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by adamwong246 2y ago
Good grief, just make me a smaller phone. Like, the size of pack of playing cards would be perfect. Just big enough to be useful, not big enough to be distracting.
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by adamwong246 2y ago
I wish I could run a few of these experiments. Like, what if you continuously increase the size of the pen? What if you introduce some sort of predator or limit the food? What if you give the rats birth control so you can prevent the "
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by adamwong246 2y ago
This is the only sane approach. I have reduced my smartphone to a dumb-phone just by removing the apps that suck my attention. But the worst is youtube. You can live without social media but YT has become such a cornerstone that you cannot
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by adamwong246 2y ago
I, too, am not a lawyer but I believe that FB _ought_ to be "insulated from liability for the content they publish and promote" because I don't want them to be arbiters of truth. Humans need to decide for themselves whats tru
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by adamwong246 2y ago
I consider the "host your own software" approach akin to being a linux user, so I am already accustomed to being in a minority. People love frictionless UX which the FOSS lifestyle really can never provide. So perhaps we can settl
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by adamwong246 2y ago
In this context, I am referring to the bill you'd get from AWS, not your internet utility provider.
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by adamwong246 2y ago
We need to go back to "the old ways", that is, people just need to pay to use the internet. Compute and storage has never been cheaper. Instead of a service subsidized with ads, we each host our own software and just pay AWS (or w
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by adamwong246 2y ago
It is still unclear to me how we expect these platforms to filter "misinformation" given that 1) It's not in Meta's interest 2) who gets to decide what is and is not fake news ie "who watches the watchman"? and
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by adamwong246 2y ago
https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex
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by adamwong246 3y ago
When I clicked that link, I heard a lot of horrible noise and saw some racial epithet spam in a chat box. Was that supposed to happen? Anyways, 10/10 would click again.
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Calling Mars our back-up planet is beyond foolish. If humans cannot manage Earth, they certainly cannot manage the airless, frozen radioactive desert that is Mars. Do you think that these Martian colonist will be substantially wiser than Ea
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Surely you understand that the danger that climate change poses is not "heat exhaustion"?
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Such an event would render swaths of the planet truly uninhabitable and much more land un-farmable. Humanity must abandon the tropics entirely. Every costal city is now 300 feet underwater. Billions die in mass migrations and wars on a scal
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Well, it's not organized when you print it. It self-organizes as you train it. Yes, it is like melting sand into a pile, but this is magic sand that can re-organize itself over time.
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by adamwong246 3y ago
How are we going to order our society when none of us can compete with machines? It used to be that everyone could contribute something- even grandma could churn butter and dullards could pull a plow. But technology has made it so that only
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by adamwong246 3y ago
No.
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by adamwong246 3y ago
It is true, and it is the rotting heart of the matter. Religious rites aside, this is the reason that the practice persists to this day. The very same doctors who take the Hippocratic Oath get a nice payday for every foreskin removed. The r
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Let's remove their teeth next, so they don't get cavities.
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by adamwong246 3y ago
It's remarkable to me that this persists. Who are these ghouls that look at a newborn infant and say with straight face, "Lets cut a piece of his penis off"?
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by adamwong246 3y ago
A modest proposal: Why don't we just remove the child's genitals entirely? That ought to decrease their chances of catching an STI substantially.
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by adamwong246 3y ago
I don't want a nokia, I want a smartphone without the malware (ie FB, X, IG) because it's not's not the phone, it's the social apps. I like being able to take photos, even watch video when I need to. It's useful to
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by adamwong246 3y ago
The zeitgeist is turning anti-phone. Most people are aware of all the harm their apps cause and their phone is a major conduit to FB, IG, YT, TikTok, X/Twitter and what-have-you. iPhones were neat 10 years ago but now, people are wakin
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by adamwong246 3y ago
“Only women, children, and dogs are loved unconditionally” ~ Chris Rock Lots of yakking it up about how sad men are but it's all so disingenuous. My experience leads to me to believe that the moment a man asks for help is the moment he
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by adamwong246 3y ago
I mean, what do you expect them to be working on, Nuclear Fusion? "Novel problems" make up the tiny minority of all work. The really hard problems are either already solved or lie beyond the reach of the average javascripter. And
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by adamwong246 3y ago
When I was a little boy, we didn't get food delivered to our cubes by Gammas. Instead, we could leave our cubes anytime we wanted. We'd go to places called "grocery stores" to buy food wasn't even cooked yet! Then w
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by adamwong246 3y ago
It's a consequence of the underlying engine. The base engine approximates a lot of things in a way that destroys the distinction between multiple items. This is the secret to Factorio's huge scale- it doesn't model each indiv
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by adamwong246 3y ago
It's basically impossible to track individual items in that way. Ask me how I know!
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by adamwong246 3y ago
Reading GEB is sort of like getting a comp sci degree- You learn what can and cannot be done with computers. There are a lot of folks who learned coding by doing, but there is deeper knowledge. It's the the difference between going to
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by adamwong246 3y ago
It's not a book about programming but every programmer should read Godel-Escher-Bach
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by adamwong246 3y ago
American orphan waifs are DEMANDING another bowl of porridge.

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