SwellJoe

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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Yes, definitely. It's just another spin on the same idea 60 years later...a few things have changed since then, so I think there's room for another take. (And, I'm not the first to mine the territory since then.)
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
No 6502, either. There aren't many 8 bit CPUs that are considered a reasonable platform for any UNIX. Which is why I think I'd prefer 68000 family. It's "modern enough" to use with modern compilers and operating sys
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Yeah, part of keeping old computers (and synthesizers, another interest of mine) running is re-capping. Modern caps last longer than the stuff from the 70s and early 80s, but still maybe needs consideration. I don't actually know much
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
The core premise of the story is that the people who have tech have access to a copy of WikiPedia, or some portion of it, which is like a super power in a post-tech world. Even if it is only used periodically (to prevent wear and tear on th
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It's extremely common, even today, though probably not the processor I would pick (I think 68000 family, perhaps?), but it's probably a reasonable choice. You're going to be able to find it embedded in literally millions of d
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I've been sort of half-assed working on a novel about a post-tech future (100+ years after apocalypse), where a handful of people retained some technology by virtue of having stored information about it in a manner that survived and a
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Scientists Solve a Puzzle: What’s in a Fatberg(nytimes.com)
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
That's not my experience (I've loved punk for decades, have played in punk bands, etc.). There is a pretty strong reverence for the roots and evolution of punk among, at least, the musicians who make the music. I recommend reading
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
> I'd liken it to nuking would-be nuclear powers to prevent further problems. So, when you wrote this, did the idea of using nuclear weapons preemptively seem like an obviously good idea, to you?
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
The comment I responded to did not add substantively to the discussion, and I pointed out why. I am not "policing" anything. I have no power to arrest someone or censor someone for being an asshole online. I expressed an opinion a
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Steve Jobs was diagnosed, by his doctor, relatively early, as pancreatic cancer diagnoses go (many people only discover it when they have weeks or months to live, and there are no effective treatment options...five year survival rate for pa
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I've seen a lot of people say stuff like this, but it's kinda gross. If you want to criticize things someone has said about their diet and health practices, that's fine (and hopefully, you'll cite sources for why they&#x
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
And? Fossil fuel power plant efficiency is only ~30-40%, and the waste is disastrous. Building solar power generation is now competitive or cheaper than fossil fuel even with the low efficiency of panels. So...yeah, it'd be fantastic
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Your comment is misleading. Solar and wind are literally cheaper than fossil fuels today ( https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25032019/coal-energy-cost... ). Even if we want to punt on going wholly green and kee
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
"And whatever happened to the free market?" In Texas? With regard to fossil fuels? Oil owns the government in Texas, and the market is regulated to suit them.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I'm not opposed to nuclear, but that's not an option on the table, either. In Texas, fossil fuel is God, and nothing that would impede it will be tolerated, even when there are more cost effective and less environmentally destruct
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It's not being collected, at all. Sun hits dirt, wind blows by. Decades of externalizing oil and gas costs have made it seem like fossil fuels are cheaper than renewables, so renewables have not been deployed widely, even in a state li
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
You know what's worse than the gas flare offs? Nearly 100% of solar power, of which there is a tremendous amount in Texas in the summer, is going to waste. Most of the wind, of which there's a lot in the plains of west Texas and t
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Um...no? Why would I do that? It's on my phone...with a moving dot where I am on the map, and a tiny lady in there that can tell me when to turn. I'm genuinely confused by this...what are you getting at?
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
This quote is particularly biting: "It became clearer than ever to me that while Linux and FOSS had won the battle over the tech giants a decade before, new ones had taken their place in the meantime, and we were letting them win.&quot
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I'm not sure which is the wheelbarrow in your analogy.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Perl knowledge has been extremely valuable for me, but I first learned it when it was still the scripting language of choice for just about everything (web, CLI, one-liners, etc.). Even Perl 5 is multi-paradigm and that's been helpfu
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
That may be. I'm also pretty ignorant about Alaska's economy and how that dividend impacts low income communities. It just seems petty to yank this money from students at the last minute like this...and, also bad for the future of
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Since it's a peltier device rather than a compressor/blower design, it is more aligned with Sony's historic electronics experience, I think. Then again, Sony has made tons of electromechanical devices over the years, I don&#x
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
According to the FAQ if more than $31 million in claims are made, the amount of the payment will be reduced. So, the number of people who can receive $125 is ~250,000. I can't imagine they'll get fewer claims than that given how m
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
It's reflection plus air flow. Sunlight is blocked from reaching and warming the roof, while warm air rising at the top of the roof will pull in cooler air from the bottom, leading to surface cooling (sort of an accidental half-assed s
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
That doesn't make any sense, and I don't see any evidence that people are (or could) use global warming to "make a quick buck". "I hope you don't believe that one side of the debate is all good and another one
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I thought we were having a serious/sincere conversation.
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
Climate change is the result of (mostly) unregulated profit-seeking. Not merely a lack of worry about long-term effects of our actions. It isn't accidental...we knew decades ago that there were consequences, but a few people with a lot
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by SwellJoe 7y ago
I think it's an unpopular opinion because there's no evidence that states will "over-do" any climate action. So far, climate action is almost entirely theoretical. States are doing effectively nothing to counter climat

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