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by kkfx 2y ago
RTO for giants is a must because they die without the office. Offices are the last meaningful dense-city economical activity, if you cut them there is no more economical reason for dense cities. With dying dense cities the service industry
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by kkfx 2y ago
Few notes: - from the first part of the article I feel a sort of hidden critic of automation and it's outcomes, well, while people should ALWAYS remember the Ironies of Automation by Lisanne Bainbridge [1] it's obvious that as muc
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by kkfx 2y ago
As we have witnessed episodes like https://arstechnica.com/?p=1942936 witch pose a big and so far unsolvable problem. Personally I tried khoj on my org-mode notes just for curiosity, it was able to produce some meaningful r
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by kkfx 2y ago
I suggest another vision: how many talents, students with potential, teachers etc we ALL lost in WWI and WWII? You know back than in most countries serving in the army was mandatory.
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by kkfx 2y ago
Hum... So far I still have to see "improved productivity", at maximum some low skilled workers can find ways to complete some simple tasks quickly in certain domain, but that's essentially all. IF an LLM could ingest news and
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by kkfx 2y ago
> A store is a commercial place, and that’s exactly why it should be further away I still fail to understand why, of course I understand that some people like sweet coffee vs others who like it bitter and others who do not like it anyway
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by kkfx 2y ago
I know Oberon only by name, I've used (and honestly not loved it at all) some Pascal dialect back at high school, but back then was not real programming and was an introductory very bad organized course so it's hard to tell, I&#x2
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by kkfx 2y ago
Thanks :-) but allow me to enlarge, in my poor English: "us" the westerns, we came from those who invented the IT, the modern industry. We are evidently in a declining phase. Evidently someone else try to emerge and actually one o
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by kkfx 2y ago
To be (re)read together with the Unix Haters Handbook https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf to realize that what we need is re-made LispM, Smalltalk workstations or the OS as a single application, framework ope
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ehm, sorry no. OSes matter much as before because even if today giants want to call desktop and co "just endpoints" a politically correct variant of old dumb terminals of "their mainframes", actually we know very well th
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by kkfx 2y ago
Forcing global firms to leave is GOOD actually, but EU have essentially no domestic tech markets: most part of the ruling elite have no idea about IT and while they have made many wise choice in theory (eIDAS, e-billings, certified signed e
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by kkfx 2y ago
Mh, I do not see the whole course but... The sustainable real estate is one who can evolve because the best energetic performances of today will be very bad performances tomorrow and the "ideal design" for today will be a very bad
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by kkfx 2y ago
Actually I'm not against the suburbs, I simply agree with the article (just a bit) that the classic suburb model have issues because you can't buy anything nearby and so you need long trips just to buy some milk, that's is.
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by kkfx 2y ago
Few notes: - cui prodest/cui bono? So far the government witch it VERY hated by Parisian at least due to their zoning and confinement of people "for safety reasons", reasons who appear justified if someone commit crimes, the
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by kkfx 2y ago
IMVHO the problem lie in "specialization": in the past most technicians of any fields have a certain generic culture and comprehension of the world, these days they are so "specialized" to be unable to see the big pictur
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by kkfx 2y ago
Well, and why this specific idea should persist? Or more precisely why the alternatives should be dense cities, suburbs or isolated countrysides instead of a mixture of them? > The sound of a party or of children playing is not noise. Ev
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by kkfx 2y ago
They can't came unless major revolutions happen because the country is not organized like "dense cities, vast residential-only suburbs and the countryside", France compared to USA it's much smaller so while not that dens
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by kkfx 2y ago
> use 'which' not 'witch', quite different words Thanks and sorry for my English, even if I use it for work I do not normally use it conversationally and as a result it's still very poor for me... Well I do not
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by kkfx 2y ago
Why? What's wrong in a supermarket, a 500m² (~5400ft²) shed one km (0.6 miles) from your home? It's not open 24/7, it does not smell or smoke, generate special noise, heat and so on. In between a pine wood, a small lake, a bi
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by kkfx 2y ago
I do not call "urban" being spread in nature... Mixing does not means being ATTACHED. I have a supermarket, a small shed covered with solar panels at less than one mile from my home but still far enough I do not hear trucks resupp
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by kkfx 2y ago
Hem... I fail to see a single reasons to use a spreadsheet or create slides in PowerPoint alike software actually... We can compute easily in R, Python, Clojure, also with some wrappers from Jupyter to R-Studio to Clerk for those who want i
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by kkfx 2y ago
I'm in the French Alps, so a spread area, NOT designed to sell cars, and well we have walkable areas without physical ads (shop windows) in nature and the simplest difference between the USA suburbs is just the fact that here homes and
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by kkfx 2y ago
I was living, now circa 8 years ago, in a big city, now I'm living in the french Alps and I have exactly ZERO intention to come back in a prisons named city. USA suburbs for my little US experience have a simple issue: they are residen
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by kkfx 2y ago
Witch is a good recipe to pay much more thinking to be smart and pay less, being tied to some third parties decisions for anything running, having a giant attack surface and so on... There are countless lessons about how owning hw is cheape
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by kkfx 2y ago
That's precisely the case: instead of owning hw, witch per-machine it's a kind-of monolith (even counting blades and other modular solution), you deploy a full OS or half-full to run just a single service, on top of another "
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by kkfx 2y ago
A sane DevOps workflow is with declarative systems like NixOS or Guix System, definitively not on a VM infra in practice regularly not up to date, full of useless deps, on a host definitively not up to date, with the entire infra typically
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by kkfx 2y ago
As much stuff you add as much attack surface you have. Virtualized infra are a commercial need, an IT and Operation OBSCENITY definitively never safe in practice.
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by kkfx 2y ago
Android is a commercial modern platform, where developing MUST BE HARD to discourage most and makes the few who can rule the others, meaning the big ones. Windows is similar but being much older and born without the iron under control under
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by kkfx 2y ago
Companies needs money, money came from revenues but typically it's not sufficient and loan are not cheap. So companies try to get money from third parties, it's a bit cheaper but still not so cheap, stocks are cheaper, and if you
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ladies and Gentleman money are VIRTUAL, so yes, a UBI system is definitively possible, the point is how much REAL resources we have to share amount the people for their needs and desires no matter if with a UBI or not. Formally a society is

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