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um1 commented on Technocracy 2.0 brooklynrail.org/2026/02/... · Posted by u/antonomon

direwolf20 · 4 days ago

I see this in some cities. They are very clean looking, no litter, no graffiti, very shiny windows. Then you think about how the people must be treated to make this be true.

um1 · 4 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

TLDR; they built a mouse utopia universe 25 with plenty of food water and space . Eventually some grew violent, others sat and groomed themselves all day, they stopped breeding and died out.

um1 commented on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support lists.linuxfromscratch.or... · Posted by u/cf100clunk

JCattheATM · 7 days ago

> Understanding the boot process is a big part of that. systemd is about 1678 "C" files plus many data files. System V is "22" C files plus about 50 short bash scripts and data files.

Systemd is basically the Windowsfication of Linux. I'm always surprised by the people that champion it who also used to shit on Windows with the registry or whatever.

Cognitive dissonance is a hell of a thing.

um1 · 6 days ago

LFS seems to be for people who are interested in how things work. The systemd proponents come off as people who would question why you would want to to drive a manual transmission and say of course you should choose an automatic or better yet, a robot; self driving car. It would be interesting to see how those opinions line up with the uses of AI

um1 commented on What you need to know about EMP weapons aardvark.co.nz/daily/2025... · Posted by u/flyingkiwi44

themadturk · 8 months ago

No, but some might have a "take the world down with me" attitude.

um1 · 8 months ago

Netanyahu?

um1 commented on Wheel Reinventor’s Principles (2024) tobloef.com/blog/wheel-re... · Posted by u/TobLoef

um1 · a year ago

A little off-topic/tangential it seems the real discovery or invention was the axle, or probably more specifically the bearing.

um1 commented on Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript github.com/casparwylie/ca... · Posted by u/ftr1200

ftr1200 · a year ago

I know it's controversial to do things this way, but given it's a personal project and focuses on portability, I think the benefits are worth while.

I have taken care to break things up, comment, etc - if you start at main(), you may find it's not any more difficult to follow than if i'd broken it up. Just because it's one file doesn't mean it doesn't separate concerns.

um1 · a year ago

One file is great!

um1 commented on Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo may have been found cnn.com/2025/03/01/scienc... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

Archelaos · a year ago

In his time, names in Italy were often differently structured than today, and they varried a lot. For example Leonardo's full name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ("Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci"). For Michelangelo it was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. For Raphael it was Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino. They all are known and commonly referred to by their baptismal name (often translated it. Raffaello => engl. Raphael, germ. Raffael).

However, there are other Italians contemporary to them, were we use other parts of their name as a shorthand, sometimes altered somewhat to adjust to our modern forename-surname system. For example: Filippo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapi => Filippo Brunelleschi, or Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli => Niccolò Machiavelli.

There are other special cases: Giovanni Pico dei conti della Mirandola e della Concordia is known as "Giovanni Pico della Mirandola" and can be reffered to as "Pico della Mirandola" or "Pico", but usally not as "della Mriandola".

Galileo Galilei is also a special case, were both, "Galileo" and "Galilei", are acceptable (although I think "Galilei" is becoming more and more the standard).

So there is no rule of thumb how to refer to famous Italians of the Renaissance. It differs from case to case. You simply have to follow the individual practices.

um1 · a year ago

Di caprio?

um1 commented on Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer? civileats.com/2025/02/18/... · Posted by u/greenie_beans

PaulHoule · a year ago

Some people get used to it. We did some work to prepare our barn for chickens but never quite 'pulled the trigger' because between our tenants and other friends we are swimming in eggs. (It was funny as hell that some of our chicken-keeping friends had a fox family living in a stump in front of their house. Their chicken house was solid but they'd catch the mama fox on the game camera every night bringing home a chicken from somebody else's flock every night.)

Our favorite meat lately has been roadkill deer. Two days ago a friend was traveling to a job site up route 89 on the side of the lake when they hit a deer. He called us on his cell but we didn't want to drive that far that day. The next day my wife was planning to drive out in that direction to help a friend, the friend welched out but she went to see if the deer was still there, it was, so she loaded it into the back of our Honda Fit and I was told, when she picked me up at the bus stop, to stash all my stuff with me in the passenger seat.

Turned out the intestines didn't splatter, it was cold, and there wasn't serious tissue damage from the crash so we're going to get a huge amount of meat out of it. Between roadkill deer and deer my son hunts and deer other people hunt on our land we might need to get a bigger freezer.

um1 · a year ago

I know a guy who does similar. He gives the messed up parts that got damaged to his dog.

um1 commented on Stop saying "just" (2019) sgringwe.com/2019/10/10/P... · Posted by u/mooreds

um1 · a year ago

Just stop oil. Just kidding. But maybe we should just get rid of ‘should’.

um1 commented on Palmer Luckey: Every country needs a 'warrior class' to enact violence on others techcrunch.com/2024/10/01... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

aguaviva · a year ago

Even the Ukraine war started with violence back in 2014.

Right - violent invasions of Ukrainian territory by Russia.

Russia was pushed into war by Obama and Biden

This just is a repeat of what you said earlier. But in short -- in no way was Russia's regime "pushed" into doing what it did in 2014. The move was entirely optional for Putin. He did what he did because he thought he could obtain a certain advantage on the playing field, and because he thought he could get away with it.

um1 · a year ago

You’re right “pushed” is the wrong word. “Provoked” (repeatedly, incessantly) would be a more appropriate way to describe the coup and subsequent actions.

um1 commented on Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language xorvoid.com/forsp.html... · Posted by u/xorvoid

um1 · 2 years ago

Very cool. I like that both lisp and forth were “discovered” and that this cvbp is more fundamental than both(?!). This reminds me of [pdf] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/181993.181999 and wonder if/how it relates.