DFHippie

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by DFHippie 3y ago
My point is just that saying you were unconscious in a particular state because you have no memory of being conscious is a test of memory, not a test of consciousness. You don't remember that you were unconscious; you have no memory of
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> I'm in the camp that the most likely outcome is that artificial neural networks can be conscious and have real experiences, but the toy networks we have today don't have nearly the right topology to achieve such states. I&#x2
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by DFHippie 3y ago
I'm curious about this. We certainly won't get any more coal, but a whole lot of carbon gets subducted into the mantle regularly. Some gets turned into diamonds. Some gets blown out of volcanoes. Is the oil we pump out of the grou
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by DFHippie 3y ago
The residents of Innsmouth tend to retire to Florida.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
For linguistics? I can't speak for the others, but I know that linguistics departments are pumping out a lot more PhDs than there are positions in the field. I expect that is true for all of them. Because these fields don't tend t
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by DFHippie 3y ago
The Book of Kells wasn't made in a printing press, though.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> Literal Rodents of unusual size Except they aren't literally rodents. They are mustelids.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Why is it rubbish? It is useful for there to be some lingua franca. There are arguments for why English is a good candidate: - already widely spoken - economically important - simple word morphology - no grammatical gender - an alphabetic w
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by DFHippie 3y ago
You are comparing completely different services, though, right? Private freight lines versus passenger? Amtrak runs on lines owned by the freight companies. I've been on an Amtrak train that had to sit on a siding while a freight train
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by DFHippie 3y ago
This was my experience. My advisor said, "You can do that, but no one will hire you." I decided I'd finish my dissertation on a topic that interested me then become a programmer. And here we are.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Recently, while waiting for a bus, I took a picture of a car with "sheriff" emblazoned on the side stopped in the crosswalk, blocking pedestrian traffic. The police officer just wanted to turn right and didn't bother to stop
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> ... propositions that are four or more letters ... So "yes" and "no" but "Maybe"? :-)
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by DFHippie 3y ago
I've never understood the point of this. This capitalization standard carries no information. How many nouns in German can also be other parts of speech? It is easy to learn, but how useful is it?
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Not counting the delegates isn't preventing the assembly. The constitution doesn't ensure free and fair elections, unfortunately, as is demonstrated by the fact that states can pass laws regarding primaries that are mutually incon
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> Converting land to be used for crops doesn't reduce the utility of that land as a carbon sink. It's generally the opposite. You think so? How much carbon do you suppose is stored per hectare in a mature woodland versus tall g
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Time for folks to try out Minetest, perhaps. I happen to know it has sandboxed its Lua mods to prevent just this sort of attack. I don't play it myself, but I know the person who wrote the sandboxing code. Or knew him. He passed away r
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by DFHippie 3y ago
I have heard (and perhaps misremembered) that the only taste receptor remaining to whales detects saltiness, which seems a bizarre outcome given that their mouths are constantly filled with brine.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
> I can sort of understand not spelling out the N word fully to not trigger aggressive filter sensors on some networks, but shit? Hopefully this isn't why you aren't avoiding the N word. Using the N word if you aren't blac
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by DFHippie 3y ago
It's the use-mention distinction. Discussing the word shit and its effect on discourse is different from using it and achieving those effects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinctio...
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by DFHippie 3y ago
First, this conflicts with stories ascribing more exotic origins to the Picts. Second, that it demonstrates that there is some continuity between the pre-Indo-European population of the British Isles and today; i.e., they weren't total
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Shameless plug: https://github.com/dfhoughton/ranagrams I find it a good time killer. Note, there's a word list in the repo, but `crate install ranagrams` starts you off without a word list.
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by DFHippie 3y ago
What? All the unarmed black men killed by the police were seeking martyrdom in order to manipulate the police ? Wow. If the police are so easily manipulated to perpetrate violence on the folks they are sworn to protect (and therefore shoul
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Sure they had a choice. They had a choice whether to aim at the sky, the ground, or the protestors. And they had the same choice the protestors were exercising: whether or not to obey the authority ordering them to do stuff. But they weren&
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by DFHippie 3y ago
Armed soldiers wheeled and fired en masse on unarmed protestors yet none of them faced legal penalty. The state of Ohio paid compensation. Because the soldiers "feared for their lives." I'm sure it was scary, but maybe we nee
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Cool! And it's ok for me to go into my neighbors' house and take their television because they're not home. Cheaper and higher comfort. [I'm just pointing out that your sense of the word "ok" does not mean harm
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by DFHippie 4y ago
> So, keep the combustion engine, but make it env-friendly. > I don't see a problem with it. The problem is that the synthetic fuels require a huge amount of energy to produce. This decreases the quantity of carbon-neutral energy
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by DFHippie 4y ago
There I think you need to distinguish Democrat from liberals/leftists/progressives. There are differences of opinions among the latter group. I would say the majority distrust the police and the military but see them as necessary
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by DFHippie 4y ago
There is a consistency in Republican attitudes towards government: they trust the parts of government they feel they control and wish to destroy the parts they fear they do not control. Lionize the police and the military. Kill the EPA , NO
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by DFHippie 4y ago
I just see two huge truck tires. ETA Eh, my bad. I hadn't watched the video. Nice camera angle.
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by DFHippie 4y ago
Somebody needs to manufacture a cookie cutter in this shape.

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