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by bovermyer 6mo ago
In theory, governments have the ability to curtail the activity of corporations. Are you challenging that idea?
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
You're assuming that politicians are competent, thorough, and consider all the implications before writing a bill or voting on a bill. That is a _very_ dangerous assumption.
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
Why do we allow megacorporations to exist at all?
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Recovering Windows Live Writer Files(benovermyer.com)
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
The way the article is worded, I would guess the material still exists somewhere, but has not been made available to the public. Some enterprising individual should do some digging and see where that material is, and who has both access to
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
Bullet ants, on the other hand, are not fun. Not even a little bit.
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
Iran made those AWS data centers... unhappy. The comment is disingenuous, though, since Locker doesn't need AWS S3 to function.
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
Very cool idea, but without background file syncing from/to my local machine, it can't replace my cloud storage provider.
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
I long ago switched to Fly.io. It feels like the old days of Heroku.
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by bovermyer 6mo ago
I hit 0.012. As a test of general knowledge it was interesting. The confidence angle was the most interesting part, though.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
There's also this: https://minifeed.net/global However, I think (text.)Blogosphere has a nicer interface, personally. Maybe I'm just used to HN.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
We agree on that take on understanding, yes. More succinctly, I think we could say that understanding comes from an application of, and interaction with, knowledge. The more connections to a bit of information that an individual has, the be
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Alright, so we have our first point of divergence. For me, the majority of my general knowledge comes from reading. Where does the majority of an individual's _understanding_ come from?
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Let me start by asking you this: Where does the majority of an individual's general knowledge come from?
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
We must be from _wildly_ different backgrounds.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Most of that article is just good career advice in general, so I'll just comment on the part about AI. One major problem I see with the use of AI is that it will prevent people from building an understanding of <insert problem domai
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
A lot of these enclosures are almost identical. There are only tiny differences. Is this a cat boarding house or something?
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
If history is any indication, only demonstrable threat of personal erasure will affect the behavior of people on this scale. By "erasure," I'm not referring to the death of the involved; I'm referring to the elimination
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
From a layman's point of view, I'm more interested in antimatter's potential as a weapon. Not necessarily because I want to use it, but because I have a vague idea of what it's capable of, and what that would mean in the
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
I like simplicity. The Unix philosophy, as codified, is both simple and rigid. It's the rigidity that kills it. The Unix philosophy does not give room for experimentation, learning, understanding, and growth. It imposes a set of rules,
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Obsidian is good, but I switched to Zettlr last year and I like it much better. https://www.zettlr.com
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
I like the direction this fork is going in. I will wait to use it until it achieves a little more critical mass in adoption, though.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
OK, I love that. I'm going to try it out right now.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Oh, for sure. MAGA types think some of my views are absolutely abhorrent. I'm pretty sure there are a few cultures that would kill me for my views. Just because they hate me, though, doesn't mean I can't disagree with their p
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Something I was brought up to believe was that you shouldn't speak ill of the recently deceased. A courtesy to those in mourning. I struggle with that rule sometimes.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
He had some pretty awful views that he was pretty loud about, especially later in life. He also cheated on his wife at one point. However, so as not to speak (purely) ill of the dead, I will say that he was an accomplished martial artist wi
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
So, is this a meta-webring, that allows for showing individual sites but also sites that show other sites?
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Oh, that's neat. I think to really understand it though I'll have to explore it and experiment with hosting my own Console.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
For me, this is exactly what I'm missing: the community. If I got stuck in the snow on the farm, I knew there were at least half a dozen people I could call who would come get me out.
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by bovermyer 7mo ago
Farming is harder than people who haven't done it think, and surviving on the production of only your family's property is really, really hard. Source: I grew up in very rural areas, and I've seen what it entails. My grandpar

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