mediocregopher

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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I used the beta without issue, and never experienced anything related to an `~/sdk` directory (I definitely don't have one created). What are you referring to?
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> That’s what separates us from the animals. Animals don’t use love to manipulate others. We do. I'm not convinced this isn't the exact modus operandi of my cat.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Let's swap "bitcoin" for "cash" here, since the mechanics remain the same but there's less emotional baggage. If someone tried to make the argument to me that cash doesn't have finality because your shoebo
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I've been looking through the available options for this use-case, with the same motivation given in this post, and was surprised to see there wasn't something which could fit this niche (until now!). Really happy to see this bein
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Whither Tartaria(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Also, focusing on protocol only makes one miss the rest of Gemini, which is the ecosystem and people who are having a great time using it. Sometimes, it feels to me like someone is at a party ranting about the music not being good enou
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> I think it's a bit of a paradox. If everyone lived like that, no one would be able to live like that. Is it unthinkable for someone to leave their humble dwelling, with few amenities, and head down to a factory where these ameniti
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Almost all home power usage comes down to heating and cooling. What is it about a house which makes these things more of a requirement than on a boat? People have lived and do live without these things in their home as well.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
This is amazing! Whether or not every aspect of it is fully open-source, this is a great step forward towards governments being more transparent about how decisions are being made, and citizens being directly able to make positive contribut
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Turns out, all of existence is naturally emergent.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I wouldn't describe this as involuntary. The losing party can simply leave (be banished) at any point, rather than face the consequences prescribed by the group. There's no threat of violence or imprisonment, at least as described
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I view the final two conclusions points, that people do not want to run their own servers and that we need to make software easier to build/run, to be one and the same. Is the reason people don't want to run a server because it&#x
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> Kazakhstan's crypto mining farms are mostly powered by ageing coal plants which themselves - along with coal mines and whole towns built around them - are a headache for authorities as they seek to decarbonise the economy. Let&#x2
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I think fundamentally we're not going to see eye to eye on this. I wish you luck on your quest o7
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Are you 100% sure that the "set of all changes we'll have to adapt to" is a subset of "set of all changes we can invent our way out of"? I'd also challenge the idea that innovation happens outside of death and
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Life (with a capital "L", the entire phenomenon, not the life of an individual organism) is predicated on death and birth in order to adapt and persist. Without death there is no adaptation, without adaptation Life will perish. We
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I'd like to think I'm someone who would fight to live, as is being discussed in this thread. But at the same time, in a situation like that where I'm completely unprepared to be shot at, I think immediately collapsing is prob
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I'd always thought 1g was a single dose. Maybe the people around me are lightweights... (legalization so we can accurately dose these things yada yada)
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Even from a pro-crypto standpoint this offering is somewhat problematic: > Once earned, they can track their earnings in their Norton Crypto Wallet, which is stored in the cloud so it cannot be lost due to hard drive failure. From https
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Compiz was one of those things I could show off to friends to prove that linux was actually way cooler than any of _their_ operating systems, but since then seems to have been completely forgotten about (at least by me). This was a nice bla
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
> I would like to see some good studies on shutters, because they seem like the sort of thing that will make a very real difference on window breakage in storms, but they're not a thing anymore and probably won't come back. Hav
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
The difference between "speculation" and "scams, fraud, and similar" is in the eye of the beholder. Lots of people find all crypto to be a giant scam, others find all of it to be a potential investment (hopefully with th
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
This has basically been my experience with it... the actual act of typing out code goes slower, but my ideas are more fluid and I'm able to "see" the whole picture more clearly. I think the slowness is more to do with having
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I've been 99% a Go developer since 2015-ish, and this is not something I've ever encountered, in general people just don't leave unused variables lying around. The compile time check does highlight logic errors frequently eno
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I'm all for shitting on apple, but does the orange dot actually obstruct anything? It seems to just be sitting in the notification bar being out of the way.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
The reason I'm hyped about crypto (which in this article seems to be incorrectly equated to "web3") is because of the new possibilities it brings. The reason I put my money into stupid shit in crypto is because I don't k
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
I refer to anyone trying to get me to use a particular product as "shilling", including marketing folks.
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Steam on linux will automatically pull in protondb profiles for your games, so you probably don't even need to explicitly "check out" protondb at this point. Most games will "just work", with the exception of big AA
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
Wonderful, pure creativity and determination at work here. It's so cool to see what wild ideas people will follow through with. A gemini client would be a cool next step for this: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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by mediocregopher 5y ago
PSA for all, you can go into your YouTube settings and disable Search History (and a bunch of other things? It's been a while), and surprisingly the algorithm more or less respects that. It completely neuters the algorithm, it won&#x27

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