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841.
by rvense 6y ago
As the graffiti says: "Homeless, go home!"
842.
by rvense 6y ago
Keybase is extremely centralized, and they were bought by Zoom a few months ago. Stop using Keybase.
843.
by rvense 6y ago
I have a 1991 Macintosh with some expansion cards that I use for making music. It still works perfectly.
844.
by rvense 6y ago
"Hi, this is from IKEA. To celebrate the launch of our new line of tableware, we're here to smash all the dinner plates you bought three years ago."
845.
by rvense 6y ago
IKEA doesn't send a guy to my house to smash the plates I bought just because they release new ones that they think are better.
846.
by rvense 6y ago
I've been thinking about getting an electric piano again for a while, I think this might be the push I needed!
847.
by rvense 6y ago
Maybe Samsungs are no better, but compared to a Fairphone it's quite obvious that Apple doesn't prioritize repairability in any meaningful way.
848.
by rvense 6y ago
Ah, well, yes, the C-word is pre-scientific term and those are always hard to deal with. But I think "understanding natural language" is one of the easier ones, at least inasmuch as we can resort to referring to the intentions of
849.
by rvense 6y ago
If such a device could exist, it would be the part which understood. If the questions were about facts and the person looked up the facts in a book, it wouldn't be the room as a whole that knew the facts. The room as a whole delivers
850.
by rvense 6y ago
I see your point. It's been a very long time since I've read the original text, but I don't remember this being my impression of the argument being made, and that would indeed be a very simplistic one. But I might be mixing i
851.
by rvense 6y ago
I honestly don't understand how that's a rebuttal of the Chinese room. Obviously a person with such a fantastic device would not "understand Chinese" if they had it.
852.
by rvense 6y ago
I read the first few chapters of Foundation and had to stop. It read like a synopsis of a really interesting story, but it was just delivered in the most artless way.
853.
by rvense 6y ago
As a linguist (well, person with a degree in linguistics), I think Searle makes a very strong point, and I don't think it's at all fair to call it rebutted or disproven. The core part of the room is a book where the operator looks
854.
by rvense 6y ago
I've been interested in permaculture and sustainability for a while, and also self-sufficiency, or at least local food production. There's an old book called "Five acres and independence" which I think is a reference to
855.
by rvense 6y ago
> It's Apple's reputation that gets tarnished by this. Hail corporate. What about all the water that got tainted when the semiconductors were made, all the people who were hurt when the minerals were mined, all the energy that
856.
by rvense 6y ago
Not sure I agree there's a big cost if you do know what you're doing, THB. I'm notsure about Yocto, but I think the buildroot system has GPL compliance baked in. Like packages have licenses and you can export a dump of what y
857.
by rvense 6y ago
Is it? The one new thing I've looked at (the Akai MPC Live drum machine) had everything wide open. Root console, no password. This also seems to have been the case for a lot of older network appliances etc, but it might have changed in
858.
by rvense 6y ago
And ADB predates PS/2 by about six months, so...
859.
by rvense 6y ago
But they are big enough that most hardware companies would be small-scale operations in comparison. Why wouldn't they set up a division to do something like this?
860.
by rvense 6y ago
Eh, try two clicks previous on "previous"; have yikes.xbm at the ready, esepecially if you make it to the comments..
861.
by rvense 6y ago
That's probably true but we also have like two major supermarket chains, so I think it's hard to make the case that government regulation is the only cause of monopolies.
862.
by rvense 6y ago
> which throughout history has always selected a decentralised banking system with thousands of small local banks The free market in my country has produced two banks that provide banking to 80% of the population (6M people). It has also
863.
by rvense 6y ago
Yeah, next time I need a CV it'll be a single-file Ruby web server and PDF that's also an archive of its own sources.
864.
by rvense 6y ago
My favourite PDF fact is that it doesn't have to start at the beginning or end at the end of a file. Any sea of bytes that contains a PDF file is an acceptable PDF file...
865.
by rvense 6y ago
I just got an Inkplate 6 and it seems pretty cool: inkplate.io.
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by rvense 6y ago
Sure, the ARM ISA is old, but a few things have happened in microarchitecture since then. I wouldn't be rushing to use a 10-year-old ARM over a newer one. The Cortex cores are pretty great compared to ARM9 or whatever.
867.
by rvense 6y ago
> Meanwhile, I’m still dealing with Linux-loving colleagues who cannot get their sound or webcam to work reliably and consider this an acceptable state of affairs. This isn't so much of an issue anymore in my experience. Older webca
868.
by rvense 6y ago
TBF I think this says more about Nextcloud than the Raspberry Pi. I also suspect it can be helped with some setup - I imagine the difference between disk I/O performance is going to be greater than the CPU differences if you're co
869.
by rvense 6y ago
PHP is too hard for me. I can't keep track of all the things I need to keep track of not to write unmaintainable, error-prone, insecure garbage. With typed functional languages I do a little better.
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by rvense 6y ago
These are all basically ten-year-old parts, aren't they?

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