RGamma

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811.
by RGamma 3y ago
The (information) systems are actually incredibly sophisticated, but they are aligned with extraction not preservation. It "just" takes a sufficient pivot in will, a couple decades and this shit's solved.
812.
by RGamma 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
813.
by RGamma 3y ago
Berlin is infamously dysfunctional in many respects. All while being propped up by the Länderfinanzausgleich for decades (86 billion Euros received in 28 years, look at the leftmost column of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
814.
by RGamma 3y ago
Because investor-owned homes don't take up space? Limit sprawl by defining untouchable nature reserves and have the market work backwards from there.
815.
by RGamma 3y ago
Of course, now that the orcas have finally figured out who the fuckers are that destroy their habitat, their uprising will be shut down. "scientists battling orcas" pfft, how about you start battling human supremacism and consumer
816.
by RGamma 3y ago
Good to know I'm not the only one who just cannot let go of his 'to be played' list (though I'm only ~15 years behind wanting to play Earthbound). Recently finished SNES Chrono Trigger... There even was a time I was unde
817.
by RGamma 3y ago
Watching hackers turn into users certainly is a discouraging sight in here.
818.
by RGamma 3y ago
90%+ of users don't know what a VM is and probably aren't even interested.
819.
by RGamma 3y ago
This and cloud gaming... it has the obvious real-economic efficiency gains of centralizing hardware (and software) for better overall utilization, easier procurement, development, management and integration albeit all dependent on users&#x2
820.
by RGamma 3y ago
Link should be https://www.tweag.io/blog/2023-11-16-announcing-organist/
821.
by RGamma 3y ago
Depends on the community. Some were very quick to ban you. But there'd ~always be other ones.
822.
by RGamma 3y ago
That's assuming the effects of that stay contained within the respective organization which is not something I would bet on. Chances are a CEO type will be the first to get their hands on AGI or something close enough.
823.
by RGamma 3y ago
This may have been just a stupid delusion by Dalio but some day one of these sociopaths is gonna get their hands on the wrong AI model and end us all. The necessary precondition of private individuals side stepping democratic control via th
824.
by RGamma 3y ago
I found TeXmacs (not related to (La)TeX) to be quite nice for basic stuff, but haven't dug too deep. Worth trying though.
825.
by RGamma 3y ago
The only sane, permanent solution is to police (prospective) animal owners or traders, who are the actual root cause of such mess. Why should everybody else compensate indefinitely for their lack of care and character?
826.
by RGamma 3y ago
We have taken in two dogs from shi^D^D^D places with feral dog populations (Eastern Europe and Sardinia). Both were ill and heavily traumatized (took me two years before I was able to touch the one of them). It took 2-3 years per dog and
827.
by RGamma 3y ago
I simply pay for it now, since I deem it internet culturally too important to simply give up on it. YT must be feeling pressured by the cost-side of things. Storage doesn't get infinitely cheap after all. But yeah, I download things I
828.
by RGamma 3y ago
Programmers calling themselves software engineers suddenly is a very recent phenomenon (barely a decade). Dunno who pushed that, but it's mostly basically (cognitively difficult) Lego at this point. That said, it's also on the or
829.
by RGamma 3y ago
Due to the frequency these sorts of articles get published the answer is yes.
830.
by RGamma 3y ago
And community servers got even less love than with GO. So much potential wasted here...
831.
by RGamma 3y ago
It did improve my blocklist however
832.
by RGamma 3y ago
I used "inessential" as a shorthand for "expendable when judged by some sensible measure of ecosystem and QoL impact", not in an absolute sense. I.e. antibiotics, home heating or some forms of transport wouldn't be
833.
by RGamma 3y ago
The stubborn refusal to slightly inconvenience ourselves by foregoing inessential consumption is much more telling of our lack of ambition. Fucking up the planet and the non-human life on it is simply too convenient.
834.
by RGamma 3y ago
We must be several Septembers deep by now. Eventually even TikTok lusers may feel that way as well.
835.
by RGamma 3y ago
Care to elaborate/give further pointers on this?
836.
by RGamma 3y ago
On the longer horizon it's probably more useful: Rotting minds, sowing discord, making users depressed, addicted and stupid, derailing culture and public discourse. Not unlike the companies who are in that game already (but for differe
837.
by RGamma 3y ago
Sounds a lot like what you can do with tabular model (PowerPivot) and DAX (measures) in Excel now.
838.
by RGamma 3y ago
As if we're trying really really hard to make those tech dystopias become reality. It's exhausting to witness...
839.
by RGamma 3y ago
With medical doctors in Germany too (numerus clausus has been hovering around 1.0, 1.1 for decades). It's the system saying fuck you to good working conditions for medical professionals and good care conditions for patients. Because th
840.
by RGamma 3y ago
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