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- Comment on Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option 6 months ago:
"micro soft pp"
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
gta 1isthe best
goruanga! - Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
I think your argument works if someone is stealing the beef.
If they are buying it then that is directly funding that "90%".
- Comment on Ideas 6 months ago:
napoleon vs neopolitan icecream maybe ?
- Comment on Is there a "canvas" of the universe? Do we even know? Would a canvas follow the same laws as the paint? 6 months ago:
As i understand it it (somewhere between barely and not at all) the idea is not that It's "expanding" in the sense of a balloon inflating into the space around it.
Its more stretching internally.So the distance (or time it would take at constant speed) between any 2 points is geting bigger.
You could maybe also say it'd take more energy to move between the points in a set time.There's probably nothing outside, but the distances inside get longer.
It's probably something to go with gravity, momentum and entropy. The actual concept of "distance" between things might not be what we think.
But all these theories give rise to the concet of large amounts ob unobserved 'dark' mattter and evergy, so the actual basis of currently observable fact (i.e. energy / mass) is a small fraction of what is needed for these theories to work.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
widdows 2000 was the pinnacle for me, beat XP until i wanted to go to 64 bit.
Apart from having 64-bit, XP was a step back; even if I don't count the fucking dog thing.
XP was a fair bit harder to de-bloat than win 2000 and they were hell-bent on forcing internet exploder on the world.XP was also at a time when Linux was becoming pretty easily usable and mac osx was impressive too - I remember using those imac coloured egg things at university in 2000. They were good apart from the mouse, and ran MS office pretty well.
StarOffice was already better than MS-Word at dealing with .doc format across versions.
and ancient version of Wordperfect were miles better for WP anyway ("reveal codes").windows XP was already down to gaming, adobe and CAD/other specialist apps, plus maybe MS Excel that just weren't as good or not available on linux.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 6 months ago:
I wonder about raspberry pi - it's the image you download that has the known user and password.
It might mean that you can't sell one with a pre-imaged, pre-installed sdcard unless you customised the image. - Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 6 months ago:
I use "4cab".
They'll never guess that. - Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
I'm glad I don't identify with whatever oop considers a culture.
It sounds like that culture spends too much time discussing pointless shit.I really enjoyed my morning crap, I'm quite glad it ended when it did.
Anyone who calls it a failure is to be exiled.
If i were allowed into (or applied to join) a culture involving others, that's what we'd be talking about.Apparently something about the history of the greeting "Ca va?"
might have something to do with with "how is your poo doing?" - Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
That does sound crazy.
I'll not complain so much about the odd bag checking queue and occasional half hearted patdown/grope we get over here any more. - Comment on WTF Happened In 1971? 6 months ago:
Wow, they're dumber than I thought if they think this makes their point.
Although then again, their general ideals have swayed the more mainstream of many large western governments and international financial institutions for 40-50 years.
So there must be something to this tactic of making a hotch-potch of random graphs. - Comment on WTF Happened In 1971? 6 months ago:
yeah, Bretton-Woods - was so much more about a broader scope of bank regulation - to try control and stabilise investment and capital creation for the good of domestic businesses (ideally small businesses) across all international members of B-W.
Throwing all that regulation away - essentially led to over-concentration of unregulated financial power with little to no incentive (or requirement) for them to work in the domestic interests - all the great stuff that comes from that (and it really is great - for some people).
Couple that with the small govt-ism that came in in the late 70s and there's not even a state investment sector to prop up growth during recessions.Its one of those things where they experiment with something really important and before it's even been tested for long enough, they whip out the safety net.
"We won't need that anyway once the banks are deregulated - they'll fly in and catch us when we fall - they're very fine people ." At least they'll catch us for long enough to sort out foreclosure/eviction and make sure borrowers take all the risk of asset price movement.Pretty much jack-all to do with gold - that was done with in the 20s pretty much in all but name.
- Comment on WTF Happened In 1971? 6 months ago:
I dunno i read all those graphs and think.
Well there was a lot of banking deregulation from 1971 onwards?
Let's give that bank regulation idea another shot maybe - it can't do worse.. . .but then i also think - good on china for that one child policy.
I'm just not getting anywhere near the Hayeck conclusion from the same data.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 6 months ago:
Are you saying that it is not dystopic? or it's not comonplace enough to be boring?
I'm glad we dont have/need (probably can't afford) that shit where i live.
Do they have them at sports events and carnivals, music festivals and stuff like that too? - Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 6 months ago:
I'm not sure i rate this particular article.
They seem to sort of hint at the importance of power and energy efficiency
But why did they then "ask about TDP" ? Surely they they need to know the actual input power(or energy) to achieve the benchmark, not TDP which is itself a wierd thing for chips that self regulate temperature by throttling.I'm not inclined to pay attention to this journo.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
"are you still watching?"
5,4,3,2,1 Auto-pause
"MONEY ME MONEY NOW.
ME A MONEY NEEDING A LOT NOW" - Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
do google also provide all the data on clickthroughs thorough which the success of campaigns might be measured?
