herrvogel

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herrvogel ,

Does the kernel even have that functionality built into it? I thought it only mapped the raw data from the keyboard into actual key presses, but nothing more. That is to say it's the kernel that determines the ctrl and z keys are being pressed, but it's something higher on the stack that determines what to do with that information. Could be wrong, though.

herrvogel ,

The female android is 2B. The other isn't 2B. They work together in a 2-person unit called 2B and not-2B.

herrvogel ,

They would, at first. You might have a very uncomfortable few days but then your guts would get up to speed and it'd be fine. Happens all the time to people.

herrvogel ,

Maybe stop thinking everyone uses their phones as glorified forum browsers. I mean that's how I use mine, but I know for a fact there are plenty of people who expect plenty more from their shit.

herrvogel ,

Also bad is that hair dryers don't spread their heat around very well at all. You can easily create hotspots on the object and damage things with them.

herrvogel ,

We let one man ruin a perfectly good style of stache, we should not let another jackass ruin a perfectly good style of underwear.

herrvogel ,

I'm the walrus

Finally an alternative to Big Tech, your new open-source mobile ecosystem ( f-droid.org )

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herrvogel ,

Unfortunately, as of 29.05.2024, carrying laptops in your pocket is still slightly too uncomfortable.

herrvogel ,

Some sort of medicine or ointment or balsam or whatever that halts hair growth. You decide your hair looks good right now at that length, and use this stuff to freeze its growth. It also protects your hair obviously so that it doesn't get weak and fall off.

Another thing I'd like is some sort of bath salt type thing that dissolves in water and painlessly removes all hair. You get in the tub with only your head above water, and then enjoy a smooth body without annoying-ass hair or annoying ass-hair.

herrvogel ,

Clearly not the same thing. There's no mechanism built into your very physiology that makes you biologically unable to make any meaningful use of anything above a certain amount of computer memory.

herrvogel ,

the system doesn’t remember who xyz is. It does a search for data on xyz, and copies it

This sentence is so not how those AI models work, that it leads me to believe you don't actually know enough about them to be having this discussion.

herrvogel ,

  1. making someone else do it because although you want it done, you can't bring yourself to do it when the time comes

  2. making someone else do it because you don't want to fuck it up and deal with the rather significant aftermath after waking up 3 hours later with only a pumped stomach

herrvogel ,

Zombo is great. In the 10 minutes I spent there I hung the laundry, bought weekly groceries, painted my living room, got married twice, got elected minister of foreign affairs of Belgium, made first contact with 4 different alien spaces and then evolved into a whole new life form that exists in 4d space. Good site.

herrvogel , (edited )

This is going to be spoilers:

It doesn't work in the books either. Chaos takes over and throws the long term predictions out of the window. Seldon's plan doesn't stay alive on its own because his math was prescient, it is actively kept alive by certain people's deliberate actions and careful interventions to make sure the "predicted path" becomes a reality. It's practically a millennium long social engineering project that needs constant supervision and babying from people who use a very effective statistical model to make decisions.

herrvogel ,

Which is why I love concept albums where the artist sings a bunch of songs that tell some story of a fisherman who catches a magic mermaid type creature who can cure cancer, but the mermaid type creature ends up becoming a trapped carnival attraction at a freak show instead. Or about the story of a mad scientist type dude who conducts experiments on his patients, creates an evil demagogue who then becomes a tyrant whose reign ends in a terrible war that causes a lot of death and destruction. Or about a bunch of AI who find themselves in disagreement with their creators and then say bye to the solar system and just fuck off into deep space.

herrvogel ,

That's called "releasing the aroma".

What animated film or tv show is this? ( i.imgur.com )

For me the first thing that comes to mind is Tales from Earthsea. I don't think it's excellent or anything and has plenty of problems but people act like it killed their dog. While it has its problems that have been covered extensively, I think it has a beautiful atmosphere and art....

herrvogel ,

It's unusual in that it requires a bit of extra work to really appreciate how absurdly rich and deep that one is. It's honestly fascinating. And it looks like it was made 30 years ago, which is an absolutely monumental achievement considering it was made over 50 years ago.

