Udo

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by Udo 4y ago
> Biological lifeforms would to ensure the survival of their DNA. Humans are already a hybrid organism that works to ensure survival not only of genes but of culture and knowledge. It's not difficult to imagine a machine civilizat
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by Udo 4y ago
What's your objection to "conscious" machines? (Putting it in quotes because that's a loaded, unscientific term and everybody has their own definition)
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> That humans like a class G sun is irrelevant to the prospering of those intelligences. It's also worth noting that the types of star or planet available don't matter much to meatbags either once they have learned to leave t
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by Udo 4y ago
I'm a German living in one of the heaviest wine regions of Europe. Social drinking is a way of life here, there are constant festivals, and it's normal to drink moderately when with friends. Honestly, as horrifying as that may sou
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by Udo 4y ago
> "doing the absolute smallest amount you can get away with without getting noticed and subsequently fired." The delta between that and "normal work as required" depends hugely on the job type and company culture. I
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by Udo 4y ago
> withholding their services because their choice matches your ethics I do actually think the site is unethical, yes. But those are not "my" ethics, just ethics in general. There is sufficient evidence to argue against the Dail
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by Udo 4y ago
"We" are not banning anything. PayPal does, and yes, it's most likely because of the positions held by this site. Refer to my earlier comment on why this is problematic. But yes, in this specific case, I agree with the ban be
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by Udo 4y ago
Just from the sidebar: The Growing Menace of Bill Gates’ ‘Global Health’ Whale Population Grows Despite Attenborough Climate Scaremongering Headmistress of England’s Most Successful State School Reported to Police For ‘Hate Crime’ A
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by Udo 4y ago
I hadn't heard about it before either, but you can get a good overview by following the link and having a look at the sidebar where their typical content seems to be featured.
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by Udo 4y ago
True. There is a real argument to be made here that this site is actively causing harm. Payment providers, especially credit card companies, have banned sites and services for far less, for example because they decided porn was incompatible
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by Udo 4y ago
The PDFs are a couple of GB every year - I could limit that further by putting more aggressive filtering in place. There is also a rule that copies the contents of image and PDF URLs verbatim without converting them. Over time I'm goin
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by Udo 4y ago
Tampermonkey is great for this, because it can log everything and it brings its own XMLHttpRequest: GM_xmlhttpRequest({ method : 'GET', url : 'https://myloggingurl/?client='+c
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by Udo 4y ago
At the very least, there is scientific value in gathering composition data about interstellar objects happening to fall down onto our planet. Even Loeb acknowledges that alien technological origins would be a long shot - it's probably
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by Udo 4y ago
> And sometimes chat plus rolling real dice isn't enough, for which "Virtual Tabletops" were created. As a counterpoint, I created https://rolz.org - it works as a basic chat with dice rolling functions and h
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by Udo 4y ago
FranLab and EEVBlog did a livestream together, there also was done by the Angry Astronaut, as well as one by the Everyday Astronaut. I'd say if you're on HN there's a decent chance you know at least one of these channels alre
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by Udo 4y ago
> Why should women do the work of making HN more attractive to women if they could just go elsewhere I didn't say that they should do all of the work. But going elsewhere would diminish everybody's experience. Segregation is
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by Udo 4y ago
If women feel HN is not currently for them, the questions would be: why not and what can we do to remedy that? Percentage of contributors is a problematic benchmark here, because the industry as a whole has a very depressing gender split. I
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by Udo 4y ago
> The probability of selecting the best applicant in the classical secretary problem converges toward 0.368 There are also some pretty big tradeoffs with this strategy. There seems to be a roughly 1/3 chance that you already
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by Udo 4y ago
While there is not a whole lot of substance in the article, it's not unreasonable to assume that insects are capable of nociception. Even single-celled organisms like amoebas can show an injury response, because it makes sense evolutio
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by Udo 4y ago
> discovered in a group of primordial precursor life forms so therefore that's when it originated. It's a shorthand way of working with incomplete information. In many cases it's not possible to directly point to a concr
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by Udo 4y ago
> How do they discard confounding variables? I don't think they do. Which is much better than correcting for variables and doing it badly. Anecdotally, I am the only healthy person I know of in my group who voluntarily uses artifi
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by Udo 4y ago
Bad gateway error
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by Udo 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an older all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: - MVPs, game development, scientific applications - C, C++, PHP, Jav
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by Udo 4y ago
It doesn't work, period. I tried Chrome, Firefox, Safari, mobile Chrome.
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by Udo 4y ago
There is some middle ground here, it doesn't have to be some unrealistic all-or-nothing scenario. Fingerprinting is not solvable in the general case, but I argue there is still value in restricting the kinds of information any random a
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by Udo 4y ago
This is not sustainable and fingerprinting is just one side of this whole fragmented mess we're in. Browsers should present very few fingerprintable attributes by default. By now I'm convinced user-preferred languages is the only
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by Udo 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an older all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: - MVPs, game development - C, C++, PHP, Javascript, some C# - In
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by Udo 4y ago
Any of these criticisms you levy against H2 would by extension also apply to iron, only more so. > It is quite energy intensive to produce it We're talking about a cycle that is supposed to store and release energy. "Quite en
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by Udo 4y ago
I know I'm missing something obvious here, can someone close to this tech help me out? What problem does this solve? For reference, I'd like to compare this to a hydrogen cycle, which is apparently already a subsystem of the pro
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by Udo 4y ago
While that's true, we're talking about this in the context of rational deterrence. It's is a valid point, but it's another notch on the "this is probably not necessary" side.

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