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by golem14 3y ago
I'd pitch the short story (really, a fictitious book review) "Eruntics" by Stanislaw Lem. I believe it's published within the "Imaginary Magnitude" Anthology. Published in 1985.
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by golem14 3y ago
I think it may lack the physical strength as ablative shield. Id have guessed at protection from laser weapons
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by golem14 3y ago
I mean, the DOD/Pentagon has not been able to finish an audit and account for their finances to the GAO (General Accounting Office) for many years now. There's a proposal that they will be able to pass a clean audit in 2027. Just
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by golem14 3y ago
Hah! We can't even build nuclear plants surviving a 20m tsunami or airplanes where the front (door) doesn't fall off ... I jest, but I believe we're far away from anything truly useful for space travel even to MARS or Belt ob
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by golem14 3y ago
[Huge thanks for the detailed reply, esp. network implementations] Yeah, I'm sorry, too, but I think it was the right choice to give up. Yes, you can do all the things with JIT you say, but if you look at Jonesforth, and see how it imp
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by golem14 3y ago
I can understand, though. For instance, with new security rules like x^w page protection, it becomes much harder to write a self-modifying Forth on MacOS - I gave up a jonesforth port because of this. I'd continue if I had a way to t
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by golem14 3y ago
There's also historical fiction which can combine both worlds if done well. Robert Harris comes to mind.
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by golem14 3y ago
Maybe that's a feature. Early Gopher was similar, and people adapted by writing hubs/directories. Not everyone needs their content to reach record # of visitors.
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by golem14 3y ago
Programming for GEM seemed so much easier than Windows, too. One or two fairly small books did the trick.
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by golem14 3y ago
I also really like GEM (for the PC and Atari ST). It's nice to imagine Gem would have replaced windows in some alternate reality and then imagine where that would have taken us. Probably to a similar place, given the forces on the indu
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by golem14 3y ago
I wonder if this from the spaceballs movie and whether they had to license the sound ...
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by golem14 3y ago
there are many "similar" chime noises for entirely different warnings on this page (no seatbelts; proximity alarms, ...). I'm not sure what is a good UI here, but I feel that this ain't it.
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by golem14 3y ago
Easy: it costs about $10 a pound and weighs almost 20 lbs.
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by golem14 3y ago
Since importing these is hard, I wonder if a better way to get one is as a kit for self assembly. Would be fun to build one I guess…
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by golem14 3y ago
You need a sales force, translations, customer billing, regulatory compliance etc - I’m sure the cost of the cloud resources is negligible. I think this is a perfectly rational approach, esp if the long term thought is to bring Fitbit into
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by golem14 3y ago
Yeah, but it's really slow, and you can't actually download a copy of the data.
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by golem14 3y ago
""" In 2020 after sustained legal demands requesting a set of messages within the Usenet Archive be redacted, and to avoid further costs and accusations of manipulation should those demands be met, the archive has been remove
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by golem14 3y ago
I would imagine that most of the data for the ID checks based on public records (where did a person live; own a car/house/boat; ...) are trivially handleable. Just takes one person to leak the database, which is probably only a fe
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by golem14 3y ago
+1. When there were still spinning HDDs, some of this fuckery was obvious, like spotlight indexing all the time like crazy. This might still happen, or happen again, but we sheeple would'nt know because SDDs are much quieter than HDDs.
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by golem14 3y ago
Except you can't upgrade Macs anymore, you need to buy a completely new one.
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by golem14 3y ago
Worth reading the Author's recollections of his almost dying in 2019: https://dunfield.themindfactory.com/2019.htm
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by golem14 3y ago
There’s a short story by Asimov called “Franchise” which is in hindsight quite foreboding…
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by golem14 3y ago
Thanks, this is very helpful (and hopeful).
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by golem14 3y ago
Respiratory monitoring can be done with a mic taped to the chest, at least for some applications. That's pretty uninvasive and continuous
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by golem14 3y ago
Yeah, isn't that crazy? 3x overhead? For what? I want to support the research, not the university.
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by golem14 3y ago
There's a tunnel gap as well, I'm sure.
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by golem14 3y ago
Using an old personal phone is probably a bad idea. The chance of relevant parties having a list of phone-identifier/owner seems high, and it’s hard to guarantee that the phone won’t leak its identifiers. The suggestion of buying one
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by golem14 3y ago
Not a billionaire, but of course this would be great. Are there good suggestions on how to do that without paying the university overhead AND being tax advantaged ? I cannot just go and give Professor X $10K to do this research and claim a
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by golem14 3y ago
The article is surprisingly scant on detail why this is. Are fewer cars sold in total? Are they not, and people continue to buy gasoline cars? Are fewer people driving? Is the situation the same worldwide?
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by golem14 3y ago
I’m rather fond of his autobiographies, “Boy” and “Going Solo”, the latter having a great audiobook recording by Andrew Sachs I believe.

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