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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Factorio! The factory must grow! (And it must be modded in Lua).
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
It sounds worse for you than for me, and I’ll tip out some scotch in your honor next time I have some.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
This is not analogous to tinnitus. I remember before and after tinnitus, and it’s as different from visual snow as real snow is from an ice pick in your ear.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
WRT “mechanical damage” — I feel you. Standing in front of the stage feeling your organs vibrate in time to the music is fucking magic. I won’t say that it’s worth the tinnitus, but I am happy I have some memories of a trade-off, you know?
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Oh, that blows, I’m so sorry. I’ve had it 40 years; I hear it now, louder than anything else in the room. But mostly I don’t. You do really get used to it. It won’t get better, but you will.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
I love that you’re getting straightforward replies to this absolutely sick burn. The blade is so sharp that some people aren’t even feeling it.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Of course it is. Making shovels and digging holes are different skills and require different organizations.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Yes, this. That same engineer shouldn’t have a pocket nuclear trigger shaped just like their key fob, either. Humans are predictable.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Reminds me of Mark Twain’s advice to writers, “Any time you want to write ‘very’ write ‘damn’ instead so your editor will remove it.”
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
A whole 64k, huh? IIRC those things presented the most costly spilled drink opportunity of any computer at the time.
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
1200 baud? It was like science fiction come to life the first time I saw text downloading faster than I could read :D
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Can I just lean on my cane for a second, and say that the first machine I connected to a network had 256KB RAM, and I considered myself lucky to have so much. My 150 baud modem downloaded text slower than I could read it. I know how we got
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
The riveting sounds, as you say, horrifying. Congrats on making it your own again. It’s still remarkable to me that it’s even possible to do it at all. The amount of tech and miniaturization crammed into that thing — it would be easier for
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
This is how they get you, literally. “Too bad we’ve poisoned the public water source. How about if you buy water from us?”
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Robots don’t keep humans safe. Humans keep humans safe. An industrial machine stays put in its context and humans can be trained to work around it, and at least notionally consent to be in its presence. A roaming machine means every human n
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
Thank you, I do, many thanks for the link. It is at that point exactly that we should have stopped and taken better stock of our situation. The companies involved drug the case through courts for a decade and paid a pittance. We decided yea
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by sonofhans 7mo ago
As usual, science fiction is a cautionary tale of the future. The more effort we put into robots the bigger and stronger they get. Sooner or later one of them will hurt a human, and then what do we do? You can’t hold a robot accountable. We
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
“Phones” in the title is doing lots of heavy lifting. “Android phones” is the key missing piece. I love Free software too, and I wish I could run more of my life on it, but it’s no longer my hobby. I like cars, too, but I don’t work on a ho
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
This comment is a love letter to electric guitar. I adore it. Consider reading “Desolation Road” by Ian McDonald. I don’t want to spoil any of it, and perhaps science fiction isn’t your cup of tea, but at one point there is a character on M
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
Yeah, it’s always seemed that way to me too. Like a sonic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight.
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
Peak microwave UX is today, IMO — modern commercial microwaves. You seem like my people, so check this out — https://shop.sharpusa.com/medium-duty-commercial-microwave-o... Consumer-grade microwaves are made to look cool, n
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
As a geek and a father, may I recommend that you spend less time building tech tools for your young kids and more time in the real world with them? Four and six seem young now, but they’ll be teenagers next week and not up for reading with
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
What if it’s 10x as fast during clear conditions? Then it doesn’t matter. No hate. My only point is that’s it’s easy for analogies to fail. I can’t tell the point of either of your analogies, where the OP made several clear and cogent point
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
They do work. Their purpose is intimidation. They’re not truth machines, they’re pressure cookers.
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
Also, you say “self driving software” but you’re linking to a Tesla press release. Do you think Tesla currently has the best self driving software? It seems to me that Waymo and Mercedes are way ahead, both of them putting their money where
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
You … can’t be serious, can you? Do you really think these statistics — even taken at face value — mean that self-driving software is “better than humans”? This article is comparing miles with FSD engaged vs miles driven by humans. You do r
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
W T F … truly, honestly curious what anyone sees wrong with this comment.
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
> self driving software is already ~10x safer than a human. This is, technically speaking, pure bullshit. You have no proof because none exists.
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by sonofhans 8mo ago
Avoiding “ultra-processed foods” is like trying to stay healthy by avoiding ultra-processed uranium — excellent idea, but not enough. Michael Pollan offers [1] guidelines: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” This doesn’t talk about avo

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