jambalaya8

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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
that sort of crappy movie with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster that is supposedly dystopian but far more utopian than the reality would be. wonder if the overlords will allow meat or only gruel or bug bars like that Bong Ho movie to the survivo
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I mean, why not BeOS, GNU Hurd, or ... etc. There wasn't much software for any of those things (and you would have had to be a pretty exotic sort of software pirate or know some hobbyists or be in an academic setting to afford them if
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
It isn't wasted time if you learn something, though, is it? To be fair, as a hobbyist I only ever really experimented as far as I could afford if the hardware broke, and anything too experimental I kept the only version of any data off
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
yes, but x64 requirement made the sorta standard low-end laptop ram amount of 2-4 gigabytes of sdram suddenly a "new minimum" of 4-8 gigabytes of sdram, even for linux, unless you optimize, and even then you kind of need 4gb.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
movie almost puts me to sleep every time.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
What were you risking if you were just a hobbyist? Sincere question.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I mean there was always Minix! Minix was available on floppies long before most people started running linux. Because it existed several years before linux. There was also SCO Unix.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I can't imagine this can ever happen. Humans have not even figured out how to allow people to always eat when they own their own land. I mean, it is totally possible one day we will just all upload a copy of our consciousnesses into cl
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Or gentoo. Gentoo was pretty good around then, great to hack around with.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Yeah, NetBSD definitely had Sparc compatibility. I wonder how many OpenSolaris and NetBSD machines on old Sparc hardware are still on the internet (like ones that aren't doing it just to say they are). The base install _was_ useful. Ca
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I was a fan of FreeBSD over NetBSD; far more driver compatibility in the 1990s. It was nice to play with. Way too hard to use for much (well, online) now, due to the shrinking number of software packages (eg browsers) these days. I still re
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Some people take used books and bleach out the text. Like that? I am pretty sure both have value, depending on whom you ask, but it seems dangerous to enable a sort of thought process that suggests if someone decides "humankind" n
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Sort of a thing on linux (and bsd) but not as often. An example is the mostly end of 32-bit computing, since 64-bit computing requires far more resources/RAM (arguably, some of that can be ameliorated with swapping, but it is wayyy les
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
um no. from a technical design perspective, obviously.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I was going to say for "What Goes Around Comes Around" by Timberlake, or maybe "F--- it, I don't want you back" by Eamonn, myself. Schopenhauer though. Great minds.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Not feeling this. Is it necessary to call "agents" by human names? Wouldn't objectives be a safer easier to remember approach to naming? Like, say 'Clips' and 'Seeks'.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
What an exciting project, Chai. Congratulations on your work.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
am curious, what is it you think they are really negotiating?
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
nah
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Not sure. But I figure we are pretty close to a world where people think AIs and tech are so advanced as to convince people they are autonomously making 'offers' of things (like, if people are so bad at all that 'free stuff!&
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
Good to know proposing proper safety research, longitudinal studies, and testing of completely novel technologies before they are emcouraged to be administered into the populace of the entire worldwide human population is considered in such
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I think right now people are at the end of that cusp; daily they are worse at grasping how their results are collated, and thus are more unable to figure out what "facts" they are getting are reliable. Things are far more subtle t
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I think a lot have mostly experienced working for tech companies and do not understand how different that is from working at some other kind of company (particularly something not technically sexy) doing tech (see last parenthetical).
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I had a lot more of that experience before the first dotcom bubble burst. Harder and harder to not know your coworkers political beliefs even if they do not talk about them at work now.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I think one thing that made things worse was, before modern social media there was a semi-enforced need to categorise our public conversations (bbses, usenet, web forums); now it is kind of sludge since systems weight things nothing like a
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I fully know this. But someday if the dystopic bounty hunters come to me for a chunk of that distressingly ludicrous national debt, I can at least annoy them.
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
How do you not consider all Americans spies, given the way our devices work and constantly hoover everything? Perhaps most Americans aren't approached to sell the data they essentially collect 24/7 on everything around them, assum
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I believe some tax accountants say it can be used as a write-off (just like a certain number of square feet of where you live, if it is only and demonstrably for that). But as far as preference, I would be surprised if a company with an off
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I don't actually. I paid the last of my monthly student loan payments off in 2013 when I was an ex-pat. The rest had long ago fell off my credit report. I know this because I pulled my credit and was told I have none also by a couple o
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by jambalaya8 1mo ago
I hear platinum is the way to go. Or iron.

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