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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
Ursula K. LeGuin's The Lathe of Heaven is an apt exploration of the hubris that this worldview entails.
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
Here's a story. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. But not any jigsaw puzzle. An unbelievably huge jigsaw puzzle that's been mixed up with other jigsaw puzzles. Some of them are really old and faded. Some of them are brand new. Some are lar
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
I like to read what people tell me, obliquely or not, to not read. Here are some of the deeply uncomfortable, yet edifying reads: Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber" -- A
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
The scope to which I was responding was the assertion that 50kbp/s is not enough to transfer more than a handful of bytes. You are correct that images, encryption, and blockchains are outside the scope of what a constrained connection
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
50kbp/s is equivalent to dial-up speed. 3G was only four times faster at 200kbp/s. I wouldn't say that LoraWAN's speed is the limiting factor. A single second of transmission (i.e. ~6kb) is about 1,500 characters in UTF8
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On Connection Speeds and Appropriate Technology(txti.es)
1 points by cheezymoogle 5y ago|0 comments
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
To makes Emacs popular again, the core team needs to realize that their actual competitors are desktop environments, window managers, and automation tools rather than text editors and IDEs at this point. Programmers know what they want in a
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Letters in Response to “War and Peace, a Buddhist Perspective” (2015)(web.archive.org)
2 points by cheezymoogle 5y ago|0 comments
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BCHS stack – BSD, C, httpd, SQLite(learnbchs.org)
92 points by cheezymoogle 5y ago|58 comments
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
A larger tank (filling a 5lb tank off a 50lb tank) uses less time and money than exchanging 1lb canisters. It also has the ancillary benefit of supporting local welding supply companies and brewing stores than foreign corporations and big b
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
My sister went from making $11/hr at a book store to $20/hr staying at home on unemployment. She didn't spend any of it on anything but rent and utilities (we were already providing food for her). She went from being in debt
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
For anyone that's interested in how to make a transition to sparkling mineral water without all the single-use plastic waste, the answer is to DIY. Making a DIY force-carbonation rig is trivial and costs around $100 upfront: https:&#x
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
If you're a self-interested min-maxing CEO that makes a disastrous or unpopular decision, hiding behind ethics or morality will not (immediately) result in charges of incompetence. This could just as easily be dishonest signalling by t
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
Regulations and criminal laws are like dams or levees; With predictable flows, artificial waterways can safely operate within reasonable tolerances assuming everything was done faithfully. With unpredictable flows, modifying the course of a
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
Here's a solution for $60/year, plus the cost of whatever budget Android device you want or have on hand: A year of unlimited talk/text from Liberty Wireless (a T-Mobile MVNO) costs $60.^1 Then, use call barring/do not d
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by cheezymoogle 5y ago
It's strange that the author makes partisan shots, when everything the untethered wings of the body politic believe and act upon are direct antitheses to her written ethos. Some quotes from Weil: "The Great Beast^1 is the only obj
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
Amazon isn't doing anything that Chinese manufacturers haven't been doing for years except Amazon is now directly grabbing a piece of the IP infringement pie rather than sponsoring it in the third party marketplaces. If consumers
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
This is pretty tangential, but I don't understand why there isn't a roguelike framework available for Emacs. It seems like the perfect roguelike platform for playtesting and hacking on and would on-board a lot of new people into t
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Technorealism, Alvin Toffler, and the Forgotten Third Wave (2018)(txti.es)
10 points by cheezymoogle 6y ago|0 comments
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
While I'm sympathetic to the argument that the rise of social media has contributed to the absolute degeneration of public discourse, blaming social media as the cause rather than the means strikes me as particularly hollow when measur
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
It's a shame that an escalation in civilian deaths is viewed as an evil, but that there are civilian deaths to escalate is viewed as a necessity of foreign policy.
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
I'd recommend the 2019 pseudo-blacklisted documentary Salafistes^1 (released as Jihadists in the US) if you want an unvarnished view of Salafist Islam. --- 1 - https://vimeo.com/ondemand/jihadists
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
My only experience with ombudsmen is ignored emails until top stakeholders face the pain, then immediate action to resolve their and only their issues.
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
Good on NYT for coming clean, but this is precisely why I don't trust institutions to vet their own product. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" is a mission statement for pathological organizat
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
To anyone else whom this article resonated, I recommend the journal of Henri-Frederic Amiel^1 and the Rhinoceros Sutta^2 for further explorations of a similar problem space and ethos. --- 1 - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki&#x
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
Here's a story. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. But not any jigsaw puzzle. An unbelievably huge jigsaw puzzle that's been mixed up with other jigsaw puzzles. Some of them are really old and faded. Some of them are brand new. Some are lar
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by cheezymoogle 6y ago
Here's a story. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle. But not any jigsaw puzzle. An unbelievably huge jigsaw puzzle that's been mixed up with other jigsaw puzzles. Some of them are really old and faded. Some of them are brand new. Some are lar
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by cheezymoogle 7y ago
I wrote this five years ago on reddit on the same topic and it's too long to embed: http://txti.es/ocean-acidification TL;DR: [T]his isn’t a train that stops for anyone, regardless of all the radical idealism, all of t
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
History doesn't repeat, but it certainly rhymes, so the saying goes. To anyone acquainted with the history of Christianity (or religion more generally) and the history of libre software, the parallels are simply fascinating. From the B
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by cheezymoogle 8y ago
Almond milk is my bugbear. Comparing the land and water use of cows versus almonds is ridiculous for many many reasons. If you've been to a cattle ranch (not a CAFO) and to an almond farm, you'll know exactly what I mean. Almond

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