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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   I am sorry but I did not understand your comment. As for Stoicism, it is a very hard philosophy to live by if one is not temperamentally inclined to the "serenity to accept the things [one] cannot change, Courage to change the things [
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   I asked the author of the comment to give me an example of the many "intellectual" tasks that can be done by "systems" that are "internally simple" (what does "simple" mean?) but "large" (
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   > Humans have now had shoved in their face that many tasks considered "intellectual" can be done by systems that internally are simple, but very large. It also makes humans realize that much human intellectual activity is just
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   Thanks. I was wondering whether there were other ideological motives behind the ban other than the official "privacy protection," as Italy is governed by the right. They just banned artificial meat for what seems to be a host of i
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   I have switched to fedora Silverblue because I wanted my system to be as stable as possible between updates. But I think it's true that one has to delve into container technologies to fully use the OS, and that is a bit of an overhead.
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   Do you think that the stated motivation for banning chatGPT is just a veil?
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   I couldn't have guessed it was a joke without Therac 25 mentioned.
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   > BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn't to "protect food heritage". I roughly checked the french press (I don't read italian): there is no account of the
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   by zvmaz 4y ago

   See : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/brics-deb...
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    My country wants to join the BRICS, but every single person wants to flee the country, preferably to the West. It's our "American dream".
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    A few years ago, Algeria started to shut down the internet every year during the baccalaureate exams [1]. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/algeria-shuts-...
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    I have used Linux for most of my adult life: I don't get the sens of control over my own computing with other operating systems. It's not clear though why exactly Thomson is switching.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    Could you share with us why you chose FreeBSD over Linux?
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    I have found out that I was bad at card making when reviewing the first cards I made after a lapse of time of not using Anki. My then self got frustrated and irritated by how vague and non-specific the cards I made myself were. I certainly
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    Note that in the example shown in the website, Gnome Calculator is not phoning home, but imf.org; probably a benign thing; it just showed how much control one can have over one's computing.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    > There is no reference to GNOME calculator in that page. It is at the bottom of the page I linked to, under "Application Firewall". There is even a screenshot.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    It's also obscure what really gets sent to Microsoft, and what not. There was a Linux based OS that warned the user at every single application trying to phone the internet[1], even Gnome Calculator. [1] https://subgraph.com
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    Hopefully Framework will make printers[1] [1] https://twitter.com/search?q=printer+from%3AFrameworkPuter
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    > The theory that apples fall to earth because mass bends space-time (Einstein’s view) is highly improbable, but it actually tells you why they fall. Does 'highly improbably' here means "not previously seen"?
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    I abandoned Emacs for a couple of years and tried various "modern" tools (VS Code, Logseq, etc.). The "out of the box" experience never felt comfortable to me. Yes, Emacs can be a hassle to configure, but I can't he
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    Ask HN: What tools do you use for your personal knowledge management system?

    10 points by zvmaz 4y ago|10 comments
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    I always thought that a nuclear war is the end of us all.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    Excellent! I'd love to have that on Linux.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    > Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters Do you have some evidence backing this up? Thanks.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    But is what the article relates true?
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    > Symbols of 'Westernisation' This a widely used rhetoric used by islamists, and "post-colonialists" in my country (Algeria). No amount of philosophical sophistication will defeat this intellectual tool of terror.
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    You could also try to read the book, or its cover, for a start. David Buss is a renowned and serious scholar. If you think that "evolutionary psychology" is a "red flag," I suggest you email another renowned biologist, R
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    The best resource on human mating strategies is David Buss, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. Documented, empirical, and factually "cold".
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    It means: "I don't want to spend time customizing things that may not even work better for me." I acknowledge that some people like crafting their own computing environment[1], and it can be really interesting and rewarding ,
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    by zvmaz 4y ago

    I have used all possible DEs and Window Managers, and finally settled on Gnome. I feel that I am very efficient using it, more so than when I was using tilling window managers (wmii, i3, dwm, etc.). Gnome is just an incredible piece of soft