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in very many cases, old things get new names so that more people can share in the claim that they invented what has been in fact merely re-invented

hmmmmm....

don't know about amd.... * slaps knee *

- don't understand the origin of crime

- own stock in those private companies that run prisons (capitalism at its worse)

"you are next" !?

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> 6. Locating Your Misplaced Phone

I've had an issue many times, in which my phone (possibly to save battery?) is not KDE connected when I need it; usually after not touching it for several hours...

So I recommend disabling energy saving feature for the KDE connect app. Nonetheless, it's strange, I blame Android for optimizing this functionality into uselessness (for battery's sake probably, but I really dislike this new trend of "uncofigurable" devices).

i'm not so sure, memcomputing is not reliant on trasnsistors like regular computing is... the differences are deeper.

not 100% nonsense. but also not 100% correct.

the real difficulties in these arguments come from defining (or trying to) what we mean by "this society", in part because society has many distinct (but intertwined) components

in regards to food, and those things we need but cannot automate, it's not so simple.

because of how capitalism works at dropping costs, in many cases what we actually get is lesser quality things that we absolutely need (like food).

When this gets really really nasty is when applied to education. made cheaper because everybody needs one, but also made shittier, thereby creating people who cannot refuse certain propositions and choices.

shitty education (shitty food) directly contributing to the continued 'availability' of poor people who cannot refuse shitty deals. in this light it could almost be concluded that this system is self-sustaining? ugh.

because this society NEEDS that there exists poor people, essentially people unable to refuse a shitty job.

if you're a thinking like a system, then yes,

> No, it's a way I can get a safe and reliable ride anywhere in the world, without getting scammed by a local taxi (not just Uber, but Lyft, Ola, Bolt etc.)

if you're thinking like a human individual, then yes.

I agree with you both and I told you why

this is the gist of this. so he is saying that the scalability issues they will run into, come from the entropy increasing with the N such that heat is the real problem? (ah, so maybe this is also why Quantum computers are usually frozen???)

also, how big of an N are we talking about?

I see a weird echo here, I am thinking about exporting the waste (heat, byproducts, the specific 'how-to? by which, in a way, the entropy rules get 'enforced') as being the problem.

so then, he wrote:

> while the proponents wield the sharp steel of accepted physical law

I find this analogy quite cutting... with sharp enough steel and enough acceptance (regardless of how the acceptance comes about.... ok), the heat/entropy can get forced around? time to go get my tin foil shield,

then again, I have only been trying to understand exponentiation ever since I found out it existed, and I had not even heard about the "extended" version of the church-turing thesis, hence I'm some kind of ignorant crank (sorry if this comes across as bitter, but I am studying a master's degree in theory of computer science and I had not ever heard about an extended version of that famous thesis;l surely my own fault for not going to study to the USA or europe)

mumbo jumbo for one person is another's deep insightful explanation... what's more curious is that i understand your perspective and you don't understand mine (not yet)

as for a proposal? dunno, I propose we all master the mysteries is the only think that comes to mind

it creates a curiosity, which has a softkind of drawing gravitational pull. I know I'm vulnerable to this.

The mystery drives motivation, hence the connection to energy (the capacity to do work). the curiosity propels my own motivation (willingness to spend my energy) to investigate these things, and others like it.

edit: I am sorry that what I have had to think to make my own sense of this complex reality upsets some people.

but it adds up, and what is worse, is that it's greedy... so the fraction keeps going up and up and up, sucking more and more down faster and faster

but most will surely prefer the academic explanation, a lot less magic in that one than in this comment

i.e., I'm saying (due to how I think) that in the layer of the cells, like the biological cells that come together to form one human, a T cell activates itself to fight tumors (damaged tissues? organism mistakes?)...

is somehow comparable to a human person snaps, "goes postal", or things like this. (keep in mind that some places are truly deep within the 'cancer tissue'; and yea, this whole comment implies viewpoint that 'civilization is cancer' or something like that)

I've seen some movies that could be like this too, like "sleeper agent gets activated" trope, or other kinds of anamnesis-processes making people suddenly act far from the norms

time to say good bye to Darwin (BSD kernel) MacOS..

where is your open source support now? outbid by data-capitalists is where it is,

uhm. counterexample: they need more dollars than that

what is unexpected about it, that it not going to be California Vs Georgia, or the Virginias Vs Florida (I don't know enough about state-politics within the USA so disregard my specific examples)

the surprise for me is that it will (already is but whatever) be things like this, "department of commerce" Vs "securities exchange comission" or things like this...

the Federal Bureau of Investigation is FIGHTING the Central Intelligence Agency!

wow

they only different thing is now it happens online, hence it's all much closer to 'real time' unlike the historical versions

per my own living understanding, the simulation is in my head, each of us are running our own 'local instance' of this matrix/simulation.

this is made out of culture understood as an expression of software (but understood as a substance, I guess on this much I do agree with Vopson, information as a fifth state of matter? interesting)

finally, I think somebody should try to measure the gravitational contribution (if any?) of information.

with the most precision that is available measure a difference between a flash card (or similar, the denser the best) in which it is all zeros Vs one with the most random, highest entropy, sequence of 0s and 1s stored in it.

this is a play on a Chinese media quip attributed to Xi Jinping that says "changes not seen in the world in 100 years" https://www.strategictranslation.org/glossary/great-changes-...

we have just found (in the 20th century) something that I think is as BIG as writing itself.

Writing taken as the underlying technology behind (or under?) the concept of LAW itself (hence, a foundation for the notion of 'rule of, by, from, LAW" and everything and anything founded on this notions has become candidate for revision and re-evaluation).

all because we invented a way to write that can change itself; this is usually better known as computing. I write some words that say how some other words must change.

It really is all substitutions of arbitrary symbols (or sequences of symbols) for other symbols (or sequences thereof) all the way to the bottom. At the bottom there's a first number and a huge debate (and confusion) around whether this first number is one or zero (LOL).

like this Alan Stern person seems unaware that the money NASA gets to spend is really made up credit owned by the distant future through means of the "taxpayer"

why bother about 'budgets' when money gets printed for 'them'? (but them is NASA, not any of the humans working in it)