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by phs318u 5y ago
Oh my! I think I saw that as a kid! Haha. Thank you.
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by phs318u 5y ago
Assuming the millimeter wave drilling technology does in fact hold up (I imagine it draws a LOT of power), the re-use of existing infrastructure (drill a hole at every power station site that boils water to drive a turbine, with existing tr
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by phs318u 5y ago
Surely this is a problem of source code organisation not multi-platform support? A better model would be having clearly articulated platform/arch specific files doing all the per-platform/arch defines, which then get included for
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The Eleusinian Projector: Optical method of conjuring the goddess(paleo-camera.com)
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by phs318u 5y ago
I hear you. But chances are that the parents will be earning more than the children on average. But I agree I'm not most people either in my salary or my situation (adult kids).
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by phs318u 5y ago
Modularity applies at different levels and the purpose of modularity varies according to the level. Code can be modular at one level and not modular at another. Functional, domain knowledge, deployability, organisational alignment (e.g. ope
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by phs318u 5y ago
I'll post my own anecdote regarding this topic. Not drawing global conclusions but perhaps providing a different perspective. This will probably be a long read. I am almost 57. I have two daughters aged turning 25 and 23 this year. Bef
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by phs318u 5y ago
I'm 57 years old and I can't tell which is likely to happen in my lifetime first (or in fact at all) - true AGI or actually viable fusion power. I suspect it's the latter but only because I think its a more tractable problem.
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by phs318u 5y ago
It is indeed a thing. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rss+to+activitypub There was even a HN article a few years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21470099
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by phs318u 5y ago
This. Though the risk of the channel being the victim of a Google ban-hammer goes up given more contributors. Assuming some incident in which Google's response is warranted, they won't care if told that it was one "bad apple&
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by phs318u 5y ago
White Lightning Forth was amazing. I started coding a game using it (side scroller/platformer). Never released because I’m a TERRIBLE artist, so it was never finished. But WL definitely deserved the “lightning” moniker. http:/&#x
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by phs318u 5y ago
Please define being a jerk, what constitutes offence, and the distinction between unnecessary and (implied) necessary offence.
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by phs318u 5y ago
So you're suggesting that for a sovereign power to consider joining NATO is "flirting irresponsibly". Can I assume that you think it irresponsible because Ukraine borders Russia? If so, that ship sailed years ago. Lithuania,
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by phs318u 5y ago
I’m sorry but what are you referring to? This seems like a pretty extreme claim. Care to expand?
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by phs318u 5y ago
It's funny but you're not the only one. Digital had some great engineering. Apple had a great understanding of the consumer and UX. Could have been awesome. I also thought that a similar alliance would have been awesome. Imagine i
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by phs318u 5y ago
And Stephen Kotkin, on why it isn't. https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/stephen-kotkin-putin-...
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by phs318u 5y ago
Strap on your tinfoil hat. It’s clear that state of the art deep fake technology can do better than what’s presented here. What if the whole point of this exercise is to instill (false) confidence in the most people that they have the abili
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by phs318u 5y ago
Sorry, but if anything in your paragraph is a pipe dream - its fusion energy. Also, wind and solar may indeed be insufficient to meet the current energy footprint of first-worlders. However we know that most first-world energy consumers are
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by phs318u 5y ago
Out of interest, which Linux phone did you try?
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by phs318u 5y ago
One possible solution is to buy the cheapest, low-power wifi hub you can find. Plug it in and DO NOT connect it to the internet. Then make this wifi network the target for all your "I wish they were dumb" appliances. EDIT: assumin
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by phs318u 5y ago
> Imagine if they had social media in the 30s-40s. I have thought about this, and given the amount of pro-Fascist sentiment in Western Europe, WWII probably wouldn't have happened. Germany would probably have gotten away with taking
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by phs318u 5y ago
Yes! I often wonder whether, in the far future, there will even be historians that know that for a brief moment in time - a couple of centuries - a historical blip - there was a significant chunk of the world where the masses could educate
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by phs318u 5y ago
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are already NATO members (since 2004 - smack in the middle of Putin's first stint as president of Russia). Georgia, like Ukraine was (as at the beginning of the invasion) formally recognised as aspiring to
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by phs318u 5y ago
Clearly they are more "neutral", than say Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - all former Soviet client states that are now NATO members. I do honestly suspect this is about delusions of historical grandeur. Ukraine is after all the hi
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by phs318u 5y ago
Even autocrats have to rule largely with the consent (or at least the acquiescence) of the governed. Unless he goes full Kim Jong Un, the long-term economic damage will do to him what it did to the Soviet Union. He's miscalculated. I&#
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by phs318u 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand your point. Ukraine is already “not a member of NATO”. Russia is bordered by NATO members Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. They have notably not been invaded. Putin is not foolish to directly attack a NATO member st
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by phs318u 5y ago
Source?
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by phs318u 5y ago
Assuming ill-intent is not an argument. Engage with the argument. This is HN.
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by phs318u 5y ago
Surely this can only be true if a blockchain based currency can replace fiat currency end-to-end. The moment any part of your economy is reliant on the exchange of (say) BTC back to fiat, all the attributes and constraints of fiat come back
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by phs318u 5y ago
If NATO has a purpose besides mutual defence against existential threats to member states, then I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s purpose is to encircle Russia. This is what Putin believes. If that’s true then surely the price of realisin

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