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by ddingus 3y ago
People paid before and just got a lot less music. A few albums per month, maybe some singles. I was there, have lived both times. Spotify scooped up all those ad-hoc buys and got people a lot more music for the money. Take a larger view, an
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by ddingus 3y ago
Go for safer, put vaping at the top of the harm reduction list. I smoked for a long time. A good vape got me off the real tobacco. Nothing else even came close. The difference is dramatic! Healing happened and I am in great shape today.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Lol, almost nobody. But I did, along with a few very nerdy music friends. Nobody else even knew or cared.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Wait a minute. Now there is no doubt Spotify gets a paying user a lot more music than they would get by buying albums. But there just isn't that much entertainment money out there either. Most people have what they have and they spend
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by ddingus 3y ago
I glance at news like this, chuckle a little at comments (and that is a positive), then go on without Twitter, now X. I am happier.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Seems to me the author can evaluate the information given by GBT too. It's not like a one shot affair, and I feel that assumption is more common than would be generally useful. Consider (from my own use of GBT): Author queries Google,
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by ddingus 3y ago
Me too! Read a few of his books on a Nano. I had several people ask me about what I was doing with my Nano. Was a small screen, but workable at the time. I used iPad note format to read my copy.
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by ddingus 3y ago
A few things: The number one, by far most effective thing you do comes well ahead of those armed, home entry thieves, and that is you make your home scream "GO AWAY!" Get a dog Employ great lighting Put the home alarm stickers on,
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by ddingus 3y ago
Wait until an awful rainy night, then rock through window changes! Dog hears it and begins to bark per usual practice. Dog owner gets up, yells at dog to shut up... because rain!
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by ddingus 3y ago
OTA TV is a matter of public interest. The electromagnetic spectrum is OURS collectively. Public broadcast licenses are rooted in the idea of a well informed public is good for everyone. Encryption is just a move to monetize what is otherw
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by ddingus 3y ago
You mean election type voting? Screen scraping is the least of the problems. Voting machines are simply not trustworthy given these requirements for a free and fair election: 0. Freedom to vote or not 1. Anonymity in that no vote may be ass
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by ddingus 3y ago
>but I really hope we'll soon move to a compute-only way of handling graphics. Would you have the time to expand on this thought a bit? I am curious. Thanks!!
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by ddingus 3y ago
I want to throw something out here: Insects, US, animals, all have two things in common, and thinking about them may prove very useful in this context: (1) - Ongoing stream of what I will call input experience. What we see, feel, hear, etc
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by ddingus 3y ago
Someone need to capture this one...
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by ddingus 3y ago
Excellent! I love the scene and feel it being seen this way is appropriate.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Exactly right!
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by ddingus 3y ago
I know exactly why. And I agree with our parent commenter, BTW. The down votes are from people who want to believe. And I won't blame or judge them. It is an ugly, extremely likely truth. Who wants to die? Not me, not on current tim
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by ddingus 3y ago
I do that for a lot of things. Paper has no downtime, is robust, etc... When it comes to longer term basic information, bitmaps and text are where it's at! I can always convert my paper to a bitmap, and often from that to text if I wa
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by ddingus 3y ago
Lol gemstone... right!
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by ddingus 3y ago
That is what happened. Place is a war zone, far cry from the beautiful thing it once was. A hardy few are still slugging away amidst a rising tide of crap. Unless one knows who is who, they are hard to find.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Yup. I have come to realize I care exactly as much as they do. Makes this all really easy. It is a big world out there with lots to do, build, see, laugh, love, play. Fuck em. I just do not need it. Whatever it is, the vast majority of t
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by ddingus 3y ago
Yes they are, and both are a lot more crappy than they were before.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Like Quora, I view a whole lot less Quora. This kind of crap is how they lost many of their published top writers. Now Twitter. I am better off for these changes. You can be too. Just log out. It will pass.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Yes, I think I agree. However, the idea of a construct being deemed a person makes no sense given how we define what a person is. Further, having essentially broken that definition, we have opened the door for all sorts of crazy legal thing
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by ddingus 3y ago
I did this last time I saw it come up and was surprised! Doing it makes perfect sense in hindsight. Neato!
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by ddingus 3y ago
None of us alive today will be living in space one day. All of us alive today can benefit from assistance given to the least of us. I want the space future too. However, I also want my time here to be better. I won't see the space fut
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by ddingus 3y ago
I just now recalled the author of Batari Basic, and he is Fred Quimby. That bothered me, and now it does not. Fred did a lot of great work along with some others to create both Batari Basic and the Harmony cartridge, both of which mean mer
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by ddingus 3y ago
"Frobbing" -- added to my goofy nerd lexicon
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It could just mark branches at the cost of recomputing moves repeatedly to evaluate scores.
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by ddingus 3y ago
You may want to give Batari Basic a look. In the early 00's one enthusiast had the idea to make a simple BASIC compiler for the 2600. I was one of the early testers and the first thing I did was make a functional "BREAKOUT",

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