legitimayzer (u/legitimayzer)

legitimayzer commented on I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days davidmuller.github.io/pos... · Posted by u/dmuller

overthrow · 2 years ago

Well this is timely. I have a parasitic draw on my NC Miata. The first mechanic just replaced the battery. The second told me it's normal for the battery to die if you don't drive it for 3 days (because "cars have computers now"). It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car... but these days that encompasses more and more of what can go wrong.

Without time to dig into it myself I've just been parking it with a battery tender every time I come home.

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

> It seems like mechanics really don't like digging into the electrical part of the car.

this is like saying that computer programmers don't like digging into the proprietary and binary blobs from other vendors.

I am trying to say it's not fair to blame mechanics because even if they want to dig into the electronics, the car manufacturers take active measures to prevent 'random mechanics' from digging around.

I suppose there are many rational and reasonable way to justify why this is so; probably all having some form of "because safety" and "because IP of vendors".

legitimayzer commented on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years woodfromeden.substack.com... · Posted by u/elsewhen

syntaxing · 2 years ago

I think people take knowledge for granted. It’s really easy to understand something. It’s really hard to be the first person to think of something and prove it. Take Calculus for example. It’s easy to understand and learn the basics of it (a ton of people do in HS, even earlier in some countries). But it is extremely hard to be Newton and think about it first and prove it.

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

> It’s really hard to be the first person to think of something and prove it.

can confirm, I have been trying to do/understand something but since I ain't seen it, I cannot just tell you what it is.

less stubborn people (and people with other's depending on them) would have given up already.

legitimayzer commented on Why human societies developed so little during 300k years woodfromeden.substack.com... · Posted by u/elsewhen

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

it's not that we didn't develop culture, it's just that the scientific/academic CANNOT accept nothing which is not written down (or which exist as material remnants), and writing is barely over 10 or 12 thousand years old.

meaning that the preceding period of cultural development doesn't exist for them by the 'choice' of relying solely on material artifacts as admissible evidence; which unwritten (oral only) transmission does not have.

legitimayzer commented on Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? A study too good to be true inews.co.uk/news/do-judge... · Posted by u/sternmere

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

d'oh

I would if I were a judge. a pity that people making it into judges are not self-developed enough that they'd know this.

but in a society of specialists, knowing yourself is not strictly necessary to apply judgement as prescribed in laws.

legitimayzer commented on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed sbstatesman.com/2023/04/0... · Posted by u/raybb

PuppyTailWags · 2 years ago

I don't think I agree with this. Novels can take years to write, and to have their copyright expire after only a few years may not be enough for the author to write another book. What would be the motivation to write a series if the series isn't worth printing after only a few books? It goes doubly if the novel might be up for a movie or a TV adaptation: the game of thrones tv adaptation didn't happen until much later after the first book... does this mean George R R Martin should be paid 0 while HBO makes a killing on the first few seasons? How would any artist retire ever if they cannot make money off their existing body of work?

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

really good cultural artifacts are not created by people trying to make money.

when cultural creations are prompted by a profit motive, we get "masterpieces" like the rings of power.

legitimayzer commented on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed sbstatesman.com/2023/04/0... · Posted by u/raybb

lenocinor · 2 years ago

I appreciate the metaphor with the Library of Alexandria, but TIL that it may not have burned catastrophically and may have been rebuilt after: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

“Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning from his position and exiling himself to Cyprus...The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources.”

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

the roman catholics burned it so to make their mythical "jesus" figure stick.

with the info destroyed in that fire we became 'disconnected' from the real historical jesus; thereby enabling the rise of the mythical figure tweaked to allow easier control of the masses. "what would jesus do?"

legitimayzer commented on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed sbstatesman.com/2023/04/0... · Posted by u/raybb

tracker1 · 2 years ago

Might be interesting to start a large "online library" that does physical books by mail. Similar to Netflix original dvd model, but for books. An annual membership fee of like $20/yr to help maintain storage infrastructure. Then ship those books to/from people in reusable boxes for bigger/unwieldy books or padded envelopes if that's sufficient for less expensive paperback.

Small per-lend fee to cover the shipping cost, with a return window or followup fee per N days... days determined based on the size/pages in the book/volume.

With efforts to work with various local libraries to handle some of the distribution closer to the people.

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

> Might be interesting to start a large "online library" that does physical books by mail.

but this changes everything. My whole point (which you seem to have ignored) is that when dealing with physical goods, then the systems (traditions, institutions) already in place work fine.

But why would I do that when I can give the PDF version to everybody due to ZERO distribution costs? (not marginal costs, even less. zero costs once the PDFs are made).

legitimayzer commented on If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed sbstatesman.com/2023/04/0... · Posted by u/raybb

causi · 2 years ago

which made copyrighted books available for free during the COVID-19 pandemic. The publishers behind the lawsuit alleged that this entailed copyright infringement.

Along with everybody with two brain cells to rub together. We all screamed "Hey, you idiots are going to ruin everything if you act like the pandemic has magically nullified the concept of copyright" and they fucking did it anyway, and now exactly what we said would happen is happening. It's like you found a landmine in your front yard and your buddy said "That landmine shouldn't be there so I'm gonna go step on it" and you told him not to and then had to watch him throw himself onto it while declaring it would be morally wrong for it to blow his stupid ass up.

Controlled digital lending had a chance of getting off the ground. The IA's Emergency Library's unlimited digital lending burned it to the ground and stomped on the ashes.

legitimayzer · 2 years ago

> Controlled digital lending had a chance of getting off the ground.

sure, it may have worked, but fuck me if that's what we get. controlled digital lending means we throw away[1] the great advantage brought by digital technology.

controlled digital lending is a very stupid thing to do. I saw megaupload. it showed us all that we can all share it all; we just don't seem to want to, or rather, the American government pursued them into extinction.

[1] looking at this even more closely, it's not that this 'digital advantage' is wasted, it is merely captured by authoritative powers who only understand markets, trade, and exclusive properties (exclusive due to being physical/material in nature unlike digital assets). e.g. Microsoft's billionaire business is made from capturing this digital boon as I called it.