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there is a huge problem with browsers right now -- they are very complicated and big and therefore their development is monopolized by three large organizations, leading to browsers that dont adhere to the best interests of the users. and yet, as this article demonstrates, much of the internet does not require any of the complicated machinery in modern browsers.

we have seen our culture, the worlds culture, adopt computers and the internet. gaming, social media, all kinds of media distributed over the internet -- we have grown into the internet. and with this development, we are fast approaching a platou, a period of maturity where it is clear what exactly the internet is used for by most people in most cases, and also (critically) how those uses are implemented. when the internet was born, we made browsers with a turing complete language built in and we made all the tools very general, all because we didnt know what was going to happen. we had to be ready for anything. this is simply not true anymore.

off the cuff, the internet is used for reading forums, reading news, watching video and listening to music. perhaps a new kind of browser can be adopted that has those things baked in and nothing else. this kind of browser would meet most of peoples needs while being simple enough to make competition possible, thus aligning these new browsers with the interests of users. these browsers would be much, much safer as well.

for other kind of websites, sophisticated web apps that allow you to interface with a service, like email or time clocking or whatever, perhaps those things could be branched off into a new area where js, wasm and binary distribution live. perhaps a different class of browsers. with these kinds of browsers, there is more pressure to align with users interests because users can soft-boycott them because 90 percent of their needs are met by the simpler browsers mentioned earlier.

and perhaps a new standard for interfacing with documents can be baked into these new simpler browsers to further take necessity and power away from js and wasm browsers. for things like emails, remote document manipulation, assignment submissions, etc, a lot of that could be fit into a standard that is baked into the browser instead of being re-implemented in js for every instance.

a new class of simple browsers would create a new division of the internet that is clean, fast, simple and worry free much like these text only news sites.

if one could bake payment into the browser as well, creating the most friction-less payment experience on the internet ever seen, we could see a re-vitalization like that seen with patreon all over again.

automatic ingredient dispensing is the biggest one. the second biggest is automatic removal of the bread from the pan.

the other comments are wrong, bread machines make very good bread. ive been basically living off of bread machine bread for months so i happen to know.

the idea of a bread machine is to render bread-making easy. so you can set a timer on the machine and have it start the mixing and baking process whenever you want. however, the bread must be removed from the pan as soon as its done baking or else it will become soggy. this is a pain and almost completely nullifies the overall convenience of the machine because yes you can set a timer but you have to make sure to be around when its done -- this is highly, extremely annoying and also dramatically reduces your ability to make bread spontaneously. automatic removal would be very easy to implement, i have a few ideas myself on how to do it. but nobody does it.

the automatic dispensing of ingredients would be the final key stone is the whole arch of bread making convenience. for simple whole wheat bread, like the bread i make, there arent very many ingredients and all but one are dry. so automatic dispensing is conceivable. i would love to be able to fill a few hoppers with cheap, healthy ingredients and then be able to simply push a button and later on find a fresh loaf of bread waiting for me. but apparently im the only one.

also a bread machine with a nice display and ui would be nice. nobody seems to be able to do it.

another cool kitchen appliance with a cult following is the panasonic flashxpress. its a toaster oven that uses ir light instead of typical heating elements and convection. there are really good, cult-worthy toaster ovens and pressure cookers but unfortunately there are no such bread makers. we really need a better bread maker on the market.

thats so funny, i was just considering buying one of these after learning about their existence earlier today. these things are great because you can make rice, beans and baked potatoes. if you buy a nice bread machine too, all the essentials are covered and you are all set up to save a whole lot of money. after reading this article and these comments, i will definitely pull the trigger on one of these. the only problem is that there are so many models, i dont know which one to get.

im currently doing something similar but with the ps2. it really amazes me that there are so few people interested in picking apart the ps2 and its games, and so few people interested in writing demos and games for the ps2. this lack of interest means that finding good documentation has been a little hard, but recently i hit a goldmine with official sony documentation on many of the important processors and coprocessors of the ps2 and it has been fascinating to read them. messing around with old game consoles is definitely a lot of fun.

