dangoljames

Brilliant.

Youtube beeds a peer to peer competitor.

Sorry if this seems a bit ranty.

I'm kind of a middle ground person, perhaps leaning slightly 'against' rather than 'for', over predominantly environmental concerns. I've distanced myself from crypto since I learned what the chinese were up to, and since china is putting a stop to that now (allegedly?), and the rest of crypto seems to be quietly moving in a PoS direction, recently reintroduced myself.

Most of the objections I have, other than the climate concern involve valuation, stability vs. valuation, etc.

Because I have some experience in the open source virtual worlds arena, and because 15m square plot of decentraland just sold for over 2 million $US, I decided to make a personal investigation of decentraland and it's relationship to ethereum. I went into this quite optimistic and hopeful, because I enjoy such things. What I found, however, was no cause for joy.

Perhaps my expectations were unrealistic. In any case, as I said before elsewhere, they have fallen victim to the touch of Midas: Their various holdings became extremely overvalued in a very short period of time, to that extent where no one else can afford them.

When I posed this issue to them directly, the general attitude was 'well, Walmart and Nike can afford us, so...', but zero acknowledgement that their entire value to those corporations is based on the number of product consuming users they can bring to the table.

Their self-governance machine, the DAO, is a thing of beauty, in that it could be employed to actually produce an autonomous, self governing organization that embraced everyone on equal terms and let everyone involved behave as the peers they should be in an ideal community; instead, they have pretty well implemented everything bad about today's governments, arriving at a functional oligarchy made up of those with the most land and currency, which they call 'voting power' - and the so called officers of the various supporting and ideally moderating concerns (their foundation, their DAO, and, due to the concept of voting power, their property holders), are all the same people.

They do a steady job right now in their discord channel of gaslighting these concerns where ever they are indicated, to the extent that they tossed me out this morning for calling them out on it; I haven't troubled myself to see if they just tossed me out or banned me, because I really don't much care.

I do know that their behavior in every respect will alienate users not just to virtual worlds and cryptocurrency, but to the whole endeavor they are labeling 'web3'.

DAO or not, this is not The Way.

My biggest problem with copilot is not how it's trained, but with it's targeting of microsoft coding tools. I don't use visual anything, and I don't know anyone who does. I code a lot of python, html and JS, and I use neovim. If I need a smart 'crutch' I'll whip out pycharm.

Mostly I don't feel the need for such things, but it would be fun and interesting to see just how good copilot is.

Not fun enough to install visual whatsit though.

Just asking for a friend: what makes this such a great scientific achievement? of what practical use is it? Can it be used as a means to solve other 'hard' math problems? can it power a hyperdrive? a time machine? practically infinite energy without carbon entanglement?

Please ELI5, even if I AM well in excess of 50.

The silo is soooo over.

Before any of THOSE questions can be asked, we first have to arrive at some sort of consensus concerning what constitutes a phenomena...

YOU GO, Stephen :D

Effing Brilliant.

This is why I have relatively new early occulus device sitting boxed on a shelf -- I got it just after ditching FB and just befor FB bought Occulus.

I've done something similar but as a python flask app that uses a web browser as a reading/writing platform, that keeps it's (unencrypted) stash in a local directory (it's a 'localhost only' webservice).

It's functional but crude so nothing on github just yet ;)

I can't say I'm a big fan of firefox/mozilla, but I'm a huge fan of their attitude.

s/roll/role

All of these have particularly large datacenter footprints in places where fires are ravaging the countryside.

"Warp factor five, Mr. Scott."

This whole argument is a bullshit argument. I have, somewhat grudgungly I'd admit -- slowly come around to the idea that systemd might be worth the trouble. That said, there is room for more than one working configuration pattern, especially provided those patterns provide non-redundant featuresets to their respective configurations.

The last point of bitterness for me with this entire issue is the entirely uneccesary contention and strife with continuing to include sysV init. It's loved by many and used by many, just leave it alone and let the users patch it.

The one thing that all the negative commentary fails to acknowledge is that even in the face of this somewhat overstated inconsistency across all these command line tools and applications, is that for the knowledgeable and motivated, it is quite simple to wrap the more complex invocations in simplified scripts or, at the other extreme, a completely functional native GUI.

They also fail to acknowledge that contemporary unix, aka Linux in it's many derivations and flavors, is entirely malleable at the source code level by it's users. That is a feature provided by literally no other operating system that is deployable at scale, and is, in fact, the singular feature that drives it's adoption -- not only is it 'free', you can hack it together in any fashion you damn well please, and you can use it to build peer-grade native applications, typically with little more than a tip of the hat as 'overhead'.

tl;DR: Some folks might miss the point because they are not sufficiently motivated to engage the *nix world with the degree of articulation required to tap into it's less than casually accessible capabilities.

The atlas obscura is a literary and jounalistic rabbit hole filled with salt licks and honey pots.

Great site, I never spend less than 20 minutes there.

I don't have ADHD, but I have struggled with motivation from time to time, especially when confronted with tasks that I have little confidence I'll complete successfully.

That said, I'll move along, taking you at your word that you're resilient and eager for good advice:

- get off the couch and get busy. don't beat yourself up when you sit back down, just don't over-indulge in idleness.

- I strongly recommend getting excessive on the first go. wear yourself out. then get some sleep. sleep until you wake up.

- the idea is, wring the anxiety out of your work and make the work second nature. you sound plenty capable (or at least confident you are, and that is usually sufficient).

- disconnect from the negative ideation through reinforcement by taking positive action.

I know it wont be easy or so simple as I have made it sound, but I think you can do it and I don't even know you.

Best of Luck.

This right here. In 1997 I resold a 56k connection over dialup and did a bang-up business until the local phone company put me out of business.

I've been using windows for decades without antivirus software, and have never seen a virus on my system. Protip: Thoroughly vet the providers of any software you use, and do not open spam email.

All I can say about this is 'Raspberry Pi 4 8GB @75$US' and available right now.

I'd point out that OP posted a link to a science fiction site

This should be the 'New Deal' of the 21st century.

I too am feeling somewhat optimistic about this direction in technology, and for approximately similar reasons, though I don't think I feel so strongly about it as to craft a blog post on the topic.

Screw paywall journalism.

LET ME JUST SAY, a pox on these things that depend on VSCode. I don't use VSCode, I never have, and I don't anticipate doing so any time soon for coding, much less taking notes.

EDIT:

I did not say a pox on such applications; on the contrary. I'm actually trying to find one that does everything I want, and am being brought up short on the VSCode dependency just about every time I come up on a good candidate.

The right to say what you will is absolute, and protected from the federal government by the first amendment.

However, nothing protects you from the consequences of harmful speech, and those consequences do not approximate a violation of your rights.

* Lifelock enters the chat

I cannot get logged in and stay logged in, nor can I access complete sub/multi reddits.

EDIT: Looks like it has 'self-righted' ;)