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by Freebytes 2y ago
I had a hard time getting Doom to run on my 486. I only had something like 4MB of RAM if I recall correctly so I had to restart my computer, edit the AUTOEXEC.BAT to remove options that I would use to load Windows, and then boot back into
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by Freebytes 2y ago
We need to create something that look better! Let us update a small set of applications one at a time and leave the others that look like they are from Windows 98 still in place. Years later, that look is old. We should update the look.
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by Freebytes 2y ago
For one thing, they need to hire someone to be "Chief Executive of Naming Things That Make Sense" because they are terrible with naming stuff. "I got an Xbox One!" "Oh, the first one?" "No, the XBox One no
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by Freebytes 2y ago
Well, the name of the company is Microsoft, not Microhard.
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by Freebytes 2y ago
I think Google is afraid of Microsoft.
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by Freebytes 2y ago
The Apply button was pointless. OK is supposed to apply. Apply simply made the changes, but it did not dismiss the dialog. Apply seemed confusing to most users and there should have only been two buttons. If you click OK, there was no r
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by Freebytes 2y ago
The important thing is that they never said it was Johansson. They were not pretending to be her. They are not imitating her likeness whatsoever.
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by Freebytes 2y ago
I have totally wanted to build out "pet VR". Put an animal on a type of treadmill in a virtual world and let them run around. The major issue with the idea is that dogs rely on smell quite a bit so it would likely not be a decen
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by Freebytes 2y ago
We should not make it more than $1000 per month. Very few would choose to be poor. It would put a lot of pressure on companies to pay decent wages, though.
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by Freebytes 2y ago
It is important that this is based on all income levels equally. Yes, some will pay back that money in taxes, but the important part is keeping the amount equal. It would be even more effective if you gave them a monthly check (even if yo
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by Freebytes 2y ago
This is one of those fairly obvious situations where you can simply go outside and observe a collapse of insect populations. You may be too young to remember not being able to drive without windshield washer fluid due to the large number o
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by Freebytes 2y ago
He is also saying that animals are fine. Animals are not fine. Many animals that consume water out of the river only live for five years or so. Diseases still get them.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
I dread the inevitable "Internet dildo wars of 2037" where millions of networked dildos and refrigerators wreaked havoc on the entire Internet causing billions in damage. "Suspects remain at large."
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by Freebytes 3y ago
As you illustrate, too many naysayers think that AGI must replicate "human thought". People, even those here, seem to equate AGI to being synonymous to human intelligence, but that type of thinking is flawed. AGI will not think
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by Freebytes 3y ago
This is a very good point, and you could probably write quite a few articles about this particular subject. You may even have a service A that calls service B that calls service C that calls service A. Then you have a problem. Or, you ha
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by Freebytes 3y ago
People also attack people living in poverty for making poor decisions, but if you are poor, your entire brain is overwhelmed with thoughts of survival. Of course poor people are going to make poor decisions because they are not given the o
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by Freebytes 3y ago
I absolutely agree with this. You do not need to homeless to be living in severe poverty, but poor people feel poor. To your point about 'choosing to experience homeless', going homeless by choice is called camping. People claim
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by Freebytes 3y ago
Making someone watch 5 to 8 advertisements to see a 2 minute video is already drastic.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
I love the concept, but the user interface could certainly use some work.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
This sounds good, but I am a Firefox user. The page does not really highlight a sufficient number of features. I would like automatic reminders more than anything, though.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
Students rarely even look at a globe, though. They see many more maps online.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
The problem with clinical trials is that they are looking for specific patients, though. And they will exclude patients that introduce confounding variables. Some studies exclude patients that are closest to death because they will interf
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by Freebytes 3y ago
This is getting ridiculous. I was not necessarily in agreement with the protest, but after seeing the reaction from Reddit, I am going to unsubscribe from all subreddits that are not part of the protest in support. This is like a master cl
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by Freebytes 3y ago
There was Voat previously. I think you can actually download the source code and spin up an alternative if you wanted. The issue is getting people to switch.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
The only moat Reddit has is the critical mass of users. Numerous clones exist (such as Hacker News), and a new minimum viable product could be built in a couple of weeks. But once you have the users, it is pretty easy to keep them... unle
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by Freebytes 3y ago
Creating an alternative to Reddit would be pretty easy, but the challenge is the critical mass of users necessary for anyone to ever replace it. (We are even using a clone right now.) Another challenge would be scalability, but this is no
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by Freebytes 3y ago
How is this actually accomplished, though?
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by Freebytes 3y ago
Being able to bypass paywalls does not justify AMP. AMP is a threat to decentralization of the web.
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by Freebytes 3y ago
It will be impossible to regulate and impossible to stop. The code for AGI will not be some monolith of software architecture. The code will likely be simple. This means that someone in their basement could build it. The steps to get the
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by Freebytes 3y ago
If the Earth warms significantly, we could have a situation where it triggers an ice age. (There are mechanisms for this to happen.) If the surface temperature of the water surface rises to a very high level, we could also have hypercanes

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