RuggedPineapple

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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Last year we have info for, last year, ads made up over 90% of revenue for them.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Nobody, and let me be clear, absolutely nobody should take Loeb's word for anything at all. His schtick for the last half decade or so is a dressed up 'God of the Gaps' argument, where everything he can't explain is alie
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
When your work is as a scientist, and you want to be judged as a scientist, your work being pseudoscience is not superficial. That's like saying pointing out your accountant is facing tax fraud charges isn't germane to his work as
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Just as more context, his body of work overall is exceptional. He's been a Harvard professor for 30 years, he didn't get that position by accident. He's taken the Linus Pauling career path the last few years though, which is
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I'm rather sympathetic to the issue in general, but it's comical coming from Loeb. He's been steadily pushing into at the very least fringe territory, and at the worst outright pseudoscience and quackery. He's mad people
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
It will actively invent fake sources. Ask it to write a Wikipedia article with references and it makes up fake ones that sound like real things.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I think this is exactly right for reasons that weren't important to the base story. The year after the story they moved to these Cisco VoIP phones that plugged into Ethernet directly, which seems odd considering they had just recently
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
This is 20 year old memories so I may have some of the details wrong, but the gist was the school had rolled out an early IP telephony solution and the landlines were just rj-11 patch cables into a monolithic IP telephony box that assigned
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
In 2000 or 2001 I ended up having to crash at my high school one night. Rehearsal had gone late, till 11 or midnight, and I was stuck. Not that big of a deal, the drama department had everything I needed. Showers, beds, clothes. It was fine
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Even a non-profit needs to focus on profitability, otherwise it's not going to exist for very long. All 'non-profit' means is it's prohibited from distributing its profit to shareholders. Ownership of a non-profit doesn&
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
It's mostly a thing among the youngs I feel. Anybody old enough to remember the same 'OMG its going to change the world' cycles around AI every two or three decades knows better. The field is not actually advancing. It still
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
lol, I just figured out I'm being trolled. It was subtle at first, but you went a little over the top with the comic book guy style 'well akshully' stuff at the end that let me suss it out, but you really did have me going fo
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
If it's not for you its not for you, but pretending that a keyboard shortcut of alt plus a key is somehow an entirely different concept and outside the realm of alternative is pretty hilarious.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Alt+up arrow gets you to the parent directory. Alt+left arrow gets you to the previous folder in the history. Ctrl+tab gets you to the next tab, or ctrl+[number] to go directly to a specific tab.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I can on a Pixel 7 pro. Did for a while before deciding it was useful and wanted it but didn't like it trying to pop up, so I went from disabled, to off by default but callable by dragging from one of the bottom corners and requiring m
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Granted I got into them well after the two Pilot models (I think a Palm III was my first, followed by a V, and then an m515) but they were always very responsive. Far more then a m68k processor running at 20 mhz had any right to feel.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
With some caveats. I've run used chromebooks as my only laptop for about 5 or 6 years now. You have to undo write protection (usually a screw on the motherboard) and flash an aftermarket firmware.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
>Given that there are quite a lot of manufacturers, and many models of car, no one manufacturer or model is much more than that You're comparing manufacturers and individual models to an entire market segment. That electric vehicle
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
The only country I'm aware of where electric cars are more then a single digit percentage of total vehicles is Norway.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
You're not even a little bit tickled that NetBSD runs and supports the VAX, a computer released in the 70s? Get excited about your project, man. I'm sure you're a fantastic developer, but you're an absolutely terrible ev
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Have you looked through it's supported platforms list? There's current support for a handheld PDA from 1997, and several flavors of 16 bit Motorola 68k based system. Systems that haven't had an official Unix port in 30+ years
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I feel bad because NetBSD is a stable, mature and well supported OS with a multitude of positives. Do I associate it with any of those things? Absolutely not. The sole thing that NetBSD sticks in my head for is its what you use when you wan
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Not only exist, but sell at higher quantities then they ever had. When you need near absolute faith in archived data there's not much else that competes. Longer expected life then drives by close to an order of magnitude.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
Hah, cryptocurrency still desperately hoping to identify a problem it can solve. No thank you.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I actually appreciate you coming back to acknowledge your mistake.
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I remember I used SuSE for ages based solely on how good Yast and Yast2 were. Its almost quaint to remember how Linux was back in the day, where an installer/setup tool that actually managed to make your system fully usable and configu
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure would be needed. The circumstances of his death are tragic but also pretty much what I expect from someone in his position. The tendency among the tech community is to think expertise and intelligence applies acro
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
The rest of your comment is a perfectly valid way of looking at things, so I'm not going to contest it. I think my comment stands and you have a different take, which is totally fine. We don't have to agree. But I did note this se
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
They've also been advertising it pretty extensively for quite a while. I signed up close to a year ago I think. At the end of the day they aren't required to cover every edge case or possible contingency. Like the other person sai
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by RuggedPineapple 3y ago
That is incredibly cool, but unless I'm mistaken it's not doing any windowing/arbitrary drawing. Everything is full screen, so elements can be plotted out in advance by the designer to work with sprite restrictions.

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