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mofosyne··on Monetizing open-source is problematic
Looking forward to your response. Hopefully it was just a misunderstanding.
mofosyne··on The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation
One possible idea is a rebate that is given back to manufactures if the device last long enough.
mofosyne··on Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
Is there perhaps a way to make difficulty level selection sliders like you see in games but for these tools?
mofosyne··on Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit
Be interesting if there is a roll of a dice each day that increases if you have too many accumulated working days. If you get hit, you are forced to take that day off.
mofosyne··on One-bit Computing at 60 Hertz
The combination of an instruction that does two actions at the same time like branch and set an output kind of reminds me of the raspberry pi Pico subsystem.

Especially the pio sideset functionality.

mofosyne··on Apple will switch to randomized serial numbers in early 2021
Assuming base 32 and we have 8char initially. That gives us around 32^8 = 1.099e12 of serial numbers. Might be enough for a while.
mofosyne··on Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
Might be cheap in monitary terms but... not sure it's as energy efficient. What's the environmental impact?
mofosyne··on Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks
Other alternative is to consider meshtastic . It's basically SMS like modem using Lora.
mofosyne··on The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired
Still more ethical than a vegan having to compromise their morals by taking a butchering job because they can't find any other jobs and need to feed their kids and have a roof over their head.
mofosyne··on Internet disrupted in Myanmar amid military coup
Maybe a better question would be are you willing to allow crimes against humanity to occur if you can avoid personally fighting against it?

Plus there is a whole spectrum of physical intervention if we choose to. E.g. drones, supporting insurgencies, etc... that doesn't even require boots on ground.

This principle would be under R2P responsibility to protect.

mofosyne··on How Homogeneous Is Japan?
I imagine it's somewhat to differentiate the Uyghur Muslims from other Muslims. Especially given that the general Muslim population has been demonized for so long.

Be kind of harder to convince the population to care about the other if that other is already lumped to a group that is given an enemy attribute.

mofosyne··on The AI of Creatures. By Alan Zucconi(Doco on a Tech Behind a Mid 90s Alife Game)
Written Article : https://www.alanzucconi.com/2020/07/27/the-ai-of-creatures/
mofosyne··on The AI of Creatures (Analysis of the Brain of Norns in an Artificial Life Game)
Video Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-6DzI-krUQ

A related discussion of creatures https://www.reddit.com/r/alife/comments/heynsb/a_short_docum...

mofosyne··on Creatures (Video Game Series): Anyone Remember This Artificial Life Game? Alife
This would be of big interest to this community, since it's one of the earlier effort at creating a machine learning game. Where each creature has it's own neuron based brain and can interact with kids who play such games.

There is quite a few debate on whether these creatures are sentient or not... even if these creatures are dumber than an ant.

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Other Links:

* openc2e is an open-source game engine intended to run all the games in the Creatures series. https://github.com/openc2e/openc2e

* Article about the creatures AI: https://www.alanzucconi.com/2020/07/27/the-ai-of-creatures/

* Brain in Creatures: https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Brain

* Visualizing Brain Structure In Creatures 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20200927195326/http://discoveral... - Drive Lobe: https://web.archive.org/web/20200129235836/http://discoveral...

* How Brain Works In Creatures: http://double.nz/creatures/brainlobes/intro.htm

* Utilities to inspect brain: http://double.nz/creatures/brainutilities.htm

mofosyne··on DNA assembly standards: Setting the low-level programming code for biotechnology
Similar Readings:

* "Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine" https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...

mofosyne··on Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases
> Apple Support was also apparently cold to when Johnson admitted she wouldn't have been able to make a mortgage payment. The support person reportedly told her that "there's a setting, you should have known."

Pretty dammn outrageous if that's what they said.

mofosyne··on Ruffle – A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
A standard at least for encoding vector animation would be nice. Also needs to be not as bulky as having svg frame per frame, etc...
mofosyne··on Are we losing our ability to remember?
Why not both? Brave New World for the masses and 1984 for the few that rock the boat.
mofosyne··on Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?
Not even the trolly problems. These people do not have to die if we have equitable wellbeing support to pull them along this lockdown.
mofosyne··on Oak: A more portable alternative to C, powered by Brainfuck-inspired technology
Then it's on us to make sure that society can provide opportunities beyond putting the best minds of our generation into generating more clicks.
mofosyne··on The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks
I see mask a sort of like logs in warships used to plug leaks during battle. Cheap, easy to source and relatively effective enough in a pinch... at least enough to buy time for a proper response.

Might not be as effective as prepping before hand with better design, response or tactics. But you make do with what you got, competent leader or not.

Effectively the name of the game for the whole world is to buy enough time for a Vaccine to be created... or maybe for the virus to hopefully mutate into a more survivable form perhaps.

mofosyne··on Tim O’Reilly makes a case for why venture capital is starting to do more harm
Reminds me of the Paradise papers leaks and how the journalist uncovering an international potential money laundering operation got car bombed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Caruana_Galizia

mofosyne··on Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids
Slightly disappointing, but hopefully they be able to carry on the legacy. Even if it's only by name.

Might not be too bad if they managed to hire some veterans from PalmOS

mofosyne··on What computer and software is used by the Falcon 9? (2015)
Unlikely that they are using javascript in the actual flight controller. Also under the screen they have a small amount of manual buttons that is likely to be seperate from the touchscreen interface logic.
mofosyne··on EU lawmakers snub Apple's pleas, vote to push for charging cable standard
If the phone manufacturers care enough, they can always pay the fine per device
mofosyne··on Is there anyway to embed close captioning to audio-only files? (e.g. podcast)
https://iandevlin.com/blog/2015/12/html5/webvtt-and-audio/
mofosyne··on Amazon workers say they’re doing “back-breaking” work without paid time off
But what could we be doing to stop this from happening?

Could it be that we need more granular binning of people between part time to full time work, with increasingly increased full time rights?

mofosyne··on Learning to code vs. learning to automate
They may not be entitied to a job... but they certainly are entitled to not be screwed below the poverty line through no fault of their own, just because the the owner wanted an extra buck.

Hence the universal basic income.

mofosyne··on JSONCrush – Compress JSON into URI Friendly Strings
Maybe further saving could be done by converting to cbor before urlencode
mofosyne··on Is there any accepted standards for having Document Type Definition in JSON?
For extra context, this is a valid XML doc with embedded DTD:

   <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes" ?>
   <!DOCTYPE address
   [
      <!ELEMENT address (name,company,phone)>
      <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
      <!ELEMENT company (#PCDATA)>
      <!ELEMENT phone (#PCDATA)>
   ]>
   <address>
      <name>Tanmay Patil</name>
      <company>TutorialsPoint</company>
      <phone>(011) 123-4567</phone>
   </address>
This is a valid XML doc with an externally linked DTD:

   <?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "no" ?>
   <!DOCTYPE address SYSTEM "address.dtd">
   <address>
      <name>Tanmay Patil</name>
      <company>TutorialsPoint</company>
      <phone>(011) 123-4567</phone>
   </address>
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