Bnichs

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by Bnichs 9mo ago
Reminds me of the video game Everything. Its a really cool game where you explore the various scales of the universe. It has its quirks (somewhat phoned in graphics like animals walking) but the concept and execution are great IMO, would lo
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by Bnichs 1y ago
Can you explain how it changed after being a father?
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by Bnichs 1y ago
You just echo the institutions you defend so fervently by being sanctimonious. I hope you're a politician or healthcare exec, someone who at least has an interest in defending this mess. Otherwise it's just sad. Again, good luck.
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by Bnichs 1y ago
Again, I do not care about covid and have no interest in arguing with you about covid. This is a discussion about eroded trust in institutions. And denying that the government's handling of covid had a causal relationship with the curr
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by Bnichs 1y ago
The number isn't the point, the messaging of "this number is science" is. If it were delivered clearly as "we done have all the information, but our best judgement based on a, b, c says the number is X" that would b
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by Bnichs 1y ago
Just to preface. Covid is the new Nazis, all arguments end up devolving into its discussion. Im tired of talking about covid but it's hard to get past how our country handled it, both the people and the government. To answer your quest
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by Bnichs 1y ago
The problem is that when the government itself spreads verifiably false information, there are no reprocussions like there are for the individual who does it. Just like when an individual steals money they tend to face consequences, banks w
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by Bnichs 1y ago
A system that naturally occurs as a result of the context like you describe sure sounds like a superstructure. Which in our case is a government that allows anyone with the money to steer the ship while actual people have little power to ch
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by Bnichs 1y ago
>If our institutions can communicate their work better, supernatural beliefs will dry up a bit. We’ve seen this historically. I feel like this article misses the reason why people distrust institutions. Being "kicked out of the tent
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by Bnichs 2y ago
I'm very happy I switched from Kindle to kobo. Kobo is not ideal but getting koreader/syncthing to work on it was a breeze compared to Kindle. It's a much less locked down platform, and it has usbc which got rid of the last m
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by Bnichs 2y ago
I think a lot of this can be ascribed to "startups don't always do the right thing" and you have to learn a lot over time. That's said, I've been a customer for a while and the t-shirt debacle is one of the dumbest
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by Bnichs 2y ago
I think their problem with open source is more that they can't have complete control and make every user's decision for them, security is just a nice tag along to that.
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by Bnichs 3y ago
One of those values is "ISS total mass." Is that calculated using launch/deorbit weights or is there some kind of sensor on board that can measure that? I figure if you did a specific type of burn you could calculate the weig
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by Bnichs 3y ago
This feels different. As a tax payer don't you want your city to work to get more funds? That feels far more acceptable than a private entity lobbying so they can increase profits, possibly at the expense of the payer.
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by Bnichs 3y ago
Did LLMs not take time and effort to create? There's this ongoing sentiment in the AI detractors that for something to be meaningful it requires a human to have spent time making it. Meanwhile we live in a world where the overwhelming
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by Bnichs 3y ago
I'm excited for the day when Google finally bites the bullet and makes their biggest UI "upgrade" to date, removing the search bar and keeping pesky user input from interfering with targeted ad revenue.
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by Bnichs 3y ago
Now there is the biggest incentive in human history to invest in long distance space travel and communication tech. Before the americas were discovered by Europeans, sailing and travel tech was nothing compared to what it became after there
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by Bnichs 3y ago
I'm the same way with 90% of games and that's how I can tell a well written game: if I watch the cutscenes. The most striking example of this was TLOU where I expected a fun zombie shooter and ended up completely enamored by the s
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by Bnichs 3y ago
If nix/home-manager documentation wasnt awful this site wouldn't be needed. And the level of detail should be way better than a one line sentence with no examples.
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by Bnichs 3y ago
I think that's part of the problem. It seems like the only way to have a good nix experience is to go all in with NixOS. The problem is that is a huge sell for someone who already has an OS they like and the fact that testing out nix s
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by Bnichs 3y ago
This is a good example of how nix is both a) far to complicated a tool chain and b) completely underdocumented for how complicated it is. I swear until I ripped nix off my systems, every time I had to do anything, even a simple home manager
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by Bnichs 3y ago
Something I find interesting is that IMO, flight simulators handle ATC better than real life. In MSFS Obviously there isn't a human there but all messages are displayed as unambiguous text and you are able to choose various reply opti
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by Bnichs 3y ago
It's an line to draw in terms of spending given how absolutely nothing this is in terms of spending. This website probably costs about half that of a single one of the millions of shells made for the US military in a year.
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by Bnichs 3y ago
So if you were choosing a town to live in and one has a 2% tax rate and the other a 30% tax rate, you'd surely choose the 30% tax rate because you want to support your regional community? More likely when you get past the virtue signal
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by Bnichs 3y ago
I know this is what they teach in the 15th minute of a stock valuation class, but do you actually believe stocks like BRK and AMZN have no value despite never paying a dividend?
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by Bnichs 3y ago
Is anyone asking for this? All the Google search users I know have been asking for search that actually gives good results and isn't made up of 70% recopied stackoverflow articles into sketchy blogs and AI written listicle garbage arti
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by Bnichs 3y ago
Intillij Git branches is the only git ui I've used and I love it for one feature: it stores your workspace layout based on the branch you're in. So now when I go to an old branch every tab I was working on is there in the configur
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by Bnichs 3y ago
"Jet engines are just glorified oil lamps." Not that I think the current AI is as life-changing as is purported, but this comparison is terrible. Almost all complex software is made up of a bunch of other previous simpler technolo
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by Bnichs 3y ago
One of the first things we have early humans doing on record is burning down forests: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-may-have-u...
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by Bnichs 4y ago
I always figured that the DC area was wealthy due to mostly political corruption and creating government contracts that enlist a 30 person team over 5 years to design a toilet seat for a plane that will be used twice. I didn't know it

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