minerjoe

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by minerjoe 6y ago
Why do you want apples on your trees, or squash in your garden. Better to give that up than to have to risk being stung.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
For who? The home owner or big-ag? There is no replacement that doesn't entail more work, hense the massive resistance to change. Entitlement. Who cares about the bees if I have to change my behavior. For the home owner, you can use al
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by minerjoe 6y ago
A bit myopic. Programmers have many different needs and as with almost anything - it depends. "zero productivity benefit" is blatenly false for many people. Now for you, in your current needs, sure. But why attempt to paint the en
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by minerjoe 6y ago
> Food spoiles too fast. Depends on what you mean by food. If you have enough time, food can be multiplied. One potato, properly handled, can turn into a field of potatoes. One walnut, properly handled, can turn into a forest.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I heard once that their still finding caches of gold from the fall of the Roman empire. It didn't help those rich papos, why would it help you? I truly don't see gold being of any use in a collapse where suddenly food is the most
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by minerjoe 6y ago
The most valuable asset in a collaped economy is a strong local community.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Funny. I'm using a thinkpad T60 from over 10 years ago, clocked down to 1000 Mhz, because why not, and running a modified version of the links browser that I've hacked together with guile for expandability and every web page takes
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Yea, I got the timeline wrong. More like 10 years. I've worked e-waste recycling and the number of beautiful but unsupported macs that were dropped off was very sad and to this day I definitely consider Apple a significant force for ev
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Not asking for a non-javascript version of your app, just a landing page that doesn't require it to figure out what the heck a wren is and why it matters. You're using <noscript>, why not use that space to actually talk abou
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by minerjoe 6y ago
"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." Wonder what it is about?
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Wonderful computer. How much you wanna bet that in < 5 years they drop support forcing almost everyone that purchased one to throw it out and get a new one?
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I'm not offering solutions, just observations. The system is broken and one of the indications of this is all the people that belive that voting can actually make a change for the better, as opposed to just swapping out puppets with no
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I'm not sure who you are reading, but I never suggested that you find another employer. I suggested you figure out a way to use your limited time here on Mother Earth to not further the giant machine that is seemingly destroying everyt
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Innovation through limitation. It can work wonders as the author is suggesting. Working with old technology also gives you valuable insight into the worlds current latency-poor bloated software. You might be able to run the latest but with
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by minerjoe 6y ago
> we aren't there today Be the change you wish to see in the world. Waiting for others is the problem.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Who are you quoting there? Putting a few too many words in my mouth. To many of us, the system has lost all cedibility, and voting is signalling just the opposite of that. Nothing about embarrassing anyone. No way to regain people trust at
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by minerjoe 6y ago
You seem like a nice fellow. And smart! How about somehow aligning your life's work to not further the goals of enormous corporations that do not seem to have the best interests of us at heart.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Yes. Google seems to be lying. Which would not suprise me or many people. If they cared they would allow for the header to be disabled. They do not.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I voted in the first election in the US to ever use the Dibold [1] [2] machines, in Atlanta Georgia. It was obvious to anyone with a single honest neuron that there was no way to trust these machines. I've never voted since. There is n
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by minerjoe 6y ago
One of my mentors was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer due to an elevated PSA test. He is 76 years old. No symptoms. His father died of prostate cancer at the age of 96. The doctors scared him into treatment (the ol' if you don&
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Naturopathic medicin is not "pseudoscience". I've seen first hand friends that trusted main-stream cancer doctors and were hurt almost to the point of death. It wasn't until they turned to alternatives that they improved
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by minerjoe 6y ago
It's open. You can install your own copy locally. Arch has an AUR dict-wn that does this. For those not using arch you can still clone the PKGBUILD and see how it grabs and compiles and installs. git clone https://aur.archli
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by minerjoe 6y ago
We are just not there yet. For all the people that I can't recognize initially, I do recognize many. And if I can do it, some supercomputer probably can in the future, and the future is coming fast.
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The Lisp Academy(github.com)
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I don't buy this. We are wasting massive amounts of energy. 20 lanes of stop-and-go SUV's all single driver traveling over an hour to jobs that they hate. Terrajules of energy to create a single piece of electronics designed to br
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by minerjoe 6y ago
You assumption "no one uses anymore" is glaringly wrong in this case. Those archives are full of useful and informative information. Not everthing changes fast. Common Lisp has been around for 30 years basically unchanged. The dis
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I like this. We are all culpable. Every single human that spends a single dollar is directly and demonstrably connected to systems that are rapidly (in historical proportions) destroying almost everything that humans of past eras considered
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by minerjoe 6y ago
Yea. Same here.
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by minerjoe 6y ago
If you don't have javascript you see only "This page requires Javascript", when I would hope, even if the thing requires javascript to operate, I could at least find out if it is worth switching to another machine with X11 an
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by minerjoe 6y ago
I use links. No javascript.

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