PostOnce

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   by PostOnce 4y ago

   I listened to a new Drake song yesterday and he named-dropped Signal. "text me on the Signal, don't call me". If that isn't a sign that cryptography is finally mainstream, I don't know what is. What a time to be ali
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   Well, we could argue about the filter bubble and algorithmic amplification, which can be (and often are) terrible things -- however, as it stands right at this moment, as far as the individual is concerned, you can still, mostly, choose wha
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   All I see is retro computers, math, and concept art. You can find terrible things anywhere, you can watch Jordan Peterson instead of 3blue1brown if you want to, but that's really up to you.
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   by PostOnce 4y ago

   We were all teenagers once, newbies, neophytes; we all wrote our first function at some point. It's odd how some of us forget that once we become competent -- once upon a time, we weren't. We needed a helping hand, a tip, some adv
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   Is it better to addict children to gambling in mobile apps, or to build hopefully unused tools to defend those same children from invading rapists and murderers should the need ever arise? Ukraine wouldn't exist if not for modern weapo
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   by PostOnce 4y ago

   base85 is already fairly widely supported also in libraries for many languages, its in python's standard lib https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85
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   Only in programs with 100% cpu use? If Python or JS sit idle waiting for user input, are the efficiencies really so different? Developer time also has energy cost in AC, transport, etc for a human. What about the fact that the cost of web i
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   by PostOnce 4y ago

   There aren't as many hungry kids as there used to be. There aren't as many hungry adults, either, for that matter. Global hunger is declining. I am rather more worried about hungry kids than dead cows. I also don't care if pe
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   by PostOnce 4y ago

   Keeping someone alive in a coma _has little value_? To whom? What kind of value? I don't think the comatose person would agree, were they to wake up -- and that has happened repeatedly, it's not exactly fantasy. Should it not be t
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    We're not talking about a small town in Moldova, we're talking about Boston. America has, for many intents and purposes, unlimited resources. We waste more money than most countries even have. We could do whatever we want medicall
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    They told me my dad was brain-dead. He wasn't. His wife was going to pull the plug, but during the week we were fighting over it, he began to be able to blink to communicate. He then said he did not want the plug pulled. We should be m
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    This man needs a genius grant, and this is about the 6th time I've thought this. Any one of these pages would be a feat, an achievement to be proud of, but as a collection, it forms one of the greatest educational resources of its type
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    The original Apple Card: https://aresluna.org/attached/computerhistory/ads/internatio... *note: you must be a homeowner to finance a Macintosh. (fine print at bottom of page)
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Ah. Thanks for taking the time to explain :)
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Yeah but if they're not currently for sale, and there's no pre-order button, then no need for a disclaimer? Why would you have to disclaim things that you aren't taking orders for? Hobby projects, prototypes, etc?
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    On the bottom of the video clips, it says: "Not authorized by FCC rules. No sales or leases permitted until authorized." What is that about? I've never seen it before, and I've seen a lot of stuff. Are they required to p
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Orange Roughy used to be called Slimehead. Snapper is great tasting and sustainable, slimehead is neither and fishing for it ruins the sea floor.
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Clicking on the web browser in Ubuntu isn't any different to doing so on Windows. How many people need more than: browser, word/excel clone, and email client? Everything is moving onto the web and Windows becomes less relevant. Wh
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Who is the asshole who snuck the A into STEM? Kids have too much Art and not enough Science as it is, thats why we developed a STEM focus. STEM is science, A is everything else. "The arts and sciences", they are separate for a rea
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    It'd be interesting if some Y2K type bug caused the brakes on all self-driving cars to fail at the same time, rush hour on a Friday. It works 99% of the time could be true, but the catastrophic failure modes might be unknown to us, i.e
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    I lived in the US years ago, I live in NZ now. I do own a car, and it can go anywhere, carrying many people and goods very quickly and cheaply with no reservation or app required. It's also available in the event of natural disaster wh
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    And yet enormous Moscow somehow functioned before we invented iPhones less than 20 years ago...
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    I joke in order to suggest someone reconsider what they may have overlooked. I personally have never booked anything on a smartphone, and I'm content and perfectly well connected in 2022 in a first world country. I book things in a bro
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    "Life is impossible without e-scooter rentals and fast food delivery." -Socrates
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    I'm not sure if you're aware, but pandemics aren't generally weekend events. Emergency powers help us keep more Americans safe & alive. Also, "State of Emergency" != Martial Law, so I'm not sure what you &a
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    We have the concept of a "state of emergency" for a reason, to temporarily give the government additional power to deal with emergencies . We don't want a completely powerless government, we invented government and endow
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    There's a difference between doing science, and going on a press tour to push a viewpoint, though. I don't think actual science was ever being suppressed. If covid was killing 40% of people instead of 1% of people, would we still
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    We cured polio, eradicated smallpox, invented the television, the computer, got one into every home, brought about jet travel, radar, used said radar to predict weather and heat food, stopped AIDS, cured more than one cancer, invented the l
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Maybe they can also have GPS, so we can track who visits an abortion clinic. Or maybe we should just test for HCG along with alcohol and report HCG drops to the govt.
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    by PostOnce 4y ago

    Lottery winners succeeded through very difficult odds, too. There's a reason most successful tech companies are founded in America, and it's not because Europe and Asia lack genius or diligence. What do tech billionaires do with t