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by nntwozz 2y ago
This reminds me of my first computer in 1994, a Compaq Presario 486 DX4 100MHz that came with TabWorks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TabWorks https://archive.org/download/tabworks/Windows3.
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I think John Gruber summed it up nicely: https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/openai_unimaginable OpenAI’s board now stating “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined” less than three months after
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A frog that is gradually heated will actually jump out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
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“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are a
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I live with my dog, my family is 1 hour away.
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“Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.” — Baz Luhrmann
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"Our youth now love luxury, they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders, and they love to chatter instead of exercise. Children are now tyrants not servants of their household. They no longer rise whe
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It looks much better on CRT. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/wr31qd/my_crt_vs_my... "…scanlines were used to blend “pixels” together, plus “pixels” on a CRT tend to bleed color slightly and
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It has 7.5 on IMDb, most people seem to like it (I give it an 8). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120663/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rat
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I think this is a simplistic take, reminds me a bit of a passage in the wonderful quote by Henry Beston in The Outermost House: "…man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather ma
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Ship of Theseus comes to mind.
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Back in the day I used an iPhone 4 as a Transmission torrent server with Cydia. It had only 32GB storage but it was a fun idea, worked great.
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The problem with consumerism is a function of money and capitalism, in a perfect world where everything is made 100% free and fair and with no environmental impact the consumption behavior would be the same (or even worse). Would we still c
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Just like macOS was Mac OS X (10) for a very long time, then they moved to 11 with Big Sur but it's really only in name. macOS Sequoia is version 15, whoever reaches 20 first wins right!?
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Jungle instantly reminds me of Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things from 1996 Tundra is a masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G01DKEig14
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Is there a direct quote of this? I find it amazing.
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Aldous Huxley imagined in the '20s we would automate most things and work less in the future. Today we work more than ever together with increased automation, and women work as well instad of being home to take care of the household. O
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This reminds me of a Chinese farmer story: "The whole process of nature is an integrated process of immense complexity, and it’s really impossible to tell whether anything that happens in it is good or bad - because you never know what
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My concern is the unforeseen consequences this might have on our eyes, long-term.
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Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Out as Atom-Sized Black Holes(scientificamerican.com)
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The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by
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What a dystopian time to be alive. Next thing we got Teslas driving off a cliff or AirPods exploding in peoples ears.
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The appendix also comes to mind, being told it was useless for so long and now evidence suggests it has important functions for the immune system.
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What a strange take on Apple hardware. Apple is doing amazing things with Apple silicon.
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The workers in those pics have no hearing protection, no eye protection; no helmets. Yeah, must be the 50s. My 75 years old carpenter is half deaf, his grandfather fell from a roof and died. He himself fell off a roof in 1981 but was lucky
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by nntwozz 2y ago
Are you referring to this quote by Admiral Grace Hopper? "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." I never thought of it as arrogant, but I guess it depends on context.
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May their prototype detector never chip and shatter.
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Where I live (250 apartment complex in Sweden) people throw old computers in the electronics trash room, I scavenge the room every day multiple times when I take my dog out for a walk like some character out of Mad Max. I mix and match comp
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Depends on where people complain enough to convince the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency to deploy it. There are many locations where this is used though (especially towards the north), some rainy summers people are unable to go abo
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We have roughly the same climate in Sweden where the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency sprays lakes with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) to stop them. The product is VectoBac® Granules from Valent BioSciences, it's super

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