even if you drill a hole in the drive, data can still be recovered from it. anything that leaves large pieces of drive intact really isnt ideal. over the years i had collected dozens of platters from both myself and other people. for some reason, when i was younger i was obsessed with collecting hard drive magnets and also smart enough to understand that i probably shouldnt throw the platters away. so a few years ago i decided it was time to destroy all of these annoying platters that i have to worry about misplacing. i naturally assumed that it was going to be easy to find some kind of service, shredding or wiping, for hard drives or hard drive platters. there were no good options. so i tried smashing the platters into small pieces, and this worked for some of the thinner laptop hdd platters. one strong hit would break them into millions of tiny pieces. but most of them just bent or dented. and to thoroughly bend and dent the whole surface of all the platters would be super annoying. so i decided i should just melt them -- they are made of aluminum which has a low melting point. it was surprisingly easy. just get an old coffee can or better yet a stainless steel gas cylinder or even a ceramic crucible. they arent too expensive as far as i know. i used a can. then just surround the can with some bricks for insulation and apply a normal blow torch. set the torch down so it blows into the void between your vessel and the brick jacket. after the platters are melted you can even cast them into something, like a belt buckle. its all a bit silly, but it does feel nice to know that it is literally impossible for anyone to ever know what was on those platters.

what are the problems with printers today? for hobbyist extrusion printers?

- they are slow (fixed). but even 10x leaves something to be desired.

- they cant print all shapes elegantly. for many shapes you need scaffolding. its a nuisance.

- they are course. print layers, even at the thinnest settings, are still rather thick. also, there is a lot of inconsistency, stringing and surface imperfections.

find a way to solve these problems in a relatively cheap printer and we might actually see the revolution that was talked about when 3d printing first arrived.

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this is absolutely brilliant. i have no idea how nobody thought of this before. it was so obvious, just melt the plastic faster. so blindingly obvious. i have personally spent many hours trying to design a faster printer. its encouraging to know that there was a very elegant solution right under my nose the whole time. maybe there are a few more?

so a bunch of people decided to buy into a scam -- decided to buy hugely, massively overpriced houses, and enter into loans with insane interest rates, all the while not having even the most tenuous fucking hope of ever paying for any of it, and you point to that and tell me that its evidence that land is a bad investment? are you fucking crazy?

this blog post is a kind of guide to starting your own company and making millions of dollars. this is a little unrelated but i just find it funny to read this guide because its very convoluted. there is actually a much simpler guide that their guide is a derivation of. here is the actual guide:

step one: be more intelligent than most people

behind almost every business, behind almost every professional success and behind almost any success in general that ive seen, is a highly intelligent person. i find it irritating to read because the concept of a guide is spelling things out so that anyone can follow the steps and get the same result. successful people always benefit from high intelligence, money and success will always be unfairly skewed to the benefit of those who happened to be born with better brains and into better developmental circumstances. nobody needs this guide because they are either smart and dont need a guide or dumb and in which case cant use this guide.

Variety isn't necessary for survival. In my case, it isn't even necessary for happiness. But if I want variety there is no shortage of it out there. In good times you might eat out every weekend. But when hard times come, you will be able to stay full for almost nothing. Having experienced extreme hunger due to a lack of money, I find tremendous value in it.

i do like chipotle. brown rice, black beans, chicken, vegetables, mild, sometimes cheese, corn, sour cream, guack.

why does nobody else realize this

As others have said, the important things are having money saved and knowing how to have an inexpensive lifestyle. Someone said that you should live an inexpensive lifestyle so that you can get those savings started and build the habits and knowledge you need to live inexpensively. I agree with this and in fact I have been doing it for a while.

My total expense for one month of living is 600 dollars.

I have around six thousand dollars saved right now (which is very little, but I've just started saving and working). So I could last around a year without any income.

I pay 400 dollars for rent. I live in the city and share a two bedroom apartment with four other people. The key to making this arrangement work is to live with nice people. I've managed to find nice people to live with and I enjoy it. If you want to really save money on shelter, build a passive house. Please look at my comment history before commenting that houses are expensive.

