Epiphany21

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by Epiphany21 4y ago
There are countercultures aplenty, but many employ strict gatekeeping measures to exclude anyone they find unsavory for whatever reason. So if you see people refusing to throw you pearls, it may be pertinent to ask yourself "Am I the s
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Here's an example of "shitposter" being used in early 2005. The posts won't load for me but the dates and titles are visible. I can personally recall earlier instances from other archvies dating all the way back to 2001,
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Solar panels are less bad for the environment in regions where they'll operate efficiently for all or most of their projected lifespan. The manufacturing process is worse up front, but the idea is that this will be offset over time as
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>Generations have debated the delegation of kitchen duties, often touching on class, race, and especially gender. Most frequently, women have taken on home cooking, which often means hard work for little or no pay. The idea that men only
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Money talks, talk walks. As an aside, I have no direct proof but I'm convinced that Twitter is massively overvalued. The board could've just been fishing for a higher offer.
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Call and find out.
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
That's one way to do it but it helps to think in terms of cursive, or people's sloppy handwriting where the letters are often connected by at least one stroke so that the tip of the pen doesn't need to be lifted from the pape
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Your view of computers seems overly simplistic. The "adding machine" is just one component in a larger series of abstractions that enable functionality the adding machine is normally too inflexible to perform. This is because math
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>Yuo cna reda tihs raedliy btu teh copmtuer cna't. Why can't it? Isn't that basically what current AI research is doing? Using massively parallel systems to make quick inferences based on existing data sets? >the machin
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
> The full quote is “ elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side".” Frankly, I didn't think the rest of your
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
The characters we use to interact with our computers were mostly designed to be hand-written and minimize the amount of movement your hand has to make going from one letter to the next. I theorize that they don't translate all that wel
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>the elusive path of maintaining free speech What's so elusive about it? Let people say what they want and give users a robust word and account filtering system. If you think your ideas and values won't stand up to public scrut
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>Some participants went on to become successful businessmen, doctors, lawyers, and others ended up as schizophrenics or alcoholics, but not on inevitable tracks. Why was this assumption made? If the goal of the study is to analyze the po
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
All of that is moot unless you've tested the software yourself and found it to be broken in certain terminal emulators. I agree with your point that it's easy to write CLI software that relies on features not all terminals have, b
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>You’d get the half-shame branding of “metrosexual” for dressing better than average "Better than average" is highly subjective. There have always been expectations in every society about how you're supposed to dress and c
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Jokes and hyperbole aside, that's honestly not too bad. At least relative to most modern bloatware. However, 10MB is still enough to run Windows 3.1 with room to spare for a program or two. For comparison, XTerm uses around 2.5MB, and
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Neat. Now I can run an interpreter in an interpreter to use text based programs like it's 1985, while also paying 2022 prices for the extra 32GB of RAM it needs.
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>Imagine when they can limit the trade of crypto to people who have certain ideas. Or limit the percentage of your wealth you can spend on certain items (games, movies, ... food). Do you think this can't be done already with credit
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>The more insidious problem that regular people come up against every day is devices that depend on cloud access. That idea doesn't hold up in reality. Open source projects with open protocols allow users to host the server side too
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
OpenBSD 7.1 still offers the macppc port. It was pretty fast on my later G4s.
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
People are going to keep getting burned until they learn a simple lesson: No schematics, no specs, and no source code equals e-waste. If you don't want a timebomb that bricks itself in N years, then buy from a company that respects you
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>Your average person, your average BitTorrent user even, does not have the skill set required for the running of Linux to be anything near trivial This says more about Windows users than it does about Linux. Numerous distro maintainers h
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>oh and chips come with light up fans and crap now but theres no open standard on how to control the light color so everyone just leaves it in Liberace disco mode This is why I continue to pay a premium for workstation/server grade
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
>That's not science Why can't it be? Why can't we just start doing studies on people who have already had positive experiences with these drugs? Why is there an assumption that one size has to fit all? The data collected f
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
I've yet to see any kind of productive or useful discourse come out of mainstream media in regards to the Q nonsense. That kind of stuff can't gain traction under a system that prides itself on truth and transparency. Same goes fo
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
The whole "birds are fake" thing is a long running and largely apolitical joke that predates 2017 by at least a decade. That's where this Peter guy got the idea from in the first place. The Guardian is complete trash. They wi
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Software as a service is difficult to monetize and can be a poor fit for certain technologies. Generally speaking you will find more success if you can sell or give away the core software as a stand alone package and then provide support an
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
The US suffered around 58k casualties during the Vietnam war. Nearly as many people domestically are dying each year from opioid overdoses. In 2017, that number was 47k. Now compare and contrast this with 9/11, which killed roughly 3k.
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
North Korea isn't sanctioned because of human rights violations. The US doesn't even care for its own citizenry sufficiently. Why would American politicians care about the plight of hungry people half the world over? North Korea i
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by Epiphany21 4y ago
Everyone in this comment section is saying "it's nothing new" as if that excuses the issue. From the way it's described this is a software optimization problem. So the question is, how hard is it to optimize an existing

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