parksy

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by parksy 5y ago
Hm yeah I think it's an interesting concept, perhaps it's not preferred under current NFT definitions to my mind something can be both non-fungible and mutable. I can own a house, but I can renovate the interior, add rooms, paint
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by parksy 5y ago
Now the seed is planted, one of us is going to talk about JSON Webb Telescopes in a development meeting.
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by parksy 5y ago
Yeah I was being a little tongue in cheek with the excitement, still it's pretty crazy we're actually seeing and cataloguing exoplanets now which was still in the realms of science fiction less than half a century ago. Anyway if S
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by parksy 5y ago
Great idea, let's sell pixels as NFTs. But how would they control colour? Can the owner of an NFT add to or alter its metadata in anyway? Bit tongue in cheek really. People are already slamming NFTs as useless scams, the media would ha
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by parksy 5y ago
Sweet let's crank up the generation ships. Of course picking a suitably inspiring name should be the first priority. Unity? Terra Nova? Gaia? On a more serious note is this a good candidate for JWST, would it be able to infer chemical
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by parksy 5y ago
I think I can relate. I'm a pragmatist (I think anyway), and it was tough to "get" the point of FP just from reading about it, and sometimes I think the proponents can unwittingly make it sound more complicated and wondrous a
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by parksy 5y ago
If it's general enough and durable enough (like not having to replace a chip / filter every time it's used), I don't think it's hyperbole to think of the possible applications more broadly. Would be a step toward th
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by parksy 5y ago
The repo doesn't contain the actual distro itself, it appears to be loading CheerPX's virtualisation engine and feeding it a disk image here https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm/blob/6efab7e60bf6f173
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by parksy 5y ago
There's a huge swing against literally anything crypto-related at the moment. I feel a big part of it is that big gaming companies pricked their ears up on the idea of NFTs and being able to own a marketplace sipping the cream from bil
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by parksy 5y ago
No because hacking generally circumvents the intended system design. The architecture of the World Wide Web explicitly allows for user discretion in fetching and executing linked content. There's no slippery slope from using a system w
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by parksy 5y ago
Can concur though I played both Solar Winds and SC2 back in the day. Even at the time Solar Winds felt like a cheaper cash-in on the space RPG genre. The ship drove like a car, the ship modifications were pretty limited. Though it had a gre
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by parksy 5y ago
Contracting is not easy but it can pay more. I find finding clients the easy part but all the surrounding stuff is nuanced and complicated (as soon as you start contracting you are literally essentially running your own business). Before ju
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by parksy 5y ago
I feel like you just wanted to go on the attack for the examples I gave, I can definitely see where you're coming from. My point was that you can pick a tech, extrapolate a few decades, and you'll probably get a few wins. You want
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by parksy 5y ago
What stands out to me is the prescience in the speed and penetration of technological advancements juxtaposed with an apparent blind spot for the advancements in social change. Even the most dire or utopian science fiction of the early to m
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by parksy 5y ago
This is awesome, the engineering and execution is simply inspiring.
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by parksy 5y ago
In the past several years I have done 12km charity runs & daily gym workouts, pushing myself mentally the whole time. When younger I was doing surf lifesaving, weightlifting, played soccer for nearly 15 years. I'm the social organi
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by parksy 5y ago
If I read the post correctly, is the poster saying that the big issue is the Apache HTTP webserver is vulnerable? As far as I understand it, Apache webserver is written in C, while log4j is a Java library / framework, so I don't s
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by parksy 5y ago
When I was working as a web developer for a company, I published a game I spent many years dreaming of, and in real terms thousands of hours learning and creating. I wrote the music, drew the sprites, coded the game loops, purchased all the
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by parksy 5y ago
Clickbait is a common complaint and not without merit. I wonder how difficult / useful it would be to integrate something like smmry.com, so we can get a 1-sentence summary (this is the same tool reddit's "autotldr" bot
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by parksy 5y ago
Me, my problem has always been eagerness to please, so I'd agree to "just do it" and skip the first part. Don't, under any circumstances, do that. If the client asks for a fixed price, then don't propose an implemen
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by parksy 5y ago
Pretty much this. It was a stupid mistake and it cost me dearly. My choices were to suffer and work for a few dollars a day, or suffer even more and be blacklisted in my local community, if not being dragged through the unknown depths of so
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by parksy 5y ago
A small anecdote (side note- I seem to be turning into the old guy yells at cloud meme), though I'm a tech guy at heart it had been many years since I'd needed to know anything about USB's tech capabilities. Just over 15 year
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by parksy 5y ago
Like I say, I made the mistake in signing the contract. In my case there was no "15 days late", it was payment on completion, and to the letter of the agreement the work wasn't complete until they said it was. Definitely do t
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by parksy 5y ago
I felt the pain of losing a steady income stream before but for a different reason. I have no problem networking per-se but I did once rather blithely sign a really onerous contract with a massive soul-less organisation that buried me unpai
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by parksy 5y ago
What bugs me is so much of our (Australia's) government's policies over time have increasingly deferred to some ISO standard or another. These days most agencies / departments are stipulating some form of ISO27k compliance fr
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by parksy 5y ago
I think what these stories reveal is just how much people underestimate how common domestic abuse is and it doesn't appear to discriminate based on status, fame, career choice, etc. As far as building healthier communities and what we
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by parksy 5y ago
The way I did it was I was writing music and doing pixel art since the 90's and learning to write games on the side. One day I decided to take all the assets I'd built up over 30 years and condense them into the simplest game I co
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by parksy 5y ago
I was doing BASIC on an Amstrad CPC at 5. Sure it was just simple GOTO 10 stuff (print hello, border 10, print alex, border 5, goto 10 etc...), but I also knew how to run games (how else would I play harrier attack?). My mum in particular w
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by parksy 5y ago
Possibly, but not in Australia. Among other things our government has a secret blacklist it forces ISPs to implement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral... The usual reasons are given - protec
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by parksy 5y ago
Another impact could be increased cotton farming in Brazil upstream which appears to have doubled over the past 20 years. Similar issues are occurring with floodplain harvesting in Australia where cotton farms are damming rivers which has d

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