Posts by deshipu@fosstodon.org
(DIR) Post #AzIsCwNbe0S8i8kBU0 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-17T14:03:56Z
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@piggo Why not? This is literally where the next generation of employees is coming from. It translates directly into work performance and the profits of the decision makers.
(DIR) Post #AzSx68p7QHAod3mzNg by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-22T11:03:51Z
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What if computers, but in a good way?
(DIR) Post #AzXAPULVheIwuzKrZ2 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-24T12:22:30Z
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opinion
(DIR) Post #AzXAQYmkgPJMyaaYBk by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-24T12:23:12Z
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@bortzmeyer how dare you!
(DIR) Post #Azg8CbAAgvFdwPYDx2 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-28T20:07:12Z
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@piggo They do, but you can redesign them for other materials. Regular glass probably wouldn't work, but there are other glass-like materials that could. Metals shouldn't be a problem, except for durability of the softer ones. Bone or horn would be interesting too. And ivory, of course.
(DIR) Post #AzltYjhhHigcR85dnE by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-10-31T14:13:28Z
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When you look at the screenshots of old Macintosh applications, you may think to yourself: wow, they pretty much have everything we have in our modern applications, on a processor that today we use in a clock, why do we need all those super-powerful computers, what a waste.However.Try to actually use any of those applications on the actual hardware they ran on. The screenshots don't show you how just drawing the drop-down menu takes five seconds.
(DIR) Post #B05RMQe1laXG2tUae0 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-06T12:33:45Z
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FOSS software is not free as in beer or free as in freedom, it's free as in free kittens. You have to take care of them forever.
(DIR) Post #B06YxnhVttdP6ZqmFE by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-08T18:18:53Z
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@fox the important thing about free beer is that someone is always paying for it
(DIR) Post #B06YxpxBWbMI5lCJwu by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-08T18:23:09Z
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@fox until they aren't anymore
(DIR) Post #B0AEp10lp0lZKWEMM4 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-12T08:45:39Z
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Which Roman god is the most relevant today?
(DIR) Post #B0COK9D0gKJxdOnMx6 by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-13T09:41:32Z
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I think that all personal computers should come with a programming environment installed on them by default, and a user manual explaining how to use it. But I think that environment should probably look more like Jupyter Notebook than HyperCard or BASIC.
(DIR) Post #B0N4Q2GpgiDVkYeJ9c by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-11-18T13:20:08Z
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I would love to read a speculative article about different ways human anatomy could be modified to realistically support extra limbs and wings common in religious and mythical depictions. How the extra sockets and joints would be accomodated and attached to the skeleton, where the extra muscles would be attached, and how it all would affect common actions like walking, sitting or lying down. It seems that most artist simply add them as an afterthought without much realism.
(DIR) Post #B0san4CxQbCNcGgCwK by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-12-03T11:13:16Z
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@tante And that ability is rapidly dwindling for everyone but big corporations.
(DIR) Post #B0wkRRquc92kkdXQEC by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-12-05T17:11:35Z
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I understand when SciFi authors bend the laws of physics to accommodate the plots of their books. I can even tolerate it when they get it all wrong because they don't understand the original laws. Physics is hard. But I have to wonder when a SciFi author writes about things that are impossible, not because of laws of physics, but simply because that's not how geometry works. Like "the asteroid rotated slowly in one axis, and fast in another". You can only rotate in one axis in 3D space...
(DIR) Post #B16qqUEhQnjognaP3o by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-12-10T15:24:36Z
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Today I remembered how Von Neumann was angry at the compiler developer crowd, for wasting precious computing resources on a trivial translating operation that a bunch of students could be made to do for free instead, and I wonder if we are on the other side of the pendulum swing right now.
(DIR) Post #B1EfqDuEbM43oMMhCy by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-12-14T09:00:15Z
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If you can't solve social problems with tech, then you also can't cause social problems with tech, and you should stop blaming tech for everything.
(DIR) Post #B1W0BDv3JfPFAj71pA by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2025-12-22T18:34:50Z
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I think it tells a lot about us that most people who ever went to space were soldiers.
(DIR) Post #B2PDszb8aR8VeG6tdY by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2026-01-18T09:51:28Z
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Product idea: non-translucent black masking tape, for covering all the blinking lights and always-on displays in your hotel room.
(DIR) Post #B2ejIfjQWRWaZCCvXU by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2026-01-25T21:12:55Z
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Have you ever noticed how bad it feels to start eating something you picked up in a self-service shop before you got to the checkout and paid for it, even when you fully intend to pay for it, and just need the wrapper to do that?This is because internally we still think about things in terms of being cursed and performing a cleansing ritual to fully transfer the ownership. This is also why it feels wrong to eat (or use) something stolen, even if it's someone else who stole it.
(DIR) Post #B2gz5F9K1xXTwPrH5U by deshipu@fosstodon.org
2026-01-26T23:38:17Z
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So here's a more realistic version of the trolley car problem:There are some people strapped to the track of a trolley car, and a trolley car is arriving that will kill them, unless you divert it to an empty track, where it will come to a stop harmlessly, by pulling a lever. But you promised that you won't touch the lever no matter what. What do you do?