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by wazoox 6y ago
The Ocean Cleanup project started somewhat like this. They made prototypes and extensive testing, and concluded honestly that cleaning the ocean isn't doable, so they turned to cleaning up the source of most oceanic plastic: rivers. Th
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by wazoox 6y ago
I feel for you. I too am sticking to an obsolete unsmart TV. In 2016 I had to change my home heaters, and nowadays they're all "smart". The app that's supposedly used to control them never could find one of them; instead
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by wazoox 6y ago
Notice that the devolution of democracy into a "popularity contest" isn't a given: the French "Convention citoyenne pour le climat" proved that informed (and not propagandized) citizens can make rational political c
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by wazoox 6y ago
The Apple ][ has a monitor in ROM that allows to enter machine code directly. The legend says that for the Apple I, Woz knew the complete integer basic machine code and could type it live into the monitor.
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by wazoox 6y ago
Precisely. "What kind of economy do you want?" is a political question, that has no definite, scientific answer. And more restrictive economic questions, very often, also are political questions that should be democratically deba
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by wazoox 6y ago
Economics is not like physics at all. It's a social science, rooted in many social assumptions and compromises and power relationships between human beings and groups. Most attempts to negate this are just tortuous ways to justify the
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"Mr. Fox : charting a course towards a better coop." Yeah, well. Not holding my breath on this one :)
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by wazoox 6y ago
This article actually hints about how optimizing everything leaves no room to ... live? enjoy things? and above, all, resilience. That comes back to what N. N. Taleb called "antifragility". When something is really optimized, it w
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by wazoox 6y ago
MS-DOS up to 4.1 was coming on 2 floppies, but Windows 3.1 came on a whole bunch of them (probably no less that 10). Windows 95 ans OS/2 came on a enormous stack of floppies, more than 20. I did this install more then once back then.
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by wazoox 6y ago
The environment, climate change and energy. Why energy is so much more important than generally believed. Why less energy implies less economic activity (i.e. degrowth, or collapse).
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Jancovici: Will Technology Save Us from Climate Change? MIT Media Lab(youtube.com)
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That's more of a fun answer to those who absolutely want to put a value and make a matter of "fair calculation" of everything, nothing to be taken too seriously. Still, that gives some relief to the absurd notion that drives
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by wazoox 6y ago
Jean-Marc Jancovici uses a funny analogy: the ISS cost about $100 billions. It provides a very limited environment for 6 humans. Therefore as a rule of thumb we can extrapolate the value of our existing environment that provides enough for
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by wazoox 6y ago
My son once grab on the street a huge crate of 80s movies on VHS next to a trash bin. He regularly uses them with his friends for ""80s nights" where they watch 80s action movies (a full set of Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Van D
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by wazoox 6y ago
Thank you, I didn't know of this project, that sounds really interesting :)
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by wazoox 6y ago
The problem of how to clean a house with robots is completely unsolved. Mopping the floor properly and dusting small objects on shelves will remain an unsolved AI problem for a long time; in the meanwhile, more AI means more exploitation (s
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by wazoox 6y ago
Here you go: https://youtu.be/3wfNl2L0Gf8
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A server can be around for years and years why being different. For instance my main debian package server has been "basson" since 2003. In 2003 it was a large, old SGI server; later on it became a 1U rack server, that was replace
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by wazoox 6y ago
I think that the patents on glyphosate itself expired recently. The RoundUp-ready seeds are still protected, though.
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My wife inherited my Oneplus One and uses it (running LineageOS); I'm still using my OnePlus 5T and don't plan to change it ever (unless the audio jack makes a comeback). Note that the One without any Google spyware still lasts 3
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by wazoox 6y ago
Yes, the immediate problem I see with this new study is that it presents the relation between happiness and income as almost linear, which is, on the face of it, almost unbelievable at lower income levels. Can you really believe that going
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Ah, interesting. My office is lit with fluorescent tubes, so the flickering is extreme. I'll check guvcview.
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AFAIK many professional Sony systems also ran some derivatice of NEWS OS, for instance the fabulous mixing console Oxford OXF-R3.
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I have a C920. My main problem is that the camera runs at 60 fps, but here in Europe, lights are 50Hz. therefore, flickering is unbearably as soon as you're not using natural light. I can't find any solution to this...
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by wazoox 6y ago
My ideapad has a 16:9 screen with a large black bar below it, the chassis is obviously built for a 16:10...
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by wazoox 6y ago
That's right in the article.
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Amazon illegally uses the ElasticSearch trademark. Amazon illegally uses and distributes proprietary Elastic's code. Why do people in the thread keeps repeating that it's OK while it's very obviously abuse by a too-powerful c
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by wazoox 6y ago
I've always talked to various (mostly dead) people in my head, or sometimes out loud. For instance on everything related to music I very often talk with J.S. Bach (a good approximation for God in this case). I also almost always have l
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by wazoox 6y ago
"...And that's reason number 3955430, ladies and gentlemen, why monopolies are bad and MUST be dismantled."
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Do functional, competitive markets really exist? The true nature of markets doesn't seem to be equilibrium, but brutal swings between various local optima (which generally are pretty mediocre overall).

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