Xenograph

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by Xenograph 6y ago
The real estate market (and well, most real markets) cannot be completely explained by simple supply/demand calculations covered in a high school economics course. Nor can they be entirely explained by a highly-trained economist. There
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by Xenograph 6y ago
> If you'd like ESLint to be set up for you, add --eslint to the command. Note: this will use 150mb of disk space. This is insane. No wonder they were motivated to create a minimal development tool. How could a CLI linter require 1
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Sending 3,000+ LoC code reviews is not considered good engineering practice. In general it's important to keep code reviews small for the reasons you describe. If it's impossible to make incremental changes in smaller units, that&
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by Xenograph 6y ago
What exactly are they doing when they put your application in "administrative processing" for years with no explanation or time estimate? What could possibly take years to process on a standard visa application? Does anyone know?
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Wine is an (imperfect) emulation layer. This runs Windows apps inside a VM, thus avoiding potential compatibility issues that are common with Wine. Downside is that running a VM requires more system resources, of course.
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Shouldn't it be 250 - 100 ms (rather than plus)? The person who was talking is silent for that extra 100ms while they wait for their words to reach their peer.
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed explanation, but I realize that I was misreading the whole time and so you answered a question that I actually didn't mean to ask. Apologies. Instead of 'private member functions' my mind read 'me
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by Xenograph 6y ago
> There are other ways to encapsulate besides private member functions. Could you elaborate a bit here? I've searched for solutions in this area before without much success. I'd be interested to hear more.
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by Xenograph 6y ago
> In contrast, when shown numbers with embedded faces, the number’s effect apparently swamped that of the face: RFS reported seeing neither; everything looked like spaghetti. Yet an EEG still showed the characteristic N170 spike for regi
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Your Larabar example is way off base: 1. The number of ingredients in something does not directly indicate how (un)healthy it is. The fact that Larabar contains 2-3 ingredients says nothing about its nutritional value. 2. In fact, many peop
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by Xenograph 6y ago
You're right, I was a bit too harsh. You indeed mentioned that they make strong claims without solid evidence, which is a valid criticism. However, from what I recall, they don't present the ideas in the book as facts or establish
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by Xenograph 6y ago
You just shot down the book/idea (panpsychism) without providing a single constructive reason. Instead, you applied a derogatory label ('woo'), and attacked the proponents instead of the idea itself, saying: "the propone
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by Xenograph 6y ago
> I don't see it as a real problem. If a program or machine asserts that it perceives qualia, who are we to argue it's wrong? Right now, we are in no position to argue it's wrong, because we have no accepted framework for
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by Xenograph 6y ago
You are conflating consciousness[1] with self-awareness[2]. They are two distinct ideas. In fact the second/third sentence on the Wikipedia page for self-awareness is: > It [self-awareness] is not to be confused with consciousness i
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Could someone explain the joke?
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by Xenograph 6y ago
Keep in mind that CFR takes into account only those that are confirmed positive (which are mostly people who already have severe symptoms). That said, parent comment's math is still way off (see my sibling comment).
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by Xenograph 6y ago
> if you are under 50 it's more likely you will be killed driving to the hospital than by the virus. Apologies if this was intended to be hyperbole, but it is not true according to our current knowledge. Estimated fatality rate for
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by Xenograph 7y ago
Are you talking about Bitwarden or bitwarden_rs? Because bitwarden_rs is simply a third-party implementation of the Bitwarden API server AFAIU.
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by Xenograph 7y ago
> With our consciousness, we become curious and ask questions. We devise experiments that lead to quantum collapse. You are mixing up intelligence and consciousness.
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by Xenograph 7y ago
Could you elaborate on how you know "the amount of time a candidate took [on Goldmine] turned out to be a pretty strong signal."?
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by Xenograph 7y ago
> Not open source, only partly, just like Telegram. Signal is completely open source. I'm not sure why you think it's only partly open source. Quoting Wikipedia[1]: > All Signal software are free and open-source. The clients
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by Xenograph 7y ago
> For a given word you should have the definition and the forward and reverse translation. Perhaps for simple/beginner words. But for more advanced words, it's important to realize that our active vocabulary is necessarily much
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by Xenograph 9y ago
That's assuming that the same neurogenesis still happens in the absence of a conscious experience. Do you have evidence that supports this?
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by Xenograph 9y ago
You seem to be implying that people who use Venmo and/or prefer to deal in exact numbers aren't decent human beings. I suggest you reevaluate that position and consider how greed might not be the root cause of someone behaving tha
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by Xenograph 10y ago
The awe you're describing and the "awe" of his friends are very different, AFAICT. What you describe is perfectly healthy and reasonable: GCC/etc are unquestionably complex systems that can't be fully understood wit