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by smaudet 4y ago
Not relevant. Every OS also has different levels of user. Your user should be the admin, shouldn't be tied a profile etc. Linux is setup like more like this. Yeah, it makes it more complex for certain network style things (you have 4 c
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by smaudet 4y ago
Eh kinda it is supposed to be superior because it doesn't have secret backdoors, fewer security flaws, more features usable by a wider audience... The first one I think is pretty important, as the saying goes if the cure is worse than
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by smaudet 4y ago
False equivalency - I agree Stallman might have had some outdated visions for his projects (word processing? Realy? Nobody cares about that anymore). I also accept the FSF/GNU don't operate like a typical authoritarian company - a
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by smaudet 4y ago
The point is valid, but the rationale is not, let me explain: Caring about 0 based or 1 based indexing is, to me, a sign of someone who struggles with programming in general, or is stuck doing a lot of finicky conversion between the two. Mo
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by smaudet 4y ago
Eh I've had decent experiences with BT in cars, there are some truly terrible implementations out there though. My current vehicle doesn't have a functional BT connection, because some idiot put it behind a voice activation (and t
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by smaudet 4y ago
Just to emphasize, the lack of docker is a good thing - full virtualization is nice but as with anything comes at the cost of overhead, complexity (you need to connect things between docker instances and disparate data sources? Probably nee
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by smaudet 4y ago
"yet our output is affected by what we experience in other parts of life, unrelated to the art we create." Right, and what happens when you let that loop feedback to itself? An asphalt road on every corner, so we build more asphal
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by smaudet 4y ago
Well put. AI is an evolutionary death, in a sense. True Intelligence is not, at the point at which it is not, it is no longer artificial, and then ethical concerns must apply (rights for so-called AI citizens, etc.)
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think its somewhere more in the middle - software bloat is getting to legendary proportions (why do I need 16+ gigs of RAM and a modern cpu+gpu to run a calculator that I could buy for 50 cents 20 years ago?), and the software bloat drive
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by smaudet 4y ago
Either that we actively (doubtful) ignore non-click-bait, more that we are programmed (in some sense) to only pay attention to click-bait. It is genuinely difficult to ignore things which sound alarming but usually either nonsense or much l
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by smaudet 4y ago
Android/iOS, IPV4 shortage issues, technical hurdles, yeah the list abounds. Don't even need a phone, 10 dollar computers exist, it's mostly an accessibility issue, both of tech and IP. The big reason to ditch the modern web
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by smaudet 4y ago
Agreed. However, interesting conversations are missed because of noise (e.g. down-votes) - I'm less likely to interact with a down-voted post, they usually are not as informative or interesting. Proposed solution - abolish negative poi
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by smaudet 4y ago
This is actually a really smart idea... and it's how I gauge how good a developer is on my own team anyways... A junior/intern can barely understand the code, has little to no knowledge of the complexities of the code-base, and ca
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by smaudet 4y ago
Indeed - I'm pretty sure a small cabal of people with low self-esteem is responsible. Speculation, Zuckerberg, Musk read new-sites like this, can't bear their egos to be deflated. I don't think that's necessarily realist
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by smaudet 4y ago
Agreed. You might as well not be a person if you live in a virtual world...necessities like money and basic human needs mean people outgrow their fantasy world, and their fantasy games. Moves like this cause fragmentation, such that there i
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by smaudet 4y ago
Agreed, sizing is one of the things that can set apart devs, either due to experience, knowledge, or some combination of both.
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by smaudet 4y ago
> what else are you going to do You can also change the definition of done - something I try to do when a task gets too large, spin off new sub-tasks, etc. The first feature doesn't quite work right, but the merge differential is us
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by smaudet 4y ago
I started out agreeing heavily with the article (yeah, javascript sucks today!), but one thing stuck out to me: If Typescript makes Javascript so much work because the tooling discourages learning best practices, how does moving to C#, whic
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by smaudet 4y ago
Heat is not light, that is not exactly what you said. Sorry. You didn't even mention light. Physically as well as "mechanically", I suppose, they are very different things. Heat cannot travel at the speed of light, light can.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Perhaps I am wrong to the degree of which we are doomed in various scenarios, but I am not wrong that serious effects would occur. My concern is - catastrophic chaining failure of nuclear plants, which I must assume you would not think woul
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by smaudet 4y ago
Right, but my concerns about an overly complex system coming in as a stand-in for a simple one are not. The simple cost effective thing is not to engineer a complex redundancy system above and below to try to adhere to some misguided &quo
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by smaudet 4y ago
There is a promising electrolysis route as well now, zero emissions: https://newatlas.com/energy/hysata-efficient-hydrogen-electr...
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by smaudet 4y ago
I would buy one for my next vehicle (it will be a ways off), except my area will take a while to be covered, with the amount of driving I do I would not need to refill for several months, and I could still take it on cross country road trip
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by smaudet 4y ago
It's marginal compared to the other power expenses to be sure, but computing is another rising power cost. Besides my AC, and cooking, I don't have any regular power expenditures other than digital devices, so it seems reasonable
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by smaudet 4y ago
https://www.energyvault.com/gravity Its a company with as I understand it proven designs. Besides, the concept is trivial and applicable and replicable by almost anyone. I don't understand why there is so much skeptici
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by smaudet 4y ago
Ok, well would you mind linking some good starting materials? And I think you maybe are more ignorant than you care to admit as well: "is that a very appreciable fraction of the energy liberated goes into radiant heat and light"
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by smaudet 4y ago
Exactly, my money would be on an inert storage format - if you could mass produce hydrogen and keep it around safely inert (with low energy cost to convert it back), EVs would be beat so bad in the long run it wouldn't even be funny...
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by smaudet 4y ago
Meanwhile, Hydrogen Fuel Cell cars are putting gasoline vehicles and electric to shame: https://www.timesnownews.com/auto/car-news/article/toyota-mi... Of course, you can't readily buy or charge one yet,
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by smaudet 4y ago
You are thinking in the wrong direction, I tried to explain but maybe I can be clearer: If you can't read the data in question though, you cannot do the repairs, it doesn't matter if you do Reed-Solomon coding or not. You are thin
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by smaudet 4y ago
Well first of all energy storage, is not production, but as you asked: 1) Reduced need for energy storage. Right to repair for everything, write code that is efficient and lower power, distributed systems which don't require complex ce

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