jambalaya8

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by jambalaya8 21d ago
well, glad someone finally figured out how to measure human suffering.
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by jambalaya8 21d ago
sure but they were picked because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. but who knows maybe that was Germany bombing us or them and we just were ignorant.
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by jambalaya8 21d ago
to be fair a link from september 2014 (almost twelve years ago) about things that occurred in 1945 (almost (relatively) a century ago), in the brains of people that were not even alive yet, and even if they were, unable to process the event
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by jambalaya8 21d ago
actually my comment was not really about how america waited to get involved in ww2, then finally did, back almost a hunded years ago (that is, this is not a veiled reference to some other time or place); it was about the USA's quest fo
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by jambalaya8 21d ago
cool. as long as we are clear people are free to commit mass genocide and i dunno peel peoples' skin back or i dunno, something out of a robin wiliams scifi movie or phosphorus bombing or something with what you have invented. just tr
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by jambalaya8 21d ago
Eh the dude who played Minecraft that named himself after that one Doctorow story couldn't even survive the first year of COVID.
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
All due respect, but how would anyone survive, no less find a way to make anything like the average income of any of us on HN, in a world that made not just some 'patents' free but removed property and invention such as the extrem
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
This needs a joke about unbelievable denseness.
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
So said every ponzi schemer in history.
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
sorta trenchant problem for big AI
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
Most of these jobs were already essentially taken away by outsourcing. It is so disturbing that countries like Australia only offer work visas for jobs that are difficult to fill, and only in certain locations as needed, but America actuall
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by jambalaya8 22d ago
Super psyched for the upcoming Mac Mini. Maybe the old NUC can be tossed.
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
Of all of the side effects, the top-down worst problem will be the effects on phytoplanktons, and how that will affect the marine, and thus terrestrial, food chain.
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
Yes it sucks. Much worse in Central America than Asia, apparently (many places will let you use the bathroom but they aren't very clean and many lack toilet paper or soap). Most of (non-EU, anyway) Europe is more kind about using facil
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
Seen and heard of chimera but only witnessed other people running it. It's a little too arcane for my tastes. Pity you abandoned Windows before even winsock/trumpet came out.
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Characterizing the spiral: potential mechanisms in AI-associated delusions(nature.com)
5 points by jambalaya8 23d ago|0 comments
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
A lot of places also don't really like icloud addresses in general. This is one of Apple's better offerings though.
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
I mean, workarounds wouldn't be hard, just annoying, anyway. Like an extra step or two (take a screenshot, change the image format, wipe the metadata; or print, take photo with camera, clean up in something like gimp, same other steps)
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
I would have called BS on that before but I think now I would just call BS on the part where it was people like Bezos or whatever. It seems there is a neverending number of people who would do the same. Look at the stories about the sunflow
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
that sort of crappy movie with Matt Damon and Jodie Foster that is supposedly dystopian but far more utopian than the reality would be. wonder if the overlords will allow meat or only gruel or bug bars like that Bong Ho movie to the survivo
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
I mean, why not BeOS, GNU Hurd, or ... etc. There wasn't much software for any of those things (and you would have had to be a pretty exotic sort of software pirate or know some hobbyists or be in an academic setting to afford them if
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by jambalaya8 23d ago
It isn't wasted time if you learn something, though, is it? To be fair, as a hobbyist I only ever really experimented as far as I could afford if the hardware broke, and anything too experimental I kept the only version of any data off
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by jambalaya8 24d ago
yes, but x64 requirement made the sorta standard low-end laptop ram amount of 2-4 gigabytes of sdram suddenly a "new minimum" of 4-8 gigabytes of sdram, even for linux, unless you optimize, and even then you kind of need 4gb.
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by jambalaya8 24d ago
movie almost puts me to sleep every time.
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by jambalaya8 24d ago
What were you risking if you were just a hobbyist? Sincere question.
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by jambalaya8 24d ago
I mean there was always Minix! Minix was available on floppies long before most people started running linux. Because it existed several years before linux. There was also SCO Unix.
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by jambalaya8 24d ago
I can't imagine this can ever happen. Humans have not even figured out how to allow people to always eat when they own their own land. I mean, it is totally possible one day we will just all upload a copy of our consciousnesses into cl
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by jambalaya8 25d ago
Or gentoo. Gentoo was pretty good around then, great to hack around with.
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by jambalaya8 25d ago
Yeah, NetBSD definitely had Sparc compatibility. I wonder how many OpenSolaris and NetBSD machines on old Sparc hardware are still on the internet (like ones that aren't doing it just to say they are). The base install _was_ useful. Ca
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by jambalaya8 25d ago
I was a fan of FreeBSD over NetBSD; far more driver compatibility in the 1990s. It was nice to play with. Way too hard to use for much (well, online) now, due to the shrinking number of software packages (eg browsers) these days. I still re

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