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by RichardCA 3y ago
Carl Sagan had quite a bit to say about Astrology. A lot of it was about Kepler, how he was strongly influenced by Astrology and how his mind was like a bridge between the two realities. It's still worth watching: https://vi
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Astrology is important to the extent that it represents the history of Astronomy. If someone can correctly explain the difference between the Tropical and Sidereal Zodiac, that requires a certain level of knowledge and skill. I've been
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by RichardCA 3y ago
The only "gimmick" in Dunkirk was the way Nolan sanitized it to be PG-13. You see German shells hitting soldiers, but the explosions are rendered immaculately. It carries on the tradition of British war movies being suitable for f
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by RichardCA 3y ago
https://youtu.be/ZO5cIjXpnY4 Can be screened on Max/HBO, for now anyways.
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They seem to be implying that it worked like a natural language version of archive.today. They (the AI companies collectively) keep creating powerful tools and then taking them away. If you give people tools, people will use them in ways yo
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by RichardCA 3y ago
David Goodstein in the old PBS Mechanical Universe series gave a good lecture about this. https://youtu.be/eZdUKMDfJ_o?t=1365
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I really think this is all due to the Rocky/NASA deal. Their sales team (IBM/RH) must have freaked out. If Rocky can put a deal like that together then so can Oracle. I felt bad for Mike McGrath when I read his apologetics. The te
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It's a classic IBM strategy that goes all the way back to the old-school days of mainframes and timesharing. And they would love to bring those days back. But they can't because AWS beat them to it and now they have to live in tha
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Last time I tried Fedora was FC35. I came back a few months later and tried to build a kernel module, I couldn't get the RPM's for kernel-devel and kernel-headers to line up correctly. It's exactly these kinds of fiddly detai
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I am in no way a front-end person, but my understanding is that it has to do with React and the way it maintains a virtual copy of the DOM. Having Ctrl-F not work correctly is maddening and I hate it.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
> Most developers still use a hypertext document viewer as the interface for most applications. During the Dot-Com / Web 1.0 era, Javascript was an afterthought, and the naming after Java was a careless mistake. In the 2000's d
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by RichardCA 3y ago
If you check the Glassdoor page for WDAS you will see that situations like that are the norm. Occam's Razor is satisfied without the need to stand up a DEI strawman. But I'm still sorry about your BIL. I have friends who have met
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I always remembered this movie because of the way accents played such an integral part of the story. James Bolam is still a working actor and master of the Geordie accent. https://youtu.be/SxwCU_pD5ME
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by RichardCA 3y ago
My dad was a New Jersey guy and a Stevens Tech grad. He didn't have the accent but he did have the gruff attitude. It took me a while to understand how that rubbed off on me.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
CDE on Sun was a daily driver for my working life through the late 90's / early 2000's. KDE under Linux could be configured to have more or less the same UI semantics. That changed with KDE 4 and a lot of people rejected it.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Rule 34 being what it is, there is an adult version of Westworld called Sexworld (1978) and it's not too shabby, they threw enough budget and production values at it to make it interesting. It explores the theme of what happens when yo
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by RichardCA 3y ago
If your use case is you want IoT isolation, the standard advice is to just use separate SSID's. If you are using one of the routers that has true VLAN support like the AX86U Pro, there are anecdotal reports of people getting it to work
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by RichardCA 3y ago
They will chase after civilians for running unlicensed AI as a way to distract attention from the real threats by state-level actors. So less Neuromancer and more Ghost in the Shell.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
My personal hot-take is we will hit the singularity when it's possible to self-host a truly complex LLM on your own PC or a smart phone. When that convergence takes place (probably a few years out), we will see what the "Killer Ap
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Funny, my Android Auto playlist for "Bach" is actually Wendy Carlos, a CD rip of Switched-on Bach 2000, which she did on an early 90's Mac II using MIDI sequencing. In general I find that 80's and 90's era CD's
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by RichardCA 4y ago
AI generated Techno is already a thing, and I can't tell it apart from actual Techno, as per the xkcd cartoon. https://xkcd.com/411/ Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h1sHVw5K6
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by RichardCA 4y ago
I don't use a camera for video conferencing. I use my last-generation mobile device with the Droidcam app. Plus a goose-neck attachment to hold it to one side of the monitor about 10-20 degrees below eye level. Better picture quality a
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by RichardCA 4y ago
The story of Washoe is arguable more relevant than Koko. I remember seeing this on TV when I was a kid. https://youtu.be/UwZWWsc5xDk The part that starts at 32:00 to around 38:00 is quite interesting, they programmed a PDP-
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by RichardCA 4y ago
I will definitely say that healing has a spiritual dimension to it, and it is a thing that happens to people who have had the worst kinds of trauma. The way it seems to go is that people find others who can help in their healing and there m
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by RichardCA 4y ago
If you believe the God is all-knowing, then it follows that He's not constrained by the linearity of time. This gets you out of the paradoxes that arise around predestination and free will. But I don't think the average Christian
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by RichardCA 4y ago
Since we're all doing hot takes, mine is simply that Google has stopped innovating. It's perfectly reasonable to hold an L9 up to a high standard, like figuring out what the next paradigm shift will be and how do we jump out in fr
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by RichardCA 4y ago
Pro Tip: The 1975 edition of The Joy of Cooking is the one you want. It's the closest thing to a "reference manual for food" that anyone has ever done. When I was in my 20's I was able to teach myself how to roast a turk
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by RichardCA 4y ago
That's not an example of blashpemy. Being an apoligist for hate speech would be more accurately described as a form of heresy.
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Yes, the 90's, when cable TV channels like Showtime could do this type of marginally R-rated SF. https://youtu.be/ntoEHAL3IGg
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Dude, have you ever tried the .gitignore trick? It really does come in handy. And your overall tone was uncalled-for. Cheers.

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