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by pampa 6y ago
When they figure a way to monetize it, they will sure do it. But then we all will end up in jail.
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by pampa 6y ago
This topic has been explored since the advent of photography and cinema. When advances in technology allowed to produce indistinguishable copies. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935), by Walter Benjamin [
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by pampa 6y ago
It is probably airgapped, running on vacuum tubes and sprayed with DEET as part of regular maintanance.
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by pampa 6y ago
Getting a bootable system is quite easy actually. Build a kernel, build a static busybox, install grub. Thats almost it. Maybe build iw and wpa_supplicant, if you want wireless. You can get to a bootable system within an hour or so. But any
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by pampa 6y ago
When you're halfway thru a packed 12 hour flight in economy, a park bench will seem like a 5 star hotel! You'd curl up on the cabin floor if they let you, or beg the flight attendand to zap you with a taser to knock you out.
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by pampa 6y ago
Were you microdosing?
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by pampa 6y ago
> It's not technically an hallucination I don't think it's hppd, but it's something. I think you just learend to pay attention to nuance in color and color combinations. I had similiar experience without psychedelics
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by pampa 6y ago
Speaking of Greg Egan. Is it just me, or is the ending of Diaspora somewhat anticlimactic? There are so many interesting ideas he touches upon without exploring them in depth and then the narrative loses steam and dies of.
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by pampa 6y ago
I did use emacs before i switched to vim 15 years ago. My memory is hazy, but i am pretty sure Ctrl-O to save a file and Ctrl-X to exit are not emacs bindings. I was as confused with nano when i used emacs as i am now.
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by pampa 6y ago
> In the end, it depends how much time it will cost you to learn vim Is there really that much to learn? Open file, save file, exit, block select, copy paste, search and replace - thats about 99% of what you do in an editor. 15 minutes t
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by pampa 6y ago
I suffer every time a linux distro has nano as the default editor. Cant save a file, cant exit, have to read the two bottom rows and figure out those alien shortcuts. yuck
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by pampa 6y ago
MacBooks and PowerBooks before them where about that 5% of power users who fell in love with their tools and preached to all their friends and family to get one too. Now that apple has the remaining 95%, it is letting their power users down
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by pampa 6y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I love Apple, but I don't love this hyper-centralization of wealth and it would be better for the world if we defanged the power that billionaires have. We tried it here in russia back in 1917. But then oo
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by pampa 6y ago
you mean $_SESSION? that was there since at least php4
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by pampa 6y ago
Just thinking is not enough, you also have to be attentive. Yet another essential skill is to hear and see what is really there and not what your mind tricks you into seeing.
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by pampa 6y ago
> Computers and programming are too accessible, and I think are the first thing to become so accessible. But are they? Computers have become insanely complicated.
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by pampa 6y ago
I just thought that i feel like a medieval guild craftsman must have felt during the industrial revolution. We did have all this sharp and complicated tools we installed and configured on our laptops ourselves, spent years in apprenticeship
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by pampa 6y ago
I'm not bashing ruby or something. I love ruby, I have been using ruby/rails since rails 0.9. Still using ruby with roda/sequel, and i think it is the best language to rapidly prototype and explore ideas. But the reality is,
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by pampa 6y ago
There is a video on youtube, where a farm threw away expired eggs and they hatched in the dumpster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGFq-qpkvbA
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by pampa 6y ago
And 99% of thse jobs are legacy RoR codebases, big hairy balls of mud. Good for job security and pays well (somebody has to support it all), but somewhat boring. Also the ruby ecosystem is in decay. A lot of libraries are abandoned or on li
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by pampa 6y ago
Just curious, how is `find . -maxdepth 1 -type f` not simple?
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by pampa 6y ago
So is smelly or mouldy french cheese. I think a lot of fermented products are basically preservation techniques gone sideways. Smells funny, looks funny but doesn't make you sick when you eat it, you don't just throw food away whe
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by pampa 6y ago
You can turn it into a recomendation system! "People who downloaded this, also downloaded this"
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by pampa 6y ago
Just a thought. Instead of replacing the f keys and escape, they should have just replaced the whole area under the keyboard where the trackpad is with a touch screen. It is a win-win. Imagine a huge touch interface where we already expect
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by pampa 6y ago
That is not entirely true. Ansible needs python installed on the target host, and a lot of modules (plugins?) require additional python libraries on the target.
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by pampa 6y ago
For a project in python thats normal!
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by pampa 6y ago
It is easy to pick up and do easy tasks. Like installing a package on ubuntu and setup ufw. Then you throw in a few centos hosts and have to write if-else in yaml. Then u try to provision docker and end up with more if-else blocks to instal
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by pampa 6y ago
> I wish there was a good standard alternative to bash (sh in this case) for shell programming. There is perl! :)
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by pampa 6y ago
nix is more like installing every package in its own chroot, with a few optimizations. not your starnard linux package manager
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by pampa 6y ago
This might seem like a limitation. But you can provide a base system with a toolchain & xorg with known dependencies and a limited set of packages (like a BSD base system). Then for every big and complex app clone that base system and b

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