NovaVeles

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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I have a gut feeling that SerenityOS is going to have the same kind of progress that Linux had. Started as a little hobby side project "but nothing serious" but could eventually become something that ends up being a really useful
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
And then there is the Apple Dogcow! ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow MOOF!!!
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Alan Watts said it about LSD - but equally applies to MDMA. Use it like a scientist uses a microscope. Use it to observe but then you go away and work on what you have experienced. Don't get fixated on the observation stage.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
It is one of the easiest things to do that has a sizeable impact on the world.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I don't want to defend the Hiltons but that is just one example of something that was very common during that time period. In the 50's/60's - the idea that we would not solve the fundamental issues of the era over the co
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
No as has already been answered. The example I can directly think of is modelling of specific weather patterns across Australia. A model that works in predicting weather 2 weeks out may work today but not work so well in 5 years. Global War
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I feel for the Weather pattern folk. All of the one I have spoken to over the years are pretty cool. They are trying to model an insanely complex system - oh but thanks to global warming they are struggling to make models that work for long
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Depends on the examples you use I guess. I mean early last year King Gizzard dropped The Dripping tap. an 18 minute prog rock jam thing where there is a good 5 minutes where they repeat this 41 times like a mantra. "Drip, drip from the
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Do not mistake technical viability with economic viability. The 1st Breeder reactor went into service in 1962, there have been many after and they have all meet the same fate. Yes, they can breed their own fuel but the total cost of doing
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Sorry this may seem a little snarky but - "They will think of something" - the universal band-aid for I want it to be true but I rationally don't know how. When ever I hear that, the optimist in me wants it to be true. The pe
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I think the big thing is that all those original achievement don't defy physics to achieve them. It was a case of ignorance and the belief that we just were not that smart. And while there was a big period of exponential growth - there
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
There is a blog called, 'Do the Math' by Tom Murphy. The idea was to take our current energy requires of Earth and extrapolate it at the current 3% year over year growth. I believe it is by the year 3,400 we would use all the ener
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
It is a reasonable conclusion. Resource limitations means civilizations, burn up too much of their energy/materials before they ever get truly space bound. They could all be just like us. A few space probes manage to escape the energy
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Ready to play Quake 3 and then someone decided to bring a G4 Mac. Easy to communicate right "It just works!"... :D
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Actually that would make sense. I usually eat much later 8-9pm and so that crash would come after the work day is done.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I will shoot from the hip on this one. I don't have any sources directly at hand but across a lot of western countries the amount of new licenses has been declining for well over a decade. It is only a matter of time until the sales st
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
It is a wave that has come before and will come again. Task gets out sourced. They save some money initially. Managers how did it get a promotion and then skips out to the next company. Out sourced work ends up costing more than the origina
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
To add to what others have said about the utility of books. A deeper question is, why should it have any purpose? Can we not just do something just because we do it. Not everything has to quantified into a manner of a positive transaction.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I know this is an argument of 'ignorance is bliss'. But one wonders if the subject would be aware of this decline? If you are in decline but unaware of it, is that a bad thing?
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Yeah, I'm going to be one of those folks. Intermittent fasting always worked for me. I think because it just keeps everything even or at least the hour-to-hour delta to a minimum. When you break it down into smaller meals, even if you
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I am not so keen on photon transistors, at least not in the short term. I have seen them proposed for decades but progress has been slow at best. Maybe some folks will figure it out and we will make that leap but current progress is not loo
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
This is something I think in the next 5 years will become a major thing. Broadly speaking from an OS level, the folks that optimize their software the best will see big benefits. I have advocated (lightly so) to some Linux folks that we sho
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Lithium is widely known about, the real challenge is getting it. I'm not worried about the abundance of lithium, it is the speed at which we can get it that is the issue. One can still have a shortage even if there is an abundance of p
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
Many acted like the internet was this weightless thing, now folks are starting to see that they may have to pay the bill in some fashion. This goes for the ecological factors as well.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
The Japanese concept of `Mono no aware` seemsto fit into this ideal. The tragedy and loss of life itsef https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
It is a funny thing. This was during the big push for everything Smart phones, apps and viable streaming changing tastes and the domination of social media. That combo simply knocked it off its pedestal in no time. The technical legacy of F
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
That performance was so heavily tied to screen resolution was funny to see. It could crunch a reasonable amount of vector information, but the rasterisation would burn through processor cycles. There were some projects when I was running on
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
That is fair. Credit to the Chrome and Firefox teams that this is becoming less an issue over the last few years.
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I see you work for the Dark side. j/k;) Maybe I am just remembering it differently as this was more than a decade ago. But it seemed like almost every week, heck almost every day, another zero day would be discovered. Yes, this was the
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by NovaVeles 4y ago
I still believe that Flash conceptually was a brilliant idea done terribly. It was slow, buggy, under developed functionality and a security nightmare. But the idea of having a single file that could bundle, code, audio, graphics that was d

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