skywal_l

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by skywal_l 14d ago
Economy is at the stage where medecine was in the 18th century. It's more of an alchemy than a science.
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by skywal_l 20d ago
Imagine the landlord of a library were to close the store just because someone complained that the library was selling stolen books. Would you consider this acceptable? And we are talking about a landlord that basically own the city here. I
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by skywal_l 20d ago
Can a TOS waive any rights? Surely there are some unalienable rights.
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by skywal_l 25d ago
The equivalent of 6.6°C according to google.
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by skywal_l 1mo ago
What the IBM PC provided was a standard on which competition was unleashed and massive investments went into improving a common platform. Which is how all the closed proprietary alternatives got overwhelmed. Without it, we would have many w
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by skywal_l 1mo ago
What does a pencil have over a mechanical pencil? Mechanical pencils never need sharpening, infinite supply of lead of various type and and they seem more environmentally friendly (assuming you keep using the same for many years).
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by skywal_l 1mo ago
There are no Five Eyes country in the EU.
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by skywal_l 1mo ago
Reminds me of Niven/Pournelle's "The Mote in God’s Eye" where the aliens have a very pragmatic/Jury-rigged approach to technology and everything is more or less improvised. I have noticed this with co-workers also,
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by skywal_l 2mo ago
RIP @cImport.
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by skywal_l 2mo ago
You forgot an important quote: “We want the iTunes Music Store to have every piece of music ever recorded. Even if it’s discontinued or not selling much, we want it all.” It seems pretty unambiguous to me.
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by skywal_l 2mo ago
Is it possible that people who don't care about short term profitability but still want a strategic ownership of the company bought at a high price on IPO day and now that the day traders are in, speculation will readjust the price to
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One KW wind turbine without civil engineering(windtowatt.com)
45 points by skywal_l 3mo ago|30 comments
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by skywal_l 3mo ago
So I don't necessarily disagree with you but people way more rugged than we are and who didn't even knew what a paved road was decided to get rid of wolves a long time ago. Moreover, what I observed is that urban professional clas
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by skywal_l 3mo ago
Reminds me of Deepness in the Sky (Vernor Vinge) where a guy maintains a ship by doing software archeology. He is the only guy who knows what the Unix epoch is.
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by skywal_l 3mo ago
And personally, I prefer doing ./game, rather than having to install a bunch of stuff and see my system cluttered by hidden folders.
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by skywal_l 3mo ago
here you go: https://www.swissmicros.com/en/products/r47
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by skywal_l 3mo ago
You URL seems KO, an alternative I found: https://x.com/chessMan786/status/1879092981892067383/photo/1
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever"
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
My recent experience shows that eSCL is way behind in terms of functionality. If I want lossless scanning from by Brother scanner, I need the proprietary drivers.
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
Does it mean that instead of depending on the Visa/Mastercard duopoly you now depend on the Google/Apple duopoly?
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
Yes but they are also a quick win to replace humans because they don't need accommodation or specific R&D. Any job by a human that has no been automated yet is because the ROI was too low to develop a specific robot and adapt the w
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
After a few fixes, it builds on a debian-13. You just need to install a few dependencies (glew, SDL, curl). The real problem here is the tooling. New versions of automake and C++ compilers are stricter than they used to be. Indeed, for long
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by skywal_l 4mo ago
A remake, in video games, is usually a rewrite on a more powerful platform. You get better resolution, better music and event better gameplay. A demake is a rewrite on a less powerful platform.
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A game based on scrolling and zooming(vaskange.world)
5 points by skywal_l 4mo ago|2 comments
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by skywal_l 5mo ago
> a French gambler and intellectual socialite enlisted the help Imagine Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat teaming together to solve your problem.
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by skywal_l 5mo ago
Any plan for a 75% keyboard?
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by skywal_l 5mo ago
75% keyboard?
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by skywal_l 5mo ago
Note that they did not "publish" the picture. They shared it in a private group. This is 1984 kind of stuff. This will hurt Dubai's brand way more than any kinetic attack from Iran.
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by skywal_l 5mo ago
You can tweak the current Ghidra MCP to work in headless mode. It makes things much easier.
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by skywal_l 6mo ago
An interesting critique of the meritocracy/technocracy: The Rise of Meritocracy by Michael Young. Written in the 50s it's prescient to what has been happening since. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise

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