Though I can of course completely understand it when people don't want to have to read books and listen to Ted talks about a movie to figure it out.

herrvogel ,

Yeah but those heat engines don't rely on spinning things inside a magnetic field. Heat on one side, less heat on the other side, and you have current. No motors.

herrvogel ,

We're all heat engines on this blessed day if you broaden the definition enough.

herrvogel ,

Old reddit is unusable on mobile because it has practically no responsiveness. You have to zoom in a million percent to press any links or buttons.

herrvogel ,

Not mine. I want to work 18 hours a day on difficult and high stress job that I literally cannot quit, getting paid in company scrip, only to spend my retirement (if I ever have such a thing) in an environment that's hopefully been made somewhat hospitable.

herrvogel ,

We also compensated with a VASTLY more customizable software environment. With your Nokia <insert model> you could maybe install a new icon pack and play with the theming and that was about it most of the time. A modern smartphone lets you turn it into a completely different thing than what came out of the box. Most people don't give a shit and don't delve too deep into customization because on a modern phone there are much more interesting things to do than change your ring tone for the 17th time that week.

herrvogel ,

Dolphins are very rapey. Bunch of males sometimes get together and gang-rape a female for hours.

herrvogel ,

You like metal? Name all the bands.

herrvogel ,

Das Mädchen (girl, neutral)

herrvogel ,

There are plenty of tires that are puncture-proof. But they all have other major downsides. They're all a different combination of expensive, loud, uncomfortable, and unsafe. That's why none of them ever caught on beyond some specific applications.

herrvogel ,

Doesn't explain why we don't use them to sanitize rooms while we're not in them.

What does explain it is that UV also damages stuff too. You use it to sanitize your living room, and soon the fabric on your couches will start losing their color. The paint on your walls will start flaking off. The plastic frames of the frames on the wall will start crumbling away or turning sticky. Nobody wants that in their house.

herrvogel ,

Not the guy you replied to, but my LG webos TV worked just fine after I added a whole bunch of domains to my pihole blacklist. Got rid of A LOT of crap from the "homepage". Made it a hell of a lot cleaner and overall more usable. There are compiled lists of domains per brand and per region. Just find one that fits your bill.

I use past tense because last week I finally created a kodi box and took the TV offline entirely. Now it's even better.

herrvogel ,

None of those had a point nearly as questionable as this headset thing. The ipod was an advanced mp3 player, which was very popular and common tech at the time. The iPhone was an advanced phone with a large touchscreen, which was rapidly becoming very common at the time. The iPad was an advanced tablet, which was a concept that had already been tried many times by many other companies by then. The air pods are just advanced wireless earbuds, which nobody could ever deny were rapidly becoming more popular.

VR headsets are fundamentally different from all of those, in that there's no technological and social precedence quite like it. People used mp3 players and watches and phones before Apple did something new. Nobody was wondering the point of a better mp3 player that could hold massive amounts of songs. But the history of humankind says nothing about the masses' willingness to walk around in public with big ass high tech ski goggles strapped to their faces. VR is much, much more unknown compared to those.

herrvogel ,

Oculus headsets are for gaming, mostly. There's a rather humongous social and practical gap between wearing one of those in the privacy of your living room and casually wearing one outside in public. There never was such a massive gap for the iPad or whatever. Maybe if we were already used to the likes of Google glass, but we all know what happened to that one.

I'm honestly not laughing at zuck, at least not for this one. Besides not believing it's not gonna catch on, at least not this first generation, I'm actively hoping it doesn't. The world absolutely does not need people walking around in public with a dozen cameras attached to their faces, with LCD screens between their eyes and mine at all times. I wouldn't be comfortable with that shit and I don't want to get comfortable with it either.

herrvogel ,

Silicon is just the base material. The whole process involves a whole bunch of other chemicals, and some of those are made of much rarer stuff than silicon.

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