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by alluro2 3y ago
Exactly the same, and "wasting" the time is the same sentiment I have. It means I get ~5h of sleep normally, and most of the activities I do in that time are what Tim Urban (in TED talk, "Inside the mind of a procrastinator&q
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by alluro2 3y ago
Just one more subjective datapoint from someone who previously upgraded every 1-2 generations on Intel or AMD mobile platforms and really likes to have the shiny new stuff ("It's TWENTY % faster!"): I have absolutely no need
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by alluro2 3y ago
Ooh, somehow didn't ever think of that - that's definitely the preferred way for me to go about it - thanks!
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by alluro2 3y ago
It sounds appealing - until we start relying on it for more and more for even the menial stuff, we stop bothering to turn it off, and hyper-capitalism/consumerism takes it over. I find this to be quite believable: https://yo
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by alluro2 3y ago
Why not instead imagine spending small 10% of world's annual miltary budget, $150B every year, on any worthy scientific endeavor.
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by alluro2 3y ago
I didn't even need to open the link - Ismo is the shit :) I can also highly recommend the one about eating and children in Africa - my favorite :)
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by alluro2 3y ago
It gets the people going!
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by alluro2 3y ago
https://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-be-a-civilian-durin...
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by alluro2 3y ago
Society would most certainly collapse within months, if judging by how close to it a lot of places got during the pandemic.
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by alluro2 3y ago
It fails on a crucial aspect, of defining an alternative to Mississippis.
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by alluro2 3y ago
We had a couple of these in primary school, as late as early 90s, as part of the "computing section", an extra-curricular activity with a couple of us attending a couple of times a month. We typically practiced BASIC commands and
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by alluro2 3y ago
8GB is hardly good enough for most, with proliferation of Electron apps everywhere and browsers being such memory hogs. I am easily utilizing all of my 32GB just normally running a browser, email client, Slack, database mgmt tool, a couple
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by alluro2 3y ago
I've been someone who used Windows, MacOS and around 20 Linux distros extensively across many laptops / PCs. Always tempering, endless configuration, customization, frustration with Windows instability, MacOS inflexibility or e.g.
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by alluro2 3y ago
Of course not - much more traditional methods - interrogation of their spies on Earth, cuttlefish.
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by alluro2 3y ago
You obviously mean the fake lunar orbiters. And those footsteps are not human anyway, it's the Moonfoot. /s :)
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by alluro2 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, seems excellent
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by alluro2 3y ago
I was hoping for some clever ideas about direction of software / UIs, and new use-cases for LLMs / AI, since for now I'm still struggling and have a lack of vision, it seems. For example, I work on developing a logistics mana
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by alluro2 3y ago
Same here - quick, much more customizable, with good-quality extensions, great ad-blocking... Haven't looked back in years. On Android, they also do things right (ok, subjectively) and keep the address/navigation bar on the bottom
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by alluro2 3y ago
I think it's fairly logical such a title was chosen. Without the ability to determine exact nature of their relationship, this choice - conforming to modern heteronormativity, evoking emotions and sympathy for "the lovers" sh
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by alluro2 3y ago
If you're actually interested in having an informed opinion on the matter, it might be useful finding out more about history of NATO vs USSR, expansion of NATO and dynamic of relationship between NATO and Russia, and EU and Russia in t
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by alluro2 3y ago
Ouch, that's pretty nasty. Also, I couldn't help but be amused by cheekiness: "By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the d
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by alluro2 3y ago
Ouch, that's pretty nasty. Also, I couldn't help but be amused by cheekiness: "By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me. As I got closer, the d
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by alluro2 3y ago
It should not be about who is presenting the argument, but the weight of the argument itself. For example, for balistics: the debate falls onto whether each individual weapon's barrel would leave a uniquely matching trace that can be a
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by alluro2 3y ago
People start complaining something is a monopoly when the business starts squashing potential competition from the position of power, using bully or shady tactics, or screwing their customers by being more and more greedy. In case of Micros
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by alluro2 3y ago
Some of these hurdles and requirements are unbelievably ridiculous and so obviously manufactured by the ISPs that I can't believe anyone seriously thinking it has anything to do with taxpayer protection or whatever they're making
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by alluro2 3y ago
Exactly - I don't understand the argument of "this happened before to people worse off than you, and you are entitled if you complain about it now happening to more people (including you)". Unless we somehow reform the whole
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by alluro2 3y ago
In the socioeconomic utopia we'll build in the meantime?
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by alluro2 3y ago
That's a good point - the current drive to replace human customer service is a second step, after cutting off their ability / power to do anything that's not on the prescribed path. Companies don't want to deal with cust
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by alluro2 3y ago
I'm yet to see prices going down, or at least not going up at the same pace as everywhere else, because a supermarket chain implemented self-checkout. I don't think anyone buys (pun intended) the argument of self-checkout being th
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by alluro2 3y ago
Ukraine is still at war because the west is helping them repel an occupator. Let's say China started supporting people in Guam who want independence, and supplying them with weapons - that would be just and a good thing, right? Because

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