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   by frabbit 8y ago

   Narrowed me down perfectly.
2. 512.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   What sort of crash?
3. 513.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   I agree in general. However if you attempt to imagine how future/other observers might look at this current civilization's lack of attempt to deal with imminent climate change breakdown and the clinging to unreasonable belief in a
4. 514.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   I guess it doesn't matter that much, but the author may want to rename. Orca as a name suffers from a collision with the relatively well-known windows installer table editor.
5. 515.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco) surely? The tantalizing sense of loss as rare texts are censored and erased for ever, leaving as their only trace suggestive references and mentions in other works gets me every time.
6. 516.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   Agreed on Small Gods being the best.
7. 517.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   I like the idea... except for neodynium magnets anywhere near electronics.
8. 518.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   > you NEED a car to reasonably participate > in most parts of society. Not for most people. Unless they have a very severe mental or physical disability. Driving is much less efficient than biking and/or public transit
9. 519.▲
   by frabbit 8y ago

   There are two people "obviously" disabled in my workplace of circa 400. One of them walks to maintain their fitness from a cleverly chosen home in a town of just over 100K. The other drives. Nearly everyone else drives for life
10. 520.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    What about orphaned children with arthritis? How does your elitist public transport serve them? Monster.
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    > Let users of cars pay for the > infrastructure they use (through > gas and plate taxes), You couldn't. The cost of providing the road structures, lighting, c. 40,000 direct deaths a year, massive numbers of resp
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    Speaking of Chess, does anyone know what happened to Chess Academy?¹ I wanted to point someone towards it over Xmas and discovered that it was down (still is). It looked very promising at the time (I only skimmed through it quickly, possib
13. 523.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    The Unihertz Jelly and Atom kickstarters were pretty succesful. I have only used the Jelly, but its fine for a low end small phone that can display webpages/maps when necessary. If it had better battery life I would not want anything
14. 524.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    https://www.amazon.com/Unihertz-Smallest-Smartphone-Android-... I have had one of the above for about a year. Battery life is not too great, but for my needs (occasional phone call, text, google maps) it works fine. Fits
15. 525.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    What you say is correct, but partial. If you cannot reproduce then you do not know whether it is due to the equipment/materiel varying or not and you have severely reduced options for investigating that. If you look at the problems wit
16. 526.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    Reproducibility doesn't necessarily mean every component of the system is completely open and inspectable. If it's not "open and inspectable" then it cannot be reproduced by another group/researcher. It&#x2
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    Is that science? A bunch of computing units running secret code?! Reproducibility in computational science is recognized as a huge problem: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383002/ A lab or inst
18. 528.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    Your point #2 is especially important: with all the commotion surrounding the various "management engines" (in effect a completely independent system with privileged access to the carefully secured main system) it is surely obvio
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    Exactly. Nvidia have been relentlessly hostile to Free Software for ever. No one who wants an easy life or a stable, upgradeable operating system would buy an Nvidia card.
20. 530.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    '"marginal, incremental improvements in energy and carbon efficiency cannot do the job and that what is needed is a structural transformation.” In other words, 2 degrees requires radicalism.' There are such huge opportunities
21. 531.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    To answer my own question, looks like the mentioned AMD RX580 has a non-Free EULA: https://www.amd.com/en/support/gpu-pro-eula They can keep it.
22. 532.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    Are any of these cards supported by FLOSS drivers? If not, then they're essentially useless for anyone that wants a stable system.
23. 533.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    Makes sense to me.
24. 534.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    I like that idea. After briefly searching for possible discussion/implementation of it I was unable to find any. Do you have any useful keywords or phrases I could use for such searches?
25. 535.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    I did not say searching through the _entire_ dictionary. It is still removing one of the skills that Scrabble traditionally rewards: knowing how to spell.
26. 536.▲
    by frabbit 8y ago

    So just searching through a smaller space in the dictionary rather than the entire dictionary. It's still turning a feat of human skill and memory (remembering what words exist and how they are spelled) into a mere sideshow.
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    a dictionary can be used whenever you want, to look up a specific word in mind only (you cannot leaf through it for ideas) I really dislike this idea. It turns the human into a mere mechanical Turk, searching through the dictionary
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    I'll be interested when they start firing Branson, Musk, Clinton and Trump towards the nearest habitable system.
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1584330/
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    by frabbit 8y ago

    Quick question for US readers as a check on my predjudices: I mostly find it deeply disturbing to hear a strong American/Canadian accent in fantasy works. Does the reverse apply for you?