MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Are you using "bit" in a sense different to Wikipedia's definition, as linked from Claude Shannon's page?
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
You said both nothing to do with digital logic in this context and compressed down to about 10 bits per second Sounds like digital compression from where I sit, friend. Are you using an information theory that is based upon so
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
But if your measurements are unreliable or downright flawed, then it's just garbage-in-garbage-out. Sounds like the statistics in the papers from the social "sciences". "There's lies, damned lies, and statistics.&qu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Only 10 beatings per second? This is a just universe, Sir! On a serious note, enlightenment only cures us of our selfish curiosity, i.e. any action which causes harm to others. The Way requires us to harmonize with universal compassion, s
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Asking people to read the article before commenting? A commonsense suggestion that needs to be made makes me smirk inside, not the least because I am guilty of this, too, around here. (But not this time, thank you, kind Sir.) As to being
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> I also see value of them when it comes to maintaining consistent and intuitive UIs Absolutely. It's like the proper legacy of the GoF's "Design Patterns" book, whose lack of importance and acceptance has bewildered
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks. That makes sense, even if my old-school brain finds the term less than optimal.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks. That's not my workspace, so it makes sense that I would be unaware of it, my just being a programmer.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well said. Yeah, what I mean by classical would boil down to just genitalia, which doesn't really hold up in how we must respect the person and how they feel and choose to express themselves. Yes, so long as their expressions are not h
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I hope you're not asking me those questions ;-) Yeah, those are great questions, for sure. I can always be awestruckdumb by the understanding that we are all mostly space inhabited by fields, our littlest bits vibrating at mindblowing
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
This work looks to be rather excellent, apart from their deciding to coin their own term "token" for what I take to be a "design element". Here is my slightly edited comment from below: What they are calling "tokens
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
What they are calling "tokens" are just their design elements. They have abstracted the design elements into their 'tokens' so that they are defined parameters/variables/model-elements that can then be reified
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The only time 'bits' will ever be an appropriate measure of human processing is when we are processing or producing diginal information artifacts, e.g. a typewritten document. Our bodies' systems are biochemical wetware that
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That might be the funniest comment I've ever seen on HN! A plea to reason, that is probably not outside the posting guidelines, but is certainly in a gray area :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
One with no humility has no humility to give. Anyone who starts a sentence with "You really can't use" is preaching from atop their perch of various sh_ts, horsesh_t and bullsh_t, especially. Get over youself.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
And their effects are multiplied because most people have zero connection with compassion, making them easily fooled by the most bald-faced of liars. We are filled with a world full of people "too stupid to know how stupid they are&quo
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> studying with an open mind but a critical eye Well said, friend. Thanks for the links. As to yoga, be careful "opening" yourself up to the prevailing winds of the universe. I highly suggest finding a mantra to repeat during
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The biochemical effects may not be consciously apparent, at least to most people. All I know for sure is that up to, pehaps, 100ya, most people were in contact with the Earth for many or even most hours of their day. 200ya, we were almost a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks, but we are electrical beings whose bodies have developed over eons within the Earth's magnetic field. All cell-biologic functions are electromagnetic from the folding of proteins to how molecules are flowed into and out of cell
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
No, they found what they were really looking for, and it was enough for them, so they have simply chosen to adapt by seeking ever more lucrative pursuits. At some point, search simply became more of a cost than a benefit, looks to me, or at
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
In an world with honorable human beings raised in Wisdom, we would understand that cheating only hurts ourselves in the long run, but that is not our world majority's ethical zeitgeist at the moment. The lack of ethics, like all selfis
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Some few years ago I did a YouTube dive into earthing/grounding tech setups, but never created a grounded mat to use while sleeping or programming. We don't use wifi for our computers (chips removed from machines and cable modem&#
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
One also cannot make a cogent argument against the truth, my friend. I am an impartial observer and learner in this magnificent universe that we are a part of. Nothing I say here benefits me beyond my karma of simply testifying to the truth
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Sure, but as a programmer, my job is to specify and code out the semantics of the system. ANDing and ORing a set of bools may very well be different for one list's semantics than another's. So, the initial value that forms the bas
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Touche! If there's a case where one computation needs to occur before others, then that's where I always use parens. I'm also never doing a^b^c, either as a^(b^c) or (a^b)^c, but if I did, there would be parens. Readibility
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I doubt it. I'm pretty sure the % cotton would wear out much sooner, but that's just my intuition.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's an all-time great comment. Thank you very much. Yeah, it makes sense that, because Nature wastes nothing, the entire system is required to produce that wonder material. Our focusing just on the chemical structure of what is prod
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
and doing so so very, very deliciously, at that. and no more B-12 shots needed. (I'm not in any way against vegatarianism and eat rather little meat, most of it bird, but I know of the diffulties some people have with strictly vegetari
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"People know the part I'm playing." --"Just a Gigalo" lyrics And people use most anything in that capacity, Rule #42 is not a theorem , after all. While the callously selfish oppressive monsters don't care how
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
TBF, it's been producing all kinds of chemical effects for longer than human beings have existed ;-) And, now it's proving its survivor's brutally superior intelligence by going from just procreating within our misery, to n

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