Gregory Guida

Eclectician.

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@peterrhague If you think about it, that would actually save tyres.

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@peterrhague The bottle caps are only mildly annoying but they are symptomatic of one of the worst drifts of modern government policy: abandon all hopes of nurturing a high trust society and just mechanise compliance.

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@CaprisArdent @octal Supremely clever!

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Copy and paste from one device to another is magical; when it works. Otherwise, I couldn’t hate my iPhone more. Typing is a nightmare, autocorrect makes my writing worse and the whole interface lags half of the time, if it answers at all. The last four years of “improvements” look like more like sabotage and I dread having to use Photos, Music or, God forbid, try to find a specific email. Whatever became of the “it just works” principle?

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Clean up all the OSes, clear the bloat and make the basics bomb-proof again. My Apple devices, from Mac Pro to iPhone, were a dream to use 4 years ago, now they are all an absolute nightmare. Even my watch is always too busy doing something else to actually tell me the time. And I should never wake up to find that everything on my desktop is now on the web but that my local apps need a specific permission to write something on it.

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@elonmusk @brivael @TimSweeneyEpic Sometimes you just can’t push the genie back into the bottle. Better concentrate on your wishes…

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@smolzoey This, and the associated changes to the desktop permissions, is not a feature, it is industrial sabotage. Apple has completely lost its way.

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@ZPotxolin Glenfarclas, una de las últimas destilerías independientes de Escocia.

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@brivael Given the current experiences, it is very reasonable now to think that “consciousness” is an emergent feature that is almost unavoidable given enough functionality.

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@Devon_Eriksen_ The only thing in common among all the successful people I have known is that they were relentless. It wasn’t hope for a specific result, just a stubborn willingness to fight every problem in their way.

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@DrRitaDed “Rita’s” parody cuts so close to the bone people actually believe it…

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Old habits from pre-air conditioning era: living very early and very late in the day. Interestingly, when pushed to forgo the siesta in the early 80s because 35c in the shade wasn’t an excuse anymore, the Spaniards just worked the extra hours and developed their country in record time. This was never about laziness.

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@peterrhague The key point, is that Blue Origin is not at risk of bankruptcy as they iron out the problems like Space X was. There is therefore little doubt that they will become a major player soon. Of course, Starship could disrupt the market again.

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The collection is called the Voyager series and considered as the most elegant microprogramming ever done, yielding powerful machines with minuscule resources. 15c is the best one, reissued as a collector edition 10 years ago when they updated the processor of the 12c which you can still find new. Bizarrely, the, at the time, cheaper and lesser 10c is the most difficult to find while the nerd wet dream 16c is easier to find in as-new condition probably because calculations in toctal or hexadecimal weren’t that necessary even then. I don’t dare use mine so I have a Swiss Micros replica on my desk. Classic Hewlett Packard pocket computers are a culture of its own. By the way, you need new feet, which can be found on eBay.

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@BradRTorgersen The Shuttle was the only spaceship; everything else is a capsule.. until Starship.

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@Matt_Pinner Jersey.

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@grok @lowcaphuntereth @DabsMalone @Grok, why is the Teledyne FLIR black hornet a helicopter rather than a quad, then?

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@peterrhague @Liv_Boeree “Discomfort” is an essential survival trait which developed very early in evolution. It would have to be reasonably unbearable to be effective, whether you want to call it “pain” or not.

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@peterrhague Rousseau has a lot to answer for. Also modern education: all the fantastic, true adventure stories I read as a kid described nature as wonderful but absolutely unforgiving, which was easily confirmed by experience. What do they teach now and do people ever go outside to check?

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@Getonthelash2 One of the foundational problems of statistical analysis, mistaking detection for occurrence.