Dudeman112

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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Which is correct and a big reason for why early flight machines had no chance at all of working Of course, that doesn't tell you whether the machine understanding will be useful or not
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Non aerodynamic vehicles would have bugs squashed in them if aerodynamics was the main reason for lack of bugs
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Danger: possible infohazard I think it would just make people more likely to click it, however :)
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>in fiction then uncontrolled/unlimited contradiction should be fine I'm not saying it's fine in general. I'm saying it doesn't matter for pop fiction Popular fiction gets retconned all the time. I'm fundame
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
I mean, George Lucas transformed his magic into counting magical mitochondria while people looked away and that universe is still as successful as ever Popular fiction doesn't give a shit about contradicting itself
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
That's not what I meant It seems like your position is "natural rights should guide or at least influence societal rights", and you consider that to be self-evident or maybe axiomatic I don't see why natural rights would
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>The consequence is that you should never prohibit someone from making a choice "for their own good" because the chances are better that they understand and act in their own best interest than you do Say that to all the OSHA re
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
I don't see how what man can do away from everything and everyone should have any relevance to what man should be allowed to do in a society What's the logic there?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>if we follow the path of assuming everyone is a moron, we very quickly reach The Nanny State What if everyone actually was a moron? In that hypothetical, would we just pretend it's not the case to not get the nanny state?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Sound like you're defining "rights" along the lines of "what you can do in isolation, as long as it doesn't affect anyone else". Does that seem correct?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
How can a right possibly be innate and natural? As in, what mechanisms binds what you think rights are (what do you think rights are?) to the laws that govern the natural world?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>personally believe that most people are smarter than this Every single time someone's uttered those words they were eventually proven wrong Not that I think we should be banning speech, mind you. Just figured a reminder on that t
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
To be fair with them, cars do kill a fair bit more than guns in the USA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03&#x
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>many countries have no such restrictions and yet they don't seem to have a stabbing epidemic Are you implying there's a stabbing epidemic in Britain? (apologies if I'm misunderstanding that) Britain doesn't have a st
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Ffxiv players get along fine because of the higher global cooldown and streamlined button press sequences, with very few procs that change what you have to press 1 sec GCD + proc fest wouldn't work well with the same control scheme, an
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>the average family in the developed world nowadays is more impoverished than their grandparents? The "resource" for raising multiple children in their grandparents' world was a stay-at-home mother The resource for raising
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>At he time the Mudjahedeen were very much in the "good guys" book At the time the dictatorship back home was also very much in the "good guys" book according to the USA Starting to think they are just shit a selectin
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Wages have gone up with inflation where you live?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
I agree I'm not sure if it's always been there and I just didn't notice it, but it looks like there's been an increase of people who have an ego/spine that's as solid as your average jellyfish How the heck do t
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
If someone would feel bad for writing i_suck as part of a method call... I don't think they'll last in the real world anyway What's the upper bound on ego fragility that we ought to consider?
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Metaphors don't have to apply to every conceivable perspective of looking at the subject. They are there to simplify transfer of knowledge I'm sure there's some way the shed and skyscraper metaphor fails too
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
To be fair, that's valid for anyone that doesn't have "absolute pacifism" as a cornerstone of their morality (which I reckon is almost everyone) Heck, I think even the absolute pacifists engage in some harming of others
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>If you are financially in a situation where you can buy a new flagship phone at any time you might not even think about this viewpoint. You might even feel attacked for being privileged enough when someone points that possibility No, re
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Just to add to your point, I would like to say that I was, in fact, taught C and assembly and I wouldn't have had it any other way People that never go low level usually don't feel it in their guts how computers work. Which is O
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>You're pigeon holing engineering to only the practice performed by licenced professionals It's a joke that most of us heard in one form or another back in Uni. I'm sure it's been repeated for centuries before the wor
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>I find it somewhat fun to refactor those I don't. I like to feel productive instead of having to do laundry before getting to the actual work because someone just went ahead without any regard for quality control >YAGNI + KISS &
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Do you know the difference between an engineer and a tinkerer? The engineer can lose his license for negligence Every engineer I know has heard something like that, and knows that it applies to them. Except for a specific kind of engineer,
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
As in not making a 10k lines function that does everything because you didn't read any books about architecture I get it, you've been burned out by Enterprise(tm) code. Going to the very edge of the other side isn't any bet
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
Huh, TIL you can refer to what I think about free will as "Hard incompatibilism" Thanks for your comment :)
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by Dudeman112 4y ago
>So here is my another attempt: the sensation that appears in your "minds eye" when you see or imagine a red color. The awareness of this color is what consciousness is about The problem with that is the bucket was just kicked

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