PixyMisa

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   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   For a lot of use cases, you can.
2. 152.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   Well, yes, except no. Brave on iOS is Webkit with a fancy wrapper.
3. 153.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   "Shipping things 5000 miles should not be cheaper than making them closer to home." Why not?
4. 154.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   That's not the cause. That's the solution.
5. 155.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   And works about as well as any other perpetual motion machine.
6. 156.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   "Pre-USSR Russia is almost a poster child for the harms of the state." Also, as you note, during-USSR Russia and post-USSR Russia.
7. 157.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   "Further, they're a form of violence against the poster." You suck.
8. 158.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   Discord is not really readable at all, in any format. It's a mess.
9. 159.▲
   by PixyMisa 5y ago

   Amazon has ads in search results.
10. 160.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    I've been using SSDNodes for some stuff for the past year. Had an issue with my VPS in Dallas, contacted support, they fixed it right away - response in a few minutes, fixed within half an hour.
11. 161.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    > Then most of the world isn't free I fear. Well, exactly.
12. 162.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    Not many Australians insisting they're more free right now.
13. 163.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    The Florida COVID "whistle-blower" has been arrested at every job she has ever held.
14. 164.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    What law?
15. 165.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    * Sir Terry Pratchett It's Sir <firstname> or Sir <firstname> <lastname>.
16. 166.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    > I don't know what else you can hope for. You cannot be serious.
17. 167.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    They are absolutely correct to be worried.
18. 168.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    This is in itself misinformation.
19. 169.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    Or indeed, correct information that contradicts an officially recognised position.
20. 170.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    What happens is the government makes things worse.
21. 171.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    I would run a mile from anything that would lock me into AWS. S3 is fine though because there's any number of compatible alternatives, including self-hosted ones like MinIO.
22. 172.▲
    by PixyMisa 5y ago

    Tell someone upstream - in this case Greg KH - what you want to do and agree on a protocol. Inform him of each patch you submit. He's then the backstop against anything in the experiment actually causing harm.
23. 173.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    Absolutely. It has to be there, and users have to be forced to configure it at install time. How many times do we need to repeat this mistake?
24. 174.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    "If you write a pseudo-code program which replicates consciousness, will a brain appear?" To quote Charles Babbage: I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    We don't need AI that meditates. It's pointless. We need AI that can spot a ball rolling out into the road and know that a child might be following after - and immediately figure out whether it's safer to brake or swerve.
26. 176.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    Hofstadter not only asserted that symbolic reasoning is solvable, he explained how to do it. In very broad terms, yes.
27. 177.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    4) string concatenation
28. 178.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    There is an official Nim plugin from JetBrains now. It won't be as polished as Java support for obvious reasons, but at least you can stick with your preferred environment.
29. 179.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    > Incorrectly yelling Fire in a crowded theater is illegal No it's not. See Brandenburg v. Ohio.
30. 180.▲
    by PixyMisa 6y ago

    The First Amendment forbids any such legislation.