dominictarr.bsky.social
Amateur Anthropologist,
Independent Degrowth Researcher,
Special Interest: Traditional Craft of the Pacific.
Retired from Tech.
Youtube Sailor: https://youtube.com/@dominictarrsailing
(Btw 🔵 is the view of this planet fron the angle the land isnt)
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close your eyes before you put it in, and it should work 50%
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why "take" a robot when you could "send" it
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the best way to make your bot not seem botlike is to make it anti-ai bsky.app/profile/soma...
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ooohhh... it's the @swiftonsecurity.com ... origin story?
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yes but you have to weigh that against the making it look visually nice and being easy to style
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hahaha I remember when @pfrazee.com removed tree threading from patchwork so that it would be easier to style, how we've come full circle! enabled!
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this is bad, very bad
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I'm from New Zealand. Most places are hilly here. I learned to navigate mostly by geography (keep the river to the left, follow the valley, or you know what hill you are meant to be on. I didn't go to a flat place until I was 27 and got very confused having to remember street names.
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My mother told me a story of when she was young (must have been late 70s) her and her friends got lost after dark in a unfamiliar city. She saved the day by recognizing the southern cross! then they knew what way south was and found the main road again. So, celestial navigation!
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one answer that might blow the minds of the kids today: people used to stop and ask strangers for directions
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of course it's an exercise in self projection. we had radio broadcast, someone could detect that. It's only been about a century though so it's a very narrow window. What is the chance that we will have moved on from radio within a few hundred years? would innocently mean detection is very unlikely
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Already we are switching to do space comms via laser (which is higher bandwidth, no interference problem, and isn't evesdroppable unless they are directly in line...)
So we'd probably not detect an alien civ that had fully embraced laser communication.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_c...
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isn't casper just the deceased richy rich?
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and just look at how widespread feasting and dancing is in indigenous cultures around the world
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my theory is that a party was the primordial form of human organization
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all your friends with ropes and levers, and the promise of a feast once you have stood it on it's end. that's how they did it I reckon
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evidently not a rolling stone
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This is what Otzi was wearing, basically crocs and socks.
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It's actually okay if it doesn't turn out to be such a big deal (for example, VR) because everyone who got in looses equally, worst would be if you neglected to get in, then it does go big. So incentive is to get into it, even if you don't know what you are gonna do with it.
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Palintir rose during the Big Data hypecycle, ~ 2 cycles ago. Everyone gets on the hypecycle because they are scared of getting left behind if they don't.
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the current hypecycle
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ding dong. that's gold right there
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gonna have to switch from a customary "grilled cheese sandwich" to metric "cheese on toast"
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I guess the thing you need, not just good intentions ("alturism") is to be like, actually good at doing that... you could say be "effective"...
it's like, they just disagree on what approach is the most effective
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big fan of your work in the classic Looks Like It Turns But Actually You Pull It
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you've convinced me!
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bloody hell! not only was that a gruesome experience but also many countries deny visas if you have been deported from *any country*
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the kinetic energy of sledding down the hill was "charged" by walking up it
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you can extract it from tap water! except they are removing the fluoride, so make sure you stockpile as much fluoridated tap water as you can
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now you just need a can of gold spraypaint!!!
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hmm I guess they just hadn't had their yurt epiphany yet!
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was it a shelf company? like, a company that's already registered but does nothing, so that you can start a new company by just renaming/transferring it, which is faster in some jurisdictions