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by aa-jv 2y ago
I think the more prudent approach in the modern age is to simply assume that all states control organizations within their midst with the intention of posing a threat to citizens - foreign and domestic - and a misplaced trust in ones own st
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Do you have your own personal garden? I'm excited about it because its a combination of many things I truly enjoy doing and get a lot of pleasure from - harvesting energy, growing food, seeing life in equilibrium. The integrated growth
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Still seems to me to be an under-appreciated resource. Although, I admit, I've been waiting until Spring to buy a solar oven, so I guess I'm manifesting this reality.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
You can't ignore this fact: The US and Australia partner on Pine Gap, which violates the human rights of literally billions of human beings every single second of the day. Russia and China have a long way to go to catch up.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I will buy my first solar oven this year and I often wonder why we don't harness the suns power more often, more locally, in our daily lives. It seems to me that a parabolic reflector has the power to do a lot of good things - rechargi
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I solve this (really nonsense) issue with Hammerspoon and this simple script: local hyper = {"ctrl", "alt", "cmd"} hs.loadSpoon("MiroWindowsManager") hs.window.animationDuration = 0.3
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I enjoyed writing it, took me back to a much more adventurous era, both personally and professionally. You might find BOFH a worthy soak of attention if you haven't already: https://bofh.bjash.com https://en.wiki
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Actually, Lua exists all over the place, in all kinds of amazing applications - but because Lua is an embeddable VM, you mostly don't know about it that much. Its not exposed because - when you use Lua professionally, you tend to bury
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Early/mid-80's, I was employed as a "junior operator" in a pretty well outfitted computer operations center, the kind with raised tiles and an on-duty human available 24/7 to service international offices' othe
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by aa-jv 2y ago
""I have a last-generation HP-35, which, according to the serial number, was built in the second week of 1973. It was given to me by a friend who used it in the field when he was a surveyor and it shows: the silver bezel is worn,
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Back in the days when having your own tape reel for storing code was a thing (an upgrade from punch-cards), we used to do this .. write the first version of the code, stream it to tape, enhance the code some more, produce a diff, write the
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Indeed, you might be interested in the Artificial Museum project, which has managed to realize that ol' cyberpsace dream all over the place: https://artificialmuseum.com/ For example, check the Vienna map .. so many in
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>NATO has an offensive one. Israel, also.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I'm kind of surprised that TOMY hasn't officially licensed a virtual version of these games - the mechanics seem like they would work great for VR/AR systems, too. But I guess there is something to be said about having kids p
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by aa-jv 2y ago
You can see all of the games linked together on the Japanese site: https://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/athleticlandgame/ Also quite impressive, the linkage is backwards compatible with all of the previously-rele
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by aa-jv 2y ago
As a fan of Oblomov, have you tuned into Spike Milligan? His life work has a lot of relevance to the notion of oral culture inasmuch as Spike was a superlative orator and racounteur, and I think - if you don't know of Spikes' rela
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I got bit by this bug some years ago. I can suggest you get a machine dedicated to the task of running only flightsims. ;) You're going to need disk space and GPU. My current "flight" laptop is a mid-spec gaming system from
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Never skimp analysis of issues. Assuming you know everything you need to know is a huge cause of time budget overrun.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I'm from Perth, one of the windiest cities in the world, and had a very similar situation landing once, a few years ago .. seemed like we were on center runway, everything seemed fine for smooth landing, and .. what felt like meters be
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by aa-jv 2y ago
This is one of my pet frustrations, and I've solved it over the years with a very specific software development workflow, which all issues in my project go through. The states, which many of you may recognize: ANALYSIS, REQUIREMENTS, S
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Great suggestion! I will consider the possibilities.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Love these old stories. Back in the 80's in Southern California, I remember making weekly trips to the local "Software Bank" shops, wherein thousands of floppy disks full of shareware and other goodies was traded, record-shop
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I work in the pro audio world, and have had many opportunities over the years to participate in the design review process for multiple synthesizer musical instruments. One of the most common issues that gets people riled up is Fitts Law: h
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Which distribution?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Would be interesting to know your hardware setup, distro, etc. Not all pipewires' are considered equal.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Its not perfect. Bugs, instability, crashing, latency .. compatibility issues, difficult to configure at first .. bluetooth audio is lower quality than it could be (AptX and LDAC codes unsupported) .. performance is not that great compared
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by aa-jv 2y ago
The Reverend Pastor Manul Laphroaig at Alchemist Owl is responsible for a lot of this madness: https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/ I confess to having become a fan long, long ago ..
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by aa-jv 2y ago
A few decades back we had the ability to cryogenically freeze processes, save them to storage, move the bins to another system, and defrost them to be run again. This was a great feature that I had hoped would make its way into mainstream
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by aa-jv 2y ago
The part where participating in collective cowardice overwhelms the individual will to seek truth.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>There is clearly no specific leverage that one of the world's smallest ethnic groups has over the world's most powerful nation This is not so clear as you think. Israel is a nuclear-armed state that is not a participant in th

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