flenserboy

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by flenserboy 3y ago
Urbanists apparently want to force people to live shoulder-to-shoulder. As soulless as suburbs can be, they should be recognized as attempts to escape having to interact with people, especially strangers, on a constant basis, which is a gre
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by flenserboy 3y ago
I could see them using something like they did with NuBus — something similar to the declaration ROMs could make this sort of configuration work nicely, as long as part makers played according to the specs.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWcOTN7orEg
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by flenserboy 3y ago
It would be fantastic for an OS to mandate a particular type of installation (oh how I miss dragging app packages from a .dmg into my Application directory & being done with it) while preventing anything else.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
At some point control of one's own business future balances out a certain level of profit.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
It kind of is — except the name given to Moses is closer to "I Am Who I Am", which is consonant with the rest of the OT/NT, where God is known by what he does & what he says (revealing the contours of his character) inste
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by flenserboy 3y ago
It does bring that to mind, especially given the era he came out of. Likely, however, what he is trying to get at is the distinction between God/not God: existence is something a thing which is not God — a neutrino, a squirrel, a roc
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Their arguments are generally only about cavities, not about plaque buildup. Amazing how people always want to go to pharmaceuticals first instead of checking out other, simpler options.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Here's an interesting data point: a while back, my dentist noted that my teeth had significantly less plaque than the last time I'd had a cleaning. I'd changed over to a low-carb diet in the interim, & they stayed in good
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by flenserboy 3y ago
The government does not want people to have secure devices. Whether or not Apple's are currently secure is not the point; that they are working to make them so is enough to make sure it doesn't happen.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Retroactive prosecutions are a great way to make sure that there will never be another new industry or allowed innovation.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Relative or absolute?
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Action Retro ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW2V034859k ) suggests that Haiku can be a daily driver, & does pretty well. Considering giving it a flight on my occasionally-used lappie.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Interesting. I have autoplay turned off in my browser, & I don't get recommendations of the like you mention, which makes me think that that's enough to keep that "feature" from activating.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Just got some MoCA adapters, & they've been great. Not quite gigabit speed, but the ones I got only go to 1 or 2.5 if there are only two, while we have three in place. It's made the whole house much more usable — older houses
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Ecosystems on Earth might be a better way of thinking about this. Notice how we do not see one organism or type of organism squeeze out all the others, or work to take in all energy available to them; this is also true of human settlements,
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Perhaps "human" would be a better substitution. There's a reason his robots are far more memorable than the other characters he crafted.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
That makes sense. Thank you for the response.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
I remember when the stated dream was to have a standard set of system-provided hooks that led to routines everyone would use for interfaces & more (think: Macintosh Toolbox / QuickDraw) while the main job of the developer would be
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by flenserboy 3y ago
True. Yet I think the idea is sound — if a publisher / rights holder refuses to put a work into print or make it available, they should not be able to keep it away from the public. Copyright is a benefit given to authors & publishe
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by flenserboy 3y ago
It is maddening that the companies that provide the service appear to have thrown up their hands & pretend that they have no idea how they could possibly prevent spoofed numbers. Imagine if this was this easy to spoof IP #s. Perhaps it
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Of his later stories, "War Fever" has stayed with me; it has clear conceptual connections with Will Self's "Quantity Theory of Insanity". Running Wild is also extremely taut & affecting.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
All the reasons I can't stand Franzen's novels are found in this essay. Fascinating.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
There are plenty of newer approaches to this, but this older blog post points to some possible reasons: https://www.jeffnobbs.com/posts/death-by-vegetable-oil-what-... .
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by flenserboy 3y ago
So there will be one uncensored, general-purpose, actually-useful AI out there that only the government will have. Hmmmm...
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by flenserboy 3y ago
I hope no one is shocked by this. The weaponization of regulations against free citizens is only going to ramp up.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Apple needs to have two versions of iOS, & sell their phones with a choice for users. One phone is iOS as is, with perhaps even more security baked-in. The other is open, Wild West like so many here are demanding. The kicker is that the
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by flenserboy 3y ago
Imagine the pain of programming a Cray-1 to do the work of a Raspberry Pi in those use instances.
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by flenserboy 3y ago
>Sorry but you will never regulate memes. Yet this is likely part of the background reasoning for laws such as this. Not only is this bill entirely unworkable, & against how things have been done with likenesses for ages, it is a ful
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by flenserboy 3y ago
The fun part about that is that this method gives better results than searching on Reddit.

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