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mofosyne··on MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine
Blast From The Future 20XX Headline Retrospective

> MacUser 2023: How to Rig Up the Fastest Image Generation Machine (archive.org)

mofosyne··on HTTP now supported in U-Boot
I thought I read somewhere that HTTP/3 can use UDP now. Thought I'm not sure if it can purely use UDP or if it needs to be bootstrapped by a TCP connection first.

It would be handy if the HTTP standard had some support for a minimal UDP connection for resource constrained webservers.

mofosyne··on Show HN: DivestOS – Long-term support for end-of-life Android devices
Could there be a chance for splitting android into two half? One for per device low level initialization and one for a shared image for all android devices?

So the idea is you be able to easily upgrade or even multiboot different android or linux images if you wish, without having to recompile for every device.

mofosyne··on Starlight interstellar probe
Sounds like an important fact to figure out if true or not. That would inform if our exploration should be purely AI based or if we can transport humans across the stars.
mofosyne··on Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died
As usual looks like some scifi author already though about this and that it's a terrible idea. https://www.gregegan.net/DISTRESS/Excerpt/DistressExcerpt.ht...
mofosyne··on Scientists Revived Organs in Pigs an Hour After They Died
If they can figure out how to even temporarily revive a human brain, it be at least useful for murder investigation if you can literally ask the murder victim who killed them.
mofosyne··on Low water stage marks on hunger stones (2020)
This reminds me of these concepts

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism Longtermism is an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future. It is an important concept in effective altruism and serves as a primary motivation for efforts to reduce existential risks to humanity.

since the villagers is essentially trying to communicate over long period of times critical information that would essentially be of no use to them in their lifetimes, but would save lives many years down the track.

mofosyne··on Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of their own
In support of your comment. This debate reminds me of the sex education and free condom and abortion debate in the past.

It may be a personal choice that causes unwanted pregnancies, but putting the failure of teens to avoid getting pregnant on their moral failing has been a massive fail for decades until we fixed the social infrastructure around it instead to make doing the right choice easier.

mofosyne··on Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect
I imagine it depends on the cost differential between the externalities of them being homeless like crime, health and surrounding business impact vs just providing basic housing indefinitely with some resources to get out when ready.

People with complex issues have variable amount of time to resolve it. Can't put a time on it. But you can figure what cost you more and how much you value human dignity within that cost framework.

So an arbitrary time limit in this case does not make sense as a government public welfare policy.

mofosyne··on Profiles of people living in homeless encampments, rarely what you’d expect
Drug use sometimes feels like a method homeless people use to self medicate because of being homeless. So if the bottom of Maslow like housing first is addressed then by implication it means less medication needed to treat the horrors of being homeless.

Sounds cheaper as well compared to the policing and emergency hospital bills needed to deal with them as well.

mofosyne··on Free stuff makes us irrational
What if during the sign up stage, you actually show the current price of the free plan. But then give a 100% discount for a certain period. Afterwards, you would then reduce the discount X percentage until it's fully transitioned into a paid model.

If it's all transparent, maybe that would make it easier for people to know that it's not free for free sake and plan accordingly.

mofosyne··on VRS is a file format optimized to record and playback streams of sensor data
Reminds me a bit of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_change_dump which allows for tracking time series information of states and signals in a device.

VCD however is mostly for FPGA or logic analyser dumps instead of sensor data.

mofosyne··on Employees are returning to the office to sit on zoom calls
Sounds almost like a sitcom...
mofosyne··on We must return to an economy fueled by innovation, rather than disruption
Is there any known platform cooperatives to support that has some traction so far?
mofosyne··on LibreOffice running natively in the browser via WebAssembly
Does make you wonder what other optimization can be done. Maybe the whole thing doesn't have to be loaded in immediately.
mofosyne··on Car companies will charge you monthly fees for add-on features like heated seats
Next step. Arrested for brand disloyalty
mofosyne··on Glorified electric golf carts for all
Might be quite practical if self driving as well. Slower speed hopefully means less processing power required.
mofosyne··on Div Divisiveness
We can seperate styles from a page using CSS...

Maybe we could try seperating the html template from the content as well?

mofosyne··on Thousands of phone boxes around the UK will be protected from closure
These phone station can be used as wifi or short range 5g base station.

Plus not everyone have smartphone and these maybe the only way those on the street especially the homeless can call others.

mofosyne··on Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
His birthday is November 8, 1986

Take the time to remember the kind of person he is.

Electron workshop is having a watch party for Americans today at Monday, November 8 at 1pm in Illionis, US.

https://venue.electronworkshop.com.au/b/dod-3rc-jhv-re0

For Aussies, the workshop is playing another session right now starting at 9pm Sydney time.

mofosyne··on The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops
How about the money gets paid back to taxpayers as a seperate line item as a dividend.

E.g. everyone get $10 dollars from fine profits

mofosyne··on Internet Object – A JSON alternative data serialization format
Hope it supports semantic tagging like in CBOR
mofosyne··on RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term
If only we can charge a price for taking up too much ram or cpu cycles.
mofosyne··on HiFive Unmatched – A RISC-V Linux development platform
Will RISCV have the same mess that ARM ecosystem has of not standardising or having a single BIOS or similar system... such that you have to compile a custom image for every board?

One thing PC has going for it, is that you can install one Linux distro into any PC board. This is not the same for ARM boards.

mofosyne··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
How can that be fixed? Everyone now has a smartphone these days, surely there is a way to electronically log all these renting agreements.
mofosyne··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
Is there an alternative that keeps the government from having to pay so much for non paying fathers? Ergo, paternity insurance scheme?
mofosyne··on Show HN: C programming language extension: Cedro pre-processor
I wonder if this also allows for grouping registers together as a macro, rather than having to allocate an array to track ports and registers like digitalWrite() in arduino.

e.g. Instead of writing...

```

ANSELBbits.ANSB3 = 0; // RB3 is digital (pinMode)

TRISBbits.TRISB3 = 0; // RB3 is output (pinMode)

LATBbits.LATB3 = 1; // RB3 is set to high (digitalWrite)

```

we would be able to write the macro like below, where `ANSEL[RB3] --> ANSELBbits.ANSB3`

```

pinMode(RB3, OUTPUT);

digitalWrite(RB3, HIGH);

```

mofosyne··on FB users buying Oculus VR headsets to get customer service prioritization
More like product and customer. Not like Facebook has an incentive to treat your data with any more respect if paid or not.

Just like how movie tickets and train tickets don't get any cheaper with advertisement everywhere.

mofosyne··on Internet in a Box
Does this also allow for sneakernet email?
mofosyne··on Ftxui: C++ Functional Terminal User Interface
I be curious to see if there is a Terminal User Interface that can also have a GUI mode as well if opened directly rather than in a terminal.
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