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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Phone cameras can often see into the IR spectrum, but by now most of them are able to deal with that properly to make the images look normal. I remember some 3MPix phone camera from like 2008 that created strong purple coloring for example
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I find it funny how people are concerned about government surveillance while completely ignoring the one which is being used in a very totalitarian way already for many: Surveillance at the workplace in all its many forms. Companies have a
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Simple: The real world is not made up out of things which are independent, but everything is connected one way or another. If a private company has control over water they want to grow and maximize profits. First consequence is clearly that
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Air isn't free as such, either, because of pollution. The moment you pollute air you are degrading its quality, up to the point that certain equipment has to actively filter the air before using it. Also keep in mind that "pollute
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
> expecting the error message to somehow do that work for you, which is often impossible But that is in part also because many error messages are closer to "there was an error" than providing full context info. These few minute
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
That is because housing is coupled to the stock market. Stock market and real economy are two different things by now, or should be treated as such conceptually.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
That is the usual support period for cars in Germany I'm aware of, and it includes, or should include everything. On the hardware side the awareness is there for much longer, but when it comes to the increasingly more complex software
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Exactly. It can also easily be seen via stock indices, the likes of S&P 500 and similar. The general curve is "exponentially upwards", which implies that someone somewhere must make money available in the very same fashion. No
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Seems like I have to add some explaining words here ... Book layout is a very complicated topic. If you look at that image and step away a bit it leaves a chaotic visual impression. Reason behind that is that if you want a visually pleasing
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Asciidoctor PDF works as long as you are ok with what you could call the general "template" it uses. You can modify details within that, but if you want to change it, other approaches are required. Last time I had to deal with it
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I just scrolled through the page. I think https://iangmcdowell.com/blog/book_breaks.png says it all, quite openly. For anyone who delved a bit deeper into the topic, this is horrible to look at.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Some point in the future? We are in the midst of a massive species extinction event already . The problem with all that: The dependencies in the biosphere are complex graphs and we humans are eradicating part of that, unraveling everything
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plessey_System_250
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
But why is someone's time more worth than someone else's? Why are people being paid an amount they cannot even live from (i.e. their time investment is net negative from an economical point of view)? Looks like this value replacem
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Freedom is freedom given to others. Freedom is often misunderstood as personal/egoistical freedom, but that is not how it works if you want everyone to be as free as possible. For years I include that this means occupying the least amo
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
> I can't see this at all. Can you provide any example of property rights actually being vested in air or in water? You use companies as a vehicle, but their measurement is not "how clean is the water?", it is "how mu
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Well, what means "AI" here? "AI" as in neural networks in a more general sense have been in use for decades now. OCR aka text recognition uses neutral networks in consumer products since the 90ies, in the broader field o
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Just that ink printers don't really work well for people who rarely print, compared to laser printers, for example.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
The system is broken, yes, but not how you think. Automation and how automation benefits society (or actually not) is the core issue. "Population bomb" discussions, both in terms of how old people get and population age distributi
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
> Macron is just trying to level the playing field and make France attractive. ... to whom? > After this reform, we will still be one of the most generous country in the world even for pension and social net even among Europe and even
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
That is in full swing already, if you haven't noticed.
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Actually, automation is bad for the economy. Imagine something like Star Trek replicators, maybe a bit different of sorts, how would you still do economy with something like that around (and is able to replicate itself so you can make more
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
There are many misconceptions about work, and one of the big ones is that work actually often means "paid work". There is tons of unpaid work being done. And there is a certain percentage of people who cannot sit still and have to
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
You are decades out of touch with reality, because I read years ago already that some guys estimated we hit the break even point (in the "western world") in the mid 90s already. That is almost 3 decades ago by now, and automation
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
I think a stock Atari Falcon is capable of playing mp3 thanks to the DSP (56001), but it still isn't a walk in the park even with that (in combination with a 68030 as the main CPU).
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
The LPmud driver is quite some insane piece of work, considering it was done in 1990/91 initially. It is a VM, OOP C dialect featuring lists and hashtables (LPC), has lambda-closures (and things like map() + filter() with that), and al
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
But they did that, too. You read about 18000 people being dropped by Amazon, but you didn't read about the 80000 which have been "silently" let go on top of that. Thing is, somewhere in the news you may have stumbled over the
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
Which is then picked up by other machines to derive what trades to do on the stock market. At what point do we decide to just shut all this energy wasting garbage down and use the machinery for more useful things?
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by pixelfarmer 4y ago
In the later 90ies I usually relied on HotBot, which actually had better results than Google provided initially. Biggest issue, not just with HotBot, was the completely overloaded start page, which especially on modems made it slow to load.

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