Someone never read the book
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bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•On a scale of 0 to 10, how good are you at technology?8·1 day agoBetween 0.4 and 0.6 but the best humans score between 1.2 and 1.8; we are all pretty shit at technology.
If you don’t believe me, ask technical lithography questions to software programmers and economic questions to plumbers.
We are swimming in a sea of technologies and don’t even know how deep the water around us is.
Fuck the technological complexity in a single screw is massive.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversationEnglish4·1 day agoWell this is how that technology is going to play out. For the first couple years it will be extremely helpful, to the point that the users stop depending on their own internal memories and their brains start pruning that functionality out. Then generative AI will be used to fill in missing details prior to the start of using them. And then they are going to slowly start feeding more and more lies until they are cheerful about being slaves.
Well futex based high performance mutex support which is 400x faster than what existed back when 4MB systems were sold. A Constraint solver that doesn’t deadlock, support for a boatload of functionality that didn’t even exist back then.
And most of the size comes from -O3 compiler optimizations that didn’t exist back then and if you build with -Os it is about 512KB of a memory footprint which is smaller than SysV out of the box on Debian. So it is snappy on a 386SX with 4MB of RAM if you go the gentoo route.
People use SystemD because it works better than what came before it and it will be replaced when something actually better shows up. No one happens to have found a generally better solution yet.
OpenRC, Gnu Shepherd, runit and S6 are available for people who like them better but don’t assume that they are generally better for someone else’s use cases until you know what they are.
22MB is too heavy???
Well S6 is lighter but I wouldn’t recommend it.
Gnu Shepherd is about the same but solid.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto science@lemmy.world•Liquid gold: Prototype harvests valuable resource from urineEnglish9·3 days agoUrea and nitrate salts
So 37 flights on his personal jet to pedophile island and nearly $1 Billion in payments to Epstein and other peddlers of pedophiles, countless women and men testifying under oath and somehow there is not enough proof for republicans?
How exactly is making a recommendation gatekeeping?
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If you get told that you’re “dumb but charming”, is it a compliment or insult?1·5 days agoI would more want context. As I know that I am not a charming woman (I believe the phrase was a hellfire demon on wheels) but even my husband (who has a 176 IQ) considers me clever.
Also I realize that we are all dumb about many subjects that are not our interests. And what people find charming can vary greatly.
Look, you can either use the right tool for the job or make a brittle tangled mess and in which case good luck.
Older lithography holds charge longer; the pursuit of more storage at cheaper prices results in engineering sacrifices to make it happen.
Short answer is anyway that they can. Israel is trying to cut the communication to hide their crimes and basically every thinking human is doing anything and everything that they can to help people in danger.
Anyone who isn’t will inevitably have to live in a world where the people they could have helped are not around to help them when they need help.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do Lemmy users benefit from alt text in posts that contain photos?44·6 days agoWell the blind community benefits as they can get the contents without having to ocr the screenshot and decode the jumbled nonsense of the picture to try to figure out wtf you are on about.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If your happiness is derived from your enjoyment of a false (i.e. fictional) stories, is that truely happiness, or is that technically a delusion?14·6 days agoIf you dig too deep into reality, you will discover that effectively 100% of the population is delusional on no less than 2000 subjects. They just have yet to be bitten on the ass for it.
And people take it very poorly when you start pointing it out; just like you and I will when someone else shows up to do the same thing to us. Historically speaking we lock people up for shouting things that have not yet been accepted by enough people. Like the earth is going to be eaten by the sun (true in a few billion years) or the sky is falling (it is more acceptable when you call it rain).
If you want fully automated installation of Linux, please consider functional (in the lambda calculus sense) Linux distributions like NixOS or Guix
Yeah, no. Email has always been an open standard. What is occurring is standard software allows filtering out spam (because people make money sending out spam) and then because centralized domain reputation inevitably occurs (because it is annoying hunting down bad actors and collectively it becomes easier) we end up with what we have today.
The solution is white list filtering in the hands of their users and people adding the senders that they want routed to their inbox but that is a user training problem that nobody wants to pay for.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Can't we do anything as google is killing AOSP and custom ROMS0·6 days agoWell that is true for people who live off gig work ( but those companies pay to have access to your bank account balances and credit card debt information and use it to screw you harder when you get desperate) and long term it only becomes a brutal debt cycle designed to extract maximum profit from them.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What are some good "frugal" movie viewing setups? (Recommendations)4·6 days agoYou can get a quality 1080p projector for about $120 (or spend more to get a 4K)
A proper speaker setup for $211 (this bit can go up to crazy prices if you go overboard)
An Intel NUC for $150
And a white sheet for $10 (get the highest thread count you can find)
You can get them at your local retailers pretty easily.
bacon_pdp@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What form of entertainment, movie, music, tv, video game etc that you were excited about only after it came out did you realize it was trash?51·8 days agoSpore (video game) The original demo was amazing, what actually hit retail just was trash in comparison
My first month on Linux was rough but with my husband’s help and experience; we soon found an experience that was quite satisfying and we have stuck with it since.
Experiment and try to fail to find what makes you happy