DaoVeles

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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This is the only reason I have any experience with these apps. When MS sunset Money and compatibility started to get wonky, my in-laws were at a loss at what to do. We never did find an alternative. They do however have a seperate Win 7 PC
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It is charming in that it has that mid 90s utility design. It is absolutely frustrating because it has that mid 90s utility design. I don't think I have seen any other utility hasnt really progressed on interface design like GNUcash. L
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This is boarder line a 'choose your own adventure' style thing. It is so stupid it had to be done!
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
That is a very fair assumption nowadays. I was not raised by the internet simply because I could not afford to even have it in the home until I was in my early 20's. Still remember the weeks after youtube being launched! The internet w
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I have seen efficiency figures vary from as low as 0.1% upwards of 10% but it seems difficult to quantify. My shoot from the hip intuitive thought is that the massive amount of plant matter it took to make petroleum demonstrates how ineffic
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Pretty much. The only pipes in the arctic tundra are oil pipes actively trying to stop this freezing process.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I guess playing this on the Mega Drive/Genesis I already knew I was being short changed. Also to have that much storage back then would have been life changing. I remember having a 120MB HDD in 1991 (?) and it felt like you would never
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I have said it many times before. You could fill a library with all the problem that BASIC leads too. But at its core is a message that is missing a little from modern computing - the ability to jump in and just get something simple built q
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I had not thought of that. That is probably very likely. They can keep their public mantra of "privacy" to keep people coming to them but without the burden of tech development. Higher ups like that equation. It is probably inevit
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Yep, despite the best intentions, once you have a funding stream it can become a controlling force on the overall direction of a project. The alternative is to either have the user pay for it or have little to no funding which is a dead end
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Can we just appreciate the 3rd grader humor of the name. Like a calculator app a friend made called the 'Crapulator'. It lived up to the name but not in the same fashion as the 'wrongulator'.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
While I can see Mark stepping away from direct action in politics simply because it is exhausting. Unfortunately his wealth is an indirect means of politics. Money is a token of power, billions in the bank influences politics.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
These are all a very fair points. Of note at least there is no giant leap on possibility. By that I mean there isn't a step with '?' in it. But there is a big gap between what is technically possible and what is economically
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
As an aside, immunotherapy is pretty neat stuff. My fathers bladder cancer is in remission thanks to it. Yes, there are still some issues being worked out (possibility to cause diabetes) but it is just neat to see in action. The medical fie
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I do worry about the future of IA. Simply because of some of their reckless moves with their book lending policy, they have opened themselves up to being bleed dry financially. That plus the amount of copyright infringement openly available
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Death by thousand paper cuts in action. I love Firefox (fork) it is my only browser but you can see the long term trend and I do wonder if it will even be a thing in a decades time. Unless there is a sudden shift towards it, is will eventua
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It has been said that "Publish or Perish" would make a good tomb stone epitaph for a lot of modern sciences. I speak to a lot of people in various science fields and generally they are some of the heaviest drinkers I know simply b
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It is also frustrating when a papers summary says one thing, you pay for the full thing only to see it is a complete opposite of the claims. Waste of time and money, bleh!
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I suspect eventually Elon is going to sell Twitter to Tesla under the guise of combining their AI research. Cue Obama awarding Obama a medal meme. Just a shoot from the hip theory based on him stooping to new lows.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I have been trying to find an article I saw years ago that I have not been able to find since. It was about the folks who are trying to grab as much of the stored CompuServe data from peoples computers. It cached some of its stuff on the HD
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Cannot have PTSD if you have full blown Tetris effect and can only see falling block everywhere. ;) That or they played 2018 Tetris Effect and had a full blow Non-dualist realization through it. Either way, a great outcome! A bit more serio
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This is no surprise. Look up how Scott Kelly described his experience coming back after a year on the ISS. https://www.snexplores.org/article/how-year-space-affected-s...
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This one thing that I love about GNU/Linux - giving older hardware a life time WAY beyond what was originally intended. Typed on a 2009 Core 2 Duo Thinkpad.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This was inevitable as the 2010's were very beneficial to their local tech industry. With the mandate to do as much tech internally there was a mother of all booms to take advantage of. “Even a pig can fly if it stands at the fengkou,
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Reminds me of how casinos in Vega hate when there are conference events on for science heavy crowd or skeptics groups. The guests know that gambling is a bust so they spend almost nothing on gambling and just use the hotel rooms and restaur
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
There is a level of annoyance when these things pop-up after about 10-15 seconds due to, what feels like, an entire OS of Java script coming along for the ride to make it happen. But other than that it is a very minor inconvenience. The one
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Thank you for actually advocating for the most rational and realistic response to this situation. While one cannot expect peace from this, it is better to be in open communication than to be left to create images of what they think they are
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
While there are many that argue against this point and I am sympathetic to them, Mutually Assured Destruction is a very powerful deterrent. One of the reasons why many treaties came a long after WW2 was because for the first time ever, we h
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I always appreciate these stories about how very specific observations that most people would miss can give away far deeper details of the universe that many wouldn't even consider. Eratosthenes using shadows and figuring out the size
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I bought a 42 inch TV for just under $300 AUD a few weeks back. I would suspect the panel isn't even the most expensive part any more on a TV, logistics for that thing have to be one of the biggest parts nowadays.

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