Jiocus

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by Jiocus 5y ago
> graphical frontends seem to hang, spin the fans, return little to no information about what is happening, and be terrible in general? That's a beautiful description of modern GUI development right there. - What about a 150ms dela
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Or was Lunix confused with Linux? All satire anyhow.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
High availability (through mirrors) is still a good thing. My experience is that torrent files are sometimes a lot faster, sometimes less so. Just as mirrors.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I've not encountered the use before, maybe because here in the Nordics piracy has been -is- very normalized. The other reply told about a uni tale. I've heard about a similar story about someone torrenting a
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Of course it was a false flag issue, it never made sense from the beginning.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
And here I was, still thinking Linux was "an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War" .
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by Jiocus 5y ago
> I use a VPN for other reasons (downloading Ubuntu ISOs mostly). This made me smile. Good one. For context, copyright trolls recently tried to extort torrent users for downloading and sharing Ubuntu ISOs.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Why would a conscious AI be exempt from those conditions or influences?
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by Jiocus 5y ago
> A conscious AI has at least one interest similar to us humans, preservation of its consciousness. The reverse could also be a possibility. Similar to many humans, it could wish for consciousness to end, and cease to exist. "Kill
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Are you sure that 780 - Project owner not responding ?
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by Jiocus 5y ago
You're totally right about it being an executive function disorder. There's a variant of ADHD that tilts to the other end of the scale. Where the executive function doesn't fire by stimulus that ought to "execute"
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Almost. It was Google's attempt at cloning Facebook by cloning Diaspora . https://diasporafoundation.org/
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Israel isn't a microstate though.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Hah! You're right, of course. My mind must have been elsewhere when writing the example, considering that I was literally reading the APA guide and thinking of the rule you laid out while at it.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Yes but at least they are consistent with the pattern word of numeral , which is often a good rule to use if not employing a specific styleguide. For example, using the APA guide[1] for numbers (thanks @OJFord for pointing out my error):
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by Jiocus 5y ago
I've read about this pattern often attributed to the military . For example, The Independent describes it[1] as, 1. Relax the muscles in your face, including tongue, jaw and the muscles around the eyes 2. Drop your shoulders
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by Jiocus 5y ago
> Cross-language ones are also fun. I like that the German word for poison is "Gift", which etymologically means "something given". Makes for some good puns. “Gift” means poison in Swedish as well, and adding to that,
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by Jiocus 5y ago
What necessary E2E API does Chrome provide?
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by Jiocus 5y ago
I'm not aiming for precision with this answer, but RetroShare[1] comes to mind. What is RetroShare? It's a communications and file sharing software (and protocol) similar to DC++, Bittorrent with peering based on public key crypto
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by Jiocus 5y ago
According to your definition, 1 and 2, I've been doing a "rat's work" more than once :)
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Yes, it is relevant, but I was replying to a statement which wasn't accurate. We can have different opinions of what “results” mean, but the linked DDG FAQ piece is on their view of Results Sources and what that is. Their results for
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Yes, most commonly so.
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by Jiocus 5y ago
“DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. [..] we also source from multiple partners, most commonly from Bing” [1]: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Because they don't want to invite chaos and entropy into their lives. Their order-making will never succeed though*. *According to the article.
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The term is impreg m ating in this context and process :)
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The prequel to "Snakes on a Plane" (2006) .
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Maybe that would be an "SSV"? Separator Separated Values file.
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I admire the way he mentions other languages by lifting them up, as aspirational examples for Python to learn from. (Keep in mind that Guido works for (with?) Microsoft, who made Typescript)
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by Jiocus 5y ago
Very true. If I recall correctly about ketamine, the mind altering effects diminish without sufficient restorative period between dosage. This could further be an issue in two ways. Individuals may associate the effects of ketamine to the m
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You'd be surprised. My thinking was, if a friend confide in me about their use of PayPal for online payments, then it's a moral obligation to inform them of the risks their taking and treatments available such as alternative provi

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