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by SlowTao 1y ago
If by "main measure" you mean what I consider to be the most important thing to me that would be to just live. To 'just be'. That is the real jewel of being in this universe. If life is a race, and this is a big IF, it i
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It was about 15 years back, I remember some reasonably smart but partially anti-renewables folk talking about this. By anti-renewable I would say they were just skeptical with a much higher bar to get over than others. Weren't saying i
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by SlowTao 1y ago
While I still have a pepper mill (stone based grinder), I haven't touched it once since I got a mortar and pestle. It also has the added advantage that I can go completely overboard on black pepper and I love it!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I get there are all manners of ownership under our system, for better or worse, but considering the ownership of plant material is really is a big grey area. But I do like the middle ground provided here. While I don't think people tru
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by SlowTao 1y ago
There has been an idea for a very long time of building an OS and software that targets FPGA systems so it can dynamically change its function for each task. The idea being that it would potentially be faster than a general purpose processo
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by SlowTao 1y ago
There seems to be more movement in the standards space on wireless headphones. The wireless standard today could be very different in 5-10 years time. The 3.5mm jack is over a century old, it isn't being changed dramatically in any way
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Convenience is the biggest drug of them all, if you can break that then you can go a long way to breaking a habit. Even just putting up minor inconvenience can help slow the habit formed behavior. If you have a food addiction, remove all th
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, boat maintenance is an ongoing predicament. It would be nice if you could build it and leave it be but the sea is harsh to all things and maintenance is necessary.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I'm not surprised because of their presence in the community, but I am glad to see Permacomputing mentioned. https://permacomputing.net/
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Personally, when it came to buying a house it was based on something that I could pay down quick and be happy with until my last days. I call it the cottage but it is really just a very small house. But work hours are staggering reasonable
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yep, "out tech is so amazing it will take jobs! Please invest now!"
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by SlowTao 1y ago
You would think, but you would be surprised at how much crap people will put up with in order to get something for free.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Maybe they did, but figured they could still make more money this way.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Embrace, extend, EXPLOIT!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
The cartoon is a 10 out of 10!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I have nothing more to add but... Yep, spot on!
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by SlowTao 1y ago
When the Apple App store came along it was wild seeing how quickly software went from $10 down to 0.99c in the space of less than a year. And then it was only a matter of time before it dropped to zero. Once it hit zero, the tolerance for p
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by SlowTao 1y ago
In a way I am not too worried about the ISA, but having a set boot system that you can target the system with. This is where x86 still wins and ARM have dropped the ball. You can boot something like FreeDOS on an 8086 or the latest i9 with
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yes, this is were I found out it is NOT a good idea to cook your curry in a washing machine.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Some of the best writing on the uses of LSD come from Alan watts. In his early life he said "it was impossible to bottle mysticism" and yet on dropping acid the first time felt like "they have completely bottled mysticism!&qu
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Ram Dass said that back in the 1960's when they were doing study of LSD they would try to randomize/double blind these tests but it was very funny to see. There were one where they had clergy involved and it basically went, one pe
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by SlowTao 1y ago
While the title is jumping the gun a little, it is only a matter of time until I suspect this will be real. Give it maybe 5 years Max. That said, first rule of predictions, don't provide a time frame.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It is funny when you hear the stories behind some of the biggest albums and there is more often than not something like that. It looks odd but the results tend to yield some amazing results. I am not the biggest fan of Wilsons stuff but you
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Now that I can get behind.
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by SlowTao 1y ago
I mean, yeah MS-DOS is barely an OS. It is nearly the bare minimum between hardware and the software on top. I mean you can just write directly to video memory at a whim, just don't write to the memory as it is being read at the same t
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by SlowTao 1y ago
>It's possible this is a case of misremembered details - perhaps your friend is thinking of a different game, a different era of software, or mixing up some details. Or there might be an obscure productivity program I'm not fam
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yeah it definetly needs work. But I hope they do tone it down like Microsoft did with Aero glass effects between Vista and win 7. They are heading in a good direction, it just needs to be toned down. But like any new graphics technology the
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Yes but in a typical western business sense they are merely optimizing for user engadgement and profits. What happens to society a decade from now because of all the slop being produced, that is not their concern. Facebook is just about con
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by SlowTao 1y ago
It is a shame because Android has everything they need to be just as good but its fragmentation as a whole just gets in the way of its potential. I have been using android for maybe 11-12 years and once locked down it great for me. But I su
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by SlowTao 1y ago
Thats interesting. The clock stuff on android has always been the most reliable thing for me. But milage may vary by user. I cannot imagine what it would be like to jump out of the Apple ecosystem nowadays. I left in 2012 and it was difficu

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