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by chaoticmass 4y ago
And you can get Beer from a vending machine.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I should have elaborated, but I sort of just tossed my post on here quickly. I was imagining if we get to the point that self driving cars become fully autonomous, and lets say 100% of cars on the road are self driving-- what happens if the
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I think autonomous car collisions should be handled similarly to how the FAA handles aircraft accidents.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I always roll my eyes whenever Lex tries to shoe horn one of his favorite subjects into the conversation, like AI or robots.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I fail to see the connection. The things you listed were all moral panics. I am not making an argument about the morality of TikTok. I'm commenting about the social and behavioural effects of TikTok and of Social Media in general.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I'm not so sure. Even if they don't record themselves, they see "everybody else" is doing it. You get the same thing happening in other forms and other social phenomenon but I'd wager the effect is stronger on TikTo
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I bought the ear(1) because they looked cool. They sound OK.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I don't see it mentioned very often, but the whole "record yourself doing this funny dance" aspect of TikTok is, I think, a huge portion of why this is happening and is what makes it more powerful than other forms of social m
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
I’ll add that for casual usage, the iOS ecosystem has been very enjoyable to use after I’ve gotten over the initial shock and have learned some tricks. Many tasks feel very natural and easy for every day usage. When I need to get some serio
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
We've gained a lot, but also lost a lot, from going from mouse+keyboard to touch screen only. There's no more hover to discover, or an ALT key to hold to guide us as to what we can do and what does what. Gestures feel like magic s
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
You used to get a manual to read.
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
Being born in 1985 and having grown up with home computers, starting with the IBM PC jr and BASIC, through to a 386 with QBasic, and then a Pentium with Visual Basic, this essay resonates with me a lot. It's not just the actual knowled
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by chaoticmass 4y ago
The whole movie can be taken as a sort of metaphor for how movie stars like Tom Cruise and the movies he makes, with real stunts and little CG, are a dying breed. Especially the scene with Admiral Caine telling Maverick that drones replacin
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I can't read the article right now-- are they seriously talking about restoring, as in repairing it? I'd think it would be a total loss and not possible to 'restore'.
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I think the author is referencing how IBM and Microsoft originally went in on developing OS/2 as a joint venture, but then when they split ways, MS allegedly* took it's work on OS/2 and used it as a starting point for NT. I s
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
Thanks! I'm running Debian so... of course my version is old.
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I'm a Python3 noob so I am not sure what I might be doing wrong, but after following the install instructions and trying to run it, I am getting this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/fetch&
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I have this weird thought from time to time-- maybe it's dumb, but it nags at me. Think of any time when you've been unconscious, like when under anesthesia, or fainting, or knocked out for some other reason. You experience everyt
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I suspect you're being downvoted because, while your truck may not need this stuff, it will still be affecting you and everyone else since all of the goods we buy get transported on new semi trucks which do use it. However, at the risk
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
This is SOP for Oracle. Company I work for got stung by them to the tune of a couple hundred thousand dollars over a similar deal with Oracle DB licensing. I wouldn't enter into any kind of contract or license with Oracle at all, and i
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
And then there are cases where you can take PTO, but you end up having to work during that time anyway.
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
There is a fun story based off this idea, A Short Stay in Hell by Steven Peck [0]. In the story the character dies and wakes up in a kind of hell that is basically a version of the library of Babel. There are other people there. You're
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I remember this essay as well. During a period of high stress due to major life changes I was experiencing, I took up smoking. It became a habit. I did experience the social aspect that the essayist described. I found that the best way to m
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
Used to work in a computer store in the early 2000's and 99% of the time when someone came in to return an IDE drive it was due to this problem.
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
Removing certain old episodes from the catalogue (as if they never existed, so they become forgotten)
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I've been using mcedit (the editor component of midnight commander) for about 15 years now as my primary editor for coding.
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I first learned Linux (and C) on a SparcStation LX back around 2005 with Debian. I had it fully kitted out with 9.1GB SCSI Hard Drive, 128MB RAM. I sold it around 2011 for $300 and thought that was a lot. Now I see them going for 3x that am
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I am so using this now!
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I wonder-- is this why my Sony HT Receiver remote has four unlabeled buttons on it, colored Red, Green, Yellow, Blue?
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by chaoticmass 5y ago
I've got a smallish collection of old IBM ThinkPads I hold on to (most of them with the matching laptop bag). Models include: 701C, 380XD, 380Z, 600X, 770Z, T42P, T43P, X41t. Running Linux on all of them except the T42P, 380XD, and 380

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