My food costs 70 dollars per month to meet all nutritional requirements, and in really tough times I could cut my protein levels in half (still getting more complete protein than most Americans probably) and bring that cost down to 25 dollars per month. I've put a lot of thought into my diet system, and it's nice to finally have an excuse to discuss it.

The human body requires carbohydrates, (complete) protein, fat, essential fats, essential vitamins, fiber and water. Some of you may be familiar with Soylent -- I was a big proponent of Soylent when it first came out. Soylent turned out to have a high GI, a high cost and a high impact on the environment. But the mentality of Soylent is still rock solid: the human body is not magic. If you give the human body the things I listed above, it will function properly. So if you are trying to optimize your diet, you first need to understand what the minimum viable diet looks like. Now that we know what MVD consists of, we need to find the cheapest sources for those things -- the cheapest sources that truly meet all quality and nutrition requirements.

For protein I eat canned chicken. There are probably better solutions but I haven't seen them. It's lean, complete protein and it's cheap. I get a months supply at Costco for 30 to 40 dollars. It also helps me meet my cholesterol requirements.

For carbohydrates and fiber I eat whole wheat bread. You can buy fifty pounds of whole wheat flour at Costco for around 13 dollars. The salt and sugar are so cheap in bulk that they aren't worth mentioning. The yeast comes in dense dry packs, 5 dollars for many months worth. Just open the dry pack and put it in a sealed container and pop that in the freezer. You can add oil for good fat. all you need to do is put these ingredients into a bread machine. If you don't have a bread machine you can buy one at your local thrift store. I bought mine that way and it's been going strong. It only cost 7 dollars. I see a bread machine almost every single time I walk into a thrift store, which is quite often. They are rarely more than 10 dollars. The cost to make a large, very dense, 2000 calorie loaf of delicious whole wheat bread (real whole wheat, not the hybrid garbage you would find in a super market) is 50 cents at the highest. This includes the cost of water and the electricity to run the machine at a cost of 15 cents per kWh. To store my flour I have food-grade buckets with so-called Gamma lids. Its extremely convenient.

For essential vitamins I take a complete multi-vitamin. Just to be extra cautious, I eat a vegetable here and there. There is very little doubt that I get all the vitamins I need. The vitamins I get from Costco -- they are beyond cheap.

For essential fats I take fish oil, which provide Omega 3 EFAs, and for Omega 6 my whole wheat flour is enough. It would be trivial to adjust my EFA levels up or down if I wanted. The fish oil is also from Costco and is very cheap indeed.

Some might look at this diet and wonder how anyone could sustain it for long periods of time. I wonder how anyone does anything else. If you read up on heart disease I think that you will view this diet in a much better light. Most diets are high in saturated fat -- anything with saturated fat will stay with you. A portion of the food will literally stay with you, inside you -- it will collect on the inside of your arteries and cause them to harden. Then your arteries will crack, bleed and clot causing you to die in a very painful manner. This diet is very, very low in saturated fat. It has an extraordinarily good glycemic index. It is not only the best way to eat on a diet, it is a very, very good way to eat in general. If I had a billion dollars, I wouldn't change it. This dual purpose makes me very happy with my diet. I've been using it for almost a year and I feel great.

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if you live in an apartment, consider a portable washing machine. before, i had to pay four dollars to do a load of laundry in the machines that my complex provides. i dont own or want to own a car, and even if i did i wouldnt want to take my clothes to a laundromat. it turns out that they make washing machines for use inside an apartment. i have a 3 cubic foot model that hooks up under my bathroom sink. its literally ten times cheaper. i also air dry my clothes, which saves even more money. air drying clothes is amazing and i have no idea why it isnt done more in the US. its free and works just as well as machine drying. it doesnt require any more work or time (human engagement time) than machine drying, either.

wow that sounds exciting. no experience or reliable skills -- just a lot of surface knowledge about ebikes and power electronics. do you guys have a website or something?

sure. houses are made of wood. we recently had some super bad fires here in california and right now people are literally building new wooden homes upon the ashes of their last homes. does that make sense to you? in hurricane areas, people do the same thing in the absence of regulations -- they build out of sticks.

