billgamesh

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[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

also great for old windows disk recover. Testdisk is awesome

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

I think the most compelling theory is we mated them into our communities, while outcompeting for food

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Killed off, but not necessarily by violence.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I doubt that premise. Neanderthals looked different, but not uncanny valley. Horror and fear may have been involved sometimes, but so was sex and competition... Neanderthals probably just looked like big chinless people

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

Not immortal, just long-lived and thick skinned

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what I'm doing. For most of my use cases, not really. For universal paperclips, I worry it'll melt

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

exactly. failure of english, not math. Math allows fairly accurate descriptions of the universe, humans (and especially languages) evolved to adequately percieve the narrow band of qualia that have been relevant to survival

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

My t430 is still going, but my x201 is in better shape.

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago

Especially just getting into linux. Ext4 works well enough, when you learn enough to care about what it doesn't do well try something then

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

fascism isn't a third way. It's liberalism in crisis

[–] billgamesh@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah. You don't get to revise away anything uncomfortable. USSR and China were socialist experiments that succeeded in raising quality of life and transforming rural countries into industrial, scientific states. If people wanna talk about what went wrong, great. Pretending they "don't count" just puppets capitalist apologia and doesn't help

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