Zompist Bboard Again

Absolutely! steel has many nefarious uses, swords and tanks, but since it's so useful for other things, we allow it and it's good that it's widespread. by which i mean like... nevermind that it helps with buying child slaves or whatever: if it was really useful, things (my position anyway) would be ...

I have an idea for a data structure, hear me out. A linked list where every node contains a hash of all the data in the nodes behind it, and every time you want to add a new node, you need about 200.000 other computers to say ok and consume the power equivalent of a small nation I'm not sure there ...

the other day i was recovering my linkedin account and i had to upload a photo of my id doc to some website that provided identity authentication services or somesuch. i miss the day where the internet felt like a frontier.

I'm not so sure though... much of it is software, but aren't really good graphics cards and multiple gigs of ram pretty cool?

How much of this is capitalism making things more difficult, and how much is the market making unpopular discoveries? I mean... in some respects yes. It would have been pointless to make commodore 64s all so good they would last for an average of 200 years for sure. almost no one wants one now, let...

Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:32 am Could we have a new Board rule against posting something and then immediately announcing that you won't read responses to your post? The whole point of online forums is to facilitate discussions. If you don't want to discuss, you've got no business posting here.

lmao where

I also often get the feeling that real economic development stopped a while back, and that all the growth that's been happening since reaganomics is not an increase in the actual productive capacities of our civilization Huh? I understand being down on the world, but do you just not notice what's h...

the market makes things worse for the vast majority of people for no other reason than it benefits the rich. I also often get the feeling that real economic development stopped a while back, and that all the growth that's been happening since reaganomics is not an increase in the actual productive c...

one oh one, or one hundred and one.
or ciento uno
or quatre-vingt vingt et un

I don't have problems with people owning two houses, tbh. okay, I do but it's not the number, it's the rent. In principle, because of this regime of places more and less desirable to work in, there's always going to be places where there's houses to spare. and dachas are nice. Myself I'd let that be...

The problem with housing in most countries is not one of quantity. Apparently in the US there are more vacant houses than homeless people by a factor of 28 . I wouldn't be surprised this was the case elsewhere: according to my local census office, 10% of dwellings are not being lived in here, and ap...

I added a lot of stuff that amounts to "yes, of course not all growth is necessarily good." yeah but I feel as if you're saying that "i know growth and good is not the same" and then proceeding to use them as if they were synonimous anyway, as in the two examples I've cited. wha...

"soviet union bad" this early? okay, soviet union bad. i'm not here advocating marxism as a solution (though China is not as capitalist as liberals often like to think: state-owned enterprises are something like half of the chinese economy, and literal direct party control over the remaini...

Unlike advocates of degrowth, I think Infinite growth on a finite planet is perfectly possible. this is because in principle there is no limit to the amount of things which can be privatized and made rentable, leasable or otherwise monetizable private property: sure, there is a finite amount of matt...

Think in groups of 5 units: 10 cm vs 15 cm, etc. the decimeter is haram. Ah, thanks! That was my attraction to it I guess ‒ I am not sensitive enough to temperature to care on the scale either current system demands, so I have no attachment to the scale degrees involved. Like, we can recognise the ...

It's strange you say that, because I really like the size of a centimeter. It's conveniently about the width of a finger. my pinky too, but human measurements are a lot of centimeters. (about) 30 for the foot, 100 for the leg, 200 for the entire person, 60 for the arm, those be big numbers. by comp...

this can work! i'm gonna go ahead and say marvel movies are the interlingua of movies

heh, me too. plus at least in my circles you don't give friends christmas gifts, mostly family. even so, gifts kinda stress me out.

Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 9:26 am I'm a day late to post this, but since the arrival of my mail yesterday, I've been basically done with Christmas shopping for this year.

i envy you

a lifetime metric user am I. m versus M is news to me. 1, 4 - in context, it's almost never an issue (and where it might be, it's disambiguated). like, distance is going to be kilometers, weight is sure to be kilograms, etcetera. less common stuff like kilowatts is never just k. 3 - here I kind of a...