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Yeah, sure but... if it's real fast, lets connect SSDs to it and have real fast swap. Whatever it is will be limited to the bus speed. And that's gonna be silly compared to RAM spe…

> Yeah but DDR3 was faster then and still is now USB would be the limiter for both.

> Sometimes you just need the space and not the speed. Your computer already supports that. It's called "swap".

In one of TR's books (perhaps Rough Riders?), he mentions watching Lincoln's funeral precession as a child, from his family home in New York.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbFM3rn4ldo

And, “They have been carried away by monkeys!”

I was more thinking I could add it to my Asterisk server to honey-pot the spam callers into an infinite time waster cycle.

> If AI evolves at the same pace, and replacing labor (robots) and services (AI), I am not sure that human would turn around? How do you think we can turn things around ? I see no …

I get what you are saying, and I don't think you are wrong, but it has been like 100 monumental changes in 200 years. The demographic shift of the industrial revolution was particu…

> I was talking about the issues with comparing it to singular inventions like the cotton gin or jacquard loom Ok, appreciate the clarification. But in that time frame there have b…

There is likewise no indication that it won't. And if I am looking at a pattern where a thousand careers were destroyed by the advance of technology and were swiftly replaced by te…

> Also that's a singular industry 200 years ago, 95% of the workers in my country worked in subsistence farming. Today, only 2% are farmers. The whole spectrum of labor has turned …

Now that jacquard loom has left so many textile workers unemployed?

I grew up in a small town in rural Alaska that would have been completely under glacier ice when Columbus landed in North America. In the time between Captain Cook exploring the ar…

Now ask the same questions about homeless people living in tents down by the river.

This was my thought too, but I figured I just didn't understand the problem. Why use git commands to backup when a file system copy seems like it would do? zfs snapshot takes less …

English was Joseph Conrad's third language.

> It's hard. Dense, convoluted, absurd. These are a few of my favorite things!

Same could be said for the SPLC.

I just got the new M4 iPad like two months ago, and my YubiKeys absolutely did not work, no matter what I tried. There are articles on apple.com and yubikey.com that explain that U…

Woah, you are correct. My YubiKey 5C now works with my iPad M4! When did they fix that?? Edit: Looks like it was iPadOS 18.2 released on December 11th.

> > This is just a big network affect failure. > What do you mean "just" ? You've made the, "If you don't like the oppression here, move to Somalia" argument. If you don't like the…

> There is plenty of vacant unincorporated land that a group of people could get together and build whatever city they might want. This is just a big network affect failure. A bunc…

I think that is also what I am talking about. A big central store is more economically efficient, and as a result the consumer preference, in an economic landscape where Men With G…