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by detourdog 3mo ago
The governance of the company is also prone to scamming.
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by detourdog 3mo ago
The thing with General Magic is they were Mac team members without a lot of imagination. They thought the next GUI environment had to encompass the real world as the connected world. The problem statement is solid. Unfortunately they looked
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by detourdog 3mo ago
I my younger self had a terrible sleep schedule. I suffered pre-occupied thoughts of either what did or was about to happen. I have a very consistent sleep schedule now and it is a real pleasure. I my sleep schedule has 2 or 3 3-4 hour stre
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by detourdog 3mo ago
I heard that the story of the Exodus and Moses was to unite the northern and southern kingdoms of Judea behind a single figure.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
My comment was not a gateway drug reference is was intended to point out that a drug users have a heart attack is often using cocaine
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Compression in image, video, sound, and text. These items to compressed are all created by humans and we will say represented by files. The difference between an instant of reality and the files is vast. Reality also doesn’t stand still and
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Nothing more biological than looking for rewards.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
I believe it’s an “artificial” reward mechanism for some people. The ability to control one’s own rewards is an easy habit to take up. If the rewards aren’t coming from externalities one needs to get them from somewhere.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Not to mention cocaine.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Those books were captivating and I was really surprised when I showed up at College and met the source.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
This has always been the trade off. One of my first design jobs was working for Simco. They made boxes with fans and ionizer and you could design what ever you want as longs as it’s bent sheet metal. I’m trying to develop a small run manufa
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by detourdog 4mo ago
The author David Macaulay taught illustration at my college. His original series started with buildings like “Castle”. The way things work was a breakout hit.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Not impressed with the quote from Zuckerberg. I see it as a very shallow analysis. I think the stated goal of Agentic development is too amorphous to know what might work. I assume they thought there were too many voices in the development
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by detourdog 4mo ago
They can sell subscriptions to people who buy them and allow self contained as possible. For securities sake requiring off-site storage of a security system is a non-starter.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
The idea of not naming G-d is based on the concept of being human comprehension and not within realm of human language. G-d can name things in our world but it’s a one way street. For humans it’s presumptions to assign a name to G-d. it im
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by detourdog 4mo ago
I’m not sure you thought this through. Why would G-d want to or care to make one have thoughts.
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by detourdog 4mo ago
Reading this somewhere in the Atlantic on a sailboat by myself. Nodding yes. A few days from now I will be at home after an almost 2 year journey of learning what sailboat ownership. I still can’t tell if I like the sailboat life. I’m goin
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by detourdog 5mo ago
Apple is hardly a random big company. Apple's customers specifically chose to purchase the product. Most of their customers don't realize the significance of the exposure to copy and paste between Apps. Apple has taken the positio
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by detourdog 5mo ago
My favorite part was due to it being a digital line there was no modem negotiation.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
Verizon in NYC was trying to make ISDN happen in the home in the mid 90's. I had it. The hard part was getting an ISP that supported SLIP.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
CuSeeMe certainly was being used before 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe
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by detourdog 5mo ago
The governance issues seem much worse than the other issues with pricing and inclusion.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
The Gripen is also a very practical design and much simpler to support. Canada can host the data locally as opposed to in the USA. The F-35 is very sophisticated and but maybe to a fault. I'm reminded of how technically superior German
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by detourdog 5mo ago
Thank you I will look for it.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
The book "The Machine Stops" was posted here a a while back it's a 100 years old and just as prescient as "Brave New World" and "1984". https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/e-m-forster&#x
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by detourdog 5mo ago
I’m gen-x and used wild in of my my HN comments and it seemed to trigger some responders. I was using as a synonym for unexpected. Next time maybe I’ll use whacky instead.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
The movie “The treasure of the Sierra Madras” does a good job of putting gold in it’s place.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
I well stocked research library had phone books from all over.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
The mailroom of my apartment building in college in 1988 was full of phone books that were unclaimed. I took enough to make a platform for my futon.
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by detourdog 5mo ago
I managed to get off uline’s list I think they have a phone number. If one ever orders from them again the process needs to be repeated. This was a physical address not a PO Box.

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