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by lordfrito 2y ago
Again, if your aircraft is grounded you would consider yourself stranded at an airport until you could schedule and board alternate means of travel. Even though you could rent a car and drive 2000 miles, you're much more likely to wait
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by lordfrito 2y ago
By any reasonable definition, these astronauts were stranded. If people can be stranded in an airport due to a plane being grounded, then they can be stranded on a space station for the same reason. I mean, they're in orbit , it'
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Wow this thread deteriorated quickly. I had to double check I wasn't on Reddit.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
RAM was too expensive to have two full frame buffers with page flipping. So they resorted to timing tricks. Many times the RAM was dual ported (CPU writes while video hardware reads). Other times they'd do clever clock tricks... for ex
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I take ketamine 2 to 3 times a year through a clinic. The altered state it puts me in is contemplative and gives me perspective-- I explain to people it's like getting a massage for my mind. I don't feel any pull or draw to abuse
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Good stuff. Back in the day technical innovation and risk taking was an integral part of Disney... I miss those days. How far the house of mouse has fallen.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Lucas wrote (or cowrote) Apocalypse Now. Had long planned on directing it but Star Wars got in the way. He and Coppola had a long working relationship together through American Zeotrope, both encouraging each other (and competing) in their
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Instead he had to reuses the set from the Conan the Destroyer My understanding is that Conan reused Dune sets, not the other way round. The Dune sets were extremely intricate and expensive, and are definitely one of the few highlights
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by lordfrito 2y ago
If you love the Moebius asthetic and are a gamer, do yourself a favor and checkout Sable. The game perfectly captures the vibe and spirit of his works, and was just a joy to play. [0] [0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a0evJU
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I can relate -- without getting into too much detail, I lost my son at age 16 to an undiagnosed heart condition... same thing that took my mom when I was 7. It was genetic, and passed through me. I can't describe the depths of the grie
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> if you buy a Tesla today you are signaling that you're okay with being associated with Nazism. Sounds like social capital to me, which is the point I was making. My purchases don't relate to social signaling on my part, not s
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I said it before and I'll say it again. If you bought a Tesla because of Elon Musk (when he was cool), or sold a Tesla because of Elon Musk (because now he's not cool), then you're not really buying a car but social capital.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Because 100% of what you read online is in fact not propaganda. This isn't even close to true. Facts are facts, and stories are propaganda. What we call "news" is largely just "stories" (opinion/editoria
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> everything you see becomes an opinion and your mind can comfortably (or at least not emotionally/hurriedly) form your own opinion over time I agree (I've done this), but it's much easier said than done. Requires a lot of
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by lordfrito 2y ago
If everything I read online [that I don't pay for] is a form of propaganda, then the only choice I have is to either: 1) weight all information equally 2) bias information based on [personal beliefs XYZ] I'm trying hard to do #1,
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by lordfrito 2y ago
The post-WWII world order has been slowly falling apart over the last decade or so. America is a bit late to wake up to this reality. We're now in a pre-WWIII world.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Great question -- I run Microsoft Money -- it's managed my finances since 1995 -- I've got 30 years of financial transaction history in there I don't want to bail on. Sure it's old but it's always got the job done,
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Agreed... still a pretty big nail. A turning point. The loss of gaming definitely marks the beginning of the end of Windows as a consumer OS. Windows future might be relegated to a platform to run Microsoft business apps and dev tools. Co
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by lordfrito 2y ago
PC gaming is one of the few places left that Windows has any relevance, without that there very few reasons to continue running Windows. Sales volumes for general purpose PCs (used by people other than gaming and developers) have been decli
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by lordfrito 2y ago
It might have been Nolan's idea, but the first Chuck E. Cheese was actually created, operated, and owned by Atari. Nolan wanted Atari to have a place to operate and profit from the arcade machines they built. But the engineering work,
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Lack of education led us here. There are a lot of intelligent people that just happen to be "uneducated". Meanwhile I've met plenty of "educated" people that hold a wide variety of contradictory beliefs and lac
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Your comment resonated with me, feels like it somehow ties in with Peter Turchin's concept of "Elite Overproduction" [0] We're generating too many elites, and there isn't room for all of them in the power structure.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
“HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUN
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Technically it's called Half Life 3-D
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I think "journalism" would have an easier time surviving if it got unbundled from endless p̶r̶o̶p̶a̶g̶a̶n̶d̶a̶ editorial opinion pieces it gets bundled with. There is a demand for bias free news. Or at least news that doesn'
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by lordfrito 2y ago
I can't tell if this comment is aimed at reds or blues... Both sides are guilty of not being nice to the otherside, and calling them scum. That seems to be the problem right now, we've stopped listening to each other.
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> Given the timing, India or the dead body of an unclaimed indigent International treaty, all skeletons come from India. [0] At least this is what was claimed in The Return of the Living Dead. [0] https://clip.cafe/videos
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Thank you.. was worried at first as I didn't understand the true scope of the breach. For such a vital website, the info gleaned seems relatively harmless (for those of us who don't reuse passwords that is)
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by lordfrito 2y ago
Confused about this breach... I received a notification from HIBP about this hack, but I don't recall ever creating an account on archive.org (was creating an account there even a thing?). What info does archive.org have on people? Is
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by lordfrito 2y ago
> One physics convention just sets its value to 1. Interesting. So c² would also equal 1. Which (in those scaled units) implies E = m. This not only greatly simplifies the relationship but actually makes much more sense that way.

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