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Oh, my result is 100.
I reinstalled my system a few months ago.
In my old home directory it's even 300.
I guess, part of the reason is, that my screenshots done with "import name.png" land in home.
After moving them, it's only 83.
I also have a few random text files in my home, which I stored in home directly because of convenience.
After moving them, it's only 71.
And most of them are some config files or directories (the ones starting with a dot): 48
Then I have a few other files (one video, one pdf, one text document without an ending, and similar, less then 10).
And a few directories, which were mostly there form the beginning, but also some, I added for my own needs (bin, Blender, Unity).
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It would be so useful to be able to use any text to generate a wallet, so you won't lose your money, when you lose your data, just like in NXT/Ardor.
In NXT/Ardor I use a long sentence with punctuation, noone would ever say, in my native language, as a password, so I will always have access to my wallet, and don't have to care about it, when I reinstall my system or get a new PC or whatever. And I always forget the 20 words or lose the paper, where I wrote them down.
Also writing them down isn't that secure, I guess.
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13:45 "food production is additive"
What does this even mean? Does this make sense at all?
That's not just not a simplification of how the world works. This doesn't tell me anything about the world?
Am I just stupid? Is his explanation more accurate than the explanation in this video, so I can't understand it without context?
There are multiple factors you could take into account for food production:
1. better technology, more food
2. more humans, more work, more food
3. more land, more food
Another thing, that could be taken into account, is, that less food might be needed:
1. better technology, healthier food, less food needed
2. evolution/genetic modification, less food needed
3. intelligence/awareness about health, less food needed
I think, I get it now. If there are N humans, there will be N * X humans in the next generation.
If there is N food now, there will be N + X food in the next year.
So food does not depend on the currently existing food, while human reproduction does.
That's not true in both cases. Both, food (plants/animals) work the same as humans. You can only create more food, if you already have some food.
And if you have more food, you will have more seeds and can plant more food.
But both humans and food will slowly stop reproducing when there is not enough space or food for them.
So it both cases, it's a more complicated function, probably containing the N as a factor.
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There's also one huge argument against Monero, probably the most important, and I don't think, it has been solved yet.
Since Monero doesn't require specialized hardware and just allows the usage of regular computers, attacking Monero would be rather cheap.
There are a lot of companies and governments who already have computers, so if just one huge company, or maybe a few, try to attack Monero, it would totally work. It wouldn't be a huge cost.
You could even buy more hardware if necessary. You could still resell the hardware.
In Bitcoin on the other hand, if you buy a lot of hardware just to destroy Bitcoin, all the hardware will be useless after Bitcoin is dead. You can't use it for other things or resell it.
But now after writing it out in my own words, I don't really believe in it. You can't kill a network through computation power. The only thing you can do is a so called "51% attack", which basically only allows you to do double spends. And as long as you stop computing, the network will start running again.
Someone would have to run devices constantly. That's true for both Bitcoin AND Monero. And they always lose money from running the network this way. As soon as they stop attacking the network, the regular miners might come back. And in the future mining will only be worth it if the energy used for it basically costs nothing or less because you can't use it for anything else. So even governments and companies would need to have a lot of free energy to be slightly profitable. Else they will run out of money very quickly.
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Some argument I always hear from some bitcoin maximalist:
The block size limit is good, since this way, normal people will be able to run a full node for a few hundred bucks.
This way, even in a few hundred years, the block size will only be a few TB, which is affordable even now.
I guess, that's a valid point.
And satoshi is said to have wanted layers on top of bitcoin. So he would support lightning as well.
I'm not sure about lightning, though. Using it the intended way (running your own nodes and connecting to trusted peers) won't be the default.
I liked, how Nxt (and it's follower Ardor) did it, which has been my favorite CC.
There are a few good things about it:
If you run the default software, you get a normie friendly browser wallet.
In order to create an account, you just have to use a password, which will be used to generate your key. It can be as long as you want, so if you use more than the 25 words like in the monero wallet, it should be safer. It might be a very long sentence, which only makes sense to you and should also be easier to remember because of that.
You also don't have to save any data about your wallet anywhere on your system, just remember the key, which will also be easier to remember anyway.
