fogihujy (u/fogihujy)

fogihujy commented on Cannabis use produces persistent cognitive impairments: meta review addictionjournal.org/post... · Posted by u/caaqil

rex_lupi · 4 years ago

They are not "natural" in the sense that humans don't consume ethyl alcohol to survive, in fact it is often quite damaging to biological systems. Apart from some microbes I'm not aware of any other organisms that use alcohol as their energy source. Alcohol/thc/caffeine/nicotine (you name it) do not fall in the "natural" diet of humans. Most psychoactive substances are metabolites which plants/fungi store in them to deter other animals from eating them.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

SSRI's or Benzodapines have severe side-effects, yet relying on them to survive isn't seen as disruptive to society. There may be an argument against self-medicating with Alcohol or Cannabis, but them being un-natural isn't it.

fogihujy commented on A website hosted on a floppy disk (Be patient while it's loading) old.bigcat.space/... · Posted by u/mans82

gelli · 4 years ago

I think it's On the Beach, a remake of a 1950s movie https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/

Here's the original: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Brilliant book too! Well worth a read.

fogihujy commented on EU should ban proof-of-work crypto mining, regulator says afr.com/world/europe/eu-s... · Posted by u/ml_basics

DickingAround · 4 years ago

If they really are low on power, for whatever reason, it's time to raise prices. I know people like fixing the price below what the actual market rate would be but it causes a lot of problems. And Europe in particular isn't doing itself any favors by shutting down clean nuke plants and relying on fossil fuel Russia, of all countries. They need to re-think how they're managing their energy before it's too late. And "we allowed someone to use their computer a lot so let's ban that" is not a root cause here.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

No doubt about it; shutting down the nuclear plants ahead of schedule was simply a bad decision, and I don't think anyone is claiming that crypto actually caused the current energy crisis in Europe.

It's a mess caused by a whole lot of varying factors, ranging from public utilities being sold out to international cartels who pocketed the income without investing in grid improvements, to the EV rollouts, to power plants being decomissioned. On top of that, you have Russia flexing their muscles, and if that conflict somehow escalates then Russian gas imports will be weaponized. I suspect the EU would like to be the ones doing the weaponizing and that means reducing the energy usage and fast.

Under those circumstances, proof-of-work crypto is simply low-hanging fruit and banning it will have a relatively large impact with a fairly small number of people being hit. People will prefer that to even higher energy prices, regardless if it's morally right or not.

fogihujy commented on EU should ban proof-of-work crypto mining, regulator says afr.com/world/europe/eu-s... · Posted by u/ml_basics

mstipetic · 4 years ago

But it’s all about personal freedoms. It’s not important there’s a planet wide climate emergency, that there’s a massive decline in wildlife population - all these things don’t matter as long as we’re all free to dick around and do what ever we want without the spooky regulators with guns telling us what to do.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Well, to be frank, it's not about the environment, and barely about national security: some places in Europe -- southern Sweden being the most notable example -- has severe energy shortages to such an extent that new businesses have to go elsewhere when they want to expand.

Other parts of Europe has a power surplus, but the grid's capacity simply isn't high enough to transfer all of it to the locations where it's needed.

As it turned out, the environmentalists' push to kill nuclear power wasn't that great since the plants were in the areas where the power was actually consumed.

fogihujy commented on EU should ban proof-of-work crypto mining, regulator says afr.com/world/europe/eu-s... · Posted by u/ml_basics

DickingAround · 4 years ago

If you worry about the power waste, have a CO2 tax. You don't think some people's use of power is right, but perhaps they don't think your use of power is right. Is that really something you don't want to be a fundamental right, this concept of being able to use electricity as you see fit?

The idea of banning something because of a chip shortage is an even more extreme attack on the rights of others. One person makes specialized bitcoin mining chips (they can't be used for anything else), another person buys them. And you want to bring people with guns into it because maybe the person making the chips could be making them for whatever you want? Please, think deeply before asking for force and violence to be involved in a bunch of people peacefully going about their own ways and interests.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

It's not about waste; it's a matter of managing an energy shortage while simultaneously trying to threaten Russia with sanctions and whilst being dependent on Russian gas.

A CO2 tax won't help when the issue is that the grids simply can't keep up with demand.

fogihujy commented on What made the Amiga so great 8bitnews.io/article/amiga... · Posted by u/harel

zozbot234 · 4 years ago

> The Amiga 1200 was arguably the last and best of the golden era "console computers", (meaning all-in-ones with the CPU inside the keyboard and could display on a standard analog TV).

Surely if "last and best" is your criterion, one can hardly discount the Atari Falcon. (And the earliest models in the Acorn Archimedes line were definitely "all-in-ones" integrating a keyboard although they might have lacked in-built TV out.)

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Surely you're not trying to restart the A1200 vs. Falcon debate? We all know the Amiga was superior anyway. ;)

fogihujy commented on Life at 800 MHz artemis.sh/2022/01/12/lif... · Posted by u/blackhole

marttt · 4 years ago

The NC10 was/is a great machine. Considering the dimensions, it had a remarkably good keyboard. I also liked the "fanless mode". It felt quite sturdy, and, iirc, you could open the screen all the way down, to 180 degrees. The one I had for some time did suffer from its symptomatic "white screen" issue, though.

I did some writing on this machine, and I always felt really concentrated, quite possibly because of the small screen.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Seconding this. The NC10 was an amazing little thing for writing a lot when on the go. Too bad the white screen issues have killed most of them off by now.

fogihujy commented on Ask HN: What's Going on with YouTube Search? · Posted by u/mouzogu

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Searched for of a metal band. The results were full of Pakistani movie reviews.

Luckily, Spotify search still works.

fogihujy commented on U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient apnews.com/article/pig-he... · Posted by u/danso

gus_massa · 4 years ago

People love primates, specially big ones, and will get angry if in the future thousands of primates are used for organ harvest.

Pigs? People will make jokes like "If I pay for the heart transplant, do I get a free bacon?"

(Also, pigs have the correct size to get an organ usable in humans.)

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Also, while pigs are naturally curious and definitely aren't dumb, I suspect our primate cousins are closer to us on the conciousness scale.

And yes, bacon. Combine the transplant with an offer on cheap pork, and we'll soon have heart transplants and bacon deliveries as a service. :D

fogihujy commented on My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years unixsheikh.com/articles/m... · Posted by u/iio7

BaconPackets · 4 years ago

A friend of the family has been running Mint as a daily driver for a couple of years. It works pretty well but it does require some Linux expertise.

I definitely would not recommend that to anyone out of the box. More for power users still.

fogihujy · 4 years ago

Out of curiousity: what made the OOB experience bad for you? I've always found it extremely easy to use.