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by dormento 3y ago
No good deed goes unpunished
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by dormento 3y ago
As fun as "a massive sphere of infinitely expanding ticks dwarfing out all light" sounds, we unfortunately cannot have more ticks than the biomass needed to support them, including their own. Also, this kind of assumes an infinit
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by dormento 3y ago
> An 80 year old dude doesn't care about being name dropped on a random obscure forum on the internet. As far as our scientific understanding goes, a dead dude probably cares even less, yet we do it anyways. Edit: to be clear, I thi
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by dormento 3y ago
> Can't kick yourself off your own services Well actually... > Well you can :P It brings to mind the convenience dillema. How many custom made note taking apps do we really need? How much % of all use cases must an app solve befo
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by dormento 3y ago
Not to advocate for the "is it edgy?" angle of the conversation, but I have a problem "believing" (ha!) that most of the religious people today actually believe in a creator (religion != faith). One can be religious inso
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by dormento 3y ago
Pull the ol' entity system and only simulate things "close by" (or raise the granularity of simulation for things further away). What do I care about a metane molecule in Alpha Centauri but its contribution to a bigger, plane
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by dormento 3y ago
This is interesting. A tangentially related argument I saw online deals with the complexity of the simulation in distant regions of the universe, as in, if you could somehow make it slowdown in a locally controlled experiment compared to th
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by dormento 3y ago
(Sorry for intruding into the conversation, and thank you for sharing your experience). First thing I thought about was they might have applied and just forgot (I registered "grandfather"/"grandmother" as older peop
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by dormento 3y ago
Site's been hugged :(
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by dormento 3y ago
True immersion will come when you make em fill their taxes.
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by dormento 3y ago
This irks me to no end. They justify it with "engagement" and it kinda works to a point, since if you don't get pissed with the broken search and register an account, you're not considered a "user", and if you
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by dormento 3y ago
Well EPROMs are ROMs and they're programmable, but then i'm being pedantic.
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by dormento 3y ago
Made me look: Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26194990
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by dormento 3y ago
Just wanted to say this is awesome (with pardon for the window manager related pun). I really missed this when I had to use Apple hardware a couple years ago.I know there are other solutions, but this seems really elegant, I'm just not
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by dormento 3y ago
And once some sort of secure boot chain of trust verifies the radio component at startup time (just in case you're using a "modded" device), you won't be able to do even that. Fun, fun, fun.
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by dormento 3y ago
Then i think it comes down to who is the end user and how you plan to integrate into their current workflows. For example, are you after the good-samaritans or the smaller vet clinics? Are there any differences between how the two would use
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by dormento 3y ago
I remember reading about someone who could not brew coffee anymore because the cert on their "smart coffee maker" had expired and the business had gone under.. they discovered that by attempting to use wireshark, of all things, to
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by dormento 3y ago
Once again, the paying customer has a worse experience. The Gaben has spoke: "piracy is more about convenience than price"
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by dormento 3y ago
Hi, (I don't know how familiar you are with the following topics). As long as your documentation is just plain text files, it can be versioned easily. In fact, many people have used github to create whole books about many different sub
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by dormento 3y ago
Just wanted to say that this is really interesting, and part of why I keep coming back to hn. Thanks for the new perspective.
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And the cloud makes "real-time interactions viable" somehow.
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by dormento 3y ago
> Fun fact: a modded DS still powers a large part of my local observatory's equipment. I'm interested! I'd like to read more about that.
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by dormento 3y ago
Just like most systems reach an equilibrium between input and output, I believe we might've reached the optimization stage of the mobile device era. In my opinion, some (maybe all) of these things need to happen in order to spark chang
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by dormento 3y ago
We use Discord at my company. It was a compromise between us graybeards wanting email + issue tracker only and the new people wanting... Discord.
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by dormento 3y ago
20MB is bigger than some whole GNU/Linux systems I installed in the past. Might explain why the greybeard council disapproves of it.
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by dormento 3y ago
I think its a market thing. You can have performance cores x efficiency cores. You do now want to be the one who proposes trusted cores x "lousy" (untrusted) cores. The benefits, however many, would be lost in the discourse of &qu
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by dormento 3y ago
Data about people, culture, language, tourist hotspots and whatever is slow-changing, so I think this is a good application for AI. Congrats. Travel conditions, currency value etc, now those tend to surprise us more quickly and the cutoff p
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by dormento 3y ago
There are some cases of human children that, either by neglect or some unfortunate freak accident, end up being in the company of wild animals from a very young age. In some of those cases, the child was never able to adapt once it had been
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by dormento 3y ago
> death prevents bad people from remaining alive forever, It also prevents good people from remaining alive forever :(
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by dormento 3y ago
Its funny how writing a user login replacement seems kind of ubiquitous for all future hackers. Mine was in Visual Basic (5 iirc) for a Windows (Novell?) network. This was back in school. You could trivially change win.ini to set it up to r

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