troyunrau

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (5 children)

They'd have to spend a good deal of that trip accelerating and decelerating. During the deceleration phase, giant engines are probably pointed at Earth, and those will throw off heat or mass or both. We should have a few months lead time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It'd be funny if the EU forced them to ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (30 children)

Prediction: this will be considered Apple's biggest product flop in decades, and may even unseat the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_5300 for worst in company history. The whole product line will be scrapped before 2027.

Fortunately they have the cash to burn on projects like this to see what takes.

I'll post this in [email protected] so someone can call me on it one day ;)

[–] [email protected] 59 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Article about an article. Hey, at least the site isn't filled with ads. Oh wait.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If you try to replace just the hardware, you get fun solutions like a modern computer with a VM running Dosbox on critical infrastructure. Hey, if it works and your boss is willing to sign off on it...

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago (21 children)

Yes, but can I still submit using a fax machine?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

xosted -- thought it might be interesting. Talks about the invention of hypertext (1965!), old movie editing methods where computers didn't have the memory for it, etc.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah, the drama that comes with it is probably the biggest issue -- it will occupy some part of your cognitive energy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oh hey, I guess I learned something today :)

0.19 has been a real improvement in many ways. I'm a huge fan of the Scaled sort -- it helps the niche community content to surface.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think part of the problem is that we migrants decided that each reddit community also needed a corresponding lemmy community right out of the gate. For example, on reddit, there is r/hockey, then there's a sub for each individual team. However on lemmy, the team subs are dead due to insufficient traffic, and stay dead due to the exact chicken-and-egg problem you describe. The solution is to congregate in a larger community instead, where traffic is higher, even if you're posting about your relatively popular game. So as a Winnipeg Jets fan, I should post in the lemmy hockey community and not the Jets community. Likewise, if you want more chatter about Cyberpunk2077, post in the general gaming community. It works reasonably well for now, and if the signal to noise ratio ever gets bad in the larger community, then you can split off into specialty topics.

Ironically, reddit also went through this exact process 10-12 years ago. r/science became too noisy, so people ended up in r/physics and r/chemistry, and r/askscience and such. We need to start with communities with larger scope until they're active enough to split.

At this very moment I'm looking for a discussion on sci fi oriented table top rpgs. On reddit, there is dedicated discussion forums for a few of them. Here, I'll post to [email protected] because there's more people there. Off I go!

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