cyberdrunk

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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
A fine read indeed. This quote in particular resonated: "Many who have ''plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like de
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Successful people are very often full of shit - since perception is hugely important in any human endeavor, the people who have attained success must have mastered bullshitting (incl. faking confidence) along the way. Then, like any other l
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> This is what happened with the United States hundreds of years ago. United States started with a bloody revolution in order to secede from Britain. To get some territory for your country, you'd either need a revolution in an exist
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Others would take the USPS as proof that a strongman president can switch such services on and off at a whim, for political reasons. When was it done?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
The State owns USPS and it's not so bad. Before phones were introduced, it was the main channel of communication.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> There's not much knowledge about "what it was like to work for Sun 15 years ago." Based on these stories, the tech companies from 1990s and before seemed much more fun than career-focused environments of FAANGs today...
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> Staying for years around an area that gets "only a month" of excessive PM2.5 particles and smoke is unwise and you will soon become someone with an existing respiratory condition. I live in a city which has a serious smog pro
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In general, all environmental problems that people create stem from using technology - i.e. without technology (starting with the most basic ones, e.g. mastering fire), we are harmless enough to not be able to do any damage. So far, the mor
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I can do as a CS engineer to help solve the big problems of our time, such as climate change So far, technology has only created environmental problems. I don't think environmental problems created by technology can be solved with
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
In Poland, the rule is that basically if you and sibilings can afford to pay for the nursing home of your parent, there is no state assistance. The state only kicks in if the family is too poor to cover the costs. The rationale behind it be
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Propaganda is just old-school name for PR. All large organizations do PR (or propaganda).
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
It's just someone's prediction. Could be true, could be false. Maybe the singularity will happen in 10 years, maybe in 10000 years, or maybe it's actually impossible for us humans to accomplish.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> We happened to be born 99% of the way from the beginning of humankind to the end of death, but we just barely missed it. Ekhm, citation needed?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Presumably you could also do a lot of embedded software work that solves similar problems as controls?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I wonder if it's possible to take a cheap Android phone and turn it into a desktop? I.e. connect keyboard, mouse, external monitor, install Linux with X?
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Please don't do this. We don't need Twitter any worse than it is already.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Being seen as pariah/weirdo in an environment you spend 40+ hours per week in does not like the best working arrangement...
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> What I have done is transition to an area in which my skills can be used to make money for me and others. Money is both good and bad. Thee bad part is that it attracts a ton of unsavory personalities, who will do anything to get ahead.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I legit font get where most of the purported US wealth is concentrated, most US cities are dilapidated Isn't this because US cities (esp. the dilapidated ones) are in big part storage for the poor, and the middle class lives in su
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
I suspect that all sufficiently complex fields are extremely susceptible to fads, egos and cliques. It's the worst in humanities, since they deal with hopelessly complex subjects (i.e. humans), but even science can commonly become like
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
What about the stories of tenured professors being essentially managers and grant-chasers for their unit? Doesn't sound low-stress to me.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Even if it isn't, old games eventually just stop running as Microsoft releases newer versions of Windows. So, even "owning" the install files is not a long-term solution. I think we should accept the fact that video games are
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> What is fragile? We have had specialized roles for the entire history of society and it hasn't caused anything to crumble. I'm not a historian but I can imagine that a medieval specialist, such as for example blacksmith, coul
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
It's missing the bit where he explains that doing good work is in many fields (in precisely the ones that people are attracted to) is not enough to sustain yourself. You need to be super good or be lucky, have connections or some other
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Even 386 was absolutely crushing A1200 in some respects. In Amigas, you had to set every bit of a pixel separately, which didn't hurt for 2D games with static art assets (which you just copied from memory onto the screen), but it was a
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
My impression of FOSS is that it's very heavy on total rewrites, as that is what attracts engineers. So, you end up with a lot of underbaked variants of the same thing.
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> I would love to see analysis under which Stalin was intellectual The Wikipedia article conflates intelligentsia with intellectuals, which I don't agree with (I'm Polish, so I have some long-ingrained intuitions regarding thos
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
Intelligentsia does not mean "educated people". For example, capitalists or the tzar's family were not part of Inteligentsia. A lof of the military officers weren't either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
It really depends on what you compare with. Before the spread of public education, people were commonly believing in magic, witches and, based on that, could be sold on all sorts of non-sequiturs. Now, they're more or less aware of the
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by cyberdrunk 6y ago
> The revolution did came from people who were able to read and write, obviously, it is kinda hard to coordinate without that. The did much more than coordination. The intelligentsia was basically 100% responsible for the revolution in e

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