roofs are often tiled with tar or slate or ceramic. why? they break, leak, and need to be replaced frequently except for slate. they get damaged super easily. the most common roofing material by far is asphalt shingles where i live. they get extraordinarily hot when the sun beats down on them, and since they are attached directly to the house they make the house get hot.

there is also energy management. most houses leak air because traditional construction does nothing to ensure the air tightness of a house. back in the old times, it would have been a huge undertaking so nobody bothered with it. most houses only put insulation around the wooden members of the walls, so heat is conducted through the wood, going right around the insulation. concrete foundations werent insulated until recently. the ventilation systems in houses just throw energy out the window, heating or cooling the air in the house and then throwing it out and bringing off-temperature air in and then heating or cooling that and then throwing it out and so on.

there are lots of other things that dont make much sense.

there is a new wave of house building called passive house building. it basically takes into account all of the things i mentioned, fixing them.

my personal plan for a "passive house" is to use icf construction. icf or "insulated concrete forms" is a building technique thats used in florida for homes that need to withstand hurricanes. you can see photos of desolated landscapes post-hurricane where the only standing structure in sight is a single icf home. icf gets its name from the fact that it is pre-insulated. you get a bunch of expanded poly-styrene blocks that click into place to form a single monolithic mold into which concrete is poured. the forms also have integrated clips and hangers for rebar reinforcement. you can also use micro-rebar to make the concrete unbelievably strong -- the military uses micro rebar to make blast-proof structures.

the result of icf construction is a completely monolithic, air tight, high thermal mass, super highly insulated structure that has no significant thermal bridges depending on the implementation. its simple, effective and isnt much more expensive than a traditional system let alone a wooden system that meets the same specifications. icf houses with cementatious stucko wont burn and is considered a non combustable structure by the government.

the air ventilation system, which is essential in an air tight house, will be what is called a heat recovery ventilation system. it uses heat exchangers to transfer the heat or lack of heat in the outgoing air into the income air. it isnt expensive or complicated, its literally a bunch of tubes that touch eachother. that simple arrangement will retain 95% of the energy you expend heating or cooling the house even while the ventilation system is working at full tilt keeping the air inside the home fresh and free of humidity.

the outside of the house can be covered in cementatious stucko as normal, but stucko with integrated pigment so that it doesnt need to be painted, ever. maybe power washed every once in a while.

a thick and highly insulated concrete slab on grade foundation provides lots of thermal mass to store heat energy and also prevents energy leakage.

the roof can be a raised seam metal roof. these roofs last a minimum of 40 years and can take hail and whatever else is thrown at them. you see them (in america) on commercial buildings because every business that runs the numbers comes to the same conclusion: metal roofs are durable and free of nonsense. if you do a metal roof right it can last longer than you. they also reflect heat instead of absorb it so they keep things much cooler.

the house will also have triple paned windows with an acceptable R and U value. thats another things houses do wrong.

thats the basic overview but there are lots of other things and lots of other details that have gone into it.

overall the cost is a little higher but not only do you make up for it in the long term, you buy something that is worth way more than all the extra money: piece of mind. living in a house that takes care of you, that doesnt have problems or demand money.

hey if you have questions about ebikes please ask -- they have been a passion of mine for a very long time. i dont know much about the latest models though, it got kind of boring after they got popular.

dont worry about new york, ebikes have been illegal there for a long time and that cities policies towards ebikes is not a reflection of the rest of the country, especially with the new and more unified regulations regarding ebike power levels. the reason ny is so weird about ebikes is because ny delivery people were the first group of people in the country to understand and utilize ebikes, way back in the day, and when they did they were complete ass holes about it. because they rode way too fast and inappropriately, ebikes have a very bad reputation in that neighborhood.

the new regulations, if i remember correctly, call for several tiers of ebike power levels. the lowest is 20mph top speed on level ground and no throttle. you can ride those anywhere. then there are two higher tiers, the higher one can have a throttle. those bikes are only supposed to ride in designated areas if i remember correctly. this is a federal regulation that leaves the details to its implementer. but if you go forward in time you will probably see a set of rules like those i described pretty much everywhere.

