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by drbig 1y ago
Reminded me of CygnusED, which apparently has even a working website[1]. I really wish the core idea of ARexx had become popular enough. 1: http://www.cygnused.de/index-en.php
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by drbig 1y ago
The universe is vast and full of nothing... Which in case of explodey stars is a very good thing indeed!
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by drbig 2y ago
Finally a coin we can trust!
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by drbig 2y ago
$40B goes in... and what comes out we'll all see. _Something_ definitely will.
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by drbig 2y ago
$40B goes in... and what comes out we'll all see. _Something_ definitely will.
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by drbig 2y ago
I like the term "(micro-)grifts". Because none of these behaviors are a scam, all here is legal and spelled out in the legalese. And it is all possible because you have authorized _them_ to debit your account, whereas you did not
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by drbig 2y ago
It's really another symptom of the digital asymmetry. It's the same as sign-up being one-click CC details input, but cancelling the account/subscriptions requires you to send a paper mail to America, with parcel tracking, and
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by drbig 2y ago
The visual cacophony! The silent scream! A truly marvelous collection.
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by drbig 2y ago
Missing context unfortunately, sorry! This was about hunter-gatherers, neolithic levels of tech. So nomadic lifestyle, only as many possessions as can be worn/carried, and everything made of readily available materials. So yes, mending
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by drbig 2y ago
I remember reading an article based on a paper that tried to replicate small-scale hunter-gatherer "week". It turned out that "work" was less than 20h per week. As in: about two days of necessary hunting-gathering was en
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by drbig 2y ago
This is about _sparks_ specifically, so plasma guidance, which makes sense. The headline otherwise sounds like a clickbait...
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by drbig 2y ago
@m4c-pl you have a typo there, search for `nemal` :-) You're welcome.
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by drbig 2y ago
> Behavioral equivalence It seems for a lot of people that's all that matters: "if it quacks like a duck it must be a duck!". I find that short-sighted at best, but it's always difficult to present arguments that woul
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by drbig 2y ago
The interesting thing about audio chains is that they do NOT follow the "as bad as the weakest link" principle. A poor quality MP3 will be much more listenable on an overall crappy setup than on a high-end setup, mostly because th
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by drbig 2y ago
I find the comparison to a "3D printed car" to be excellent! What you end up with is a... car-shaped object! There is a reason why even in Soviet Germany the car[1] still had a metal frame... If only all of it could have been made
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by drbig 2y ago
Here: https://archive.is/316Ps
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by drbig 2y ago
So, is Jaguar now a purely marketing/visual arts company? Context: > Launch dates, events, and creative collaborations > *Jaguar Type 00 is a non-production vehicle
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by drbig 2y ago
Tk! Some things just work. Never underestimate proven tech.
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by drbig 2y ago
The focus is not "making money of off it". The main point is "can you compete while not being fully dedicated to the sport (i.e. it being your literal day job)". And my examples along the spectrum: running - boxing - sno
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by drbig 2y ago
This touches on the "everybody else in the discipline" aspect I have been thinking about lately; my conclusion is that we have a spectrum of inclusive to exclusive sports. Think about snooker: to live off it you need to be really
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by drbig 2y ago
Thank you for the insight that academic (in a very broad sense) bulk-fixed-time approach does in fact produce both of the cycles, and the gap indeed only widens with time (speaking from personal experience, especially from my life as an und
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by drbig 2y ago
The issue is with the user mistaking bcrypt for a general-purpose digest hashing tool. It's like using a flat-head screwdriver as a hardwood chisel and then the handle breaks off after the third strike.
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by drbig 2y ago
Pruning of the possibility space? Either on the spectrum, `clinically`, or not.
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by drbig 2y ago
Makes me wonder, this being a spectrum, does it make any sense to try diagnosis on say anyone over 30 years old?
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by drbig 2y ago
"Please, keep _these_ people away from art and culture. Isn't blockchain AI enough already?" Well, of course it isn't! They ain't vampires - these just need blood an power, and also are completely fictional.
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by drbig 2y ago
Very refreshing to read an account of both success and failure that is humane and devoid of buzz and bullshit. My internal picture of Tim O'Reilly has never gone past "That's a publisher, they have that unique cover design!&q
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by drbig 2y ago
Precisely that. A fine is a simple non-violent way of enforcing consequences for actions we, as a society, want to discourage. Here in Poland I have met too many corpo-achievers literally bragging that they just put all their speeding ticke
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by drbig 2y ago
And now we know better. Beware of magazines and newspapers.
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by drbig 2y ago
Railway engineering... 15 years career, which tells quite a lot about a lot of things, generally nothing good. Best aspect is it doesn't seem anyone got physically hurt in "the process of career progression". Quite scary.
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by drbig 2y ago
Sensible. And as much as I too do not like the whole "marketing", and especially video ads that try way, way too hard to "be clever", the truth is that if I don't know about a material, component, device etc. I cann

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