jtotheh

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1. 91.▲
   by jtotheh 3y ago

   I find Chomsky convincing. I'd like to hear what people who disagree have to say.
2. 92.▲
   Asking ChatGPT to Be HAL(ideas.4brad.com)

   2 points by jtotheh 3y ago|3 comments
3. 93.▲
   by jtotheh 3y ago

   this is a couple months old, but I just found it. I think it's a funny idea, a little alarming, too.
4. 94.▲
   by jtotheh 3y ago

   this is an amazing story.
5. 95.▲
   by jtotheh 4y ago

   I believe there was some skullduggery where M$ encouraged Wordperfect and Lotus, who dominated their markets, to focus on OS/2 as the future, while preparing to release or further promote Excel and Word for Windows with the release of
6. 96.▲
   by jtotheh 4y ago

   I live there, I still try and refer to it as National Airport.
7. 97.▲
   by jtotheh 4y ago

   So, Team Reagan left the hostages there longer, sold arms to an enemy and subverted the POTUS - why is there a statue of that !@# at Washington National Airport?????
8. 98.▲
   by jtotheh 4y ago

   the two best things for me about the MacOS are the integration with other apple devices/services and that things "just work". When I first started using it after using Linux for years I installed Thunderbird and the like. Now
9. 99.▲
   by jtotheh 4y ago

   my favorite sentence: "the euphemism treadmill shows that concepts, not words, are in charge:give a concept a new name, and the name becomes colored by the concept; the concept does not become freshened by the name."
10. 100.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    see also https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-futili...
11. 101.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    reminds me of Vonnegut's "Ice-Nine".
12. 102.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    Vonnegut is my favorite author. Cat's Cradle is also a lot of fun, with Ice-9 and Bokononism.
13. 103.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
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    War Is Over(warisover.com)

    7 points by jtotheh 4y ago|12 comments
15. 105.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    I've never submitted here before This is my Christmas thoughts. https://www.codepink.org/christmas_truce_in_ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbKsgaXQy2k
16. 106.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    I haven't had a drink in forty years. From the age of about 18-20, I fell rapidly into getting blackout drunk several times a week. I don't miss it. I did AA to get away from it but I ended up leaving that. I don't mind if pe
17. 107.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    I own a color Postscript laser printer (HP) that cost me about $400. That blows my mind.
18. 108.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    from the article: Bill Gates, for example, owns four private jets and emitted 1,629 tons of CO2 from 356 private flight hours in 2017 while writing a book titled How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. I think an average US person's carbon
19. 109.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Fort_Hood_shooting another one, at the same place
20. 110.▲
    by jtotheh 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Fort_Hood_shooting
21. 111.▲
    by jtotheh 5y ago

    This might be an unpopular view here, but here goes: Back in the day (1994-1995) Windows (non-NT) crashed and glitched constantly. Linux was a rock by comparison. That's no longer my experience. Modern Windows is quite stable. Modern L
22. 112.▲
    by jtotheh 5y ago

    author of "Behave" https://smile.amazon.com/s?k=behave+robert+sapolsky&crid=352... also (free) https://nautil.us/why-your-brain-hates-other-people-6283/
23. 113.▲
    by jtotheh 6y ago

    and V. S. Ramachandran - Phantoms in the Brain.
24. 114.▲
    by jtotheh 6y ago

    Paul Kalanithi - When Breath becomes Air.
25. 115.▲
    by jtotheh 6y ago

    From like 95-97 I had my SE/30 (whose slot was tied up with a color graphics card) accessing the internet through my PC running slackware. The whole thing was going through a dialup connection! PPP between the two and and between the l
26. 116.▲
    by jtotheh 6y ago

    It's been a while since I read it, but this book was fascinating.
27. 117.▲
    by jtotheh 7y ago

    I've been running Docker containers in freebsd using a bhyve debian VM. seems to work pretty well. That's the same way you can run docker in windows and mac.
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    by jtotheh 7y ago

    This guy was apparently an amazing visionary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Marie_Hullot My browser or maybe Google translated the original article from the French. Sounds like a somewhat unsung hero!
29. 119.▲
    by jtotheh 8y ago

    it's easy to add an external SSD to an iMac, install the OS on it and configure it to boot off of it. I have gotten great performance out of an old iMac by doing this.