolling along as always
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I am starting to think that Alyx is VR high tide point. It was either going to be the thing that makes folks and developers run to VR or just stand out there is a neat proof of concept that gets ignored. Alyx is now 2 years old, there hasnt
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
One step ahead is an innovation. Two steps ahead is a Martyr.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
It will make it to Orbit. Despite all of Elons ways, there are good dedicated people working to make it happen. Making it to the Moon, I am doubtful. Making it to Mars... well lets get to he moon first.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
360 had a two things going for its image. #1 was that the previous generation of Xbox was not the biggest seller, this made the 360 look really good by comparison. #2 having that 1 year head start, combined with the high price of the Ps3 in
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
While I don't think this was a huge factor, GC had to problem of being the middle child. Ps2 had all the games, Xbox had the highest tech. Add in DVD play back on those two and Gamecube just felt like it was stuck in the middle not doi
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I'm not trying to undermine but more just act as a reminder to some folk. There is no such thing as "just an engineering problem". These things do not exist in a vacuum. It is a part of the tripod of economics and politics. I
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Only question I would ask him is what he though of the love letter than is the 2018 game Tetris Effect?
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I could not tell you the last time I had Windows in the home. I would guess around 2013. After then I kind of went (almost) 'Full Stallman' - I had been moving that way for a few years already. The only Microsoft product I have i
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
While the Amiga was impressive in the 80's, they failed to continue on that path of technical innovation. The technical lead they provided simply vanished by having everyone else move forwards just a little bit faster than they were. T
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
> Only decades ago, it seems the user of the device was the master. Now it seems the other way around. "There are only two possibilities. Either the user controls the computer or the computer controls the user" - Richard Stallm
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
"Ask HN: What happened to gloves?" That is a title that would drag me in!
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
> The thing is, vegetarian food is incredible without needing to taste like meat. This is something I always have to highlight to folks. In Australia, personally speaking, the best veggie burger is call the 'Not burger'. It doe
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
There is a reasonable argument that with a lot of the newer technology like the internet that while we have made information easier to produce and move about - it is a lot more fragile that it has ever been. Resilience is traded for conveni
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I always found the Android vs Apple thing to be hilarious. You like Apple, cool - go for. I used to use them. Not any more. But that is my choice just as much as yours is. There are deeper questions of privacy and eco-system lock in on all
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Back in 1989 - Dow Chemcial made a proposal. Even then, there was too many plastic type to sort out and contamination was a major issue. They had a realistic but somewhat defeatist solution. Just burn it all. Use it for heat and power, trea
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I am not sure why that is the case. I used to have one that was a cheap small converter cartridge. To explore how it worked, I was amazed to see that there where no chips on the board but merely contacts and traces.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I am completely with this angle as well. In a way I was saying 'Ignorance is bliss but the consequences are dyer'. The fluid dynamics thing is a good example. Another one is the Demoscene. I knowing how it is done, or the limitati
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I didn't mean it 'too' literally, but that is indeed a neat fact.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I think I have heard Ram Dass say that a few times before. ;)
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Official language recognition generally lags the real world by a significant amount. A word can be in use for many years before it even gets a consideration into a dictionary. Dictionary's reflect the world, not dictate it.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Alternatively - "The nicest thing about anything is not knowing what it is." - George Carlin. Not knowing how a cloud works is magical for instance. But taking this line of thinking too far can be disastrous. There is a happy midd
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
John Michael Greer summarized it wonderfully in the book 'Dark Age America'. Don't confuse technical capabilities with economic realities. Argued that Boeing never getting the SST off the ground was probably one of the better
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Similar thinking to "Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one." - Marcus Aurelius For anyone that has beaten addiction, it is this kind of thinking one eventually takes on. For all the help that you can make to
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I usually check the front page, find 2-5 things I like and then move on for the day. Far different to all the others.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
> “It’s not physics, it’s engineering,” When it comes to fusion I am always in too minds about statements like this. On one hand, yeah, it is something that we may be able to wrangle into something useful. On the other, fusion can be see
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
For example the origin of the 2002 SARS out break was only established in 2017/2018 - so 16 years after the fact.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Yeah, that would do it. :D My work PC is currently using 8.4GB with outlook, Excel and note pad open!
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
That may be the case but the question is, what big change to the end user could they pitch to justify such a leap in the requirements?
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
This is where it becomes apparent that the way I use my machine is very different to some folks on here. It is a Lenovo T400 with 4GB of RAM. In order to maximise the life span of the SSD, I knocked out the swap sector. So that is 4GB, no o

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