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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
I hope people give up on this 1950's-era mythological obsession with trying to realize a cartoon's flying saucer pods because of the potential for energy waste/climate change, public hazards and property damage.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Facebook's accumulation of a pattern of making major, surprise changes that are mostly about benefiting money-making, directly or indirectly. Super popular but seemingly more and more terrible as time goes on.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
I tried FB in early ~2000's because I had a @stanford email, but after a coworker's wife started tagging people and editorializing randomly, it was clearly more of a liability than value. I had emptied details and most content but
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Definitely. I also came across that video via a shout-out from Forgotten Weapons: https://youtu.be/EUxxLZz_2NU I hope Dr. Richard Wolff interviews Youtube Union and IG Metall, because it's in his wheelhouse of workers
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Yeap. Emperor's new clothes / Not Invented Here / reinventing the wheel / new is "better" than old - churn / kitchen-sink design-by-committee ( cough OpenSSL cough ). This happens more and more. Instead
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Renault-Nissan (Motor)-Mitsubishi merger with Fiat-Chrysler will create a megacorp or "alliance" with almost all terrible vehicles. ^- Something I hope Scotty Kilmer might say https://www.youtube.com/scottykilmer
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Could've used this 30 years ago when I was forcibly-bused across town to a "magnet" school 1.5 hours in each direction (3 hours of busing total). Getting up a 4:45 am and not getting home until after 6 pm as a pre-teen sucked
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Ask HN: What do you think of not-engineered-to-last products?
2 points by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago|2 comments
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Certainly, there's too much magical thinking, but what the heck is "hypersane?" Is it an absence of conspiracy theories, foolish beliefs, and word-salad? Maybe giving too much attention to the histrionic, the unreasonable and
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
San Jose native. It hasn't been for many years. Have you ever been to the south-side of Chicago, Detroit or Baltimore? Those are violent cities. San Jose isn't.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
FUZZ 5 0
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
I would find a better (defensible) business model that's better than a restaurant that anyone can open. ER's have zero intellectual property and anyone can start such a business for little investment. Do something else (hard/
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
My 2 cent manifesto: Manufactured insecurities mutually-reinforced by peer pressure ("Keeping up with the Jones") is often why. Don't do what you don't want to do; don't be pressured into lemmingification. Everyone
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
I'd like Xfinity unlimited 1 Gbps ISP/unlimited landline/260 channels + Hulu + HBO + Netflix + Amazon Prime + Youtube Red + Spotify for one order of magnitude more. That I could get behind.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
What should be nearly free and ubiquitous is obscenely extorted. Welcome to underprotected vulture cannibal vampire capitali$m with a Verizon lawyer heading the FCC.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
What's interesting is that the absolute error converges to ~0.5399705049968784% (or a floating-point type or constant imprecision were introduced).
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Smdh. The "paper" author may be a fossil fuel shill, crazy person and/or attention-seeker. It's too bad we essentially need a climate change "snopes" to debunk Cato-style nonsense, but I'm infinitely glad
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
On the post, if Linus is referring to low-end Xeon and workstation non-Xeon lacking ECC, I think it's completely idiotic. Nearly all infrastructure should be baking in ECC as standard rather than some "option" to not have sil
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
I wouldn't read it as a false-dichotomy us/them conclusion, but to the literal facts: Philipines, DRC, US, many countries in Europe are becoming hyperpolarized.. with the intent and aggression being laid down, the only difference
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Yeap. The world is flattening as many countries end their brief (and ever briefer) socioeconomic growth. Happenings in one place become not a first-/third-world disparity, but a near-universal condition. InfoWars hate-radio sparking wh
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
There's a lot of homeless people who can't work as-is; the disabled, unsocialized and mentally ill need support and minor accommodations to try to work and to keep it. Some have substance-abuse issues, but not all. There maybe hyg
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Exactly. This 10^32 times. It's affluenza, "victimhood"-exploiting, pseudo-disability BS. My elderly and frail grandparents never had a disability placard, yet their neighbors had one for at least 30 years without a real disa
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Harkens back to the 90's dot-com era. Good for the customers while it lasts, I guess, but not good overall.
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
This reminds me of a (possibly unrelated) incident involving a C-130A that broke up in flight while serving as a fire-fighter water-bomber. It turns out the original material 7075-T6 wore too quickly and should've been the revised mate
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Oh, the days of the ASCII Code page 437 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Codepage...
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
One or more US federal agencies place innocent people who happen to work in a sensitive industry on one or more types of watch list that they scrape associated metadata and facial recognition to detect an association with suspicious people&
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Terrible nutrition though, most def not how to run your body optimally. Freeganing can save you bank. Hit up the nicer grocery stores: Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Lunardi's, Nob Hill. Find out their schedules for throwing away perfectly
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
Amazon's :CueCat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat https://hackaday.com/tag/dash-button/
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
The IBM 23FD (read-only) was released for the System 370 in 1971. The first read-write floppy drive, Memorex 650, was available in 1972. https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1968/
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by dfeojm-zlib 7y ago
It would only cost about as much as the futile wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to implement Be/CCS solutions at scale to reduce CO2 to pre-industrial levels (280 ppm). The key is sequestration because without that, like the recent virtue-

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