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Often we say infinite growth (capitalism) is not sustainable and reasonable. Can we also say infinite progressivism is also not sustainable and reasonable? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Did you read the comment you replied to or did you just spit out this pre-packaed reply that addresses nothing the original comment raised?

If we all exist in a simulation, what will happen once we start running out of RAM? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Simply put.

We wouldn't notice anything.

Our perception of the world would be based only on the compute cycles and not on any external time-frame.

The machine could run at a Million Billion hertz or at one clock-cycle per century and your perception of time inside the machine would be the same.

Same with low ram, we would have no indication if we were constantly being paged out to a hard drive and written back to ram as required.

Greg Egan gave a great explanation of this in the opening chapter of his Novel Permutation City

Euler diagram of the terminology of the British Isles in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yup. Though original is probably the better description.

Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I am very comfortable with never owning a ubisoft game ever again.

Lemmy, what are some of your "oh shit" work stories? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I spent a decade working in insolvency.

When we were going into a business that had failed the question was "Are the idiots, criminals or both?"

One highlight:

A boat sales / marine business goes bust. When we arrive with the paper work and seize the place there are about a dozen new boats on the lot worth several million. We change the locks on the gates.

Arrive the next day, the gates have been busted open and several million in boats are now missing. We look up the addresses of the owners (one of them lives on acreage) and drive to their property...from the road we can see the boats stashed there. Really smart guys.

So we call the police. Someone inside notices use there and decides to flee with one of the boats, it is huge but they think they can get away.

We then have the slowest car chase in history as we calmly follow this guy towing a boat on a trailer down the road while talking to the cops to meet us.