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by jl6 9mo ago
Dead Internet theory, meet Dead Earth theory. There are actually only 87 people in the world, and they’ve made up the rest as part of a welfare scam.
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by jl6 9mo ago
The software part of this would be easy. People will literally write it for free, out of the sheer joy of building Free & open source software. The part the state needs to do is bootstrap a network effect that leads to people actually u
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by jl6 9mo ago
I've been successfully holding off on updating from iOS 18 by declining the prompt each time. Any tips for pinning the version more robustly? Because I feel the random upgrade prompts are going to catch me out eventually.
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by jl6 9mo ago
Abandon hope. I just treat ~ as a system-owned configuration area, and put my actual files (documents, photos, etc.) in a completely different hierarchy under /.
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by jl6 9mo ago
The “but” this time is that we are talking about electricity demand, not total energy demand. Electrification of heating is the next big milestone. It’s still a great trend.
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by jl6 9mo ago
That does track with those who are most stridently Good and Moral and Kind and Right having some glaring blind spots when it comes to understanding the consequences of their actions.
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by jl6 9mo ago
There is likely no single or simple answer. It’s just one example of the general issue of humanity living beyond its means, filling the deficit by drawing down on resources that will not be renewed. Debt and bankruptcy is a good analogy. In
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by jl6 9mo ago
Only about 2 orders of orders of magnitude - not bad for string theory.
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by jl6 9mo ago
Before areas become completely uninhabitable, we will see areas become increasingly stressed: heat waves, more extreme weather events, poorer crop yields, depleting aquifers. Stress increases conflict risk. Fights for essential resources
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by jl6 9mo ago
gemini://lab6.com/
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by jl6 9mo ago
To answer this question honestly, you have to ask: if you could time travel back to live in, say, 1990, would you? You don't get to just dial the internet back to 1990, you have to dial the rest of the world back too. The world is a pa
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by jl6 9mo ago
A.J. Liebling wrote: “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
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by jl6 9mo ago
Shannon approaches the Bellard limit.
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by jl6 9mo ago
Are you sure about that second one?
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by jl6 9mo ago
Ah, an opportunity to call upon Hacker News, tech support of last resort… Someone please tell me if there’s a trick to making the Windows snipping tool faster. I press Win+Shift+S to activate the tool for capturing a region. It takes about
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by jl6 9mo ago
My, that was a yummy slime mold! > "You take multiple pictures, sometimes over 100 and it takes tiny little slivers of focus, and then you put all those into software, and that creates your final image." Is this a workaround to
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by jl6 9mo ago
I think their desired cash flow direction is: customers should be paying to take this in order to avoid the punitive deductible for being overweight.
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by jl6 9mo ago
Seems like a new application of 2nd amendment logic (both for and against).
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by jl6 9mo ago
On the whole, I consider myself lucky to have lost data due to a badly configured 40GB HDD early in my digital life. I was so aggrieved that it inoculated me against data preservation complacency, and in the subsequent 25 years I haven’t lo
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by jl6 9mo ago
Interesting that World War 3 never happened; instead, we smoothly transitioned to War World, where war is just something that happens all the time, randomly, intermittently, undeclared, and interminably.
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by jl6 10mo ago
I have the same requirement and I solved it as follows: Apply a label to emails dated after the last backup, using an “after:YYYY-MM-DD” search. Takeout then offers the option to export only that label. I do an annual backup so the amount o
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by jl6 10mo ago
Hi OP, as a side question, are you using an LLM like ChatGPT to translate or write your comments here?
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by jl6 10mo ago
No, a major one. (No shade on OVH, but they are ~1% market share player)
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by jl6 10mo ago
> worst case (so far) It’s kind of amazing that after nearly 20 years of “cloud”, the worst case so far still hasn’t been all that bad. Outages are the mildest type of incident. A true cloud disaster would be something like a major S3 da
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by jl6 10mo ago
Where does “ban” end and “parental controls” begin? These books aren’t banned any more than R-rated movies are banned on Disney+. Every one of the books on the list has some kind of mature theme that different parents will feel differentl
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by jl6 10mo ago
First he went to Rome to see the pope, now SpongeBob. I’m beginning to like him.
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by jl6 10mo ago
Definitely true, but a lot of Oracle sites are that way because of decisions made decades ago. Opportunities to re-architect are rare. But when those opportunities do come along, nobody is choosing Oracle RDBMS for their future state. What
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by jl6 10mo ago
Is the mechanism of the ban actually going to work, or is it just going to train more kids how to use fake IDs and VPNs?
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by jl6 10mo ago
Spreadsheets are absolutely the right solution for a great many problems. The important thing to recognize is when a problem has outgrown a spreadsheet solution. That’s usually when you start to use a spreadsheet as a database, or when it h
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by jl6 10mo ago
> The disavowal comes 25 years after publication and eight years after thousands of internal Monsanto documents were made public during US court proceedings (the "Monsanto Papers"), revealing that the actual authors of the arti

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