And i mean "Measured" by extremely dumb people whose best hope in life is probably to bullshit their way into becoming a director of sales and ma . . . - Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 7 months ago:
yeah came here to say it seems more like bank or building societies.
- Comment on I'm not a drunk. I'm just living clean. 7 months ago:
drink purplewie instrad
https://www.tilgear.info/product_images/Large/HAN500MTH.jpg - Comment on ‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update 7 months ago:
careful now.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 8 months ago:
It's a donation so you're never going to have perfect pricing everything down to the nearest penny or remunerating each person-hour worked. I think It's about something rough and ready that is better than nothing. And it's all goverened by morality anyway . . .
so doomed to failure on that side.Buy hypothetically a simple principle with reasonable administration cost, like each 3 months, each node shoud add up all donations, slice off 25-50% , split it equally among their top 5 or 10 most important dependencies - just guess, and maybe swap from quarter to quarter if if there's doubt. There's some wiggle room there for small projects to do less and large over funded projects to do more.
Each node in the network could follow a simple rule like that, making a limited number of transactions each time period ,and you'd probably end up with quite a complex outcome after a few iterations (years).
The real trick would be having enough nodes in the network that actually enact such a simple rule. (Apart from having enough donations flow in to the consumer level projects of course).
But enough nodes and enough inflow and the fractal would work for you - roughly.THe speed is an issue, the more often you settle up then quicker people see money, but the more the admin cost.
But even doing it quaterly is not slower than doing nothing.Such a model is not something anyone will be securing bank loans off though, so if that's the point then you probably need a paid licensing / service model of some sourt maybe Canonical and redhat.
- Comment on Can someone explain why authors do this? 8 months ago:
Someone tried "April & Bob" once, but MS excel converted it to date.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 8 months ago:
When I buy a turnip from the grocery store I don't have to pay the farmer directly.
If I donate to debian, that I depend on , then debian (morally) should disburse some of that donation to the linux kernel that debian depends on.
- Comment on Why do we use average instead of mode? 9 months ago:
Poor old Chebychev is not getting much love here is he.
I guess people might think he was a fan of inequality. (sorry - maths joke, at least I didn't do the one about the LOL numbers).
- Comment on this is the United Kingdom 9 months ago:
dkd you mean Walesmaica?
- Comment on How can open source hardware be a movement if the raw materials still have to be mined and factory produced? 9 months ago:
tl/dr, yes it can(i mean it does today). moreover OSHW seems like it might help limit some of the bad parts. but that may cause tension viz. some current powerful people.
I reckon the benefits of open source arise from contestability in the supply chain - basically market competition.
As a buyer I can more easily switch my purchases from one supplier to another (including in-house) and that competetive tension gives me a better deal.That competition erodes market power - and it drives down 'super normal profits' (economic sense of the term) closer down to the normal level (long run cost of borrowing ).
Free capitalism is about driving up profits. Restricting competition helps that by acquiring and perserving market power . Sometimes the political/market power route is easier than innovating a new or better product or production process - i.e a genuine competetive edge).
Basically it might be cheaper to bribe one market regulator (gain market power), vs employ a team of r+d engineers (try to gain competetive edge).
Society benefits when businesses do the latter (more engineering and science, less lawyers and politicians), but the shareholders don't necessarily care which method gives them profits (let's not mention 'animal' spirits) - so capitalists do a mix of both. OSHW reduces options on the market power side. Executive board remuneration becomes an imortant incentive at this point.
Capialism ans oshw can work together if the forces of free markets effectively mitigate any excess power caused by concentrations of control over capital. banks have to want to lend to small less profitable businesses who cmply with compatible standards (oshw being basically a version of this).
But I think capitslism and free and competetive markets are not the same thing. Incumbent capitalists seem to like to (ab)use free market rhetoric to try to gain political power that they then use to preserve market power and work against competition.
And I don't think capitalism can be "torn down", because any moderate density of human activity will beget a temptation for someone to try to get some disporportionate share of some type of power; 'market' power or otherwise.
But excesses of market (and other types of ) power can be reduced or regulated - which usually seems like a good idea. Unfortunately that does bring the politicians and lawyers back into the frame.
- Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 9 months ago:
if that doent work this will fix it . . .
device=himem.sys
device=emm386.exe noems
dos=high,umb - Comment on Will this run GTA 6 and why not? 9 months ago:
gta 1 is better
- Comment on Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills 10 months ago:
I think the "researchers" may not actually have gathered any data on what actually happens in these types of scenarios. beyond people just keeping on with old os which a lot will unless MS intentionally sends out a brick-update.
lots of countires/municipalities have WEE programmes to try to prevent electronics from getting to landfil - especially until things like batteries and other toxic or dangerous chemicals can be removed.Or the headline is pure clickbait garbage - it's bad enough that i'm not going to bother clicking and read any more filth.
- Comment on Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills 10 months ago:
new fork of legacyOS into LandfillOS.
based on "De Bin"
The only major change needs to be you save stuff by putting it into the wastebasket.
