ColdStream

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by ColdStream 27d ago
It was Buddhism Monk Ajhan Brahm, before he started down that path he was going down the university path studying theoretical physics. The one thing that stood out to him was just how miserable so many of the smarter people where, and just
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by ColdStream 27d ago
Credit to Steve Job's, he wasn't too interested in joining PRISM. Reasoning was never given but I would suspect it was part his anti-establishment bent, part trying to not damage the brand if it came out. It was only once he passe
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by ColdStream 28d ago
It was during the first term of Trump when he said something like "So long as people are buying oil in US Dollars, it doesn't matter how high the debt is." It is reckless but he is kind of right. So long as it is the hemoglob
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by ColdStream 28d ago
It is things like that that make me wonder how the Internet Archive hasn't been absolutely destroyed in court a thousand times over. It has become a hot den of copyright infringement unlike anything else. But as for the show, I this is
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by ColdStream 28d ago
Tommy Chong is a proud Canadian today with that head line.
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by ColdStream 28d ago
Exactly this! Recently I saw a project that is heavily AI assisted to port Doom to the Neo Geo. That is hardware that works in a totally opposite fashion to how Doom runs. It is a 12Mhz 68K chip with no frame buffer. And yet, they are makin
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by ColdStream 28d ago
Yeah, most people are just trying to make it day to day doing their best. We are flawed but that is what make it fun. There is also just a matter of randomness. Marcus Aurelius was considered one of the great emperors of Rome with a fairly
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by ColdStream 28d ago
So essentially like the original Mac in 1984. ;) 128KB of RAM is just too little to run the OS and applications at the same time with any kind of performance. But once the 512KB model came along, then things started to really swing.
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by ColdStream 28d ago
AI code increases productivity and reduces understanding. If it is a project like this, that's cool. If you are deploying the safety control system on a power plant, you had better have a damn good understanding!
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by ColdStream 28d ago
I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff. It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freel
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by ColdStream 28d ago
I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool. I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or wee
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by ColdStream 29d ago
Pretty much. While I get the general vibe against using too much AI, many are over correcting.
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by ColdStream 29d ago
Pretty much, so much of what we take for granted in culture was actually intentionally designed from the top down to have masses of people fall into line and become good servants of the economic system. As for good diets, for instance, ther
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by ColdStream 29d ago
I am surprised it hasn't happened earlier. Not a great idea to have a foreign country potentially control your vital infrastructure if you aren't always on the most agreeable terms. Not saying the US and China will go at it, but a
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by ColdStream 29d ago
One could make the point that in a society that is primarily driven by capital, it is wise to keep an eye on the health of it from those that are within said system.
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by ColdStream 29d ago
A flip on this reading. Rank, fame, and power all rely on others to enable it. Sort of like how a narcissistic person ultimately needs others to validate them. You aren't wrong, it just can be read two ways.
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by ColdStream 29d ago
I appreciate the intention you and others are bringing. Not to be defeatist, but I do wonder how much of trying to set it straight sticks long term? People have been trying to straighten things out for millennia and we are still in this pre
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by ColdStream 29d ago
I generally tend to not have that feeling. For me to feel like it is wasted is to put on a definition of the time period that wasn't there. It is internal personal fan fiction at that point. I don't feel like I missed out on anyth
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by ColdStream 29d ago
8 kids! Well if anyone wants to ask for parenting advice, they can go to you as you are a lone human data set.
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by ColdStream 29d ago
> And I say this as someone who is very in favor of having kids and who worries about the looming population collapse in all developed countries. Complete aside, I hope that this happens via the demographic collapse and not due to resour
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by ColdStream 29d ago
A good example is the crushing stories of Frank Zappa's kids. Here is the guy touring the world making millions of dollars, releasing albums non-stop. His kids, barely saw him. For instance, his daughter Moonunit said the most time eve
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by ColdStream 29d ago
As a fun project, you should look up the history of eating schedules. They vary wildly between different cultures. Some have a single large meal at the start of the day, others have 5 smaller meals spread through, and everything in between.
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by ColdStream 29d ago
I always find it funny the genetics argument or the "I'm a dopamine addict!" just how they are framed with fairly modern scientific language. Personally, legacy is but another grasping of the ego. It is meaningless and is mos
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by ColdStream 29d ago
If you are talking CXMT Apple recently learned the hard way that even with price fixed RAM from the big 3, CXMT is struggling to provide cheaper prices as they are using much older design/manufacturing systems. https://www.m
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I get the point you are trying to make but I will push back on one little part. I think lots of people are putting in more time and effort than ever BUT they have become victims of 'Audience capture'. They are out to do what other
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Funnily enough this is what both Medium and Substack were trying to do but both have ended up being sucked into the system. Seems to be a universal thing, in a society that values capital as one of the highest achievements, it will co-opt a
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Based on that stat, if the average life time is 80 years, Tik tok burns up 4,800 lifetimes a day. (380,000 years) Ouch!
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I guess it might be a good example of evolution in action. Evolution benefits those that can adapt the best, not those with the most abilities.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
I agree, I was talking more broadly. Unfortunately, on social media there is rarely time for people to sculpt well thought out takes. Those that shoot first generally win.
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by ColdStream 1mo ago
Sorry, my original comment may have some off as defending short form content in the context of social media, that wasn't the point I was trying to make. What I mean is, there are times where folks tend to over expand their premise to t

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