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by __alexs 4y ago
Is there any evidence that we actually have this quality? Humans just seem like particularly complex animals to me.
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by __alexs 4y ago
IANAL a but I think this is actually a good example of where sentience is a mostly useless concept. By useless I mean that it doesn't actually add anything to our decision making but flavour. It's just used to work out which rules
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by __alexs 4y ago
Is sentience even a useful concept? Starting to seem almost as useless as arguing about what makes code "clean."
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by __alexs 4y ago
It's probably hard to sleep after all the cocaine they take tbh.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Most languages intentionally avoid checking types at runtime except in specific situations where it's required (e.g. explicit typeof checks.) You do not want run time type checking on every variable access.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Do many people temporarily take caffeine regularly? I've been drinking 3 cups a day for most of my life.
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by __alexs 4y ago
> Precisely aligned, gently optimised, solidly engineered. If you write junk like this to describe your software project I am immediately going to assume you are completely hopeless and not to be trusted at all. Not one of these 6 words
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by __alexs 4y ago
1) Gain access to something like a Stripe Terminal ( https://stripe.com/gb/terminal ) You should probably avoid using your real identity here. 2) Type in a charge like $50 3) Discretely wave the device at your targets wa
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by __alexs 4y ago
Other music streaming services are available. /bbc
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by __alexs 4y ago
Curious. It's almost like the climate is a complex system that requires more than 2 variables to model.
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by __alexs 4y ago
They are called liquidators.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Yes the fastest computers are those aboard the Parker Solar Probe at 690,000 km/h.
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by __alexs 4y ago
It's not entirely clear that they do know it's secure given they don't seem to know how the attacker gained access in the first place.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Every great nation is built on unspeakably evil things like this. It seems almost like it's part of the cost of entry to being a super power. This isn't an apology for China. It's about time they moved to the 'maturity&
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by __alexs 4y ago
PCI-E 5.0 has a ridiculous amount of bandwidth for consumer purposes. They just don't need as many lanes.
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by __alexs 4y ago
Where I'm from we call that the Total Perspective Vortex.
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by __alexs 4y ago
This is a great way to be bankrupted by crypto currency miners.
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by __alexs 4y ago
> The difference between then and now is that interest rates are blasting through the roof along with inflation. The effective federal interest rate is 0.33% today. It was 2.4% before COVID...
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by __alexs 4y ago
Is strange that they don't pay contributors for this at all. Google frequently pay me in Play store credit via Google Rewards to answer questions about places I've been and videos I've watched.
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by __alexs 4y ago
His stated reason for leaving the board was potential future conflicts with things Tesla are working on.
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by __alexs 4y ago
It's not a crash it's a runtime state rollback.
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by __alexs 4y ago
I was also a die hard Treo user at the time but as soon as I saw the iPhone it was obvious this was the future and I got in line on release day to get one and never looked back.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Not disagreeing on fubared but the reports I've read say 4C by 2100. Not 20.
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by __alexs 5y ago
Cite your sources? This is 10x any estimate I've seen.
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by __alexs 5y ago
There are beam spring based switches that also have this property. There are even some MX keycap compatible ones available now but I think they are all require a hall effect PCB. I guess some clicky optical switches may also behave this way
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by __alexs 5y ago
shitposting is an art. shit posting is a value statement.
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by __alexs 5y ago
out of the box thinking is when you take thoughts off the shelf of ideas and present them as your own.
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by __alexs 5y ago
It's the website of someone who does research and sells software for numerical analysis of physical systems. Seems like they sold some FMEA tools among other things. The versions of GCC etc they have on the site seem fairly up to date
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by __alexs 5y ago
There is no relationship between total head count and operating work load in most companies. Twitter isn't a factory. They don't need 8000 people to churn out widgets and every extra person means another extra widget they can make
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by __alexs 5y ago
CCP are an Icelandic video game developer, famous in particular for the giant single instance MMORPG Eve Online. CSM is the Council of Stellar Management, it's an elected, CCP supported group of players who they consult with on how to

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