I give away a lot, or buy people things I know they'd enjoy. I feel bad spending a lot on myself if I know other people need it more. Or maybe it's a selfish thing to make me feel less bad when I do spend on myself.
I'm unsure why I feel uneasy, but I guess I'd be less uneasy when someone has a lot of money and they spend it on things that others can enjoy too. That's just me though, I'm not trying to influence what people do with their money.
I think you're referring to the agricultural revolution, before which humans were hunter-gatherers. But even when people were moving around a lot, they didn't go very far, and I don't think it was for the same reasons.
> Hunter-gatherers tends to have much greater home ranges than pre-industrial sedentary farmers. It has been estimated that pre-industrial English people living in small townships would have had a home range of 900 hectares (9 km2), close to that predicted for an omnivorous mammal of their same body mass.
Not sure if I'd call it narcissism, but whenever I hear about friends of mine (mostly friends of friends to be fair) going to Japan after they'd just gone on a cruise to Antarctica, and the trek through the Alps is also already planned, it makes me feel uneasy, but I can't quite put my finger on why. I've always felt uneasy around people that spend so much money on themselves and their own pleasures.
Not the person you're replying to but I remember loading games from tape on the Commodore 64 could be fiddly as well. Not sure about adjustments (today I am spoiled, having a disk drive for my 64) because I was a kid back then. I just remember how frustrating it was to see "LOAD ERROR" after waiting for what felt like an eternity. I think we just rewound the tape tried again.
Same for me. Since I quit tech (professionally) about 5 years ago, I was never part of the AI thing. I still write a lot of code, but I enjoy coding, so I don't use AI.
I am no fan of PHP but it wasn't really a joke language. Its goal I think was to add some dynamic snippets to your homepage for which I guess it served its purpose pretty good. PHP even originally stood for Personal Home Page iirc. The problem seems to be that the rest of the language was built on top of that. I haven't used PHP in over a decade, so I don't know if it's still the case, but you used to start a PHP file with a PHP opening tag, which is such a weird "feature", but I guess kinda makes sense in a world where everything outside of PHP tags used to be HTML.I remember seeing PHP files that were impossible to work with: thousands of lines with HTML mixed in with PHP classes etc.
Such a contrast with the mechanical clock in my 1981 Volvo 240. Even my 29 year newer (2010) Toyota Yaris just has a simple 12-hour digital clock (not even AM or PM) with a button to set the time. I really appreciate how simple both are.
> Either way it's irrelevant in my eyes. There was always going to be a day of reckoning in the future. Some new technology was always destiny to show up and rain on our lack of security parade.
With all these new security issues being found by AI, I wonder how many of those only became a real risk because of AI. In other words: how much time is being spent right now fixing these issues _with_ AI but also _because of_ AI.
> “Why would I want to allow other people to contact me whenever they want?”
My phone is always on silent, except for my family's numbers. If I get a call from someone else, I'll see it at some point and call back if I think it's necessary
In Canada we have imperial for short measurements (inches and feet for lumber, people's heights) but metric for longer distances (kilometers for driving distances for example)
I sometimes drive my wifes Ioniq 5, which has much less road noise than my Yaris, but the constant beeping to warn me about everything and screens everywhere give me more fatigue than the road noise of my Yaris.
I did lots of highway driving in my 2010 Yaris (weighs about a tonne) this weekend and I was perfectly comfortable. Though I guess the more used you get to larger, heavier cars the more you would find such a small car uncomfortable.
One thing I prefer on Mac keyboards is how heavily the CMD key is use for things I do often and where it is in relation to my thumb. For copying for example, CMD+C is _right there_. It's been a while since I last had a Mac, and my thumb has learned the CTRL+C stretch, but Mac was easier for that.
Reminds me of some pendulum clock fun I had making a clock for the Apple 2 that used my grandparent's old clock and an inductive proximity sensor as an oscillator.
When I showed my Konica Hexar to a younger colleague, he said, but how do you get the pictures into the computer. It was like a world opened for him when I said that I don't.
Depends where you are. I am in Canada, and yeah we have that too. Street lights give off that terrible white light. And many people even choose to light their houses with that blue-ish light. I grew up in The Netherlands, and it's totally different there. Street lights are yellow and dim, and so are almost the lights in people's houses. Feels way more natural. I even noticed a difference in Christmas lights. Here in Canada everyone has those bright RGB LEDs, often even cycling through flashing patterns. When I went to The Netherlands for Christmas a couple of years ago, I saw almost exclusively the cozy yellow Christmas lights in trees etc.
I am Dutch but now live in Canada. Whenever I go back to the Netherlands to visit, I notice how dark it gets in the small town where my parents live compared to the even smaller Canadian town where I live. Less street lights over there, but also each street light is dimmer. And not just that, it's also the quality of the light. In my Canadian town, we have those really bright super white LEDs that you shouldn't look at directly, compared to the ones that give off a soft yellow-ish light in my parent's town.
(And it's not just light pollution here, but also noise: everything here in Canada seems louder. Louder cars, louder machinery, people playing loud music in their yars, more cars in city centers. Man do I miss the Netherlands)
I've started to really appreciate posts / articles with grammatical errors. I used to dislike those, but now they've become a proof of a human having written it.