jcynix

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by jcynix 17d ago
As described in Edward Tenners classic book "Why Things Bite Back. Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences", 1996 (oldie but goldie)
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by jcynix 17d ago
Oh, yes, geoengineering, because nothing can go wrong … Please read the classic book by Edward Tenner: Why Things Bite Back. Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, 1996 (oldie but goldie and must read for people who think te
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by jcynix 2mo ago
I've seen people (non IT) do similar things (i.e. develop small applications) with Excel. I created my bibliographic database with HyperCard. And I still miss it. HyperCard's attractiveness was the easy UI creation. FileMaker was
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by jcynix 2mo ago
Hmm, that gives me an idea: dithering (of generally "mogrifying") my images might make them less palatable for those pesky AIs roaming my web server …
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by jcynix 2mo ago
How about Cormac McCarthy?
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by jcynix 2mo ago
StreetComplete is cool, fun and useful, yes. And there is its companion app StreetMeasure which makes it easy to add measurements like the width of a narrow street, for example.
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by jcynix 2mo ago
Fascinating! Now I need to check if there are "dog resitant" examples, because our juvenile Border Collie surely will shred most materials rather fast …
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by jcynix 3mo ago
I can sympathise with you, but how could a "quantum" effect" doesn't make this easier? Maybe "Turing machine" is too abstract or simplistic as a concept? Both for real computers and brains? I can see that a com
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by jcynix 3mo ago
Quantum field effects? You don't need these, IMHO, if you look at how highly parallel things seem to work in brains. Marvin Minsky's theory of a "Society of Mind" describes a (highly) distributed model of the mind. Which
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by jcynix 4mo ago
> Currently reading a web novel called The Years of Apocalypse. Thanks for mentioning it. I'm now at Chapter 7 of it and it seems to be a well written story. Still need to arrive at the "time loop" moment ...
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by jcynix 4mo ago
> Your coffee mug isn't naturally brown and warm: it is a cloud of atoms made of 99.9999% empty space, with no color, no texture, and no intrinsic smell. A tiger too is "just a cloud of atoms" but nevertheless I wouldn&#x2
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by jcynix 4mo ago
Hmm, the review makes me rather curious. While in the movies "Groundhog Day" and "12:01 P.M." the protagonists awake at the same place and time each day. How do these book explain that the protagonist(s) can relocate to
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by jcynix 4mo ago
Various apps for (primarily) photographers offer views of the sun's (and moon's) path, even with live view through the camera. For example https://www.sunsurveyor.com/ or https://www.photopills.com&#x2F
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by jcynix 4mo ago
But both i.e. and e.g. might be more easily understood by non-native speakers of English (IMHO ;-)
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by jcynix 4mo ago
> But I find it a little extreme to say "it's faster to build your own than to install an existing alternative". Installing an existing alternative might be easy ... once you found the one which best (i.e. mostly) matches
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by jcynix 4mo ago
Not just deer, but a number of insects will thank you for your generosity. And you will have to learn when and how to fight them in order to get a decent harvest.
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by jcynix 5mo ago
NAC taken before consuming alcohol has a positive effect apparently, but taken afterwards it's detrimental as mentioned here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine
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by jcynix 5mo ago
You'll find a detailed description oft potential effects and uses here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylcysteine (aka NAC)
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by jcynix 5mo ago
> Didn't git pioneer this sub-command style? No, various other tools used it before git, e.g. openssl.
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by jcynix 6mo ago
Try Peter Cawdron's book "The Anatomy of Courage" which is a sci-fi retelling of a ww1 report. Here's a revview: https://www.zeppjamiesonfiction.com/a-remarque-able-read-a-r...
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by jcynix 6mo ago
Nice, and I like the idea that the past is fixed, but ... is there a way to define the point of rollover to the next day? My "days" sometimes end at 0:50 for example and not at 23:59. So I might summarize the day a bit after midni
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by jcynix 6mo ago
ImageMagick is a wonderful command line tool, IMO. You could use it to extract various information, e.g. the 5 most used colors of an image, as in convert $IMG -colors 5 -depth 8 -format "%c" histogram:info: | sort -nr If
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by jcynix 6mo ago
My first thought: a rather strange copy of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy Google's Android robot has a much better design, IMHO. And I remember the Amazon box version of https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by jcynix 6mo ago
And the eye's periphery, while it isn't sharp, is highly sensitive to movement. Which is "obvious" if you ponder the question where dangerous things appear first. Thus things dangling from the rear mirror in a car are a
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by jcynix 6mo ago
Ah, yes, After Dark, with the "Lunatic Fringe" module, which was fun (and was a time sink ;-0). And what I would like to see again is the "Stained Glass" module which produced phantastic visual effects when tuned a bit.
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by jcynix 7mo ago
Wikipedia lists them by country, and with pictures, for example French: [Boîte à livres]( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo%C3%AEte_%C3%A0_livres?wprov... ) German: [Öffentlicher Bücherschrank]( https://de.wikip
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by jcynix 7mo ago
We heat up unskimmed milk, add oatmeal, let them soak for at least 10 minutes. Then serve them and pour a little bit of cold milk over the cooked oatmeal. Plain, or add some fresh fruit, nuts, berries to taste.
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by jcynix 7mo ago
> At my highschool radio station someone got a ton of great records from his neighbor who was replacing with cds. History repeats itself: right now you can now buy loads of CDs for cheap on eBay.
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by jcynix 7mo ago
Yes, some patterns of speech are recognizable … The "That's LLM generated" pattern is one of those. And while I can understand the motivation behind this, I find it more irritating now than LLM texts, if these contain useful
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by jcynix 7mo ago
>I agree that mandatory developer registration feels too heavy handed, but I think the community needs a better response to this problem than "nuh uh, everything's fine as it is." OK, so instead of educating stupid (or ove

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