partomniscient

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by partomniscient 16d ago
And doesn't render in Firefox.
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by partomniscient 16d ago
Not Sid Meier, but another great quote was Will Wright (Sim City), when building a helicopter game 'Attack on Bungling Bay' had more fun making the map parts join together and roads line up - it changed his experience such that hi
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by partomniscient 16d ago
B&W was weird. It took its key game mechanic (training up your creature) and denied it to you in one of the (only 5) levels making it just another RTS type thing. Wait, what? Peter Molyneux did some amazing stuff but overpromised and un
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by partomniscient 2mo ago
Also, London Grammar did a great cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZYw0MQp_fI
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by partomniscient 2mo ago
Hence the wisdom of the 'already been there': (Mind)set and setting. A 'clinical' environment, may not be the ideal setting for some patients. I don't think psychedelics are going to be any different to any other of
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by partomniscient 2mo ago
I still remember thinking as a young person (now 50+) that it was stupid leaving all these lights on at night, particularly corporate logos on buildings. I've moved out of the city and can see most of the stars still, although my eyesi
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by partomniscient 3mo ago
Lets hope they don't end up creating the "grey goo" that endlessly replicates and can't be stopped.
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by partomniscient 3mo ago
Or don't bother with the above - install Windows 10 without an online account and just unplug the network card. Download the Win11 upgrade binary. Run the upgrade and keep clicking no to the many (but not excessive) times it suggests t
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by partomniscient 4mo ago
I liked the article, I think the general understanding is correct, but question the numbers/statistics, you can't have 67% (or 83%) of 16 people...
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by partomniscient 4mo ago
Rockbox on a Sansa Clip+ (2009) was my personal peak for portable music - overtaking ye olde mini-disc player. The newer models all sucked usability-wise in comparison - screen-wise/button-wise etc. etc. It was 2 colour, only had 6 or
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by partomniscient 4mo ago
Not that I'm against the idea behind the software, but the amount of name-stealing because it sounds cool (sometimes kind of relevant, sometimes not) that software has done, has totally polluted the original words to the point they som
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
Nice to see that multi-national space-faring co-operation can transcend current differing national political stances.
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
The last things the capitalist powers that be want, is any sort of socialism. Profit > people, rather than People > profit. Just a reminder - socialism does not necessarily imply communism, and and implementation of communism thus far
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
Infinity isn't a destination, it's an iterative ongoing approach. You can idealise it like many things in mathematics, but implementation details fail compared to the abstract ideals.
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
One also has to wonder how much local and non-local political interference was involved as well, considering most speakers were unlikely to support the 'status quo'.
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
> Of course, many people are building their business on huge AI scaffolding. It's similar in the way many businesses transitioned their scalability etc. to 'the cloud' starting a couple of decades ago. It's a combina
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus [0] This guy is a complete dick. He also falsified travel expenses (verifiable via save history) in a Word document so he could complain about an independent local Mayor. [0]: https://www.th
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by partomniscient 5mo ago
Brawndo.
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by partomniscient 7mo ago
...and New Zealand and Australia - at least we haven't privatised water yet.
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by partomniscient 7mo ago
The USA, land of the free^H^H^H^H surveilled.
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by partomniscient 8mo ago
FWIW, mushroom rings are real, at least in the UK. They seemed to be affected by EMF, because I wandered past one centered directly centered under street power lines, I have no idea whether that's where a ley-line intersect it or not.
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by partomniscient 8mo ago
I've never used AI except for messing around with Stable Diffusion in its early days (my then-current graphics card didn't have enough ram to run it), played with it a bit after an upgrade and that was it. Never used a LLM or anyt
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by partomniscient 8mo ago
Guild halls and Freemasons were doing this kind of thing long before now.
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
Remember when Silverlight was _the_ future? How long did it last. Ironically it still gives me the shits because you can't select text on Netflix's front end.
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
The fan edit (M4's) of the Hobbit trilogy is way better than the released version.
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
They probably won't. They'll just change things so their hardware becomes a subscription-style model rather than proper outright ownership by the purchaser, which is to a limited degree the case when it comes to their hardware dri
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
They're still going to take note of what you're reading and possibly brand you as a non-ultra-capitalist disruptor. Amazon can get fucked. I still buy physical media from them once a year (November) when availabilty and rest of t
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
$_ was one of the things that put me off perl, because the same syntax meant different things depending on context. The Pragmatic Programmers had just started praising Ruby, so I opted for the that over Perl, and just went with it ever sinc
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by partomniscient 9mo ago
Given the situation occurred in the UK, I doubt it.
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by partomniscient 10mo ago
I just did this now. I can't remember exactly what it said, but something like "Remove AI chatbot" and I clicked it, and it was no longer in the context menu. Just after updating versioh 145.0.1 to 145.0.2.

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