one exciting thing about ebikes is that their power is limited by law but their energy is not. as ebikes become more mainstream and higher prices more tolerated, you will see bikes with more and more battery capacity. you will see bikes that only go 20mph but can go for hundreds of miles at top speed up and down hills. eventually even that kind of ebike will be affordable.

another exciting thing is the new class of bike that will come out of all this. like the article says, it isnt crazy to think of these as alternatives to cars rather than bikes. and this will be reflected in new kind of bikes that are heavier duty, with very nice shocks and huge batteries. you will just see stuff that was never on bikes before, like windscreens and nice seats. on these bikes, pedals will basically become vestigial. you will simply use the pedals as a kind of accelerator (not being replaced by a traditional acc. pedal or throttle for legal reasons and to make the bike ride-able anywhere). youll have very fine tuned control over the speed and acceleration of the vehicle through these special pedals. i think we might also see total enclosure of the bike for all-weather operation. thats pretty difficult to do though.

i was considering starting some kind of business to catch this wave. if anybody is interested maybe hit me up

ive considered doing something kind of like this but just grow enough food for myself -- so a garden rather than a farm. the draw for me is reducing my living expenses. modern houses make absolutely no sense because their design carries vestigial baggage from thousands of years ago, from a time when we didnt know about any of the physics or technology that we know about now. it turns out that you can build a passive and maintenance free house for about the same amount of money as a traditional house.

someone else commented about the fact that modern suburban life is a hell-scape. i couldnt agree more. people think you have to do it in order to live. but you dont, just buy land on the outskirts of the city and build a house on it. the city is right there if you want it. i dont want it most of the time, personally. but sometimes i really do.

there are also people in here who say how they know farming, the grew up on a farm and its horrible. i really think that there is a new trend on the horizon of people moving away from the city, but this article misses the whole point. they wont be farming, because farming does suck. theyll just be making their lives more secure and cheaper by owning land and a house instead of renting. this will continue to make more and more sense as solar power and electric cars and self driving cars become more and more reliable and cheap. i really do think we will see more and more people opting for city outskirts.

i wanted to make one of these but in the form of a watch you wear on your wrist. its interesting how some people are fascinated with these kinds of countdowns and others hate looking at them. me and my other cs buddy both think its interesting -- he has the tim urban poster on his wall. another friend of mine doesnt even want to look at it.

i will never forget when, in early 2016, i saw this for the first time. when looking at the visualization in terms of weeks, i simply cant believe it, even today. i just looked at it again now. it simply cant be so few weeks. it just cant. and yet it is. i cant believe all the time i wasted.

i havent had this problem, no. have you tried it in 57?

exactly. i cant believe nobody here seems to know about profiles or about:profiles. its the perfect solution. my setup is tree-style tabs (recently made to work with 57) and a different profile for each task (one profile for each language im learning, one for music, and one for each research topic i might be pursuing). whats your setup like?

ive always liked the idea of automated restaurants. weve seen what automation has done for car production, so its interesting to imagine what an automated restaurant might be like. since the food is the product of very exact expenditures of energy, time and resources, you could forecast, resupply and otherwise manage your output and resource levels in a much more accurate way, for one.

and of course, you could make the food a lot faster i would imagine. and you could make it perfect every time. and you wouldnt have to pay people huge amounts of money to make it. i would also advocate for automating the delivery of the food to the table but that might be off putting to customers, so you could just build a system that would automate most of the mental load of managing tables and just use your human employees as meat puppets for the delivery software. perhaps something like google glass could be used. i bet you could reduce your serving staff very dramatically by doing that.

and as for ingredients, you could even grow some of them. ive seen videos about restaurants in new york that use roof top aquaponics systems to grow all their vegetables. whether on the roof or off site, one would need to run both production and processing and delivery in order for uniform quality to be achieved. the quality of the ingredients is supremely important -- i went to sauls in the bay area and their cheese burger literally gave me pause. if you want to know the difference between average ingredients and good ingredients, go try the cheese burger at sauls medium well.