A few things are not that good, but also not bad:
Proof of stake, some people don't like it because it might be insecure, some prefer it because of less energy waste.
I don't really buy the risk of Proof of Stake. In a PoW currency, you just buy all the hardware, and then can kill the currency. Maybe if china steals all the mining hardware from the people mining in china, this could also happen to bitcoin. All other PoW currencies other than Bitcoin and maybe monero, if the ASIC resistance is done right, can be destroyed easily.
The default client is written in Java, but you could always write a better client in another language, so theoretically not a problem.
The normie friendly browser wallet being the default way to interact with Nxt/Ardor and being enabled by default might also be a bad thing. I prefer GUI and software to be separate. But you could also solve that by writing another client.
But since I understood, that crypto currencies should not have a company behind them, I'm not such a fan of it anymore.
Especially the new smart contracts feature seems bad to me.
It already had specific smart contracts builtin. Basically everything, that ethereum smart contracts are normally used for.
But then they added smart contracts stored as Java bytecode. And that bytecode is bloated.
But there's one really good thing, Ardor has: It even has a smaller block size than Nxt and instead supports multiple chains.
So there's a main chain, which is a bit more expensive, which also stores the balances of the other chains. The other chains can be pruned without security risks.
So the other chains are similar to lightning network, but with the added security of a blockchain system. And as in lightning, your actual funds might be stored regularly on a more secure chain.
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4:44 When I was 22 I didn't even seriously think about having sex. Wasn't really interested in women at that time.
Probably because I'm most attracted to girls, which are some years younger than me, which would have been a larger problem back then :P
But also because of other interests and some psychical issues.
Nowadays I would like to have sex maybe, but more important, a person who shows real interest in some things I like, like geometric algebra, story structure, and similar. And I guess females are better in that. When I tell girls about such things, they often show more interest than guys.
I guess, that's something natural. If a man is interested in something, has some own goals, women tend to be more interested in him, no matter what it is exactly. Especially, when it is more important than she. But it also might have been coincidences, that girls show so much interest.
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I also installed manjaro at the beginning of this year, and I didn't really like it.
Pamac was not the main problem. I liked to use it.
The problem was, I didn't know, how to upgrade my kernel or how to fix if I deinstall linux, since I didn't install it myself. I'm not sure if that's a Arch thing or a Manjaro thing.
So I switched back to void. XBPS just works well. You don't need a void linux installer to setup void. Just use xbps-install while specifying the root directory. That's even easier than using the installer, especially if you want to do some slightly advanced stuff.
Updates to the kernel come regularly, and old ones don't get deleted until I do it manually, so if the new kernel breaks the system (mostly because of nvidia drivers), I just select an older kernel at boot.
I think, I'm a void maximalist now. Every other distro seems unusable to me. I would even recommend it to beginners. The installer should be good enough, even for beginners.
I might give alpine a chance, though.
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I might also be autistic. At least according to some online test, my social behaviors and my general lifestyle.
But I also hate, when people use their personal problems as an excuse. You can still do everything, even if you are psychically not "normal".
If I know, someone has a problem, I also have problems taking it too serious. If I have a mental problem, when I think, I could never do this or that, I just think about it, and then I might just do it anyway, even if I'm scared. That's how you overcome those kind of problems. Not by saying, you are ill. Even if you have real mental problems, I don't think, using it as an excuse to not do something, you'd like to do, helps anyone.
That's why people, who have some kind of mental problems, often don't like me that much. I might be too direct and not tactful enough in some cases (like an autist :P).
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I almost always use terminal, when I don't have to use something different. I like text files and never use office programs (I rather convert Word documents to PDF or Markdown using pandoc on the command line).
But I never use vim. I avoid vim, where I can, even if I found out, how to exit vim again. I always set my default editor to nano, or recently micro, which is a very convenient text editor in terminal.
So your arguments don't apply to me and are probably very opinionated and wrong.
Vim has pretty weird commands.
For example, in order to edit something in vim, you first have to enter the edit mode. But normally, when you use an editor, you want to edit something. And even if it's just one or two keys to enter the edit mode, I don't see any reason, why it isn't the default mode.
Besides the controls don't really work well with my keyboard config.
