Towaway69

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by Towaway69 1mo ago
> Europe is at least trying Which is interesting since who are the investors and what exactly are their roles? Samsung - European? BlackRock - European? Salesforce Ventures - European? Etc. So yes it might well be > [...] the largest
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
That’s at least a choice. The USA has a choice between two parties - democrat or republican. China only has one party, Russian has (in principle) one party and North Korea only has one dictator. So if these places got a second party or dict
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Art is a word, Craft is a word, this line is a sentence, and the whole text is a paragraph. Does any of it really matter? A Urinal[1] can be Art. A collection of programs[2] can be Art. Why? Because we define it as such. Art isn't clea
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
What revived me was doing visual coding using Node-RED[1] - remember Yahoo Pipes? Great fun doing stuff "visually" by connecting the rectangles with the lines! That brings me joy after 30+ years of typing at the keyboard. In the e
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Beware the Roko's basilisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
> Don't make your addiction my problem Don't make your complaint to my reading. If your annoyed about someone complaining about their addiction, don't read it and certainly don't tell me about your problems when you c
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
"Trump is your president, don't make his problems to mine. If you vote for a shit president then keep him for yourselves and don't let him escape his sandbox." Spot the five differences.
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
As Greenland is being oppressed by the EU and needs saving by the US of A. The truth is malleable, it just depends on the filter bubble.
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
But invading their territory unasked is. But, hey once they’re all dead, there won’t be anyone to complain. So who cares right, as long as the title is correct “influencers invade territories of isolated tribes bring disease and death”.
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
It seems to be AI coded (see other comments) so, unlike codeberg, this will probably accept vibe coded AI code.
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Any relation to Alexander Pushkin? ;) He was also a European…
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
> We plan to reduce low-quality contributions Ironic really because that was the original idea behind Git - to build a tree of trusted developers for the Linux kernel. Linus has those immediately below him that he trusts will push good q
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Speaking of UK, I was immediately reminded of the Blackadder episode where the men-servant calls herself “Bob”. Rowan Atkinsons pronunciation is how I imagine this Bob to pronounced, with the same look of course!
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Reading this and having had the same feelings/experiences, my knee-jerk reaction was to say that it's the sheer volume of folks doing exactly the same that you and I are doing. The internet/social media is designed to give us
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
I didn't mean whether folks know the technology, I meant more whether folks interacted with that technology. And even better, thought that the technology was absolutely amazing! The feeling of B/W TVs being the bees-knees is n
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
TIL: > Eutrapelia comes from the Greek for "wittiness" (Ancient Greek: εὐτραπελία, romanized: eutrapelia) and refers to pleasantness in conversation, with ease and a good sense of humor. It is one of Aristotle's virtues, b
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
B/W TVs is still the reason why football teams (the soccer kind) have two different jerseys - one light and one dark. So when two teams play, one in their light and the other in their dark jersey. Hence also stripes are important. Gott
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
I’ve installed my AI on my local hardware (that I own!) and play around with it there. So there is less of the “I’m the product” feeling for me. Of course, I’m not using fable or the latest top of the line AI but neither was that the case w
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
> The magic in the air in those days will never be replicated. You say it “magic”, it wasn’t “better” or “different” or “worse”, it was a kind of magic that happens when tech is new and folks experiment. I’m sure many will look back in 4
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
That raises the question, what came first: maths or evolution? Of course we can apply the laws of physics and the theories of maths onto everything we see and experience around us but does that make them so - those experiences. > What ha
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
This is relative. In two generations, the concept of "master craftsman" and longevity will have been forgotten and short term thinking will the be "norm". It is only because we know and can compare that we judge. Remembe
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
You speak of tacit knowledge[1] Worse is that they who have the knowledge don't realise that others don't know what they know, it's completely automatic and ingrained to the owner. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Perhaps german culture is to blame, one of "Schadenfreude" and of "Verbieten" and of "Authority knows best" and no one seriously challenging those in "Authority". Germany is still a very much top-down
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
And that's your opinion and that opinion counts in whose reality? Certainly not mine. I see neither facts nor references in what you say. So it's definitely a personal PoV that you take and you may do that. Just don't force i
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
How could this have been prevented? Serious question that anyone familiar with the "Verwaltung" (Administration) here in Berlin should ask themselves. Because the fact is, it couldn't have been. For one thing, how does one an
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
Who is being anti-social? Those that gleefully damning Berlin for its incompetence or those that caused the incompetence? The politicians who go play tennis while Berlin burns?[0] Politics in Germany and Berlin specifically has been extrem
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by Towaway69 1mo ago
That‘ll teach the bad guys! Pity about all those that will have their private data auctioned off. I‘m sure that the good guys will catch the badies in the nick of time to prevent a data auction. Just in time for a good game of tennis and a
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
Approximately 100 years ago one would have said the same for the UK. Unfortunately the Empire crumbled and the Brits got Magic Thatcher. So perhaps the UK was wrong in joining in the first place.
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by Towaway69 2mo ago
This reminds me of a recent vote in the EU parlament where the No vote had to reach a certain value above 50% to carry the day. Even though the vote did end up with a No majority, it passed because the No vote didn't reach the required

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