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by rthomas6 5y ago
Is this something people use Nix for?
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But are people happier and more fulfilled? Are they more able to have a meaning-filled life surrounded by people with whom they have close and lasting relationships? What should we be measuring when we measure improvement?
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The big changes, I think, are smartphones and widespread LGBT acceptance. Everything else just seems like incremental improvements to existing technology.
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Or it could be designed to be very small so as to efficiently send out at near light speed, and designed to quickly adapt and replicate in any hospitable environment. Maybe we are the Von Neumann probe.
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It is if it's a standard that everyone decides to support...
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So it's strange that I already don't use emojis? Sometimes I will write "haha" or ":)" in chats, and that's about it. That was all I needed when I was in my 20s, and I see no need to change that in my 30s.
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by rthomas6 5y ago
I visit hubski.com occasionally. It's not super active but it seems to have a lot of smart people on it.
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That's because every other Windows build is crap, more or less. Then it gets fixed up in the next iteration. Windows 3.1: Good Windows 95: Crap Windows 98: Good Windows 2000: Good Windows ME: Crap Windows XP:
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It's cheap and easy for a manufacturer to just solder the settings they want and leave the dip switch off.
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GPS signals from the satellites are extremely weak, and actually are below the noise floor. GPS uses processing gain tricks in order to see the signals at all. This means that a terrestrial based transmitter doesn't have to put out a t
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If that was even remotely true, we would still be sitting in caves sharing raw animal scraps. Fortunately it's not true, and things like discovering fire and inventing tools don't take resources away from others, but instead incre
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by rthomas6 5y ago
I really like this mindset. It's compassionate toward your co-workers and would make your entire team more effective. And best of all it's accepting reality and would make you happier too. Thanks for this.
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Isn't that the entire point of Ethereum and some others?
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What you are describing is not equanimity, because there is an attachment to not working/relaxing. When you ask why not just lie down and die if you are content with everything, you could just as easily ask why not work really hard if
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As a non-math person, I've thought a lot about quaternions and why they need 4 dimensions, and why there aren't 3d complex numbers. It's because if you think about it, on the complex plane, the imaginary number i just represe
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by rthomas6 5y ago
I am not super familiar with Zen, but my understanding is "yes, sort of". Zen come from Mahayana path and I believe it retains those teachings and cosmology, but it's not as central. Looking at it on Wikipedia, it looks like
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by rthomas6 5y ago
Western/secular Buddhism popularized in the west is generally not the same as Buddhism practiced in Buddhist countries. The actual Buddhist religion teachings can include, depending on the branch: - Hell and heaven realms where you can
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by rthomas6 5y ago
I have something close to this with my 2015 Nissan Leaf S. No internet connectivity at all. It's also extremely cheap. I paid ~$13k for it in 2018 with ~25k miles. The range is kind of bad compared to most other electric cars though.
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by rthomas6 5y ago
Creating a CRUD website is supposed to be pretty fundamental, right? And how do I have individual user sessions with logins that show different content to different users? That seems, if not basic, fundamental to at least know how to do. Sh
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I do embedded also, and FPGAs. Do you have any suggestions for how to start learning web stuff? Every time I try, I get overwhelmed by all the frameworks, libraries, package managers, build pipelines, etc. There doesn't seem to be a se
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Texas is what I would still consider a "nationwide" power grid. I was thinking of something very very decentralized, like individual neighborhoods. It wouldn't completely solve what happened in Texas, but blackouts would be c
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This goes along with the coronal mass ejection risk story that was on the front page a day or two ago. Is a nationwide electric grid even a good idea anymore? Yes, it's more efficient, but it's also more fragile, in that a failure
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I love this :)
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This makes me think about Taleb's fragile vs robust vs antifragile systems with relation to the power grid. Is a nation-sized power grid even a good idea anymore? If most places were powered by a local cooperative solar + wind + storag
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Planet money has a good story about it: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/13/788003778/episode-216-how-fou... Here is a text version: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/788003778
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> On the other hand Gnome3 is the first Linux desktop that I think is really non power user friendly. I think Plasma and Cinnamon also belong in this group.
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It's not going to be a dystopia, and yes, urban design/zoning in the US is absolutely terrible. I hate it. I could rant about it for hours. But if we have to drastically reduce ground freight and shipping emissions to reduce co2 e
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by rthomas6 5y ago
Here's the thing. Nobody wants to admit that solving climate change will involve reducing the standard of living of a lot of people. Some things will be more expensive, and people will consume less. If you think about it, without massi
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Aren't electric vehicles a lot simpler conceptually? No engine, no transmission, etc. Maybe someone could start a company that made the equivalent of a battery with wheels for very cheap.
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"Premature optimization is considered harmful", therefore, don't fix inefficient designs as long as they technically work.

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