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by hx8 3y ago
The entire benefit of Ceres is that you get access to nuclear power without having to risk radiation exposure for Earth. Cold storage is famously low power usage, the storage drives are powered off. It doesn't take advantage of the e
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by hx8 3y ago
I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but Ceres is a ball of ice so large it's rounded by its own gravity [0]. I'm pretty sure you could engineer a shelter by using the waste heat of the nuclear reactor to bore a tunnel into the ice.
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by hx8 3y ago
I know this is a joke, but I want to reiterate some of the challenges and shortcomings of this. * Ping time would be roughly 1 hour * Would require high-power wireless communication link * Would take over 1 year to ship new hardware to data
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by hx8 3y ago
I find the best products are those that are built with humans in mind. Who will be using it, how will they use it, why will they like it. Products/features that are following pure research/data tend to be missing a human element
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by hx8 3y ago
The influence of Wall Street and Private Equity firms play a large role in enshittification. Private ownership might be the strongest protection against it for for-profit companies. This protection can feel temporary as human mortality will
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by hx8 3y ago
After Game of Thrones season 3 I've began ignoring film adaptations of books I enjoy. I think the risk of tarnishing my experience with a good book is much worse than any possible film enhancement I've experienced. The screenshot
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by hx8 3y ago
So Youtube will demonetize you if you hurt someone with an internet connection, but not if you hurt someone too poor to afford one?
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by hx8 3y ago
Or is WSL 1 and WSL2 shipped in a package called "WSL" that just reached version 2.0
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by hx8 3y ago
I found Silverblue to not be flexible enough for my person computers. Maybe I use Linux in a hacky way, not having write access to /usr or /bin or other folders drove me crazy about once every two weeks. For example, I was using
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by hx8 3y ago
Just look at housing prices in places HN wants to live that didn't increase their housing supply.
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by hx8 3y ago
> Well, you can always modify source code and use it privately - you hardly need a license for that. You do need a license to modify the source, use it internally, and then sell a binary you've produced with the modified source.
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by hx8 3y ago
If that's the case why are a significant number of people scrolling instead of playing?
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by hx8 3y ago
> Interesting. Theoretical "(number of people) x 24h/day" is the max limit for attention economy. Has it already hit the ceiling? Everyone is always paying attention to something or they are asleep. There's increasin
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by hx8 3y ago
Unity isn't.
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by hx8 3y ago
Once upon a time, this is how applications worked and this was a pretty good experience. Now, you'll introduce a huge amount of user frustration around why their changes never made it to the central database. If you have users closing
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by hx8 3y ago
> Or do you think if Microsoft had been able to maintain IE dominance (which it kinda did until Chrome anyway) the internet would have ended up being shaped significantly differently? The IE engine was quirky, and it was common for webde
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by hx8 3y ago
I agree, all systems need some slack.
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by hx8 3y ago
I think food in general is a terrible example of the efficiency in the free market. Nearly 40% of all food in the US is wasted. The evolutionary pressure of the free market values high availability over efficient use of resources.
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by hx8 3y ago
Would you care to showcase some of your favorite alternatives?
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by hx8 3y ago
Einstein talks of a planned economy towards the end. It's easy to see how someone in 1949 might think it's a good idea, but in 2023 the idea seems antiquated. All of the major economies are largely not planned. Now I wonder if t
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by hx8 3y ago
MacOS generally needs more ram than iPadOS because iPadOS can be more aggressive about pausing and closing applications to free up more ram than MacOS can be. I think some modern iPads are still at 4GB when that's too low for modern M
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by hx8 3y ago
Excuse me. Are you suggesting that rich individuals are subsidizing the importation of illegal drugs that are consumed by average Americans?
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by hx8 3y ago
I think it's a pretty hardline opinion to state law enforcement should be confined to "old-fashioned" methods. Tech is changing the world. Let's not let it be a de-facto lawless world. Yea, LE/IC clearly have gone
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by hx8 3y ago
Some of the official emulators use open source projects. The PlayStation Classic uses ReARMed.
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by hx8 3y ago
BizHawk is a premier emulator for generating Tool Assisted Speedruns and written in C#. https://github.com/TASEmulators/BizHawk
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by hx8 3y ago
Reverse engineering. Systems programming. Firmware. Sometimes yea, people have a career in an adjacent field and hack on emulators on the evenings. Other times I've ran across incredibly talented individuals with significant contrib
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by hx8 3y ago
* Meta's products are generally higher tech than people give them credit for. They have a lot invested in having great image and video tech. * At the scale Meta is at, and at the margins they can operate at, R&D is a valid use fun
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by hx8 3y ago
> Plus there's the San Francisco factor. I think this is huge. Extreme heat kills more Americans than hurricanes, tornadoes, or extreme cold. However, the people it kills tend to be poor and far away from the political and cultura
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by hx8 3y ago
That's a great question. It's actually hard to get this type of data. I once tried to calculate something adjacent by looking at feedstock production, but actually a lot of feedstock is used for 'biofuel'. My knowledge
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by hx8 3y ago
This is such small portion of all meat on the market, it really shouldn't factor into the discussion for how to feed a population.

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