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The Floppotron 3.0 - Computer Hardware Orchestra [video](youtube.com)
3 points by endymi0n 4y ago|0 comments
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by endymi0n 4y ago
I guess it‘s more telling if people try to use rhetoric devices like trying to force charged, binary answers on a very nuanced, and definitely nonbinary topic. You like painting people into a corner, do you? Rhetoric question.
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by endymi0n 4y ago
> Mundane chores are all the rage in gaming Oh, are they? Spontaneous nostalgia ensues… https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Donald_Duck%27s_Playground (1984)
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Why the Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation: Because it didn‘t want to do the other historic mistake. The Fed‘s basically got binary options here: Keep inflation from ruining lives and savings or saving the economy from collapse. O
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by endymi0n 4y ago
And there we are again: Demonstrating that an absolutist take on free speech tends to destroy free speech itself in the long run. „The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is ev
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Anecdotally, after two years of literally just looking at tumbleweed in the application inbox, as a still-hiring company I have rarely felt as swamped with really interesting candidates and annoying recruiters as in the past four weeks. The
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by endymi0n 4y ago
School schootings per capita (2009-2018): USA: 933 * 10^-10 Rest of World: 7 * 10^-10 Having a pretty good statistical significance comparing both buckets, school security and police armament for sure does not seem to have a positive relati
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by endymi0n 4y ago
And if you feel self-concious about it, just write „freelance projects“ and in the ultra slim case someone still inquires about that telling them point blank you‘d love to divulge it because it was a very interesting project, but you‘re bou
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by endymi0n 4y ago
...to the point that (great) UX and wireframing tools like Balsamiq look crappy _on purpose_: https://balsamiq.com/wireframes/ Which all kinda makes sense, with the intuitive reasoning being: If you had time and money
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Here in Germany, I'm seeing more and more emergency vehicles having their siren off by default in low to medium traffic situations (even in a large city like Berlin) and only activating it when they enter dangerous situations (like lar
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Couldn't this be addressed best by driving the heat on green energy and directly siphoning off the produced CO2 into either underground capture or even green fuels? I'm still a bit at loss why Climeworks or Prometheus Fuels would
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Here‘s the deal: The mere mortal „stock package“ got pretty much worthless the day the „bridge financing“ (which actually was a down-round) got announced. Recovering from a 70% layoff only happens once in a blue moon, and usually only when
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Researchers Pinpoint Reason Infants Die from SIDS(biospace.com)
8 points by endymi0n 4y ago|1 comments
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by endymi0n 4y ago
Offering my own experiences as a counterpoint: 1. If the idea is any good, you‘ll quickly encounter others who are better funded and need to execute extremely well. „Build it and they will come“ has worked for the tiniest minority or orgs I
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by endymi0n 4y ago
> Crypto will continue to fluctuate wildly as it always has. Which is as much as an unfounded absolutism as stating the opposite. While there's not fundamental limit to what you're saying, there might be qualitative differences
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by endymi0n 4y ago
With fear of rejection from other people as one of my greatest anxiety drivers, I can relate a lot. One of my favorite learnings about the topic recently though is that saying "yes", "maybe" or even just staying silent i
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by endymi0n 4y ago
It's true. I'm objectively more intelligent than my cofounder. He knows it, I know it. He's the far better manager than I am and grew to lead half the company, almost 5x more reports than me. It's really all about empath
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Totally honest question: WHY does everyone think it was cool? I can still remember running it in Uni on some of the prized workstations with everyone raving about it but never got the point about it. Back then I was on Windows and everythin
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Well, maybe. As in: sure, a lot of breathing techniques and sometimes even useful natural remedies are some of the oldest recorded ones if they are coming from "the east", but in the end that corpus of wisdom is mostly a spaghetti
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by endymi0n 5y ago
There is never a free market in health care. > […] As I lie unconscious under a bus, I am in no position to shop for the best provider of ambulance services at the most reasonable price. All personal volition is lost. Whatever happens ne
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Return to Monkey Island, Coming 2022(returntomonkeyisland.com)
270 points by endymi0n 5y ago|84 comments
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by endymi0n 5y ago
True, who could possibly know they were dealing with an incredibly malicious, manipulative and unreliable dictator before Bucha? /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_war_crimes https://en.wikipedia.
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by endymi0n 5y ago
There are sleep versions of customs as well. I originally got them for working at home with two kids in lockdown: the combo of Airpods Max, rain noise and custom earplugs is a godsend . For sleep they weren‘t quite as good as they were too
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Honestly, I'm astounded how good Apple got with it. And I say this at the risk of coming across like a fanboy which I'm definitely not. I'm very, _very_ rarely delighted by features that get pushed into my face, but the autom
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Well, it depends on your viewpoint. Just today somebody celebrated a fusion Q of 0.005, while each year since many now Tesla‘s Autopilot pulls off more accident-less miles than humans. Sure, it‘s apples to oranges, but for self-driving, we‘
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by endymi0n 5y ago
To say it with the words of my first boss that stuck with me: "Love it, change it or leave it. No amount of complaining will ever do anything else than paint you as a naysayer." Was a hard pill to swallow, but my own experience pr
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Have a look at the Silence S01 too, they have a quite different and interesting system that solves for more energy: The battery converts itself into a heavy trolley that you can just pull out, roll to any plug, charge it and put back again.
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Spot on. This is just the anti-trend to minimalism, which again was the anti-trend to what I grew up with: https://www.cameronsworld.net/ (which was the anti-trend to the original, booooooring beginnings of hypertext) &#x27
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by endymi0n 5y ago
I've had the same thought. I've never seen it confirmed by anyone, but to me, a lot of the original design patterns were stopgap conventions to patch shortcomings in the languages of their time (mainly early Java). Just look at th
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by endymi0n 5y ago
Beautiful. If computer science and physics had a child, this would be their Euler's Identiy.

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