ColdStream

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by ColdStream 24d ago
Hate to be that guy, but stuck behind a paywall.
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by ColdStream 24d ago
Exactly. I have seen some estimates that if you tear down a forest and then let it re-grow it is estimated to be upwards of 300 years until it starts to resemble the kind of diversity that was originally present. Tree counts or green covera
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by ColdStream 24d ago
I said it with the Wii bootable OSX, this might be a decent way to get access to older PPC OSX software but with loads of available hardware around. The issue with the Wii version was it running in 88MB of RAM, at least with 512MB on X360 t
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by ColdStream 24d ago
I have argued for a while that this was an S-curve it was just a case of figuring out which part of it we were in. I am more confident nowadays that we are heading towards the upper plateau but there might still be some head room on that.
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by ColdStream 24d ago
I was going to say. It is also very close to CRT TV resolutions (or whatever you would call it).
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Ouch! I'm not a huge fan of Dalio, I think he misses some big picture stuff outside of economics but when it comes to just economics he has a fairly good grip on it. So when he is saying that, interesting times ahead. Not saying he is
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by ColdStream 25d ago
As many have said, Trump is a symptom of a deeper issue. Once is an accident, twice is a pattern. It isn't that Trump specifically is the problem it is that there is a sizable enough part of the US population that will actively vote in
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Terrance McKenna once said that the worst US President is the current one regardless of the time. That is because they always seem to just accept what has come before and just stack more things on top. Biden didn't remove the Trump Tar
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by ColdStream 25d ago
I said it in another comment, not only did they negotiate that, the resulting negotiation held very little of substance for the US. It was very light on specifics and all for show. It has been said that when the tariffs started that the Jap
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Personally there are two sides to this that conflict. Firstly, yes Europe and its allies are rapidly becoming more capable and are now funding said capabilities. Secondly, it sadness me to see people cheering on the growth of the war/d
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by ColdStream 25d ago
There is a reason the US is worried about things like Pix is Brazil. Viable alternatives are coming online that cuts them out of the set of power.
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by ColdStream 25d ago
I mean look at the Japanese deals, it has some of the most wishy-washy loose language I have seen in a serious political document for a very long time. We indent to do this, they propose that, there is aspirations of this. They caved but on
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by ColdStream 25d ago
There is a Japanese proverb "A thousand years of good reputation is ruined in a single hour." Trump has burnt up the single most valuable asset any country or person can have. Trust.
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by ColdStream 25d ago
I was very impressed at the pace at which Canadians got behind the move away from US goods. Turns out threatening to annex a country and NOT having those making the threats get punished/thrown out does that. It shows a significant enou
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Long term it is a very tough position for the US. They need to run a trade deficit to keep the power of the US dollar, if that goes so does a lot of their world power. More broadly however, the question that I think everyone should ponder o
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Credit to France, Charles de Gaulle was the first to realize that the US should be blindly trusted. Macron is also a firm believer in this as well as he is well versed in Gaulle's ideas. As for the rest of the world, yes the silence in
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by ColdStream 25d ago
Exactly, the move away from the US is both fast and slow. Fast on the things that could be swapped for an alternative straight away/short term. Slow in that there are something that will take decades to move away from and are actively
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Blue zones was a funny thing. It seemed odd that there was places where longevity was so pronounced. A particular genetic advantage that was localized or as it was pushed some generally lifestyle advice that sounded reasonable made it trave
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by ColdStream 27d ago
I guess now that they have the cash from OpenAI for training data, now they can try to cash in on their side too. Play both side of the game. I would be more concerned if Reddit hadn't become an absolute shell of what it once was. It i
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by ColdStream 27d ago
I think it is like most software, especially in the OS space. The technology doesn't have to be the best, it just needs to get lucky enough to become a standard and build a moat with that. And by the mid 80's the moats were alread
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Everyday when I come to work it is a case of "How will something Microsoft break today?". It is different everyday, it is always something very silly and petty and small. I am so tired of this crap happening non stop. They are a t
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by ColdStream 27d ago
This is something that began long before AI art. Look at the popularity of Thomas Kinkade - The Master of Light! Many AI generated images, when not refined down, now have that same sort of aesthetic. I have found that Googles Nano Banana ge
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by ColdStream 27d ago
I am not surprised. I completely get what they were going for, it feels like a product that should just be the default. But the was two major issues with them. One technical, one social. On the technical side, they required a full roof repl
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Not surprised, the US is backed into a lifestyle that is hard to maintain. They are struggling to grow their productivity and thus it is easier to spend big on the credit card and just hope that folks don't move away from the petrodoll
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by ColdStream 27d ago
The question I have is, do these companies keep copies of the scans after they have finished training on them? If so, then it isn't the worst outcome. Not great but at least the information is not completely destroyed forever just the
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Definitely, he may have been the architect of digital jails but he did seem to care about his prisoners. Tim Cook is just a free for all but with some nice marketing.
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by ColdStream 27d ago
I have been using Linux on the desktop since the late 90's. Other than increase hardware support, I have not tangentially noticed/felt almost anything you have mentioned here. When I fire up the desktop and load Firefox, I do not
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by ColdStream 27d ago
It is funny with Linux (the kernel). From the outside it looks like almost nothing ever changes. You switch the computer on, it works away in the background to bring up the desktop and have everything talk. From that perspective it feels li
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by ColdStream 27d ago
I think a part of happiness is just knowing that you cannot win the game of life. Even if you could process a thousand times more information, would that make you any happier? If anything, your craving for information would only increase. I
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Like the whole meme of "Well actually...". Sometimes you just need to let it go, choose peace over proving something. Occasionally I still get caught up in something but it is very rare nowadays.

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