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by flopunctro 1y ago
This comment reminded me, with a smile, of Scott Alexander's Unsong: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/unsong-available-in-paperba...
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by flopunctro 4y ago
> you'd have to decide when to stop binge-watching, because the show would always go on. I would argue that this is already the case. I'd hazard a guess that almost any concept one is interested in, that can be synthesized in a
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by flopunctro 4y ago
No. Please don't do that. It's called Pick-Up Artistry, and it is toxic. You will benefit more if you try to be a considerate human being, and not treat women like prizes, or prey to be captured. This way, you actually have a chan
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by flopunctro 5y ago
> your standard of living largely comes from people who step out of that comfort zone, work hard and take economic risk Citation needed for the above. Maybe their standard of living largely comes from the high taxes imposed on the rich.
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by flopunctro 6y ago
I haven't done any research, but my set of anecdata (3 Internet providers from Romania, 2 national and one regional) says that providers do have ways of bypassing their router at Layer3. These ways are not advertised, sometimes not eve
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by flopunctro 6y ago
IMAP is not an email provider, it's just another protocol for reading your mail. It is the successor of POP3, having several key improvements. Somewhat like HTTP2 is to HTTP. If both your email provider and your client (aka mail readin
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by flopunctro 6y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for explaining :) Gary's response was obviously tongue-in-cheek, even somewhat flippant. My comment wasn't trying to be ironic, though I now see that it could be interpreted so.
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by flopunctro 6y ago
Okay, I admit my comment was a bit rushed, and I apologize for that. It's not tongue-in-cheek, and I don't feel that I'm rationalizing things (but then, I guess I wouldn't feel it even if I were). I was trying to view th
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by flopunctro 6y ago
No idea who's Gary Johnson. I'm just a guy from Eastern Europe, watching too much Isaac Arthur.
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by flopunctro 6y ago
> effectively closed system of Earth. All the plants, algae, and everything with chlorophyll would beg to differ. I really think we cannot consider Earth a closed system, because we're not a rogue planet in the insterstellar void. O
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by flopunctro 6y ago
In the grand scheme, the "tons" (or rather, gigajoules) of energy wasted by the Proof-of-Work are nothing. The Sun radiation that hits Earth every second dwarfs this consumption. Also, one of the definitions of life is "a loc
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by flopunctro 6y ago
> I wish I was happy. IMHO, this is a mistake, if not _the_ mistake. I feel like i've been in your shoes, in a past life. I've come to believe that happiness is like the horizon, or the sunset. It's a fuzzy concept, which
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by flopunctro 6y ago
Looking at a clock from Earth through a telescope isn't as straightforward as you'd think. The image you see of that clock is actually light (photons) emitted from Earth, which will take a while to reach you - like, 1 year, if you
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by flopunctro 6y ago
AFAIK, there is no canonical time in relativity. There is the "local time", which is what your wristwatch shows, and the "time in place X", where X can be Earth, Mars, or some spaceship. These times might not be in sync,
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by flopunctro 7y ago
> a slight push in the direction of the sun That's not how orbital dynamics work; a slight push in any direction won't change the orbit enough for that thing to not be a problem anymore. To make something fall into the sun, one
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by flopunctro 7y ago
Heads up, the winamp 2.95 download from www.oldversion.com triggers a malware alert from Windows Defender. Another red flag is that the download is via regular HTTP, not HTTPS. So I'd recommend avoiding oldversion.com.
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by flopunctro 7y ago
I don't think it helped him (Tim of WbW) either. I don't think it was even supposed to help; reading his writings, I never had the feeling he was offering a solution -- rather, he was fascinated by the phenomenon, and was doing a
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by flopunctro 7y ago
Unless it's something that was mined there, like Helium-3 or some other mineral resource that we may find it's cheaper to extract from the moon.
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by flopunctro 8y ago
The less-obvious difference between Mars and "anywhere on Earth" is that no amount of environmental (even tectonic) damage done on Earth is going to affect Mars. I'm not arguing that Mars is orders of magnitude harder than Ne
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by flopunctro 9y ago
Surprised nobody mentioned Dennis Taylor's Bobiverse. While it's a bit on the light side / vacation read (novels aren't very long, the storyline isn't complex), the author is a programmer, the series' universe
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by flopunctro 9y ago
Though i wouldn't call it "hard scifi", the Culture series is indeed a classic and i second the recommendation.
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by flopunctro 9y ago
Some enterprise-grade server platforms already have this functionality, it's called a "watchdog". Linux supports this since (at least) 2.4. I've been using this with HP ProLiant servers and (for me, at least) it has alwa
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by flopunctro 13y ago
> Companies that offer this service You can't possibly trust any company with this kind of service. This is something you need to [learn how to] build yourself. The concept of "deadman's switch" has an implicit compon
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by flopunctro 13y ago
Power over who? If you as an elite kill your subjects, who will provide for your needs? Who will work the fields that provide your food, who will repair your cars and house automations, who will mow your lawn? We're still far from a su
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by flopunctro 13y ago
You can't "turn off" that bunker, it has multiple diesel generators and lots of fuel reserves. It also has clean water reserves and air filtering capabilities, so you can't gas the people inside. Physically cutting its uplink lines would be
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by flopunctro 14y ago
I believe there is at least one case of compromise where a trusted liveCD will not help: a hardware keylogger connected on the keyboard circuit. (I think i saw this in some movie, and I liked the idea very much). So even if your kernel is t
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by flopunctro 15y ago
The "spam" and "ham" IMAP folders correspond to a certain file or folder(1) on the server. Email users have the learning commands in crontab. These are as simple as "sa-learn --spam /path/to/spam_folder; sa-learn --ham /path/to/ham_folder".
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by flopunctro 16y ago
A private switchboard sounds complex, but it can be a single Asterisk server with 2 phone lines connected to it. Dial in, optionally identify with PIN, type the number you want to call, Asterisk calls it for you, then connects your line wit