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by V-2 5y ago
A valid point, although it's probably the article, not the study itself. The actual title is "Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways". I say "probably", because I haven&
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by V-2 5y ago
Huh, didn't know that actually. I considered it a "royal" look-at-me colour sort of like gold (which takes it up a notch, but within the same vibe). Interesting.
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by V-2 5y ago
Or car mass...
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by V-2 5y ago
"Gold" tops the list of car colours correlated with psycho behaviour, and I thought, well, that makes sense - but then the one at the very bottom is "red". I'm having trouble arranging this into some consistent ment
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by V-2 5y ago
Chess is a closed system. Alien beings could be "playing checkers", so to speak. A biology completely different to anything existing on Earth (say, inteligent life living in the astmophere of a hot gas giant planet) would likely l
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by V-2 5y ago
Human minds didn't evolve for playing chess. So there was a possibility that there are "hardware" limitations that prevent us from playng it the way it should be (give or take the inevitable error margin).
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by V-2 5y ago
I meant "reasoning" as in finding out the objective reason, within the realm of chess itself. Not in how the neural network conducted this reasoning under the hood.
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by V-2 5y ago
"A distinction should be made between coming up with a move and understanding the motivation for the move." Sure, but realizing what the reasoning could be in retrospect (sort of reverse engineering) is by definition easier th
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by V-2 5y ago
"Also your point is trivially not true for other engines because they use books from human-played games." Books are only used in openings, and in (some) endings, in the form endgame tables. Throughout the middle game - where mos
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by V-2 5y ago
His example makes perfect sense... when the "naive" implementation duplicates stuff over 100 or 200 LOC. I've had joyful experience of working with duplicate code that spanned over multiple thousands of lines. I still fondly
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by V-2 5y ago
"For me, one of the interesting points of the article is not just that the replacement code was inferior, it's the recognition that the emotional compulsion to "clean up the dirty code" was a problem in itself." T
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by V-2 5y ago
"Firstly, I didn’t talk to the person who wrote it. I rewrote the code and checked it in without their input. Even if it was an improvement (which I don’t believe anymore), this is a terrible way to go about it." While undeniabl
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by V-2 5y ago
The header of this website clearly says "ECUMENICAL AND INTERRELIGIOUS AFFAIRS". Now, if "ecumenical" and "interreligious" were really a potato/potahto thing, would there be a reason for using both side
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by V-2 5y ago
"Merriam-webster has a similar definition : Worldwide or general in extent, influence, or application" Yes, but that's the broader understanding, not related to religion. You can even find somewhat bizarre (to my ear at lea
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by V-2 5y ago
"First Things, while predominantly Catholic, is ecumenical. They have regular columns from protestants, Jews, Muslims" For what it's worth, "ecumenical" means promoting Christian unity. So if Catholics carry dialo
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by V-2 5y ago
The idea of object permanence is not abstract in the sense that I mean. You get to experience it. But could anyone grasp eg. the idea of Einstenian time dilation without language? Or 4+ dimensions?
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by V-2 5y ago
Me: "Remembering a person is different, but a person isn't an abstract entity." You: "No. You can meet people and get to know them without learning their names." I'm confused, as I can't see how your o
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by V-2 5y ago
This doesn't address (much less invalidate) my point. Pain is not an abstract concept. This distinction (between non-abstract and abstract entities) already becomes blurred when it comes to things like colors. In their case your quip s
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by V-2 5y ago
Last time I checked, abstract concepts weren't exactly where animals excelled...
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by V-2 5y ago
I don't know about Sweden, but it is the case in my native Poland. In fact, I think it's much more common than full liberty in this regard. As for the level of strictness - it's always a bit arbitrary, and there are no fool-p
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by V-2 5y ago
If you can't remember the word, you must have nevertheless have learned it at some point in the past (and then forget). By learning it, you've imprinted the concept in your mind. Afterwards you just lost the identifier. But still,
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by V-2 5y ago
"generally offers way too many ways of doing the same thing" Such as? "Java, by virtue of being more verbose, requires writing everything out explicitly, so you really have to expend some extra effort to make your code unr
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by V-2 5y ago
If Kotlin is unreadable without an IDE, it's Kotlin done badly. You can misuse its features to obfuscate the code, but in and of itself it's an extremely clear language.
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by V-2 5y ago
I, for one, am renting, so if my neighbors expected my landlord would live at the flat with his family - then my wife, my newborn son and I are certainly failing to meet their implicit assumptions.
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by V-2 5y ago
I'd have the exact same problem if the owner of the flat turned into a meth lab (or throwing loud parties or whatever) did pay all the taxes.
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by V-2 5y ago
I guess it depends what you consider as "hacking", exactly. To me "hacking" implies "customizing, but not as the makers had intended".
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by V-2 5y ago
Isn't the freedom of "hacking" your system one of the main reasons for using Linux to begin with?
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by V-2 5y ago
When Java was created, this wasn't a factor to consider yet
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by V-2 5y ago
"I chose Apple's platform, instead of Android, because of the way that SwiftUI lets me write the UI via code" Unless I'm misunderstanding the feature, this is coming to Android as well (well, it already has, though it&
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by V-2 5y ago
"One day I'll be able to work whilst walking around in the forest..." To be frank, this sounds thoroughly dystopian to me

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