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I have a gut feeling that SerenityOS is going to have the same kind of progress that Linux had. Started as a little hobby side project "but nothing serious" but could eventually be…

And then there is the Apple Dogcow! ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow MOOF!!!

Alan Watts said it about LSD - but equally applies to MDMA. Use it like a scientist uses a microscope. Use it to observe but then you go away and work on what you have experienced.…

It is one of the easiest things to do that has a sizeable impact on the world.

I don't want to defend the Hiltons but that is just one example of something that was very common during that time period. In the 50's/60's - the idea that we would not solve the f…

No as has already been answered. The example I can directly think of is modelling of specific weather patterns across Australia. A model that works in predicting weather 2 weeks ou…

I feel for the Weather pattern folk. All of the one I have spoken to over the years are pretty cool. They are trying to model an insanely complex system - oh but thanks to global w…

Depends on the examples you use I guess. I mean early last year King Gizzard dropped The Dripping tap. an 18 minute prog rock jam thing where there is a good 5 minutes where they r…

Do not mistake technical viability with economic viability. The 1st Breeder reactor went into service in 1962, there have been many after and they have all meet the same fate. Yes,…

Sorry this may seem a little snarky but - "They will think of something" - the universal band-aid for I want it to be true but I rationally don't know how. When ever I hear that, t…

I think the big thing is that all those original achievement don't defy physics to achieve them. It was a case of ignorance and the belief that we just were not that smart. And whi…

There is a blog called, 'Do the Math' by Tom Murphy. The idea was to take our current energy requires of Earth and extrapolate it at the current 3% year over year growth. I believe…

It is a reasonable conclusion. Resource limitations means civilizations, burn up too much of their energy/materials before they ever get truly space bound. They could all be just l…

Ready to play Quake 3 and then someone decided to bring a G4 Mac. Easy to communicate right "It just works!"... :D

Actually that would make sense. I usually eat much later 8-9pm and so that crash would come after the work day is done.

I will shoot from the hip on this one. I don't have any sources directly at hand but across a lot of western countries the amount of new licenses has been declining for well over a…

It is a wave that has come before and will come again. Task gets out sourced. They save some money initially. Managers how did it get a promotion and then skips out to the next com…

To add to what others have said about the utility of books. A deeper question is, why should it have any purpose? Can we not just do something just because we do it. Not everything…

I know this is an argument of 'ignorance is bliss'. But one wonders if the subject would be aware of this decline? If you are in decline but unaware of it, is that a bad thing?

Yeah, I'm going to be one of those folks. Intermittent fasting always worked for me. I think because it just keeps everything even or at least the hour-to-hour delta to a minimum. …

I am not so keen on photon transistors, at least not in the short term. I have seen them proposed for decades but progress has been slow at best. Maybe some folks will figure it ou…

This is something I think in the next 5 years will become a major thing. Broadly speaking from an OS level, the folks that optimize their software the best will see big benefits. I…

Lithium is widely known about, the real challenge is getting it. I'm not worried about the abundance of lithium, it is the speed at which we can get it that is the issue. One can s…

Many acted like the internet was this weightless thing, now folks are starting to see that they may have to pay the bill in some fashion. This goes for the ecological factors as we…

The Japanese concept of `Mono no aware` seemsto fit into this ideal. The tragedy and loss of life itsef https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_no_aware