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by ars 1y ago
There's an aspect of fun and tinkering that is gone. You can't usually change those apps or use them in ways not intended by the maker.
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by ars 1y ago
I've noticed this exact same thing. And I too just gave up. People have their pet causes and they force the article to match, and normal, non-obsessed people give up. Any controversial topic should never be read on Wikipedia, it will n
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by ars 1y ago
Did I, or did I not, have the option to fast, or not to fast? Did I then pick one? How is that not proof of a choice? Who or what else made that choice if not me? If you poke me with a needle, I move, that is not a choice because it's
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by ars 1y ago
If you can't do anything with your self awareness it's equivalent to not having it. What's the distinction between knowing I exist, but all my actions are pre-programmed vs not knowing I exist? You're essentially describ
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by ars 1y ago
You are simultaneously claiming you can prove an animal made a choice, but I didn't? That's a contradiction. In any case, a mirror test is a test of recognizing self, it does not indicate anything in terms of self awareness. And I
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by ars 1y ago
Here's another example: When I look at something I "see" the functionality behind it (for example the pipes in the bathroom), or the chemical reaction, or sometimes even the concept of the atoms that make it up. An interior d
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by ars 1y ago
Consciousness is awareness of yourself, and then the ability to look at yourself and decide to make a change. Someone conscious is able to choose how they want to behave and then behave that way. For example I can choose to be kind or mean.
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by ars 1y ago
If you have checksum errors reading data from disk, you have much worse issues than ram corruption. Any program you launch will probably be corrupted. Although if you do swap on a server (and you should), the swap needs to be on a raid, oth
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by ars 1y ago
LibreOffice can open AppleWorks files from 1984. And if it couldn't, you could run these old programs in a VM, and I expect that to continue essentially forever, so I see no future problem viewings these browser files.
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by ars 1y ago
Version control can be very simple. Not everything requires the full power of git. Use ci from RCS, and that's about it. It makes a single file in the same directly as the file, no need to checkout files, or keep track of, well, anyt
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by ars 1y ago
You add a random number to the encryption key, and also send that random number (seed) as part of the message. Boiled down to the very essence modern cryptography is: Using a secret seed plus a public seed, generate a long random number (of
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by ars 1y ago
It's not about insufficient ram, it's about reserving ram for much more important things: cache. This changes puts the least important data in ram - temp files - while evicting much more important cache data.
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by ars 1y ago
Reading it back from a filesystem is much much faster than reading it back from swap.
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by ars 1y ago
You wrote your comment like it was a rebuttal of the person above you, but the text supports what they said: A filesystem is faster than swap for this. What was your intent?
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by ars 1y ago
File is tmpfs will swap out if your system is under memory pressure. If that happens, reading the file back is DRAMATICALLY slower than if you had just stored the file on disk in the first place. This change is not going to speed things up
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by ars 1y ago
> There was no suicide hotline offered either. The article says there was and he always worked around it.
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by ars 1y ago
Android has directories (folders), and it doesn't pretend they don't exist. If you go to "Collections" -> "Photos on Device" it then shows separate folders "Camera", "WhatsApp Videos", &q
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by ars 1y ago
It's most common in places with lots of elderly or homeless, both groups find these carts very useful and will simply take them, homeless to keep, elderly to abandon near their home once they have transported their groceries. It's
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by ars 1y ago
That doesn't fix it, that just means I don't see WhatsApp photos. I want the two photos in different places.
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by ars 1y ago
> The iphone 16's camera bump is 3.5mm. Why even have a bump? Make the phone thicker by exactly that amount and increase the battery. Then the phone is flat and has a better battery life. Are there uses who actually prefer a bump?
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by ars 1y ago
I have discovered a truly marvelous solution to this code, which this text box is too small to contain.
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by ars 1y ago
It's not just rent, it's also transportation. Transporting young kids with a car is easy, public transportation is much harder until they are 10 or so. For example try transporting a sleepy kid, or more than 1 young kid at the sam
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by ars 1y ago
Something the article sort of implies but in an unclear way - do vehicles sold in other countries still get assigned a VIN?
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by ars 1y ago
COVID harmed most industries that rely on manual labor. Suggested reasons vary, one is that people discovered they could do mental-work, and preferred it (and apparently it never occurred to them before). Another reason is many retirements
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by ars 1y ago
This has been found over and over, the more traffic control devices the worse the driving.
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by ars 1y ago
Universal between languages maybe, but certainly not universal between individual speakers.
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by ars 1y ago
UN reports aren't useful for journalists because they are basically popularity contests between countries. The information in the report mostly just reflects the interests of the country preparing it, or who has a majority seat on the
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by ars 1y ago
> Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch declared a genocide over a year and a half ago Isn't that the point? They declared a genocide before Israel had even seriously responded to the attack. (Year and a half ago is Dec 2023,
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by ars 1y ago
Why are they calling for a ceasefire instead of for Hamas to surrender?
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by ars 1y ago
Is it really that hard? Go see the stats on how much food GHF distributed, then add in the UN brings in (which never stopped). Then go look at photos of fat healthy people holding starving kids, and wonder how that's even possible. If

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