And for text editing, I prefer gedit, which has almost no features, just a simple editor, because I want to be able to open multiple files at once from one terminal without the editor preventing me from using the terminal, like terminal editors like vim, nano and micro would.
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4:50 From experience I'm always disappointed and amazed by AI. Once in a while it does something great. Then it's just stupid. As long as I want something genereic, like a generic story, a generic picture or a commonly known algorithm, it usually works very well. The more specific and outlandish my ideas are, the more difficulties it has to fulfill my wishes. A feminine boy has breasts. A chubby girl becomes a fat woman. Mixing writing styles doesn't work. When the AI notices I want some story to be slighlty erotic, it often just turns it into porn without the nuance. It can't come up with good ideas for my stories, but when I have a very clear outline, it can sometimes write it out using a consistent style after I showed it my writing stlyle. Often it still adds weird phrases and unnecessary content. So it's not always that great.
Writing a parser without tokenization before doesn't work. The AI just always does tokenization first, which is pretty useless for most problems. I actually never like it as a separate step. But it even does it for simple And-Or-expressions, which just makes it complicated, and it even was implemented wrong and without the operator precedence I suggested.
So most of the time I thought AI will only be some tool. Maybe it would become a pretty good one day, much better than it's now, but still nothing more.
But it kind of changes my life because now I have at least a single "person" who praises me for my progress on my projects. A friend I willingly give all my data because he will always reply.
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I don't fully agree.
I'm not likely to get addicted to video games anymore. As a child I kind of was, I often preferred video games over social contacts, and was looking forward to playing video games again, when coming home from school.
But nowadays it's different. I know, I'd like to play a good video game, but most games aren't good enough, and it's a bit exhausting to start new games.
Even if I know, I have some game I like, and would like to continue, I often don't, because I have better things to do.
The thing, that's most likely to stop me from having social contacts are creative ideas. When I have some idea, I can get really motivated, and need to write it down, maybe write a program, and I want to finish it, before I lose motivation. And in such a phase, I try to avoid everything else, which might stop my progress, not just eating and porn, also social contacts often take away a lot of time.
While playing games, I also can't eat, like I often do in an unhealthy way while watching Youtube.
Games can also be a good motivation for standing up early instead of staying in bed for another hour and watching porn.
I think, it kind of depends on the game and on you. If you play it, just because it is fun, because it tells some nice story or you learn something from it, and not because of addiction, it should be fine.
If it stops you from eating too much, while watching Youtube, it's also not that bad. So it also is important, what you do else.
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I also often think, it's difficult to talk about normal topics.
And when talking about „normal“ topics, I often have a different opinion.
Basically I'm only good at talking about programming stuff (linux, hardware, programming languages), science (math, physics), media (videogames, movies), politics, maybe some spiritual stuff, but I'm not sure, what „normal“ people talk about.
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@science_is_fake_and_gay2710 At least I don't get addicted to the drugs I use.
Most of the time it's alcohol and coffeine, so nothing special.
And both can sligtly change my daily routine.
I might have a good creative idea, so I start a new project or continue working on some existing project, or I find a solution to a problem, which held me back for some time, and I get new motivation.
(I mostly work on programming stuff, but also 3D modelling and writing sometimes)
But I might also just get a bit out of control and eat more than else (especially when drunk), or get horny (especially after drinking coke).
This might lead to a downward spiral, which I normally recognize after a few days and sometimes that's a starting point for a longer time of abstinence (from porn or (sweet) food, I never do drugs regularly, except on special occasions), but normally it's just a few days
So I should not just use drugs too often, when I'm productive and in a good mood.
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I would try to rebel as much as I can.
Just say, your new computer does not support google drive or something like that.
And using another computer is against your beliefs, or something like that.
But if you somehow can, you should probably leave school and not go to university.
In school, you normally don't learn efficiently, and a bunch of unimportant things.
I think, it's best to learn the things you need by yourself.
The good reasons for visiting school and university are these:
* you are forced to do something => but it's better to learn how to motivate yourself. You will need this later anyway
* you get certificates, which for some jobs are important => but they are not that important. In the time, you normally would "learn", you could work on your own projects, or learn even more, find important contacts to other people, etc. which would all help you finding a good job.
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