CapstanRoller

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by CapstanRoller 1y ago
Reconsider using that NanoKVM... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plJGZQ35Q6I
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Please don't troll.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>Let’s say we can get people to 200 by keeping them immobile and cold and nearly starving them of calories and oxygen—dramatically suppressing their metabolism. Who would want that? I can imagine quite a few people. Maybe they are alread
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>I can't find any evidence that anyone has ever died from bisphenol-A poisoning. That's like talking about cigarettes and claiming people don't die from nicotine, therefore smoking isn't a problem. Missing the point t
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
They're synonyms, per your link. Also check out Wikipedia >Quantum Jump >Redirected from Quantum leap (physics)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_leap#In_general
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
A quantum leap is actually a tiny event e.g. an electron energy level transition
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
There are always downsides: your personal card can get fraud-flagged, which is a huge pain to fix. It can also get banned by Stripe/Braintree/etc, which will really mess things up until your bank issues you a new card number. Nev
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
It is wrong and definitely illegal in California: >Here in the state of California, labor laws define that an employer cannot require a team member to take on expenses that are an integral part of the job. https://www.asmlaw
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Any job that asks you to buy your own equipment, especially a computer, is a scam (unless you are a freelancer, in which case you should already have equipment)
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>Many people don't know that you have to milk a dairy cow twice a day because they produce so much milk. Why? This doesn't seem natural (or ethical) >In today's world, farmers need to have more cows than they could ever
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>Ask (pressure) the developers into buying some cheap stuff from your shop with their own credit cards This is illegal. I've always refused such "requests" and asked for a company expense card.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Anarchism isn't a belief, but rather a political-philosophical framework with some very specifically-defined foundational aspects. Imagine discussing math and programming with someone who insists that pi=3 and GOTO is the best control
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
It is possible to decrease entropy locally, but not globally. You can only push entropy somewhere else, and that pushing creates even more entropy. This is why refrigerators keep food cold but heat up the room, and why it's impossible
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>For example, you're leaving your home computer and going to work. Save a link and see what's going on there. Doesn't this require leaving the computer unlocked?
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
It "says nothing whatsoever" only if you fell off the turnip truck yesterday, or have a vested interest in defending a massive corporation.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>The decentralization proposed in the technological field is closer to anarchist ideals Anarchist ideals? From right-wing billionaires like Musk and Thiel? Or by centrist billionaires like...? Because that's who is driving the techn
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
You're probably not allowed to discuss it here because the people who own this website are currently making a lot of money from content stolen by bots, to be ingested by other bots.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
You didn't really make any points worth addressing. If you want to drink Soylent, go ahead. But even the predominant ingredient, soy, comes from agriculture.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>I can't envision a decentralized technological and scientific world that wouldn't set us back 300 years. And yet you are here arguing for more capitalist market-based solutions, which are inherently decentralized and have a te
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
How many actual farmers are involved with this project, or were at least consulted? This thing looks like an out-of-touch nerd hobby project, not a real tool one would use in the real world of farming. The "Commercial Production"
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>Having watched Clarkson's Farm, I can't help but feel that farming is extremely antiquated. That's like saying you watched The Bachelor and now have Opinions about marriage.
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
www.deere.com
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>This technology and science must necessarily be funded by the market. Why?
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>the best chance to get out of it is to make carbon capture economically viable Same energy as "yeah we got addicted to heroin, and the best way of getting out of this mess is to subsidize heroin so we can keep buying" How abou
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>Your math is bonkers somewhere Not my math. Industry's math. And it's bonkers because "green products" have to sell, electric cars have to sell, etc. The economy has to keep growing. Big Line has to keep going up. Wh
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
OK, that's fine. Not everyone has to know everything. So why aren't their employers investing in educating their devs & PMs about security? (rhetorical - we all know why)
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
The hassles of cert pinning, etc. should not be laid at the feet of the customer/integrator/whatever. Regardless of whether that person is an HVAC tech who learned about serial ports & busybox yesterday or is a seasoned expert
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Most of your questions can be answered with these two weird old tricks: site-to-site VPNs && VLANs Why has everyone seemingly discarded these ideas or forgotten? Yes, it is a pain to manage. Industry could reduce this pain, but inve
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
>We also accomplished quite a bit and cleaned and improved a lot of land over the last century. I'm reminded of a classic @dril tweet: > drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on tim
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by CapstanRoller 2y ago
Wait, who is talking about profit? You can make "profit" appear anywhere by playing with spreadsheets. Spreadsheets do not reflect the actual reality of our rapidly-heating planet and dying biosphere, though.

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