VelesDude

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by VelesDude 2y ago
I would consider myself a Stallmanite, I guess. I use a fully 100% Libre software stack/OS/Firmware where possible - but Libre JS was just a little too unusable too me. When you are running a 2.4Ghz Core 2 Duo - it runs SLOW!
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Complete aside, check out that Sharp A521! Nowadays that is verging on cyberdeck territory.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
In a previous job, I did the math for shipping goods from Melbourne to Perth here in Australia via freight train. It worked out to be 1 litre of fuel per ton moved 500km. In imperial, that is 1 ton at 930MPG! That efficiency is mind blowing
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Franklin would also be puzzled that there would be many people that are nutrient deficient despite calorie abundance.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
There are a few acquaintance over the years that have been involved in various sectors of social media and various 3 letter government agencies. The one thing they have always said is, just assume they doing to most morally questionable thi
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yep, did the same thing with "Smoked Salmon". I went a step further and decided on this without speaking it about 2 months in advance so that I can get a clear baseline on ads I was getting. On talking lovingly about smoked salmon
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This is one of those things that I agree with the ideas behind it. Free Libre software and all of that BUT in trying to deal with this via a web addon considering the scale of, the internet, It feels like there is no way this could ever ach
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I wonder if they would have gone down the path of many bands in the late 60s and have those long spoken word poetry stretches. That said, thanks to things like that I do love how often you see Michael Moorecocks name popping up.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I ask myself the same thing almost everyday and then that one really cool thing comes along. Yep pretty much mental gambling in the same way other social media is. I got rid of all of that, HN is my last hold out for now.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
That is the big question with LLM's. How can we tell what is being fed in is original content or just the output fed back in like a recursive fractal?
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by VelesDude 2y ago
When you see numbers it does make you wonder if the premise the Subprime Attention Crisis (Tim Hwang) is much more realistic than we think. But when you think about the amount of industries advertising covers, it might still be tame. Hard
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Yeah, some poor phrasing on my behalf. I do hope that those working in these companies actually building the tools do care. But unfortunately, it seems that corruption is an emergent property of complexity.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
If there is any dishonesty, I would wager it is a case of it can double the battery life in low power scenarios. Can go twice as long when doing word processing for instance. Can potentially idle a lot lower
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I think it was Paul Thurrott on Windows Weekly podcast who said that all these companies don't really care about privacy. Apple takes billions of dollar a year to direct data towards Google via the search defaults. Clearly privacy has
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by VelesDude 2y ago
* rolls up newspaper * * bops on nose * No! Bad dad joke! Don't do that!
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This is why there are SO many translations of the Tao Te Ching. Some are very mechanical, others miss the point entirely. And then there are those one where it is almost like Poetry, they went beyond just the immediately presented content.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Not surprised at all. Even if it did not start with this intention, one has to suspect that with enough time it will become compromised. About the only way to even vaguely keep your email private is to use a self hosted server with GPG keys
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by VelesDude 2y ago
1 maybe 2KB of storage for the IP addresses of an individual for a year. Of course they are doing it even if accidentally.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
> Privacy does not protect you from the state. Privacy is good enough to protect you from the public. While I get what you are saying, that is a little too black and white for the entire field. Privacy can be used to shield whistle blowe
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Pretty much. While it is mandated here, there is nothing stopping others form doing the same. On my end it is just a manner of optics. The money being put aside, I never see week to week thus it just seems like an added bonus even though it
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This is one of those areas the Australian government has done ok in. Mandatory superannuation retirement funds. 11% (?) of all pay goes into this fund to be invested. Thus you can pay off the house and have an investment fund at the same ti
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I managed to escape, but like a cult it also meant leaving behind a lot of folks that wouldn't come with me.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
The age old question, "Who will watch the watchmen?"
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by VelesDude 2y ago
I really appreciate works like Death of Stalin that are more than happy to move things around in the name of entertainment. It isn't a documentary so it has the freedom to get creative and hit the key notes rather than pure accuracy. T
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by VelesDude 2y ago
When I see things like this I am always amazed at how we manage to squander our potential. When I see the best in people and then see the silly loops and squiggles we get ourselves into it is like playing Chopsticks on Mozart's piano.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Never liked Eric, but Google had such a clear direction and vision under his leadership. Pichai, feels like the accountants are running the business. It is ONLY about the next quarters results.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
Even Bill Gates has admitted that a big part of their success was just sheer luck. There were many competitors that were pushing far better technology than they had but simply could not get a foot hold in the market. Just the other day on h
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by VelesDude 2y ago
This should be the perfect forum to ask this question considering the whole mission of Y combinator.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
> He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the Internet He and his orbiters have done real an irreparable harm to the ecosystem by pushing such intense compute systems unthinkingly.
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by VelesDude 2y ago
He used violence to get attention on the ideas. What this did was stifled his goals by decades all for his own selfish gains. Did more damage than good by his own definition of success.

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