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by bluescrn 3y ago
Let's do that for advertising first... (Or maybe not at all, think of the screen burn-in)
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by bluescrn 3y ago
It was closer to 30 years ago when I used started learning C using DJGPP, in DOS. 1996 or 1997 maybe? There was an IDE for it, 'RHIDE' I think, that looked similar to the DOS-era Turbo Pascal IDE
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Forget billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars. And it may fail entirely, but it's probably got a better chance of success than trying to fix the climate while we still fight wars between nations.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Time to expand beyond the planet then? If we don't manage it before we start down a degrowth/de-industrialisation path, we might well have missed the one chance our species had to go multiplanetary.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I took a look at it not so long ago, they were pushing AI features rather too aggressively, essentially turning the cursor into an advert for them. I noped out very rapidly.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The first hurdle with some self checkouts is before you even scan an item: Bags! If you've brought your own bag and it weighs more than the mass of a few protons, the system assumes you're trying to steal something, and a human ha
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by bluescrn 3y ago
'It's scary, ban it!' isn't a great argument either. Especially when 'safety' has such a blurred definition, we could be talking about anything from the threat of global apocalypse to to the 'threat'
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If there's no driver, there's no need to be armed, so instead of an armed robbery charge, the risk is just a theft charge. In a world where people defend shoplifting.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The age factor is so real. Once you're in your 40s, there's just no point, your ears are probably the limiting factor. The positive is that you can just embrace the convenience of 'good enough' compressed audio and wirel
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But we don't talk about population. We can take their cars, meat, heating, and hope away, but we still need to keep breeding ever more people, in pursuit of endless growth on this finite planet...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Why should 'big tech' corporations be allowed to use AI to remix/mash-up human-generated content all of a sudden when creative individuals have generally been prohibited from doing it for so long?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's a surprising number of people who think 'Just Stop Oil' is a reasonable slogan, so maybe it does. (If the slogan was 'Gradually Replace Oil', almost everybody would agree, there'd be no excuse to block
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Push for IPOs -> 'growth is all that matters' -> future redundancies. The world needs sustainable businesses, not IPO jackpots for a few and looming redundancies for the rest.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
And food prices feel like they're up 50% over the same period, especially when you start noticing the shrinkflation. £6 for a pint of beer (outside of London) is 'the new normal'.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The bad food habits are only going to get worse as meat+dairy is forcibly taken away from us by the powers that be. Fewer options for an appealing 'proper meal', more temptation to eat sugar-laden junk.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There was also concern over population explosion back then ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb ). But talking about population has become quite the taboo. Utterly unacceptable to restrict reproduction, bu
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But still better than the alternatives that have been attempted so far.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Wired enables a wider choice of higher-end headphones/IEMs, as well as avoiding bluetooth lossiness.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Nobody really cares about audio quality any more. I used to, but I realised that my mid-40s ears are now the limiting factor, so I might as well have the convenience of wireless. The real problem isn't 'another device to charge&#x
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Would they still be sleeping on the street and committing crime to afford food, clothing, etc? IMHO, if a person is prepared to habitually commit crime to fund their habit, it's time to get them off the drugs, by force if necessary. De
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by bluescrn 3y ago
With a real monitor, a 4K screen on your desk covers maybe 45 degrees of your horizontal field of view. And it's pixel perfect. In VR, that 4K needs to cover over 100 degrees FOV. And any 'virtual monitor' content is being re
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by bluescrn 3y ago
A lot of things came together over the last decade or two to enable ever-more-impressive 'maker'/hobbyist projects. Ubiquitous 3D printing, cheap PCBs, powerful CAD software available to hobbyists, YouTube's growth as an
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> Windows 11 brings absolutely nothing on the table It also removes a leg from the table, the one labelled 'usability'. Attaching a 3rd-party leg to fill the gap helps ( https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPa
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by bluescrn 3y ago
They're low value targets compared to a container ship or oil tanker.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Black electrical tape was my solution for a Dell PSU for an Alienware laptop, with a particularly obnoxious bright blue LED on the power plug, it would practically illuminate a room while the machine was powered off and just charging.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Go over to Reddit, sounds like you'll love their new design... Often excessive whitespace and 'spreading out' the content is a dark pattern, used to make you scroll more (or load more pages) and view more ads along the way.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The pattern is that hardware is sold but software is now rented, it must be a 'revenue stream', not a one-off sale. Cars were hardware. But now contain ever-increasing amounts of software. With self-driving cars, the software is t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If it became popular it'd be regulated out of existence
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by bluescrn 3y ago
As individuals we are never going to own self-driving cars. If buying the hardware is even an option to begin with, there's going to be a hefty fee to subscribe to the required 'cloud based' self-driving service. (And there&#
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> The copyright battles affect models that were trained with datasets where the copyright holder's approval is missing. Which is likely to be most/all of the high-profile text and image generation stuff. Where do you get a vast

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