Winsaucerer

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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
I'm genuinely not sure which one you think is worse (if any). (1) seems worse, but your reply suggests to me maybe you think (2) is worse.
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
I'm very interested in approaches that avoid cloud, so please don't read this as me saying cloud is superior. I can think of some other advantages of cloud: - easy to setup different permissions for users (authorisation considera
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
> A fixed-price deal sets up the wrong incentive structure. It’s in the client’s interest to agree the lowest price possible, and then to squeeze the consultant for every drop of juice they can get. So that sucks. > > On the other
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
On a related note, I also hate Imgur. Can be a pain in the arse on mobile, forcing me to use the app, making it hard to view just the image, sometimes looking terrible when not using the app.
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
Yes, the scripting is very nice. At first, I played around with Go templates to generate the Typst templates, since that is what I was used to doing with LaTeX. It was very nice to discover it allows you to use JSON with its scripting eng
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
You've had some good replies already, but just want to add my thoughts. Markdown to me is more about (a) the content (the actual words) and (b) the semantics (text emphasis, headings, etc, which communicate information about the impor
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by Winsaucerer 2y ago
On that page is a "products" menu link up the top (or under the hamburger button on mobile). It shows you the various products that they have.
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
That's why I try (but sometimes forget) to extensively comment my queries that have any kind of complexity :)
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I feel like a foreigner in another land when I read your comment and others like it. For as long as I can remember using SQL, I can't remember ever finding it more difficult or backwards than anything else I use. That difference might
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I was looking for a static site hosting option recently and tried out cloudflare pages. Fit my need perfectly. The generous free tier and the reasonable pricing model were the big factors. Oh, and the ability to put some authentication in
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> How does this make sense? There is some divine being that only sometimes looks at the actual synapses to decide if it should feel nauseous or happy? One possibility: the experiences that God gives me at any moment are what they are bec
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I think you're on the right track here. I usually try to reason down a similar line. I wouldn't say that the claim is that the equations and laws combined can be conscious. Instead, I would say that none of the equations or law
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> if you consider experiences to be "execution"... Why would anyone think that is true? The problem I find with responses like yours is that I think you haven't understood or fully appreciated what it is I'm pointing
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
Nice joke :)
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I never denied the claim that changing the brain can change mental states. I think that the experiences we have are ones we have because of physical states (primarily, the brain). I just do not think that the experiences themselves are ph
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> If the world is all ideas, then it's just as impossible to explain why different minds have a coherent shared illusion of the physical world, or even any kind of communication between minds at all. It is far from impossible. Ther
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> I’ve always found the denial of the existence of experiential consciousness to be kind of funny. If you removed all my senses and put my brain in a vat to keep it alive, what would be left? As far as my brain is concerned, consciousnes
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I have a vague familiarity with that view, and that is definitely not the view I hold. That view states, as you describe, that somehow the whole is more than just the sum of the parts. I reject that. Instead, my claim is that if the only
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
My own view is probably atypical among dualists and idealists, and hard to explain. I'll just state what I think is true, without justifying why I think these things are true or compatible with each other. I think: - Most or all of w
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
It's not the only one. Naturalism/physicalism, a monist view, claims there is nothing else except for natural entities or causes. Dualism claims there is nothing else except for natural and mental entities or causes. There is an
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I agree with you that the brain is nothing else but its physical makeup (whether that's synapses or more). But that's not the point of contention -- the point of contention is whether those synapses are enough to explain (or expl
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> unless you're a dualist, you have to admit that our biological brain is a massive bundle of cells from which consciousness somehow arises This is indeed a consequence of a physicalist/naturalist reductionist view. On that vi
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> What is consciousness? The firing of a gazillion synapses you will never fully understand. This doesn't fit with the other examples. Consciousness is not a problem of scale, but a problem of kind. We can see from simple models h
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
EHLO
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
I obviously don't watch anywhere near as much YouTube as you do. The price is higher than I pay for any other streaming service. I don't drink coffee, but a quick look suggests it's 4 to 6 cups of Starbucks coffee here in Au
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
It's so expensive. I have multiple people in the house, and I already pay for music with Apple. It's a big price to just get no ads and nothing else.
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
It's not leniency in words. I see images in my mind, with colour and shape. I'd go so far as to say these are literal images. Dreams at night are like participating in a movie, with animations and sounds. I think about other se
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
It's something that is known and a work in progress: https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/16lti15/comment/k169...
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
> None of them were claiming they were the only people who thought "rationally"; rather, they were mostly claiming that only rational thought could reach truth, and empirical evidence need not factor into it. This is not my und
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by Winsaucerer 3y ago
This doesn't sound convincing at all, and I'm struggling to follow your reasoning. I think it's an open question for Christians whether or not there are aliens.

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