RiverCrochet

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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Slavery is actually legal. The 13th Amendment banning it has the explicit exception "except as punishment for a crime". Prison labor is used by a number of industries.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
My theory: UNIX was developed originally on a DEC PDP-7. I'm not a PDP-7 assembly language expert but there's many instructions that take action if the accumulator is 0. So if a specific UID value has to be special, it's prob
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Many people love me, and I love many people. Love exists outside of exclusive sexual relationships and/or ones designed to encourage breeding.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Cuba went through something similar in 1991: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Period
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Windows 7 had a good chance of being installed on spinning disks. I think even the cheapo Win11 systems at Walmart have SSDs now.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
DNA is technically data, right?
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
> without men and women having reasons to be in relationships--especially long-term reasons--then relationships won't happen. I'm actually fine with this. I'm not sure I want to be around the same person constantly for lon
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Why can't this happen now without AI? - Certainly the current population level isn't needed to support the current number of billionaires. Isn't there about 1000 right now? I probably eat more than 2 or 3 of them. - What happ
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
When AI takes all jobs, how are the taxes gonna be paid?
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
> Let's ignore the potential job loss implications, and consuming AI-generated content/slop... why do people hate using AI so much? is like saying > Let's ignore the loss of life, and excruciating pain... why do people
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Web browsers turned into application engines because it was a path to get useable software on PCs without having to deal with Microsoft. IE6 stayed broken forever for a reason. Now, they enable applications to exist without going through ap
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Every state it seems. I found this link informative. https://www.ncsl.org/human-services/license-restrictions-for...
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
If every TV channel is static, watching TV is not productive, and the correct thing to do is stop watching TV.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
The "couch potato" force that in the past, made people sit on their couches and watch hours of TV simply because it was the easiest thing for them to do. It's fine though. Low-effort people deserve low-effort content. Maybe t
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
I never understood this line of logic: - X doesn't pay child support because X lost their job. - X gets their driver's license revoked because they missed child support payments. So ... how are you supposed to find a new job with
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
My sister had an interesting take on this: "These countries also directly take care of their citizens, which I think is an important factor. Other societies will let you be homeless and say it is your fault for being broke even when em
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Many NICs have embedded ARM or other CPU cores (sometimes multiple) to do offloading, and the OS NIC driver contains code to be run on them.
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
Realistically speaking, why is that a problem? What is the point of money if not enjoyment? If these people enjoy it, what's wrong with it? Mark finds $100,000 (something good for Mark), then finds out it's the inheritance of a fa
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by RiverCrochet 5mo ago
You hear a song with vocals that strongly emotionally resonate with you, reminding you of your mother who passed away recently after a long terrible illness. You want to know more about the singer that almost brought you to tears, only to f
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
- the 56k modem must be liquid or ground up into a fine powder. the liquid route will be safer. - the liquid or fine powder must be inside of a can or bottle for alcoholic beverages. - for best results secure 1 or more homie(s) to occupy th
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
My brother's cousin says anytime someone is hiring for this type of work (warehouse, stocking, other retail) and really needs people during a holiday rush, the interview is often nothing more than gathering data used to verify work eli
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
> Perhaps if one was just the right age at just the right time, the Internet Was a Place, but for anyone before and anyone after it was just was and just is. This is well put and I agree. I think there was a unique set of factors that ma
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
New normal. Hardware is going to progress but increasingly be out of reach of the average person. Why: A) The relationships and assumed truths that supported the pre-2016 supply chains which enabled cheap hardware are disintegrating. B) Tec
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
If you are an "anthrope" (human), then the position of hating humans (misanthropia) is inherently contradictory, hence not valid. Disliking/not wanting to be part of what groups of people do is valid, and striving to keep you
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
XOR can do everything in 1 cycle (which is hopefully far, far less than the clock). SUB-if done the simple way-has to take n cycles where n is the number of bits subtracted.
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
XOR is a simple logic-gate operation. SUB would have to be an ALU operation. A one-bit adder (which is subtraction in reverse) makes signals pass through two gates. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
Most of the bitching about IPv6 is from those who really, really want IP addresses to identify machines or users. IP addresses (including IPv4) were never intended to do that and it was never a good idea to put them in that position. There
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
For now, :) Hopefully it continues. > if IPv6 prevents IPv4 rental prices from going haywire, then it's served a useful purpose. Competition is good.
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
> It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. This adoption rate is ridiculous despite basically all network interfaces supporting it It's fine. IPv4 and IPv6 can be used at the same time. There's no hurry. Network
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by RiverCrochet 6mo ago
Well, even if there was a standard, that's still not a guarantee that the other side of the /64 would be following it. It's correct for you to rate-limit the whole /64.

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