dreamlayers

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by dreamlayers 2mo ago
Why isn't Wayland better than X11?
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by dreamlayers 4mo ago
I find this subject frustrating. People actually know very little about it, yet they end up telling and debating complex stories about it.
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by dreamlayers 4mo ago
To me, the hard problem of consciousness is the link between observable physical activity of matter in the brain, and conscious experience. Science has found correlations between brain activity and experiences. But nothing is known about a
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by dreamlayers 4mo ago
I cannot imagine why someone would like Windows 9x enough to use it, let alone develop something so complicated for it.
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by dreamlayers 5mo ago
I view World War 2 as Nazis harnessing discontent in Germany to motivate Germans to fight a war. So, the main risk I see is discontent building up again. What about people who can't have a good future because of the industrial decline
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by dreamlayers 5mo ago
As long as we don't understand how consciousness works, I don't think it's possible to make claims about what is or isn't conscious. It's all just speculation. But if others are speculating, I might as well. What if
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by dreamlayers 5mo ago
How is this possible? Are phones willing to connect to any cell and blindly trust that text messages from there are genuine and really coming from the numbers they claim to be coming from? Isn't there some cryptographic verification?
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by dreamlayers 5mo ago
What is new here? I thought corona discharges during storms had already been well known for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire
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by dreamlayers 5mo ago
The biggest problem is that Canada shares a long land border with the US but is isolated by oceans from other countries. Having alternatives is good, but conflict with the US is dangerous. The US could do a huge amount of damage just by blo
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by dreamlayers 11mo ago
Maybe motivation needs to be considered separately from intelligence. Pure intelligence is more like a tool. Something needs to motivate use of that tool toward a specific purpose. In humans, motivation seems related to emotions. I'm n
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
Being accessible over the internet from a country can't be the same as having a physical presence there. Otherwise, anyone putting any content on the internet needs to comply with the laws of every single country.
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
How is one country able to fine businesses in other countries? What legal authority or ability do they have to do anything?
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
The real problem is that society teaches people to suppress negative emotions. Then someone can harness those suppressed emotions and focus them on something.
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
If you want a custom resolution in Linux drm.edid_firmware= works well with the right EDID. For me, the worst things about the Linux graphical console are lack of scrollback and horrible performance. Linux still has scrollback in VGA text m
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
What's the point of taking your own highly detailed photos of the moon? You can find much higher resolution images elsewhere. I usually only want to take a photo of the moon as part of a moonlit scene.
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
It is about accomplishment, but about accomplishing what is truly meaningful to you and what makes you happy.
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
It seems like there is a continuum between being oblivious and delusional. You need to notice things, recognize their meaning, make connections and then make conclusions. Being oblivious can mean missing important signs and making bad choic
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
I think there is a fundamental difference between such social phenomena and the seemingly solitary delusions that happen in recognized mental illness such as schizophrenia.
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by dreamlayers 1y ago
This is a good article, but I dislike how the start defines delusions as "fixed, false beliefs that cannot be changed by evidence". Many delusions seem wrong to others without any solid evidence that can conclusively prove that th
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by dreamlayers 2y ago
I don't think apps running in a web browser are very efficient. Calling something like that "ultra-fast" doesn't seem right.
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by dreamlayers 3y ago
I think a big part of the problem is use of cool white LED lights, which produce more light on the blue part of the spectrum. That light scatters more in the atmosphere, like how the sky is blue during the day. Around here, the LED lights d
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by dreamlayers 3y ago
I see no evidence that the amazing increase in data transfer rates has increased people's happiness. That is because happiness is a measure of something else, more like how well you're using the opportunities available at the time
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by dreamlayers 3y ago
So, how do they lubricate it?
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by dreamlayers 4y ago
I'm not convinced that destroying the flash chip makes it more secure. Erasing the chip should be secure and fast enough. Damaging it with overvoltage might leave the data recoverable.
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
It's small, does the job I need, it can be made to look good, and extended via plugins. What else do I need? VLC seems like overkill for music.
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
Winamp is highly modular. Most functionality is in plugins, and you could only install the plugins you want. For example you could exclude the media library, modern skins, and video playback. So, 5.x doesn't have to be bloated.
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
It is possible to make a knife out of lignum vitae: https://www.solidsmack.com/fabrication/lignum-vitae-ironwood... So I guess the achievement here is that commonly available inexpensive wood can be made as hard as rar
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
Why wouldn't the power supply shut down due to overcurrent protection?
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
I'm guessing that some virus signatures detect packers instead of unpacking the code and detecting malware code there.
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by dreamlayers 5y ago
Lossless JPEG transcoding making images 20% smaller is nice, though you can already losslessly shrink many JPEG files by up to 10% by using https://github.com/tjko/jpegoptim/ and making them interlaced.

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