mftrhu

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by mftrhu 2y ago
Neither? I appreciate old hardware and software because of what it could achieve despite its limitations - because it's simpler, with fewer levels of abstractions piled upon each other, which makes it easier to understand.
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by mftrhu 2y ago
> accelerate human body to the speed of light Nothing with mass can have the same speed as light, but you can trivially accelerate a human body - or something similar - to a speed which is arbitrarily close to it, without risking anyt
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by mftrhu 2y ago
USS Voyager was running off bio-neural gel packs[1], with their organic-ness being a plot device in more than a few episodes. [1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bio-neural_gel_pack
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by mftrhu 2y ago
Looks like a bunch of crowdsourced antennas. See [1] https://www.blitzortung.org/en/station_list.php [2] https://www.blitzortung.org/en/whats_new.php [3] https://www.blitzortung.org&#x
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by mftrhu 2y ago
Inspired by Star Trek , no doubt.
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by mftrhu 2y ago
Make it a tenth. I have two small VPS with two different providers, and I am paying a total of $25/year for them.
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by mftrhu 2y ago
People might also be interested in this 1944's Bureau of Ordnance's 433-pages pamphlet: Basic Fire Control Mechanisms < https://maritime.org/doc/op1140/index.php > (PDF).
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by mftrhu 2y ago
Corporations are legal persons , which are not the same as natural persons (AKA plain old human beings). The law endows natural persons with many rights which cannot and do not apply to legal persons - corporations, governments, coop
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by mftrhu 2y ago
Pretty much any of the GL.iNet devices should be able to do that.
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by mftrhu 2y ago
About five-six - I got into my mother's old Pascal books, messed around with TurboPascal on her old DOS machine, and then found and installed DevPascal on the family computer. She was an IT teacher, so she kept on getting new textbooks
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Of course: if they need the security, especially if it can't be achieved with a standard TOTP generator, it doesn't really make sense to rely on whatever their employers have lying around (which could very well be not an Android
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by mftrhu 3y ago
> If employer is already paying you a salary, just be grateful. People always act like their employers owe them. You're an employee at will. Why should anyone "be grateful" for the salary they are owed? They fulfilled
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by mftrhu 3y ago
You can't teach children how to succeed at work by having them learn whatever language is trending in the industry, if only because things will have changed and they will be remembering very little of it by the time they will be a
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Yes. Now you - a generic person without any specific skills - just have to search for someone who is willing to sew knockoff clothing to your specification, ship them the item, and wait for them to get back to you - a month or longer, proba
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by mftrhu 3y ago
The first part is debatable , unless you qualify it as "superior at making their creator money". The market selects for that , and only that. Other qualities of the product are secondary, making any statements to the effect of &
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by mftrhu 3y ago
The market does not choose the superior product. It might choose the least common denominator, the cheapest product, the product that got on the market the earliest, or the one with the richest backers, but not "the superior product&q
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by mftrhu 3y ago
GP compared copying a piece of clothing to copying digital art. I'd say that setting up a factory to make knockoffs - or even "just" buying a sewing machine, finding and buying the right fabric, laying out the piece you want
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by mftrhu 3y ago
> We should start protecting their rights in law today. Yes, and those laws will be very useful as soon as any actual artificial intelligence will crop up. Blindly applying them to DALL-E or ChatGPT because they are marketed as AI would
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Or I could just call it "adding context". I could also expect readers to not have to be spoon-fed, and to avoid launching themselves into "counter-arguments" before they have understood what they are arguing against.
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by mftrhu 3y ago
When people point out that one's counter-argument, by virtue of ignoring the context the original argument is steeped in, is not actually countering any argument, they aren't saying that the counter-argument is "cheating&quot
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by mftrhu 3y ago
I have, publicly and less than publicly. A study would usually fall on the less than publicly end of the axis, since one's answers are anonymized, only read by the researchers themselves - no-one else gives a fuck about them, usually
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Since when can ideologies only be passed to one's relatives? Hair color and height I can see, but ideologies are learned , and usually from outside the family unit.
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by mftrhu 3y ago
> If everyone did this there’d be no species left. It causes you to be “unfit” in a Darwinian sense. It causes the population to be unfit. Evolution does not apply to individuals , but to populations . > People might not care, b
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Yes, they would. They do. People express regrets all the time, and that does not make them monsters . They are human, and as much as they might or might not love their child they can acknowledge that their life would have been easier, bett
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Which is just another way to say "they must all be lying, therefore the data is all false and the conclusions of the study wrong!"
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by mftrhu 3y ago
> The fact no one admits regret means someone is fibbing or you have not been looking very hard. Or that none of the people sampled has any meaningful regrets.
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by mftrhu 3y ago
What is your comment meant to convey, except the fact you believe that, despite the available data, childfree people must really be going to regret not having children? They do not express desire to have children. They do not have childr
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by mftrhu 3y ago
They could ask their users.
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by mftrhu 3y ago
You can have courts and sentences be public (or at least, public enough ) while giving people their privacy and keeping their criminal record private (or at least, not publicly disseminated and accessible to random people). It's how i
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by mftrhu 3y ago
Or you could get together with your colleagues - unionize - and leverage the threat of leaving work en masse to negotiate better working conditions. Why should people just have to leave the industry they have trained for because of the

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