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Challenges to Making Sense of the 21st Century(consilienceproject.org)
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by ls65536 5y ago
I would further add that not only do we often have a tendency to focus on specific narrow health goals while missing the big picture, but it sometimes seems we are doing things (though perhaps in some cases unwittingly without the benefit o
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by ls65536 5y ago
I wonder also if perhaps avoiding a change of course, despite the costs of not doing so, in the interest of "saving face" might also be playing a role here. As I understand it (and at some risk of overgeneralizing here), this is a
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by ls65536 5y ago
This sounds a bit like Wirth's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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by ls65536 5y ago
Of course they won't let you alter the terms of the agreement, but everyone always has the option (barring some sort of malicious state-enforced intervention) to walk away and divest themselves away from platforms and ecosystems that d
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by ls65536 5y ago
LeafletJS is great! I've been using it successfully with multiple tile layers and a few additional plugins as well (such as leaflet-ruler[0] and RotatedMarker[1]) as the foundation for the map display in my virtual sailing project. Her
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by ls65536 5y ago
Exactly this. I keep seeing so much discussion lately where support for vaccination in general (or for oneself) is being conflated with support for mandatory vaccination (for everyone). These are not the same thing! This all-or-nothing &quo
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by ls65536 5y ago
I suppose I should clarify my point that I was referring to those dangerous items in the mail in the sense of their capacity to directly cause physical harm to those handling or receiving them, rather than in the more general sense of the s
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by ls65536 5y ago
I suppose one important distinction here, if this makes any difference, is that drugs and weapons (to use your examples) are physical items, and these could arguably cause harm to people downstream, including to the postal system itself and
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by ls65536 5y ago
I'm assuming it has something to do with type casting, with there often being two problems when casting between int and size_t on many systems: one being that int is a signed integer type whereas size_t is unsigned, and the other being
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by ls65536 5y ago
And even if you do happen to need Windows for the odd application every now and then, it generally runs just fine as a virtual machine guest under QEMU+KVM. Interestingly, for Windows 11 Microsoft even seems to have explicitly removed all t
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Why Worry About Collapse?(dothemath.ucsd.edu)
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by ls65536 5y ago
As a general rule, it ought to be no more difficult or time-consuming to cancel a service than it was to sign up for it in the first place.
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by ls65536 6y ago
Unfortunately I've often found these capabilities end up being used against users as much as, if not vastly more than, they are used in their favour. For example, secure boot and anti-tamper measures are often used to lock out users fr
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by ls65536 6y ago
Grouping any speech or behaviour against certain governments and regimes under the umbrella of racism is unfortunately something I've been noticing a lot lately, and I think this is really problematic for at least two major reasons. Fi
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by ls65536 6y ago
> horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans. Sure they do, although almost certainly nowhere near enough to sustain our current situation and the system it's built atop of (from which the holders of capital s
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by ls65536 6y ago
No need to imagine...This sort of scenario already happened to someone I know with their Apple device: They had just wiped their iPhone in an attempt to clean it up and restore the software to factory condition, and afterwards it required a
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by ls65536 6y ago
I don't remember where I read this (possibly even on HN at some point), but this reminds me of an interesting idea that has stuck with me over time... Consider two broad but otherwise generally viewed as unrelated (however, not mutuall
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by ls65536 6y ago
This is it. Relative economic prosperity, at least as long as it's somewhat widely distributed among a large proportion of the population, usually seems to be quite helpful in smoothing over any roughness of the general political situa
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by ls65536 6y ago
I've been working on a sailing navigation simulator, using real-world geographical and real-time weather/ocean data: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/ Both the core simulator [0] and geographical/weather&#
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by ls65536 6y ago
I created SailNavSim, a real-time sailing navigation simulator using real-world weather/ocean data where you can also set up races and play with/against others online: https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/ Some mon
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by ls65536 6y ago
In my view, this is really the more important and unfortunately often underappreciated concern here. There's a lot of talk about what personal data might be captured by these apps/services (not to minimize that either), but it see
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by ls65536 6y ago
I think in some sense it's just basic human nature. Over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, humans seem to have been generally tuned to avoid specific, concrete, short-term threats to their own life/health individually,
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by ls65536 6y ago
> many Android fans has an unhealthy obsession with Apple bordering on mental disorder I've also found many Apple fans have an unhealthy obsession with Apple bordering on mental disorder, but my anecdote is about as pointless as you
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by ls65536 6y ago
One way in which I've often thought about it is that whenever you build something on a foundation over which you have no (or little) say or control, then at least work to make it possible to be able to substitute that foundation for an
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by ls65536 6y ago
> After nearly 13 years of usage I am a happy user of Windows 10 now. All right, then I really need to ask: it took you 13 years of using Ubuntu unhappily before you decided to switch to Windows? > Horrible font rendering that makes m
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by ls65536 6y ago
> there's no screen on a microcontroller so printf("hello world") does nothing Unless printf() is ultimately hooked up to some text-capable interface, like a UART with a terminal on the other end. :) Although I will agree
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by ls65536 6y ago
Not OP, but one thing I found useful when starting out with embedded development was to just get a simple "hello world" sort of program running on bare metal and printing over serial, and to try to understand what was happening in
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by ls65536 6y ago
A "manual" test case I've seen before actually involved trying various things in the software while literally walking into an elevator and having all network connectivity suddenly cut out (no WiFi and no cell radio), in order
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by ls65536 6y ago
> The HN crowd may seem fringe, but they are living in the future. The other thing that really can't be discounted here is that a lot of the HN crowd are likely the default go-to people in their circle of family and friends for this

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