Zoo3y

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by Zoo3y 16d ago
Asimov's laws of robotics and Herbert's Dune foreshadowed the troubles we are facing now and have been largely ignored. It appears fiction does nothing to guide us when it comes to technology; no matter how prescient or widely rea
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by Zoo3y 20d ago
Crimes of the Future also had people eating plastic bricks
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by Zoo3y 2mo ago
Interesting concept. I would like to read this in an epub file outside of amazon if you're willing to accept outside payment.
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by Zoo3y 3mo ago
A local-first, obsidian-inspired Grimoire that writes its own md files https://grimnotes.lovable.app/
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by Zoo3y 4mo ago
>after writing all this, I think these categories are a lot more about "what got you into this" rather than what you actually end up doing in this space. >Nevertheless, my point here was to show a few of the ideas and direct
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by Zoo3y 8mo ago
My simple blog where I share writings and book quotes. https://www.twinsandthecrab.com/p/homepage.html
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by Zoo3y 11mo ago
Appreciate the author mentioning Thoreau. I would also include Bertrand Russell who wrote "The Conquest of Happiness". Highly recommended read. I made a blog post of my favorite excerpt: https://www.twinsandthecrab.com&
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by Zoo3y 3y ago
Agreed, it's possible to still like programming as a hobby despite its commodification in the larger scheme of things. Ycombinator in a nutshell.
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by Zoo3y 3y ago
Dissent from who, Mastodon? Brother, Mastodon the entity cannot intervene by design. Different admins run each instance and they decide who is excluded. This doesn't go against federated system; it's the system at work.
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by Zoo3y 4y ago
You don't sound lost, but you do sound bored. Dive into a non work related hobby. If I was rich and married I'd do as much as I can to learn, teach, and collect art. None of us would be able to tell you what is important to you.
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by Zoo3y 4y ago
Cities:Skylines is the one. I really love the transport systems it has. Mods take it to the next level https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yITr127KZtQ
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by Zoo3y 4y ago
I've been using the same cloud gpu service as well for about 2 months. It's able to run on Manjaro installed through snap. The service picks up input pretty well, including audio from your mic, but like the author said it will dep
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
seconding this. sustainable power and minimal, human-centric tech is the future.
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
and perhaps more frustrating to smart people looking to do good realize they are just one person. Huge, structural changes to society involve everyone.
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (who also wrote Siddhartha) deals directly with a scholar who struggles with human interaction until he falls for a mysterious woman in a jazz bar. The first half of the book details internal suffering and can be
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
>And finally there’s the claim that crypto assets are like art. Essentially Satoshi’s whitepaper is a piece of performance art split into 21 million pieces as a parody of hypercapitalism or to make a political statement about anarcho-cap
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
Twitch put it succinctly here: >Prohibiting every form of content that could be interpreted as suggestive would also result in far more restrictions on the video games and premium content that we currently allow, especially considering t
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
https://memberstack.webflow.io/
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by Zoo3y 5y ago
>Kunshan police found and destroyed 17 cheats and arrested 10 people in connection with the ring. How do they destroy cheats?
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by Zoo3y 6y ago
Most of the points they elaborated on are People problems, not Mastodon problems. The genuine critiques of Mastodon they listed are migration issues, updating posts (it makes sense 'edited' posts lose their clout), and character l
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by Zoo3y 6y ago
>I think they're just trying to be the trendsetters so they can have the most control of it when decentralized social networks take off. Nope. Dorsey has stated he wants twitter to be a client of an open standard https://
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by Zoo3y 6y ago
Imagine for a second these comments but for an article praising productivity while working from home.
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by Zoo3y 6y ago
The error here is comparing an upper middle class life of a software developer to that of banks and tech billionaires. You mentioned you have relatively high income, so aren't you and your family's needs met? Everyone wants to ret
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by Zoo3y 6y ago
How to find new music. The blog linked has good resources, and the HN comments have even more. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22194107
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Ask HN: Switching Skillset as a Developer
9 points by Zoo3y 7y ago|3 comments
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by Zoo3y 7y ago
Many of my friends use Twitter and we regularly comment on and retweet each other's tweets. I've recently been added to a Mastodon group which feels much more tight-knit. I've been playing dota 2 for the past few years and I
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by Zoo3y 7y ago
Would you happen to live somewhere in Europe?
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by Zoo3y 7y ago
Further in the article they mentioned telescopes have to be placed certain distances apart to calculate differences in radio wave arrival by billionths of a second. These differences gives them granular placement within the galaxy (I'm
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by Zoo3y 7y ago
The missing information here is how much of this currency will belong to facebook, and to each constituent. No matter how many orgs are added to the coalition, if facebook owns 50% of the coin then it's all a sham.
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NYTimes calls Russian election interference 'hacking' [pdf](static01.nyt.com)
3 points by Zoo3y 7y ago|1 comments

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