even outside of automation, there are so many improvements to be made. i used to work in a restaurant and they would cook food on these large woks. i would guess more than a third of the energy from the flames below simply go around the wok and up out of the vent hood. automating the heating of the food would probably make it much easier to capture and use all of that thermal energy instead of half.

most of the time i read a story like this, the infamous statistic of 90 to 80 percent new establishments failing is referenced, and then the person goes on to explain how they barged into the business like a belligerent, drunken bull in a china shop. this guy did zero research. zero thought was put into the costs involved. i am frankly amazed that this guy made it as far as he did. i remember the last time a story like this was posted, the guy got fooled into paying to renovate the building he was renting. i have a feeling that most of these restaurants fail because they are started by complete idiots.

what is the cause of burn in? is this a fundamental problem with oleds or will it go away with as the technology matures? thats what i really want to know because oled is next in line for dominance in display technology and that would suck if it came with burn in.

off the top of my head, i would say that the burn in is caused by degradation of one of the color elements in the leds. the blue elements were a problem for a long time -- they would degrade very quickly. i would guess that the blue elements of this display begin to lose their integrity much faster than the other elements, so if you leave those blue elements on for a long period of time you will cause those elements to go bad and then from then on you have a pattern of burned out blue elements, causing burn in. so if this is true, apps that are meant to display bright static images for long periods of time could do everything in shades of red and green, leaving the blue elements off completely.

this will also hopefully mean that all the cool screen savers from the 90s will be given new life, and maybe we can even have a new renaissance of screen savers

captchas are turing tests. their purpose is not to grant personhood to robots. captcha will be totally broken well before machines become sentient.

in fact turing tests will be useless at some point, which is the whole basis of my speculation about alternatives to it as i originally stated. dont you agree that captchas will become obsolete at some point? what then?

im talking about storing information. to be sure that someone is real, collect tons of info and then get rid of most of it and tag their account with a validation stamp. store just enough info so that two people having identical sets of that info is almost impossible. and im not saying ssn or any other peice of info is the best solution -- obviously it would be anything and everything tailored for whatever systems the persons country of residence currently maintains. as for exploitation, i think it would be simple to make exploitation rare as long as good id systems are implemented by the government or other entities. it would certainly be better than having an internet where its impossible to verify if someone is a human or a robot...

right now i spend 80% percent of my money on rent. through a lot of thought and iteration, ive been able to reduce all of my expenses quite dramatically. but rent absolutely resists my efforts to reduce. it is unmitigated greed. i was talking to my previous landlord and i very carefully broached the subject of why he charges so much and his response was kind of a mental double-think -- he charges what the market can bare. he gets way more money than he needs, and so i call it greed.

i find it very strange to look at the situation in renting -- you have some people who are called "owners" who own the land and they make other people, "renters," pay to stay on the land. what is the difference between renter and owner? why do owners get to sit back and sit on their asses, contributing absolutely nothing, having all their bills paid, not working more than a few days in a month? why do renters have to break their backs all day long just to afford to be able to sleep underneath a roof at night? i just find it very strange that nobody thinks this is unfair -- it is unfair isnt it? one guy does no work and another does tons of work and the guy who works is worse off?

anyway, the whole system is completely unfair and insane, so i decided that i should get out of it. im planning on buying land within 100 to 200 miles of the city. im going to build an icf house with metal roofing and near passive climate control. interestingly, doing this can cost less than buying a new suv, which i would have never guessed before doing the calculations. if you add a healthy solar system and trade your car in for a chevy bolt, one might even commute 150 miles both ways for free quite regularly. as is usual, i expect there to be many people who will call me an idiot and say none of this is possible -- i am looking forward to scrutinizing actual arguments or evidence if they bring any to the table. for those who arent triggered by the concept of cheap, low maintenance living, i would love to connect and exchange tips. check out these awesome websites while youre at it.

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/ https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

dude what does that even have to do with this? identity will need to be taken care of in the absence of capcha, or else we will have an internet that cannot differentiate between a bot and a real person. think of all the websites and all the broad categories of websites that would be broken by that. is this not a problem in need of a solution?