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cafebabbe
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cafebabbe
10y ago
> I assume whatever will happen next will be a surprise to most people, although in hindsight you might have noticed what was coming. Ah! You're talking about global warming :)
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cafebabbe
10y ago
And not a single word about climate change and sustainable growth. Oh well.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
I heard about that problem ten years ago, without specifically looking for it. It's probably known for decades.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
This would be a "lesson" like death is a "momentary setback"
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cafebabbe
10y ago
That "solution" fucking sucks. We kinda rely on the sun to grow plants and power life, you know?
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cafebabbe
10y ago
And then good luck rebuilding civilization now that every easily accessible resource has been mined/harvested out.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Don't worry. Our planet will be fucked way before we'll wander anywhere significant. We probably won't even try :)
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cafebabbe
10y ago
The legendary Nokia 3310. Military grade build quality, and an amazing UI at the time.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Had one, loved it, then lost it, then hated it.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
There is this old idea that programs are somehow "limited" by their textual representation, and that a 2D graphical syntax would unleash more possibilities. Never worked very well so far, unfortunately, except for a bunch of very
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10y ago
Found accidentally another glitch near the end of game, in the dungeon where you carry a big heavy metal ball you can throw around. It ended up stuck on a wall, completely glitching the game. Reloading didn't help. My save was dead. I
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cafebabbe
10y ago
My sysadmin: "we won't switch to git because it can't handle binary files and our code base is too big" Our whole codebase is 800MB.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
No graham's number ? that one is so big it's scary.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Ah, the GORILLAS.BAS world...
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Ha, "completely immune". Good luck accessing your wallet without power plants...
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Not comparable - beating the market one year is quite probable.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
People winning the lottery (what is it already? 1 chance in 300 millions ?) must be very good at lottery.
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cafebabbe
10y ago
Eh... it's an uphill battle. I wrote some client code from one of these providers, for a big company, and was allowed to "cache" the fetched information (read: duplicate the records).
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10y ago
See, i don't get the whole "we need to trash Physics!". Surely principles can still hold true at some level . I mean, physicist are perfectly happy dealing with "singularities" that do not fit their nice little mod