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by carapace 4y ago
I know what you're doing, I think it's irresponsible to the point of madness: I think you're nuts. You are on the Internet telling people how to kill themselves. Reconsider.
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The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming(archive.org)
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW, I'm building a simple 32-bit computer system based on Prof. Wirth's Oberon RISC CPU and a simple language called Joy that combines the best parts of Forth and Lisp. The primary motivation is to avoid unnecessary complexity.
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by carapace 4y ago
> Isn't a modern smartphone the best "bicycle of the mind" we could 've imagined in 1990s? No. Not even close. Smartphones are more akin to a weird combination of shopping mall and the Stasi than anything like what
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by carapace 4y ago
It was Steinmetz. > A genius in both mathematics and electronics, he did work that earned him the nicknames "Forger of Thunderbolts"[4] and "The Wizard of Schenectady".[5] Steinmetz's equation,[b][6] Steinmetz so
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by carapace 4y ago
You're not sick, or old yet. It gets less philosophical the longer you live.
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by carapace 4y ago
> The hubris is astounding. Who me? You have no idea... > Pick up a history book and lay your eyes upon the horrors that have been enacted by "good people". I am a keen student of history, that's part of the reason I s
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by carapace 4y ago
The economic angle is convincing only to sociopaths. Sane people don't kill people to save money.
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by carapace 4y ago
You have pretty accurate internal clocks. You can learn to wake up at a particular minute, without any alarm clock at all. It's not hard.
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by carapace 4y ago
> Can you provide details? Sorry, no. I'm not an expert. I'm just pattern matching.
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by carapace 4y ago
Fair enough, but I feel that, at that point, we're getting into semantic weeds over the definition of "poor", eh? For concreteness, I'll say that I would define "poor" as not having the capability to satisfy th
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by carapace 4y ago
Sounds to me like a lazy and, frankly, disrespectful take. Take Alan Kay. Smalltalk shipped. It's still shipping to this day. Right up until 2018 he was working: http://www.vpri.org/ Is it his fault that Smalltalk
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by carapace 4y ago
> No city can actually function without automobiles. C'mon, cities predate cars by thousands of years.
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by carapace 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by carapace 4y ago
There are a few points that could be made. The primary point is that even though they might score low on some metric, the people of Bhutan are pretty much all well-off and happy. The king decreed democracy not long ago. It's a kind
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by carapace 4y ago
Think about it as a filter: the early adopters are folks who are at least smart enough to join a Mastodon server. (And BTW that's really a low bar. A friend of mine was talking the other day about "the pain of switching from Twit
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by carapace 4y ago
Did you read up on the place before looking for that stat?
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by carapace 4y ago
UBI should be predicated on automation making it effectively impossible for normal people to participate in the economy. > Several contemporary political discussions are related to the basic income debate, including those regarding autom
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by carapace 4y ago
The Kingdom of Bhutan. It sounds fabulous, but it's a real place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutan
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> a user did not have to find a rssCloud server for their feed to reference – their own site could handle feed registrations and notifications to feed reader apps. This created a supply of literally millions of weblogs that could support
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by carapace 4y ago
You might look into "Syntropic" agriculture and "Permaculture". The basic idea is to mimic natural ecosystems with agriculturally productive plants and animals. https://agendagotsch.com/en/what-is-s
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by carapace 4y ago
(Is it that you don't know of any yourself? Or that you think I can't provide examples? In what world is what I said even slightly controversial? Type checking is just catching on now, decades after it was invented and implem
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by carapace 4y ago
I hate to sound negative but I'm still going to use ncurses. I'm not trying to slight Textualize (or any of the other fine TUI systems) when I say that, to me, they all seem like "fun toys". What I mean is that ncurses
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by carapace 4y ago
No, that's the whole point (as far as I understand it): the manufacturers can't just throw it in a landfill, the law says they have to e.g. disassemble it and reuse or recycle the parts.
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by carapace 4y ago
I just checked my browser history and my latest visit was October 1st. I must have just missed it.
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by carapace 4y ago
Yes.
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by carapace 4y ago
I went through a TUI phase recently and investigated a slew of these projects. In the end, I just used ncurses, there's no real point in using anything else. The biggest problem (that also affects Textualize) is poor or lacking docume
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by carapace 4y ago
The idea is to have inexpensive refrigerators that use less energy and last many decades. (And when they are superseded by even more efficient models there should be a clear recycle/reuse "exit" for the old appliances. I
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by carapace 4y ago
> Potemkin pens, mere props. I got a wire cutter/stripper recently that gave me that exact feeling: "This isn't a real wire stripper, it's a non-functional replica." (It's the kind that has a little adjustme
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by carapace 4y ago
I call this the "Lie back and think of England" stance. You're not wrong, until the end, it should be: "you have to distrust the Rust org, all of it." And not just Rust, Python and JS and all the others. There ar

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