maybewhenthesun

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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Agreed a 100% CRTS were wobbly flickery mess. Especially in the 60Hz era. Everyhting below 90Hz on a crt gave me horrible migraines when working longer than 4 hours. LCDs that were just constantly lit were so much easier on the eyes than a
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Ok, point taken. I've heard very different numbers for dutch newspapers and blindly extrapolated that to the US. And if the numbers are like that than maybe the numbers I heard about dutch newspapers are bullshit too, who knows!
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
ok, the I apparently read different threads. Which is very well possible of course.
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
No. Or maybe yes (with the current US government the end of the world is quite easy to imagine... ) But what I can imagine has very little to do with what actually happens.
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
> in a sane copyright structure You are not wrong. But alas we don't have that. ANd in the reality we live in this collaboration is way better than the alternative.
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Atari being the commercial firm it is, I could very well imagine that stuff was under NDA. Just 'by default', because that's what the lawyers like. And only when angry speculations emerged they could be persuaded to just open
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Maybe it's because stuff gets flagged and deleted. But I haven't really seen it? Unless you equalize 'critical of Israel' with 'antisemitic dogwhistle' maybe.
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Much better is rather an exaggeration. China is ruthlessly 'colonizing' Africa for example. Not that 'the west' has any leg to stand on criticizing China for it of course. But China currently is a lot more stable and
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
It is true in a historical sense. People used to all pay for their newspapers. So newspapers had an actual budget apart from ad revenue. This has largely dried up and nearly all 'newspapers' today need to get their money from ad
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
I fully agree. Ann then try to buy a nice linux compatible laptop. The research period climbs to days . It's ridiculous. I don't even really mind spending 1500 (well , I do, but if that's what it takes) but 'just buy
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
> money is exchanged for goods and services is just so foundational it is in all large societies. That's true. But it is not in most small primitive societies. SO it's not like a law of nature, but more that we haven't fou
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
> There has never been a famine caused by new technologies creating unemployment That's a bold statement. And depending on how you define famine it might even be true-ish. But I'm quite certain most poor people in the 1920s wou
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
>I'm not sure this is stupid Ok, I meant to say: it feels a bit stupid. I hope the rest of my post show that I actually don't think it's stupid.
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by maybewhenthesun 7mo ago
Geohot is a smart dude. But here I think he misses the forest for the trees. He has a point, certainly. But while he is harping about the U part of ubi, he's completely ignoring the B part. UBI is meant to provide some basic income s
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
Nothing went 'wrong' per se. they just massively underestimated how much work it would be. Stuff was badly documented. The documentation that existed was outdated compared to the existing code. Not all executable matched the sourc
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
Regardless of the legal interpretations, I think it's very worrying if an automated AI rewrite of GPLed code (or any code for that matter) could somehow be used to circumvent the original license. That kinda takes out the one stick th
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
I helped updating ancient fortran to slightly less ancient C once. The company that depended on the ancient fortran no longer had any fortran programmers. The resulting software upgrade was a nightmare that nearly killed that company. I shu
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
Scratch a thin pointy branch across e rock -> sharp high noise. Thump a round club/log against a rock -> dull bump noise
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
lisp-free emacs to me is like tomato-free ketchup? I mean, the main reason to use an editor with such arcane keybindings is the way you can live-edit the running editor? So for me personally there's no demand. But still, if it scratch
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
It's more that shift flips that bit. Also I'd call them bit 0 and 1 and not 5 and 6 as 'normally' you count bits from the right (least significant to most significant). But there are lots of differences for 'normal&
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
That's what I mean with 'the road is too busy'. If you can't maintain a 3 second distance the speed needs to go down until you can. But you are right that this is sadly not something you can always do on your own. I&#x
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
This is not always true. If the 'index' is all that is missing the only thing is that you cannot seek. That's easily fixable. In the case of the files my camera writes a lot more info is only at the end. I can't rememb
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
That depends on the specific MP4 I think. My camera creates MP4s which are completely unwatchable without the ending. I found out the hard way when the battery died while recording my children's school play. The only way I could save t
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
It is possible of course that the highways you drive are just too busy and the max speed is actually set too high for how busy the road is. That happens more than you'd want because lowering the max of a highway is always an unpopu
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
You might be a bad driver and not even know it.
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by maybewhenthesun 8mo ago
Hard disagree. It is not safer to ignore your safety buffer. It is certainly not safer to defend your buffer. If traffic is very busy, the trick is to just accept people will wedge in front of you and keep going slightly smaller each
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by maybewhenthesun 9mo ago
> With Linux it is always the relative that happens to be around That's certainly true. And it's a chicken-vs-egg problem that's hard to solve. But it doesn't really have anything to do with which system is easier to
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by maybewhenthesun 9mo ago
My parents, and my wife's parents, have been doing just that without any trouble whatsoever. Just browse to netflix.com and log in. Not any different than in windows. My parents use mail, firefox and libreoffice writer. That's abo
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by maybewhenthesun 9mo ago
I don't really understand these sort of articles. If something is closed source and the original owners quit or decide they move to a subscription model or whatever then you're just screwed no matter what. When the possibility of
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by maybewhenthesun 9mo ago
You are still in the honeymoon phase. I see a lot of those blogpost in the last months. In a few weeks you will bump into something that isn't simple and friendly and you will curse that stupid linux. Something that trivially works i

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