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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
Its incredible to me that educated adults are taking long-distance manned space travel seriously. Its comically absurd and Dr. Strangelovian that people are floating "Send old people who will probably die soon" as a viable fix. Th
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We also swore by exorcisms and beating children half toe death to "teach them a lesson." In fact, in MANY parts of the world today the preferred treatment for things like schizophrenia is exorcism. I argued with someone from a poo
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
This is a bit like cutting off your nose after being infected with Covid. It doesn't help, its already in your bloodstream. If any of that, helped even a little, we'd be doing it modernity too. The more popular 19th century techni
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I imagine not only is this a technical challenge in general, but the "best" apps require google integration and google is giving devs and big companies incentives to require the google play libraries, which this can't use. Th
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I think in the old, old days you'd do a batch job. So you'd connect, then upload/download at whatever baud speed was accepted. Your modem would only connect for x amount of minutes. Later, more 'always on' was possi
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
I think it helps to remember that programming was "secretarial" work back then. Essentially, most programmers were women, and working from home meant they were also able to keep up their home duties and child-care. Back then you&#
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
Also, it only existed via extreme subsidizes. So working class French and UK people were subsidizing rich people farting in 1st class seats going mach 2. Its funny how its beloved by the "free market" types when it was just a welf
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
The actual 'garage startup' is bit of a myth, played up as a rags to riches story. Most startups happen in personal spaces like bedrooms or home offices or rented offices and are often better funded than you might think. Or the &
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
200 people died there, 1000+ were injured, and 100k left homeless. This art is a monument and tombstone. This is perfectly respectful. I think most communities wouldn't build a supermarket or park over a recent human disaster site like
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
A lot of home, small business, or neglected enterprise routers and firewalls are broken into permanently. Many of these will not auto-update their firmware or the attackers got in before the patch was available. Then the initial actor sells
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
>Customers can opt for a longer or shorter passcode Its incredible to me we're allowing anything shorter than 6 digits. How many of these are going to be 1234 or 4321? I suspect a large number. If this is for anti-theft I don't
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
Except there is incredible luck and bias. Being born to rich or connected parents. Being white. Being male. Business culture has rarely been a meritocracy. Like the post above you said, there really isn't a lot going on here that milli
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
From the comments the big gains are from using wineserver in userland but valve/steam/deck/proton uses fsync which is already a kernel api, so there then won't be these big gains. I'm very suspicious vale/proto
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
>possibly permanent hearing loss — to anyone within 100 ft. This is so scary to me. We all ride in cars or busses with tires and the pressure and power of even an average tire is incredible. I'm a little surprised the tweel concept
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
No true scotsman arguments are pretty unconvincing. What I described is how much of the world economy works in capitalism. It may not be to your ideological liking but this is what capitalism does, and the laws its writes, the social norms
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
Wealthy westerners thinking climate change will only affect the global south are in for some hard lessons soon. "It can't happen here, it'll affect mostly the poors in the tropics, so we won't constraint capitalism at al
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by zoeysmithe 3y ago
Under capitalism this is the stable solution, the same way there are so many auto makers, essentially making the same 3 or 4 cars/trucks, the same way there's the same PC OEMs making the same 3-4 laptops, desktops, etc. Consolida
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>Western countries do not have blasphemy laws That's arguable and the West's oppression can be subtle but real. Look at the people who suffered trying to expose the Catholic church's history of protecting pedophiles. Look
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This is a little victim blamey. Banks mess up all the time. Regressive policies in capitalist institutions are extremely common. Incompetence is common. Negative action in service of the profit incentive is common. There's no shortage
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I imagine if you start merchandising with the Dalai Lama's image and you'll soon get sent a C&D. This isn't necessarily a Theravadin thing, imho. I practice Theravada and while it certainly is different than the US-style
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If the goal of Buddhism is to send as many people to nirvana then controlling that narrative is important. Its not attachment to image, its basic practicality. The image also reflects the message so these images are spreading dishonesty a
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Great comment! Totally agree here! A lot of boomers didn't like the TV-ization of the world. For a long time Neil Postman's "Amusing ourselves to death," was a top rated academic commentary on how TV is ruining society b
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I'll never be able to comprehend the idea of "Oh those many oblong glowing things in the background that are easy to miss? They're all galaxies of their own." The Perseus cluster contains thousands of galaxies. Every lit
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You're reading cherry-picked letters from verbose and emotional writers, not random Joes. The poorly written ones don't make it to venues like this. Comparing this to someone's busy social media feed is a bit disingenuous. No
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This is the classic HAL vs the Star Trek "computer" question. I think initially things like Alexa, Siri and Google Home were so much verbose and personality based and now just barely speak and don't do any fun personality stu
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We don't talk about this enough but those kinds of techniques are just manipulation techniques, the same way movies and tv are designed to affect our senses and emotion (rising music, etc). They exist to short-circuit our logical minds
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What a time capsule of how early free-ish software tried to monetize itself and the odd politics of University computer systems. I was curious about Yen and saw a small bio about him: https://chinacenter.umn.edu/umn-china&#x
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This city looks awful in this photo but this is probably ideal living for urbanized people. This was built as a public trans city so the narrow streets are for buses and trams. The apartment complexes aren't big blocky buildings like i