pilsetnieks

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by pilsetnieks 6mo ago
The dead internet theory terrifies me. I don't think we're at the point where it's mostly dead but we're already way past the point where any discussion worth anything can be had on the internet itself. The problem is
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by pilsetnieks 6mo ago
Great point! At this point the Dead Internet Theory isn't a conspiracy – it's a roadmap. It's worth noting he distinction between "authentic" and "synthetic" online spaces is eroding faster than most peopl
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
It is glass
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
I don't think there's that much thought involved, they're just aping their Republican heroes.
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
"Make Europe Great Again". Seriously, that is the new slogan for the Hungarian EU presidency. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/18/europe/hungary-make-europ...
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
You're just trying to be contrarian for imaginary internet points. Satya is right about this one.
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"
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by pilsetnieks 2y ago
If you need only LoRa connectivity, Mikrotik has options for that. Then you can hook up bog standard IP devices to those.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
> As of June 2023 Starlink expenses for Ukraine are covered by the US Department of Defense through a contract with SpaceX. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/pentagon-...
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
An Operation Mincemeat of our time.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
You're allowed to admire the technical implementation while denouncing the business model at the same time.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
The troll toll? > Just putting the thought out there. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
I wonder who's the author, and if they did a Rodenberry on the theme (Rodenberry, in addition to everything else, was the author of lyrics for the Star Trek theme. Despite them never being used, he made a tidy sum in royalties.)
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
I remember that episode! https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx I was listening to it on a bus and screaming inside because I had that mp3 sitting in my library, obtained years and years ago through questi
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
> the solution is easy. Adapt your life to follow that Those pesky employers are such traditionalists, though.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
Neal Stephenson's Fall [1] is by far not his best book, however, the first part has a chilling depiction of societal divide into Ameristan and, for lack of a better word, the blue states that feels entirely plausible. [1] https:&#x2
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
Only the US, Liberia, and Myanmar have a complete grasp of large numbers like, for example, fifty-seven.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
Going off on a tangent, it's actually not that much trees wasted on paper money. Some of it is made of plastic but a lot of it should be called rather cloth money - at least the US dollar and euro are made of cotton and linen fiber ins
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
End up? If you listen to the podcast, you'll know that the episode was inspired by actual already happened real life events. In fact the real story was even more infuriating. https://jalopnik.com/dennis-from-always-sunn
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
Novak Djokovic also credits absorption of energies from the allegedly most ancient pyramids on Earth in Bosnia and Herzegovina to his success. They're supposedly built anywhere from 12k to 34k BCE, claimed by a Bosnian-American shyster
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
iOS already has a Local Network Access permission, it's probably only a matter of time until it appears in macOS as well.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
That's called foveated rendering, and it's exactly what the Apple headset does, they mention it here: https://developer.apple.com/visionos/
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
Gruber claims that it has the exact same FOV as actual human vision, and no discernible pixels. https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_visi...
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
> We have a term for this: Privatized profits and socialized losses We have an even older term for that: The tragedy of the commons [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
In Wikimedia's case it's more likely a matter of principle than cost. They have plenty of money despite what the donation popups make it seem. They want open source because it's open, not because it's cheap.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
It's one cost of so very many these days. These prices (per instance!) add up; there are many other pieces of software clamoring for their share, hardware costs, networking costs, labor costs. It's death by a thousand cuts.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
That argument is solely about weight loss but there are many other reasons like cardiovascular fitness (keeping in theme with the article), or overall fitness level that lead to to better outcomes.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
It may be true that we don't have a real fundamental understanding of what human reasoning involves but I think we can be pretty certain that it's something different from just stringing words together.
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by pilsetnieks 3y ago
You seem to propose a "if it quacks like a duck" scenario here (aka the Chinese Room), and applying it to people who are mistaken or acting on incorrect information. Those people are reasoning , however rightly or wrongly, based
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by pilsetnieks 4y ago
It's a tired tale by now but stirring shit (whatever shit wherever it happens) is literally part of the Russian playbook [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

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