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  • I believe the idea of eldritch is in being able to comprehent the true form - but only temporarily, since our minds cannot hold that knowledge, only to be left with a frayed hole in our thoughts

    But also as people mentioned, there's some cursed geometries. Hyperbolic and parabolic geometry is interesting (see Hyperholica and Hyperrogue), but things get worse with Nil and Solv

    For a more plain existential horror also see Fractal Block World, pretty fun seeing the sense of scale as you shrink yourself ever further revealing detail you couldn't perceive before, and also the sense of scale, as a tiny room becomes an incomprehensibly vast space you cannot hope to cross in your lifetime.

  • Our public TV has no midroll ads, only between programs, and I'm so happy I can use a guide and usually find something to watch when eating and get no ads. But I'm also watching the endless reruns of a series I like, so that's also not difficult to get.

  • To be fair, taking care of a pet temporarily is an entirely different matter to having a pet permanently. I wouldn't trust myself to care for a pet day by day for years, but taking on that responsibility for a few days while also getting the benefit of having an already trained pet for that time?

  • Overproduce to cover everybody's needs, and if you want to use that overproduction to cover somebody else's problems, make that the new target and produce over it to keep a safety margin. Otherwise you're just going to hide the problem and run into trouble when production dips.

    Not saying this is the right approach, but this is the idea I'm getting from the thread. I feel like it might not work with the economics of supply and demand combined with capitalistic greed, but if a margin exists as safety, allocating it removes that safety.

  • Hell

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  • email is high bandwidth

    I don't think the reasons you stated are about bandwidth, and considering writing an email is IMO more effort than explaining on a phone call and will take me longer, I'd argue phone calls are higher bandwidth than email - at least in one on one conversations, since things change when you want to inform multiple people.

    Though of course what you listed is important, and it sucks when people refuse to write out basic details that you could come back to later or forward to somebody else.

  • I had the impression cloud was about the opposite - detaching your server software from physical machines you manage, instead paying a company to provide more abstracted services, with the ideal being high scalability by having images that can be deployed en masse independent of the specifics of where they're hosted and on what hardware. Pay for "storage", instead of renting a machine with specific hardware and software, for example.

  • Yes, apple should allow that, and Sony should allow that. Your "gotcha" seems pretty stupid, because "allow" doesn't mean "facilitate" - it's not Apple's responsibility to make those things work on their devices, but Apple is going out of their way to prevent individuals from making those things happen on their own.

  • If you license your project under GPL, and somebody submits some code (like through a pull request) that ends up in the library you use, you are now also bound by the GPL license, meaning you also have to publish the source of any derivatives.

    The way to avoid it is to use something like a CLA, requiring every contributor to sign an agreement giving you special rights to their code, so you can ignore the GPL license in relation to the code they wrote. This works, but is obviously exploitative, taking rights to contributions while giving out less.

    It also means if somebody forks the project, you can't pull in their changes (if you can't meet GPL terms, of course), unlike with MIT, where by default everybody can make their own versions, public or private, for any purpose.

    Though it's worth noting, if you license your code under MIT, a fork can still add the GPL license on top, which means if you wanted to pull in their changes you'd be bound to both licenses and thus GPL terms. I believe this is also by design in the GPL license, to give open-source an edge, though that can be a bit of a dick move when done to a good project, since it lets the GPL fork pull in changes from MIT versions without giving back to them.

  • I think the trick might be that nothing is stopping you from using more than one 32-bit integer to represent addresses and the kernel maps memory for processes in the first place, so as long as each process individually can work within the 32-bit address space, it's possible for the kernel to allocate that extra memory to processes.

    I do suppose on some level the architecture, as in the CPU and/or motherboard need to support retrieving memory using more than 32 bits of address space, which would also be what somebody else replied, and seems to be available since 1999 on both AMD and Intel.

  • Thinking about it... Since I'm not planning on switching to windows, and (non-VAC?) bans on steam are game specific, would I even care if I got banned from a game for using it on Linux?

    Though I probably also won't be playing this game, since I have no prior interest, so I'm biased.

  • Not necessarily, if they have "magic tech", they could be uploading a virus that rapidly spreads across the entire internet, making every machine broadcast its data through electromagnetic waves or something like that, picking up all those transmitions with said magic tech.

    It would still take longer just to read the data off off all the storage, but theoretically not DSL

  • FTs

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  • NFTs try to introduce artificial scarcity

    Just want to add to that, NFTs aren't inherently about artificial scarcity, they could also be used to track ownership of rights or real life items without a central authority that everybody needs to trust.

    Of course, cryptobros immediately went to pushing them as an investment scheme, and the actual implementations are slow, inefficient, and downright expensive to use. I don't think anybody has managed to make NFTs actually useful, but I imagine the original creators weren't looking to create... Whatever this is.