astrodust

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by astrodust 2y ago
Who knew utterly destroying cities and replacing them with gated communities with no accommodations for children whatsoever, and borderline criminalizing any activity which isn't closely supervised would have knock-on effects.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Change is bad because change can be catastrophically expensive. Civilizations don't die because they couldn't adapt, it's because they couldn't afford the cost of adapting, or because their entire society was predicated
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by astrodust 2y ago
Unless there's an infinite number of programs of finite size, which sounds impossible, then no.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Every day the costs of prevention go up, and the costs of mitigation get even higher. With politics in the equation, it's better to kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with it than to shoulder the cost now and save the
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by astrodust 2y ago
I thought they'd just keep kicking the can down the road until 2038 when all cookies "mysteriously" stop working.
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by astrodust 2y ago
They've been actively under attack for over a decade now. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sad_Puppies We can't have nice things.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Where have you been for 15 years?
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's not their job to maintain it unless that was specified somehow in advance.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Cloud to Clown substitution plugin?
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's a favourite of mine because the robots are almost all real , which is completely nuts. Today these would all be crappy CGI.
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by astrodust 2y ago
The idea that you could hook several X terminals up to a modest system like a SPARCstation and share it was kind of amazing. Even mid-range workstations were insanely expensive back then. (May have played an inordinate amount of Netrek on t
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by astrodust 2y ago
Hopefully not paper.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Was it private equity? (Yes, it was private equity)
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by astrodust 2y ago
I mean you can look at the comments and check the vibe.
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by astrodust 2y ago
"We can have the strongest military in the world and have them largely based in the US." Sure, if you want a really strong Coast Guard. As soon as you venture out of that little bubble you're going to need ports, air-bases, a
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by astrodust 2y ago
"Nitrous oxide best oxide." -- Dominic Toretto
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by astrodust 2y ago
That's an i9 chip without proper cooling.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Restaurants used to be prohibitively expensive, and rent was cheap. Now it's the opposite.
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by astrodust 2y ago
Einstein wasn't even the best Einstein, that was that Super Dave Osborne! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dave_Osborne
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by astrodust 2y ago
Before they could, theoretically, just roll past, but now Finland will be compelled to join due to Article 5. Not that they'd need much compelling.
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by astrodust 2y ago
They'll have to fight their way through Finland which has a history of not working out for them.
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by astrodust 2y ago
They're certainly focusing on a more sophisticated market, especially in the corporate space.
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by astrodust 2y ago
At some point I wonder if Apple might share compute across your devices so you can do things on low-power hardware like the Watch while leveraging the CPU on the phone, etc. If Apple's dedicated to on-device compute, this ends up being
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by astrodust 2y ago
It's good to see that 1Password is staying several steps ahead here to avoid being "Sherlocked" by Apple. The new SSH key manager feature is an example of something Apple's unlikely to address for years, if ever. https:
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by astrodust 2y ago
If only they still made Heritage Minutes .
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by astrodust 2y ago
Free!* * User assumes all liability for use as these are almost exclusively registered trademarks.
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by astrodust 2y ago
The Canadian Venture Exchange was absolute anarchy, and that was compared to the already lax Toronto exchange that had been chock full of sketchy mining stocks, the poster child of which was Bre-X. Which of course was from Calgary. https:&
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by astrodust 2y ago
You need problems to solve , but most importantly, problems that are highly relevant to you and your interests so you won't give up easily if they become unexpectedly difficult. You'll be forced to learn new approaches, new too
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by astrodust 2y ago
Back before documentation became available online, the technical books section at this store was perhaps the largest repository of technical documentation available in town. The selection was in a part of the store bigger than most mall boo
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by astrodust 2y ago
Windows 12: Farewell Tour

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