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Samplebrain(thentrythis.org)
1 points by fipar 1y ago|2 comments
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by fipar 1y ago
Not mentioned in the article is Sid Meyer's Pirates! (the exclamation mark was part of the name, though I do get excited when talking about the game so I'd add it myself if it weren't). This was one of the 2 (!) games I had a
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by fipar 1y ago
That’s a big rabbit hole, reading about RACF is a good place to start. The short answer would be that mainframes come with RBAC from design, unlike Unix, which has a different security model from conception and then had rbac added on top of
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by fipar 1y ago
Not without a reboot though, and while I haven’t done that, it should be possible to protect selinux ‘s config itself with a policy, requiring boot loader access to bypass, at which point you’re dealing with a different risk level. I’ll agr
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by fipar 2y ago
We had one as a friend-pet for a while a few years ago. We went outside one day and found one leaf in our plum tree was tube-shaped with some spiderweb and after some waiting, off she came (I have no idea if it was male or female but Spani
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by fipar 2y ago
> But to be displayed in MoMA she'd kind of have to be. While I agree with you about Ono’s art, I disagree on this. I know art is subjective, but in my times at MoMA I’ve found it bimodal: works on display there either blow ls my mi
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by fipar 2y ago
As much as I like Douglas Adams' work, I think that quote describes what, for lack of a better term, and in no way trying to be derogatory, I'd call a "normal person"'s reaction to technologies. I mean obviously the
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by fipar 2y ago
"It instilled a belief in me that I still have to this day: that any spiritual ailment can be cured by playing music at maximum volume in a small, dark room." This is so true to me but I never thought of putting it to words like t
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by fipar 2y ago
I always loved his dedication of TAOCP to this computer, and this article is a great way to learn more about that particular relationship (of him with the computer).
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by fipar 2y ago
Your comment reminded me of a scene from the movie "El Mariachi". In it, the title character walks into a bar looking for a job as a Mariachi, and is faced with the bar owner telling him something like "Why do I need a Mariac
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by fipar 2y ago
Congratulations on a great exploratory project! It takes me back to my school years. I never got as far as you (not by any long stretch actually), but I did enjoy creating the storage layer of a database from scratch. To actually have to de
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by fipar 2y ago
That's why it's quoted, but you knew that already :)
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by fipar 2y ago
> Babies are also almost completely unable to move around by themselves and are constantly frustrated by their lack of agency. They are extremely vulnerable and utterly dependent on the kindness of their parents and other older humans in
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by fipar 2y ago
> Depending on the person and/or situation, losing a dog can rival the pain of any other loss. Especially if the bond between person and dog is reinforced through daily activities. I guess what I'm saying here is loss is loss.
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by fipar 2y ago
I think both you and the poster you’re responding too are oversimplifying things. Some parts of some religions encourage followers to be kind to some others. Some parts encourage them to discriminate, assimilate, or even kill (also some)
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by fipar 2y ago
"None of you think the major religions teach some insane things? Okay then." I was on the phone so couldn't type much, but my point is the concept of the collective cognitive imperative (much better explained in the book than
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by fipar 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_cognitive_imperat... “ Such ridicule typically will not occur after a religious conversion brings a previous non-conformist into the fold of the culture’s dominant religion.”
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by fipar 2y ago
You may enjoy this story: My daughter is 18. She first listened to The Great Gig in The Sky on some joke/funny video involving Mario (I mean one of the Super Mario Bros). She looked what the song was, started listening to the album, an
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by fipar 2y ago
Yes! In Uruguay, my first computer was a Microdigital TK-90, and the second one a TK-95, and those are the machines I learned to program on.
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by fipar 2y ago
I can't find that first paragraph, and it seems that readme file was last modified 3 months ago, though you're using quotes, so perhaps you are paraphrasing? The first paragraph I find under Key Features is: Distributed Transactio
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by fipar 2y ago
Some amount of jargon is needed (in general, not just for this) to optimize communication among experts, but still, your comment reminded me of Pirsig’s concept (IIRC introduced in his second book, “Lila”) of the “cultural inmune system”, a
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A Catalog of 21st Century Ghosts(lightspeedmagazine.com)
1 points by fipar 2y ago|0 comments
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by fipar 2y ago
The machines will plant, grow, and harvest the food? Do the plumbing? Fix the wiring? Open heart surgery? We’re a long way from that, if we ever get there, and I say this as someone who pays for ChatGPT plus because, in some scenarios, i
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by fipar 2y ago
You're absolutely right, but the problem is the intersection set of rich people and powerful people is quite large (they're almost, but not quite, the same set) and why would they ration themselves? If air travel rationing would e
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by fipar 2y ago
You are correct in part but I think not in whole, since I said "a lot of us" and I'm pretty sure people in China would continue driving ICE and flying if it was up to them, the changes are just imposed top-down. I'm glad
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by fipar 2y ago
Well, point is that as long as there's enough demand from people who can afford to fly, this won't mean less flying, or at least not significantly less flying, but it will mean even more inequality. I just don't think this is
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by fipar 2y ago
It will only be awkward and uncomfortable for those who can’t afford business class and not flying in low cost airlines. So basically, it’s the same way it has always been, since we’re in the climate change situation because of rich countr
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by fipar 2y ago
Over 40 is a wider bracket than just 41. I’m 46 and my oldest is 18 and will start college next year (southern hemisphere), not that different from you after adjusting for our age difference :)
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by fipar 2y ago
I agree completely with you regarding not treating our bodies as if we're robots. About a year ago I began lifting weights again, something I hadn't done in more than 20 years, and the difference is amazing. I used to have very fr
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by fipar 2y ago
Not OP, but I have a Model 100 and I just assigned mouse keys in Chrysallis. It used to be the case that you had to build your firmware to change the speed, but now that's possible through Chrysallis too. I don't use them very oft

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