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I love my electric moped. Riding it around my European big-city, it just feels so comforting. Its so quiet, it doesn't scare ducks. Scooters are taking over - Vienna is a green cit…

When the state of the world becomes untenable, the best thing to do is create a new one, right on top. There is a part of the Internet where ads cannot/have not gone. Just use that…

while sleep 900 ; do .. done true not required. sleep is true unless interrupted.

> all their libraries, all their dependencies? Well, you see ... I happen to think that you can use a lot of tools to cover your ass, and .. the fact that this one slipped in is as…

Actually this 'very different' aspect is a broken piece of modern development - its a bug, not a feature. There are methodologies which could have caught this entire stack issue an…

The physical conditions of the city are a manifestation of the destitution of its people. I've lived in many cities around the world that were utterly poor - yet, the people kept t…

> I wonder if they could make a direct air-powered vibrator so that one doesn't have to torture their lips. This fact is, imho, a motivating principle behind the genesis of various…

ATDT42 (Coz 42 is Gods phone #, duh...)

I wonder if there is anything unique about this that might make it interesting to use in a sampler or a synthesizer or something .. maybe some random noises that could be generated…

>you don't go from relatively simple cave paintings to insanely complex languages, forms of government and far-fetched empires just by snapping a finger twice See, thats the fascin…

This erosion of responsibility over time is some sort of back force from a wave of generational disillusionment. We don't want to go back to doing email like our parents did (excep…

Wow, the more time goes on, the more "Behold!! The Protong!" ( * ) seems to be an accurate assessment of things. He specifically targetted this artifact as an example of evidence t…

I have similar fond memories of doing amazing code editing with strange character sets in PC-Write: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write Which had ways to load in alternative cha…

Tight game-loops can be a battery drain, and especially if there are local 'go-lang' things running, inevitably, alongside the SDL bridge. I'd put it in as a clever and educated 'p…

Its turtles, all the way down. All users of computers must deal with the abstraction handles and layers for which they are comfortable - and which produce results. Not just data-sc…

This looks like a lot of fun: http://www.irata.online/ This fascinating experiment in retro-computing brings online a system based around the archaic PLATO computing system, which …

Yes, it is. But, you know: billions.

They've got my email. They can send me an email notification. Methinks they don't want to do that because lawyers.

>Racial Purity >Impose Interbreeding Sorry, too extreme for me. I do not subscribe to your reasoning that any form of racism is acceptable - "because scientific purity". If you can…

I guess this is going to be a much better upgrade from my current non-Apple/-cloud music-player, VLC ..

Those are all perfectly appealing reasons to step one iota closer to the reality described, which is that we should promote the DNA-privileged forward on the sexual reproduction st…

I'm really glad they chose C-language for this, personally. The reason is, I've been solving the mobile dilemna for the last few years by focusing on one policy: Lua is the platfor…

Isn't the point that we wouldn't need app vendors to present these things, if the OS were a little more intelligently exposed to the user, who is expected to own it and not just us…

>success == expansion is a capitalist Well, is it capitalist really, or is it something that capitalists are guilty of propagating as a means of control? I mean, it could be said t…

>argue for some eugenics and advantage high IQ people for reproduction See .. I find this line of thinking heinous. Why do you not instantly trip up when you type this?