abiox

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571.
by abiox 10y ago
> that there are things I perceive or experience you have vision and other senses, and physical phenomena that interact with them cause physiological changes. > how do I explain having a subjective experience at all isn't experie
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by abiox 10y ago
> Is Earth – the planet itself – alive? not according to the definition i just looked up. depending on what you mean, the earth is 'simply' a ball of mud hurtling through space, or it's something more akin to a label for
573.
by abiox 10y ago
> Nothing about our understanding of intelligence or self-awareness explains why we're not philosophical zombies. perhaps we really are zombies. > why there's perception at all why do atoms interact at all? why do fields in
574.
by abiox 10y ago
this seems like a potential composition fallacy.
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by abiox 10y ago
"Consciousness really is unexplainable by what we know of the physical world" maybe. or perhaps it simply has a mystical privilege. there do seem to be a fair number of terms and concepts (like 'qualia') that hold sway
576.
by abiox 10y ago
or perhaps there's no real depth to speak of, leaving little but mystical obscurantism. depends on what you mean by "this subject".
577.
by abiox 10y ago
that's just the thing: "anything with a garbage collector is out of the question" seems limited to a particular camp.
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by abiox 10y ago
> As a November 2012 High Admiral backer i suppose this correlates with the major emotional investment.
579.
by abiox 10y ago
i wonder what percentage of these game kickstarters actually resulted in a respectable finished product.
580.
by abiox 10y ago
i recall there being some whining over go and "systems programming", but this seemed to hinge on definitions. go may not be the right option for a kernel but it's great for servers, infrastructure, platforms and various rela
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by abiox 10y ago
what is?
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by abiox 10y ago
> Even now CLR is generally considered much faster than JRE really? since when? can't say i've ever heard this claim before.
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by abiox 10y ago
being 100% backwards compatible may be nice, but it would also be severely restrictive. this is a good a moment as any to clean up (where possible) bad choices made in .net's younger days.
584.
by abiox 10y ago
this appears to be incorrect.
585.
by abiox 10y ago
it seems to me that revenue is so distant from programming language that you possibly aren't measuring what you think you're measuring.
586.
by abiox 10y ago
> rather than i don't know that this is strictly true, nor that these notions are mutually exclusive.
587.
by abiox 10y ago
> nothing will change my mind you seem a bit committed. is this an emotional thing? > there's a good reason most... is there? is this reason related to languages themselves or their use? does it necessarily imply anything spec
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by abiox 10y ago
>Socrates: OK! So could you show me a real application then? Like, it says "Hello, world!" in a window, with a menu and buttons and stuff? And it will be the same on both Windows and Linux? >Developer: No, that's not po
589.
by abiox 10y ago
> Use the right tools for the job i wonder if this expression constitutes a thought-terminating cliché.
590.
by abiox 10y ago
averages aren't all that interesting given how skewed salaries tend to be. i agree that (in general) 50k isn't so bad in alabama.
591.
by abiox 10y ago
is there a laws and regulations lobby?
592.
by abiox 10y ago
this is reductive to the point of being meaningless.
593.
by abiox 10y ago
what is the relation between "language generates revenue" and "usefulness in objective terms"? is the latter necessarily dependent on the former?
594.
by abiox 10y ago
> he just lists and details aspects of it that suck it's possession of said aspects aren't why it sucks?
595.
by abiox 10y ago
This seems like equivocation.
596.
by abiox 10y ago
they do seem very willing to give rather long (12-24 month) massive discounts to new customers and people who threaten to leave. would seem to be in line with huge margins that they would behave that way.
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by abiox 10y ago
even this is less clear - for some dbs it's normal to use a sequence for rowid's (vs some sort of autoincrement) and i don't think sqlite offers all the same behavior there.
598.
by abiox 10y ago
there's plenty of such things... "X considered harmful" seemed to have an uptick in usage for a while.
599.
by abiox 10y ago
probably because they weren't mentioned then, and unions aren't that topical in the US where the corporate lobby has mostly dismantled them and disadvantaged the citizenry.
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by abiox 10y ago
was it good for a middle schooler?

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