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Wolfbeta··on I tricked myself into working out 3 times per week
You're literally hacking your optical system.
Wolfbeta··on How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]
>Side note the most common problem for the PS support queue was PlayStations not reading disks properly.

I laughed when I read the following quote from Andy Gavin's blog, now I'm crying after seeing yours.

"Kelly asked how many of these CD hits Andy thought a gamer that finished Crash would have. Andy did some thinking and off the top of his head said “Roughly 120,000.” Kelly became very silent for a moment and then quietly mumbled “the PlayStation CD drive is ‘rated’ for 70,000.”

>The fix was to turn the machine on its side or even upside down to get the CD closer to the laser.

Was this the precedent for marketing the PS2 vertically?

Wolfbeta··on What to read to understand how economists think
> So while I do recommend nearly everyone read Marx, it will likely hurt, not help, you understand mainstream economic theories.

Solved by reading Atlas Shrugged in the interim.

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: What is a sustainable methodology for taking notes of your learning?
You can use a custom sync server on desktop and android.

https://github.com/ankicommunity/anki-sync-server

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Has the quality of Google search declined for anyone else, or just me?
uBlock Origin element zapper.
Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: How do you deal with slight memory impairment?
"the day you need to return your video tapes"

That day has long passed.

Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Don't you feel attention economy has cannibalized the age of information
“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.” -- Carl Sagan
Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement?
Pure hedonism?
Wolfbeta··on Ask HN: Viability of an anti-AI social movement?
Marx called this valorization.

"Just as capital, as value valorizing itself, views with indifference the particular physical guise in which labour appears in the labour process, whether as a steam-engine, dung heap or silk, so too the worker looks upon the particular content of his labour with equal indifference. His work belongs to capital, it is only the use-value of the commodity that he has sold, and he has only sold it to acquire money and, with the money, the means of subsistence."

Wolfbeta··on California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
This is the most dystopian thing I've ever read.

But probably the best way to defeat the existential threat of gray goo.

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