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by the_biot 4y ago
That sounds similar to the tradeoff of hovercraft/jetfoil vs ferry: uncomfortable but shorter, vs. longer put potentially seasick. The latter can ruin your whole day. Honestly all of those were obsolete on the English channel the day t
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by the_biot 4y ago
There was a catamaran? And I thought I'd done them all (ferry, hovercraft, jetfoil, tunnel, airplane)!
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by the_biot 4y ago
> I would think Did you actually just make all this shit up?
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by the_biot 4y ago
The video goes along with what you might assume of a hovercraft: that you're calmly floating to your destination on a cushion of air, like a flying carpet from a fairy tale. In reality they were super loud and everything vibrated, the
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Grain Stuck in Ukraine: The Fragmented Nature of Modern-Day Railways(hackaday.com)
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by the_biot 4y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, but that's my experience with a Samsung of about the same vintage/type. Still on the original cartridge.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yet pyramid schemes/MLMs keep popping up, for decades. Their model isn't so different from what motivates people who get caught up in cryptocurrency and NFT scams.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I definitely see your point -- who hasn't seen or heard of companies ruined by officious rulemakers with no clue, rules to make something more secure that do the exact opposite etc. I've seen my share. But blanket-banning an obsol
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by the_biot 4y ago
You're now spending your time making excuses for the richest man on earth, insisting he'll do something for the world eventually. Meanwhile he makes luxury cars, getting paid top dollar from both consumers and the government both,
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by the_biot 4y ago
You can't really call them morons, they're normal people, no doubt with lots of skills. I suspect the final analysis is they're under the spell of a cult of personality. They actually believe Elon Musk's bullshit, just l
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by the_biot 4y ago
Are you paying them?
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by the_biot 4y ago
The mark of a good open source maintainer is the ability to, when your personal interest wanes, find a new maintainer and hand over. I've done this several times, and certainly development went on much slower than before, but them&#x27
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by the_biot 4y ago
Indeed it is, and it's a commonly used conversation-stopper: whataboutism never solves anything. But my question was rhetorical: you can't convince anyone by flaming them. Personally I believe in calmly stating facts, with thoroug
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by the_biot 4y ago
Have you managed to convince anyone of your point of view by entering into a flame war with them?
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's a simplistic view allright, but then so is yours. Not all Russians are kremlin-dwelling villains, and not all westerners are post-colonial finger-waggers. What Github does is no doubt for business and regulatory reasons, but also
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by the_biot 4y ago
I assume you use it with a USB-C hub and keyboard/mouse/HDMI plugged in? Because its touch keyboard is crap, and ssh is super slow on it for some reason.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I think it unlikely that the deck will get cancelled as a product. The Steam Controller was a commercial failure, interesting as it was technically. But Valve can't make the deck fast enough, they've got a months-long waiting list
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's perhaps the single most idiotic conclusion one could possibly make from this story.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I saw this video on the history of Kaliningrad the other day, quite well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2f9Zf-MDtU Russia has at various times tried to give away Kaliningrad to several countries, who refused it beca
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by the_biot 4y ago
Some comments here imply that it goes well beyond that (indeed drawing font characters in non-VGA text mode shows this), but I think this difference holds -- no GUI widgets or operations in kernel mode, whereas Windows had this since NT. Ce
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's the thing though -- not only is it not an improvement, it's not even actually different than before. This pattern of a thin shim in the kernel is just veneer, to allow the vendor to claim they're now open source, and q
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by the_biot 4y ago
> Indeed, nVidia open sourced the kernel portion of their drivers a few weeks ago. It's my understanding that this was more like an added shim layer in the kernel, and that it just communicates to the (still proprietary) code now in
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by the_biot 4y ago
The tragedy is that while it's no doubt possible to remove (or disable) all that tracking junk you don't want from your car, we're still carrying around phones that more often than not are full of tracking crap. And they&#x27
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by the_biot 4y ago
In every country the world over? Do you have a source for that?
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by the_biot 4y ago
The clickbait title, the horrible treatment of a downtrodden woman without family, the hard-hearted manager that just wants to kick her when she's down. Oh the outrage! Yeah this is so obviously fake. But it worked, and people clicked.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Projects like this one and Cyc really appeal to my inner hoarder and programmer both. It must be so satisfying (if pointless) to create datasets like this. But I suspect the next time somebody tackles a project like this it'll use natu
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by the_biot 4y ago
Yup, I think that's it.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I recall some company or project in the late 70s or 80s putting together a massive database of concepts and how they relate to each other, i.e. a semantic word database. Wish I could remember the name, I know it's on wikipedia somewher
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by the_biot 4y ago
You'd think it was obvious, but then it seems most people actually believe commercials, and buy more of the products they see advertised. Let's call it cwkoss' law of commericals.
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by the_biot 4y ago
At least you picked up some life wisdom along the way.

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