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by gostsamo 4y ago
Small differences in the initial conditions can bring big differences in the final result. This is the main postulate of chaos theory started with one Edward Lorenz and giving birth to stuff like the butterfly effect. https://en.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
You can never be good in any meaningful job if you don't try to expand and deepen your knowledge about the problems you are solving. Everything from gardener to a software architect requires studying and understanding. So, you can even
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by gostsamo 4y ago
O, I agree. As I said, when python and its uses scaled, it became quite necessary to make it fast. I like that it will be fast as well and I am not happy that it is slow at the moment. My point is that there are reasons why it was not optim
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by gostsamo 4y ago
A few people tried to excuse the slow python, but as far as I know the story, excuses are not necessary. Truth is that python was not meant to be fast, its source code was not meant to be fast, and its design was not optimized with the idea
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The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA(theregister.com)
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by gostsamo 4y ago
No, in b2b setting, checking internet speed happens on regular bases in order to monitor network performance or to confirm compliance with the SLA. Have you ever wondered how they do their money when the browser test is free?
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by gostsamo 4y ago
If the manufacturer is willing to provide the entire db of cards or a well-trained model that could be embedded or a ready mobile app, that would be great. However, waiting on them is not a winning strategy. The other option is community co
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by gostsamo 4y ago
As I said in another comment, normal cards are easy. The issue is with everything else where each card might have a picture with different animals and you are looking for the lama giving you the bird.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Yep, this is the main idea at the moment. Currently looking for a game that needs the solution and is interesting for my social circle.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Normal cards are a solved issue. You can print two braille symbols on each and it is done. Imagine though something like cards against humanity for example, where the text on the card would take ten times the space in braille. In different
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by gostsamo 4y ago
This tech could be a game changer for accessibility. Many card games are not or cannot be adapted to braille, so I haven't been able to play them with friends. If cards can be sold with invisible ink in an open format, then I would nee
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by gostsamo 4y ago
If the overall agricultural output is suppressed by LIA, then population recovery from the plague will be slowed down. From what I've found, most of Europe recovered population size before 1500. There is a Wikipedia article about medie
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by gostsamo 4y ago
You blame it all on the black death, however, Norway was on the front line of the little ice age , so those farms might have not been populated because the land itself was not able to sustain cultivation reliably. Tolkien mentions only one
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by gostsamo 4y ago
The shire is not special. Nothing before the adventure of Bilbo made anyone think that it should be kept secret. The hobbits are just reclusive, however, there are travelers passing through and Bree is on an actual crossroad.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
The rohinims don't have that issue for example. Nor it is mentioned as an issue for the other human societies. That's why the situation of the ents is considered such an anomaly.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
I mean, we can all say "magic" and not think about it, but the fun here is in thinking and the hand-waving is not in the spirit of it.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Middle Earth has no contraception (Tolkien is catholic) and the only way to stop multiplying is to stop doing... math. LOTR is famous for the women missing from social life, so there is no reason that such measures have been taken. So, you
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Yes, the whole thread is trying to find plausible reasons why the population does not recover after disasters. The elves are leaving and gondorians have issue reproducing. Everyone else should've been totally capable of taking those bi
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by gostsamo 4y ago
See though that all of these disasters are spread over 1500 years. Most of them supposedly kill people, but they don't make the land uninhabitable and nothing stops from next generations repopulating them. Keep in mind that Europe suff
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by gostsamo 4y ago
The Mordor expansion should've started one-two generations ago. No mentions of recent ruins and the more likely reaction of the population on the best communication pathway in the local part of the continent should've been buildin
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by gostsamo 4y ago
The shire hasn't seen any raids for generations and the only thing that protects them are a few hundred irregulars under the command of Aragorn. Another example for unexplainably depopulated region is the area between the shire and the
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Actually, we know for at least one industrial revolution in sumerian times a.k.a the beginning of the iron age. And we have a way to find for civilizations with larger impact by checking the isotopes locked in ice. This is the method for da
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Mordor was starting an industrial revolution which couldn't have been older than 60 years. Nothing explains the lack of development the previous few millemnia.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Politics is handwaving for the structural reasons for a conflict. No need for fighting each other if there is an easier gain to be found outside. At least not fights that would be significant enough to suppress the population growth.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Internal warfare is caused by competing for the same resources. Orcs must be under external constraints to fight with each other instead of spreading around to occupy/pillage other resources. We can accept that they are constrained to
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by gostsamo 4y ago
However, the industrial revolution did not start in Siberia and it is proving only that it can't start in a world with so far removed population centers. Waterways are the cheapest transport option and source of water for the crops, ye
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by gostsamo 4y ago
Something not mentioned in the article: Middle Earth is depopulated. Without large market, it does not make sense to produce at scale, nor you will have the capital to do it. The main characters travel hundreds of kilometers down the bigges
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by gostsamo 4y ago
the more we use extreme words, the less they mean. Overuse devalues the expressed emotions and then we have to create even more extreme words to describe the same emotion as few years/decades ago. I'm okay using swear words, but I
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by gostsamo 4y ago
This is an option. I saw somewhere a news that they might license the entire GCloud to a French provider but I can't remember where and when.
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by gostsamo 4y ago
No, they can't as far as I get it. The american cloud act entitles US law enforcement to serve orders to US companies and their foreign branches. So, if you are american with a company in the EU, the important part is that you are an a

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