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by bluescrn 3y ago
'Family' and 'Apartment' are words that don't go very well together. Children/large families can be noisy. And they benefit from safe outdoor space to play. For the childless WFH-er trying to concentrate, it&#x
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I'd extend that way beyond that, to anything done on a company system/network/device. If you need privacy, use your personal phone (and don't connect it to the company wifi)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
A representative democracy ends up representing the money, not the people
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by bluescrn 3y ago
For some definitions of 'liberal'
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's only half a Twitter. Elon could have bought two...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
We don't need to stop reproducing entirely, but getting the rate down would surely be beneficial. We're stuck on a finite planet with diminishing natural resources. Endless growth isn't possible.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
What is the goal of humanity? To maximise quality of life, maximise duration of life, or maximise the numer of humans? At the moment, we seem to be aiming for 'maximum number of humans'. But in a world of climate crisis and deplet
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> The idea that you’re inherently better off not having kids is nonsense. We're in a world where we constantly told that we have to give up meat/dairy, powered transport, heating/cooling, and a whole lot more to avert clim
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Doom released about 1 year after the A1200. Then it seemed that most of the top Amiga development talent focused their efforts on trying to imitate Doom on the Amiga, with minimal success, rather than making the most of what AGA Amigas were
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Wasn't there a better name that could have been used for these things? One that wasn't already used for an extremely common electrical device, as well as a toy/movie franchise?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Most Amiga users - at least the home computing/gaming enthusiasts - never saw a big-box Amiga back in the day. To most users, 'The Amiga' was the A500, which released in '87 and reached peak popularity in the very late 8
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's just not practical to enforce a cap though. Even with a very authoritarian world government to stop people moving assets elsewhere, there'll be too many ways around it. So you can only have $15mil of assets? But your partner
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Not with the PiStorm32 Lite that I've got. Seemed to run OK with a Pi 4 on an original Commodore PSU, or at least nothing appears to have blown up or melted when running it for short periods. Maybe I'm pushing my luck, but then ag
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Many Amigas also have a Raspberry Pi inside them these days, for the PiStorm accelerator, which increases the +5V current requirements a fair bit.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The A1200 at least will actually function without -12V, but the audio will be bad. I had crackly audio problems. I swapped the A1200 motherboard (a few years back when they were still fairly cheap on eBay), and still had the same audio prob
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by bluescrn 3y ago
In the same position. There's very few 'green tech' options for apartment dwellers. It all has the prerequisite of owning a large and very expensive home. You need significant space for a solar(+battery) installation. Or for
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Yes, if we all lived in city-centre 'WFH pods' eating bug paste we could get infrastructure costs and environmental impact way down! Then we could breed more humans, and 'growth' continues! (for some definitions of &#x27
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It's more that small e-ink devices are completely unsuitable for reading content that demands a fixed layout designed for large pages, often with multi-column text and lots of photos/artwork/diagrams.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They've been gaining a reputation for banning artists/bands who are on the 'wrong side' of politics without notice or explanation. I guess many people will cheer that on these days, though. Conformity is the new punk?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Cameras and social media also spread the idea that crime pays, that you can brazenly loot a store or a rob a train, and probably get away with it.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Property and violent crime is predominantly caused by economic inequality combined with weak law enforcement. It's not just that the percieved reward is increasing, it's that the risk appears to be decreasing.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If you can hack it, you can surely figure out ways to disable its wireless connectivity
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The batteries don't have 7 years of useful life, though. And replacing them is made intentionally difficult to encourage people to just upgrade instead. A lot of people don't live near an Apple store, and few people are prepared t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> I'm not sure what Apple would bring to cars The world's first non-repairable car. Minor fault, major accident, or inevitably-degraded battery? No problem!, just throw it away and buy the latest model, like you would with a ph
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And London's ULEZ cameras have created a whole new form of crime. Activists felling them like trees, or vandalising them in other creative ways. Probably causing collateral damage to traffic lights and cameras used for other purposes i
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by bluescrn 3y ago
All depends on the viewing distance. It can probably simulate a 4K display with you face very close to it. Or a 1000m wide 4K display 100m away from you. But in both cases you'll have to look around a lot to see the whole thing. A real
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Ever tried reading small text in VR? Imagine text that's already somewhat low-res and then been scaled and rotated a bit. Soft, blurry. The vertical and horizontal of the pixel grid are no longer vertical or horizontal if you've g
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And how does that 4% compare to previous/alternative methods of data acquisition, storage, and transportation? Producing, storing, and shipping masses of paper documents (and related printing equipment) isn't particularly efficien
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Post-scarcity can't really happen on a very finite planet with a huge and growing population. Even if we had fully-automated systems providing plentify food and water, we'd need some ssytem, likely capitalism, to distribute still-
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Level 1: Minecraft, Super Mario Maker Level 2: RPG Maker, Roblox, Dreams Level 3: Game Maker Studio, Pico 8, Python/PyGame Level 4: Unity/C#, 2D game from scratch with C/SDL maybe? Level 5: Unreal Engine/C++, Build engin

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