prometheus76

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by prometheus76 21d ago
I'll add a little context. I mentioned that it was 30 years ago. My personal computer at the time was a 486DX-50 with 16 MB of RAM, and the mainframe we were tied to had maybe 2 GB of Ram? For 200+ users to share. It's easy to for
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by prometheus76 21d ago
Well, this was over 30 years ago that I was sitting in that class, and the resources the emacs required vs vi was definitely part of the discussion. We were working in a shared environment on a solaris system, and if the whole class fired u
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by prometheus76 22d ago
The part the author shared about the huge overhead cost of firing up emacs, especially in a multi-user environment (I learned about emacs vs vi holy war back on a multi-user Solaris environment), our Unix professor strongly encouraged us to
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by prometheus76 29d ago
I am working on a clock app that keeps time the Roman Empire way (every day has twelve hours that start at sunrise and end at sunset, so the duration of each hour changes slightly each day), so this library would be extremely helpful. Thank
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by prometheus76 3mo ago
Relatedly, I have recently started walking and talking, and I just use lightweight gamer headphones that have a mic. I just record it with a generic voice recorder app, then I use a local instantiation of whisper to transcribe it when I get
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by prometheus76 7mo ago
Interesting that the author didn't mention anything about stem cell injections. Those have been in vogue among the elite for decades (millennia?).
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by prometheus76 7mo ago
I was under the impression that the injunction against playing cards was because of their proximity to tarot/occult practices. Mormons had the same injunction against playing cards until the 80s, when the teaching was no longer promulg
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by prometheus76 7mo ago
The government is the majority of people. So the government very well can be against 49% of the people and it would still fit your definition. If 100 people were about to embark on a journey on a ship, what makes you think 51 of them know
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by prometheus76 8mo ago
Liberal democracy is rooted in Christian ethics. It does not make sense to a Muslim culture or the Chinese culture.
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by prometheus76 8mo ago
Another impact on solar adoption in the United States is that many home insurance companies are refusing to pay on claims against roof damage from poor installs. And there are a lot of poor installs, which has led to this problem. So now th
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by prometheus76 8mo ago
Those diseases are back because of rampant immigration. People from other countries bring them here. It has nothing to do with "obscurantist beliefs", whatever those might be.
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by prometheus76 11mo ago
> prior to the widespread deployment of malicious microphones, were adequate authentication for many purposes Can you elaborate on this? I don't understand the context for malicious microphones and how that affects secure passwords.
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by prometheus76 11mo ago
They fired most of the UI/UX team soon after Steve Jobs died.
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by prometheus76 11mo ago
They farm you for attention, not electricity. Attention (engagement time) is how they quantify "quality" so that it can be gamed with an algorithm.
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by prometheus76 1y ago
If you have access to ethanol-free fuel, that basically eliminates gasoline "going bad". It's the ethanol that degenerates over time.
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by prometheus76 1y ago
"However, animals like us do not experience salt desire as a powerful, controlling drive as we do with oxygen, food and water." (from the article). I disagree with that, especially when I was young. I would crave salt. I would lic
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by prometheus76 1y ago
I would contend that empiricism is inadequate to discern what is real and what is true. Much of human experience and what is meaningful to being a person is not measurable nor quantifiable.
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by prometheus76 1y ago
The act of curating facts itself is required to communicate anything because there are an infinite number of facts. You have to include some and exclude others, and you arrange them in a hierarchy of value that matches your sensibilities. T
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by prometheus76 1y ago
Ah yes. People who think like you and agree with you are rational, not prone to fear, disgust outrage, or protectiveness. But people who disagree with you are obviously irrational and can't be reasoned with. You are "educated&quot
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by prometheus76 1y ago
I agree with your view completely. I see the current use cases for AI to be very similar to the practices of augury during the Roman Empire. I keep two little chicken figurines on my desk as a reference to augury[1] and its similarity to AI
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by prometheus76 1y ago
I didn't say anything about emergency medicaid being illegal. What I did was present evidence that illegal immigrants do, indeed, use Medicaid funds in the form of emergency care, and I presume those are the records that are now being
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by prometheus76 1y ago
Couple of notes: Medicaid DOES cover emergency services for undocumented immigrants, to the tune of 16.2 billion dollars during the Biden administration. (Reference: https://budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/cbo_
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by prometheus76 1y ago
They have a pamphlet available one more click away from the link you shared that gives detailed information on how undocumented immigrants can get free/reduced-cost health care, and what all of their options are: https://www
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by prometheus76 1y ago
TheDraw was a cornerstone of my teenage years. I would log into different BBSs just to see their ANSI welcome screens, then I would try and re-create them to learn the art. It was a unique form of animation and I was hoping you had figured
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by prometheus76 1y ago
You can also use a plastic bottle or even a paper drinking cup.
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by prometheus76 1y ago
I'm not sure that's the mechanism at work because I have boiled eggs using plastic cups and also waxed paper cups many times. I don't think any water is boiling through. The cup itself is staying at 100C, which is below its i
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by prometheus76 1y ago
My daughter is just getting into photography, and I was hoping your guide would share more of how to set the exposure for moon shots (which can be tricky and unintuitive for beginners). You might want to add some examples and what your sett
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by prometheus76 1y ago
Oh man. This makes me want to throw my phone against the nearest brick wall sometimes. The UI is loading, I reach for the button I want to hit, but it moves and a different button takes its place because the app/page is still loading,
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by prometheus76 1y ago
I don't know exactly what you mean by "support the Pope", but your simple binary division between "Roman Catholic or Protestant" ignores a lot of the historical tensions between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Cat
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by prometheus76 1y ago
Now you get into the tricky waters of defining "justified" and "true". It's a circular definition that does not settle anything.

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