OroPla

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by OroPla 9d ago
As far as supporting creators (or rather rights holders) goes, whether you pirate, buy a used copy or use a library makes absolutely no difference.
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by OroPla 9d ago
Of those 2930 albums, how many can you write down from memory and to how many songs could you sing along? Getting flooded with too much information in a short time isn't necessarily a good thing for your brain. It hurts attention span
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by OroPla 9d ago
Since when are people digital?
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by OroPla 9d ago
I've currently got two 10TB, one 14TB and one 18TB drive. I don't think what you describe is as easy for me as you expect. I've got one backup in a different city and one in cold storage. The sizes are all over the place beca
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by OroPla 9d ago
Don't we already have rehabilitation centers? I definitely think that you have to take homeless people being a nuisance off the streets against their will. There's already plenty of invisible homeless people living out of a car th
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by OroPla 9d ago
I do use btrfs, but I don't really understand how to use it to protect against bit rot. I tried to look into it at some point, but got overwhelmed. Did invest in two backup copies, one of them off site, though. However, looking at pric
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by OroPla 9d ago
Bit rot was mentioned in the article, but then no solution was offered. I also haven't found a good solution, unfortunately. If you only have a couple of Terabytes you could create check sums of everything and then verify regularly, bu
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by OroPla 10d ago
Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49419237
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by OroPla 10d ago
Alternative take: education makes you a lot more efficient at exploiting people. It is not education that is at the root of these things, but incentives. If the incentives are all wrong, so will be the outcomes. Take education as an institu
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by OroPla 10d ago
In many ways, having a king was a lot better than having a bunch of people bickering among themselves without getting stuff done. At least the king was kinda tied to the country and thus the interest of the country was part self-interest.
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by OroPla 10d ago
Remember the story about the South Korean female president or whatever their title is being a brainwashed puppet of a radical feminist cult and thus had to abdicate as this came out? I don't remember how many years ago that was, but it
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by OroPla 10d ago
In a world where people's searches are already mostly answered by AI, is there any point to disallow the training? I could totally see a future where Google just stops showing you links to actual web pages altogether and just gives you
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by OroPla 11d ago
Here I thought this was about shredding your books and going completely digital to save space.
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by OroPla 11d ago
Saddest part is that all the tech was apparently so utterly useless for anything that NASA lost it.
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by OroPla 11d ago
The decision to not do solar was made last year, so that's how old the numbers are. It was made together with the people selling solar. It's very dependent on the direction your roof is facing and how much roof space you have. Als
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by OroPla 12d ago
Ah, yes. That's why Germany transformed from abject poverty after losing WWI into a superpower under the left wing management of the National Socialists.
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by OroPla 12d ago
Paywalled article, so who knows what it says. My main gripe with solar is that it doesn't last long enough. The panels have to be replaced about every two decades, but they take a bit more than two decades to amortize. This is why ever
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by OroPla 12d ago
I'd rather compare it to Linux. You are in charge of your own destiny.
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by OroPla 12d ago
How about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbYlrSRhsZk
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by OroPla 12d ago
I'm not sure if everyone is aware, but humanity is heading for extinction either way. My guess is that like with death most people just choose to not think about it. We don't even have to wait for the heat death of the universe. O
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by OroPla 13d ago
Toy guns back then: https://i.imgur.com/2DQnhNC.jpeg
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by OroPla 13d ago
It does neither, as money is simply a representation of wealth. Increasing the supply of money without increasing the wealth will mean you'll have more money representing the same wealth. This is called inflation. But the wealth, or va
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by OroPla 13d ago
Taking them off the wifi and changing your wifi password seems to be all you need to do. While they are technically capable to look for open wifi, this is not something they do out of the box, as far as my understanding goes.
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by OroPla 13d ago
Not possible. They are part of the chaebol [1], meaning they are essentially part of the South Korean government. They can't really fail as long as the country exists. There's an old joke that South Korea isn't really a count
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by OroPla 13d ago
Dell sells a monitor the size of a small TV (U5226KW). It's more than two thousand dollars, though.
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by OroPla 13d ago
The Fed is printing them. Just like they print all other money. From the article: > I put in one, and a hundred comes back.” > The figure was rhetorical, not a disclosed 100-times investment return. There's a lot more words in th
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by OroPla 13d ago
Windows was a mistake I blame Apple for.
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by OroPla 13d ago
What an evil website. Just navigating to it deleted the history, so I couldn't navigate back to hackernews. Ctrl+L wouldn't highlight the navigation bar, either and instead closed the tab.
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by OroPla 13d ago
Large companies move slowly and have lots of red tape. Give it a decade before making this call as far as large companies are concerned. That's how long it takes to change processes.
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by OroPla 13d ago
> temporary state of complete loss of personal purpose and the experience of existential dread from never achieving self-actualization in spite of the tremendous time commitment towards excellence in a now automated intelligence > thi

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