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by adriand 5y ago
Right - in other words, is it fun working at a carnival? Carnivals sure seem fun! The core mission of almost every company is pretty boring. I think that’s because human needs and wants (which is how companies create value: by meeting the
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by adriand 5y ago
What's insane to me is how much certain plants will grow in tap water with zero regard for their nutritional requirements. I frequently propagate houseplants by putting cuttings in a glass of water and sometimes I get lazy and don&#x27
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by adriand 5y ago
Likewise. I mean I do seem to have more money than before but almost none of it came via government transfers. I think we got $800 for our kids because they were schooled from home for a year or whatever. The rest is just not having things
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by adriand 5y ago
“To equal the hydrocarbon emissions of about a half-hour of yard work with this two-stroke leaf blower, you'd have to drive a Ford Raptor for 3,887 miles, or the distance from Northern Texas to Anchorage, Alaska.” https://ww
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by adriand 5y ago
Not naive. I work for a logistics company and every shipment is insured. Standard amount of cargo insurance is $100k for a full truckload but that goes up for more valuable items. So the question of losses boils down to the amount of insura
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by adriand 5y ago
Heroin is a painkiller like the other opiates, and it works on mental pain too, not just on physical pain. Most well-adjusted people without a history of trauma do not want to try heroin or if they do, do not tend to become addicted to it.
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by adriand 5y ago
I might be misinterpreting what you mean by "standalone" but the MK3 isn't a standalone device, it requires that you connect it to your computer. It comes with partner software, Maschine 2, that is the "brains" of i
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by adriand 5y ago
This sounds like an absolute ton of fun. There is no desert around me and this would never fly in any forest near here (Southern Ontario) but some years Lake Ontario freezes over completely and I’ve always thought it would be amazing to do
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by adriand 5y ago
What a great thread. I’ve been learning finger drumming on a pad controller (Maschine MK3), going through a course called Quest For Groove. I’ve been into making electronic music for a long time but this is my first attempt to learn a music
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by adriand 5y ago
> My mental health must be wired to require actual trees, sunshine, birds, walks in the neighborhood It's not just your mental health, this is a well-researched fact of human/animal nature. What if the next great revolution in
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by adriand 5y ago
I played Planetside quite a bit when it came out in 2003. It supported FPS battles with hundreds of people participating. If this kind of scale was the most important thing for shooters then the subsequent trend would have been to increase
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by adriand 5y ago
Honestly don't worry about it. If your plants are growing and seem healthy, they are fine. Just ensure your plants have a pot that is appropriate to their size. Off the top of my head and based on my current plants, I'd say a plan
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by adriand 5y ago
I have, and have had, numerous thriving houseplants. My largest plants right now are about five feet tall. I also have three orchids that do wonderfully, a selection of cacti, etc. I do still kill plants from time to time but it's rare
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by adriand 5y ago
I was reading a book about nutrition recently and the author was relating the remarkable health benefits of herbs, even dried ones. She went on to state that were you to eat an entire cup of dried basil - not that you would - you’d get 2,11
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by adriand 5y ago
I wonder how much of this has to do with the medium of communication. People often have wonderful clarity when speaking but then muddle things up horribly when they write/create decks/etc. I previously worked with a very smart and
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by adriand 5y ago
Some great points, well made (and apologies for putting that assumption on you, you are correct about that). I think the blind spot you refer to also creates the risk we may encounter consciousness and not recognize it. I’ve long been of th
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by adriand 5y ago
I take your point, but I disagree: your statement assumes that there are conscious beings who are not my kin (and to be clear, by "kin" I broadly mean animals: living entities that are embodied and show characteristics like intent
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> a really great way to confuse yourself would be to abstract the entire question of consciousness away from the life sciences and then wonder why you're so confused Yes, exactly. Which is a direct challenge to transhumanism because
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by adriand 5y ago
There's a difference between knowing, and knowing how you know. I know my computer is not conscious even if I'm not entirely certain how I know. I chalk this up to the fact that, as a conscious animal with millions of years of evo
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by adriand 5y ago
My house is made of bricks. I can confidently remove one of the bricks and replace it with a Kleenex box. The house is still standing, it’s perfectly liveable and no one can tell the difference. Now what happens when I replace all the brick
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by adriand 5y ago
One obvious difference between computers and humans is that only one of them is an animal. So far as we can tell, consciousness only arises in animals. This sounds like a truism, but I wonder if using phrases like “complex system“ masks it:
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by adriand 5y ago
The reactions in this thread are comical. This is Jony Ive for god’s sake. The way to think about this is: this is the website you can have when you’re Jony Ive. It doesn’t need a contact form: he doesn’t need random queries from the intern
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> If we look at another societal thing that historically a huge chunk of the population did -- smoking -- it was known that it kills you, horribly, but it took taken more than sixty to eighty years for the public to get that message, and
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Actually, answering “yes” to that question would have been extremely confusing given how the question is worded! Which makes the snarky request for a binary response even less reasonable.
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Really amazing. I find this sort of thing absolutely haunting. It's a vivid reminder that there is nothing particularly special about this moment in time: it's only special to us because we're living it. But their present mom
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by adriand 5y ago
Ah, that's interesting. Speaking from personal experience (and as an atheist, who happened to grow up in a religious household), I think many atheists are too quick to dismiss the value of rituals/prayers/meditations. As you
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by adriand 5y ago
That is very funny but speaking in practical terms, and not about UX, how does a feature like this work in practice? Does Allah respond to prayers emitted by electronics? Or is the idea that the human is supposed to recite the prayer along
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Very fascinating and some truly stunning footage. What I can’t help thinking about viewing this marvel of technology is what humanity might have achieved if the prodigious efforts and staggering sums that went into the Cold War arms race we
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And the same can happen in tech! When I started college in the late 90s in software engineering, the market was booming. A year before I graduated the dot-com crash took place and the jobs evaporated. That was the catalyst for pursuing an e

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