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by abyssin 5mo ago
What you call "conscious attention" seems to be a sort of cognitive process. What the article calls unconscious state is a state. The idea is that in some states, some processes (like predictive coding) don't take place.
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by abyssin 5mo ago
I'm tempted to say it's fair game, since complexity has often had the advantageous side effect for governing bodies to make legitimate complaints impossible to voice for normal citizens.
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by abyssin 5mo ago
it inspired me to talk to someone today and that person was happy about it!
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by abyssin 6mo ago
Any innovation benefiting cyclists and coming from the auto industry is a way to move attention away from the fact that cars are the most dangerous thing on the road.
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by abyssin 6mo ago
A few years ago I went back to school. Hoping to manage some sort of Internet addiction, I bought a reMarkable 1 tablet. It did help me, but in retrospect I should've bought a black and white laser printer and a few boxes of paper. The
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by abyssin 7mo ago
I'm pivoting to mental health. But the trades are quite appealing too!
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by abyssin 7mo ago
Rich's talks have been the apex of my programming career. I didn't like sitting in front of a computer to the extent needed to make a living from it, so I moved on to another industry. And maybe I wasn't smart enough to becom
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by abyssin 7mo ago
This kind of patriotism is embarrassing, I don’t think I have ever seen it displayed by others than US citizens.
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by abyssin 8mo ago
It baffles me that contemporary architects don’t seem to be aware of the existence of rain. Why put white render on the facade of your building if it turns to green within five years? Why the hate for large overhangs that would solve this p
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by abyssin 9mo ago
I've been told personally by the organizer of one of these conferences in the retail industry that illegal non-compete agreements and price-fixing agreements are made in the hallways. It was 10 years ago, and the whole conference exist
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by abyssin 11mo ago
How much current does it draw?
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by abyssin 11mo ago
Not sure about your particular model but most front lights are designed to make the path visible in front of you, and not above.
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by abyssin 11mo ago
If your front light is correctly aiming down, there’s no need to disable the light. Modern bicycle led front lights are most often incorrectly set up, though.
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by abyssin 11mo ago
All roads in France except very small ones have white reflective lines.
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by abyssin 1y ago
A prominent Belgian political figure laundered cash for years using the lottery https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/12/11/revealed-how-t...
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by abyssin 1y ago
They’re not too bothered with a part of humanity starving. Why do you think they’d care about you more?
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by abyssin 1y ago
Could the cynicism of some also be a byproduct of the circumstances?
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by abyssin 1y ago
Is this sarcasm?
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Germany Joins Canada, Switzerland in Allowing Compassionate Use of Psilocybin(psychedelicalpha.com)
5 points by abyssin 1y ago|0 comments
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by abyssin 1y ago
Thank you so much for this comment that made me learn about Orion on iOS. It seems to be filling a gap that had been open for years.
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by abyssin 1y ago
Could you provide links for these declarations?
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by abyssin 1y ago
One solution to how easy it is to get around self-inflicted blocks could be to find someone that agrees to manage your phone using the parental features. Personally I haven't found someone who I feel I could trust with such a power ove
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by abyssin 1y ago
The tail’s appearance is a meaningful proxy for the state of health of its holder.
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by abyssin 2y ago
What is this very precise construction?
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by abyssin 2y ago
In Europe we already have the technology for everyone to live and retire comfortably. What we don’t have is the governments whose goal is for everyone to do so. I don’t see how more technology would solve a political issue.
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by abyssin 2y ago
Why?
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by abyssin 2y ago
I made the choice to change my occupation for a more moral one. One issue is, you lose a lot of social credit doing so. It’s seen as a personal failure rather than a choice. It might also be that implicitly challenging their choices makes p
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by abyssin 2y ago
A few weeks ago I had the nice surprise that my usual strategy of starting to walk on the pedestrian crossing to test if a car driver has the intention of stopping, resulted in an emergency stop from a Tesla coming for the right (it was a t
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by abyssin 2y ago
At a glance, it looks quite similar to Python.
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by abyssin 2y ago
If you had to make a guess about these behavioral models, what would it be?

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