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by adrusi 10y ago
That doesn't sound like a very likely reaction. The acting classes are working, so if A really can't tolerate B's accent, why not just tell him to keep taking those lessons and practicing? Maybe offer to pay for them.
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System 2 override, perhaps, though that's more general.
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It's possible to make closed interfaces in Go (give it an uncapitalized method), so there could be a compile-time warning when you don't handle all possible cases in a type switch on a closed interface.
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How to use Linux for professional multimedia production(slackermedia.info)
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Blender really isn't just a 3d modeling tool, it's a bit of a hodge podge. It does things well though. It gets the name "blender" for its video compositor features, comparable to AfterEffects. For video editing, kdenlive
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In context, that claim was an explanation of what I was trying to get at with the phrase "conceptual understanding". We don't have a conceptual understanding of language. We do have a conceptual understanding of how to transl
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I see now that "conceptually solved" is just too ambiguous. Translation is conceptually solved, in the sense that I meant to evoke, to the extent that it's solved. We have all the conceptual understanding necessary to transla
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This is a decent example, but it's not quite comparable to developing general AI. We can build helicopters without a full conceptual understanding of aerodynamics, but we can't produce a physical simulation which will accurately d
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I didn't mean that humans can't do things that haven't been conceptually solved. I agree that humans can do humor and that humor isn't conceptually solved, so I'll assume that you mean to say that we can make comput
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If you think that we have all the conceptual understanding to assemble a general artificial intelligence then you should be able to give an outline of how it would work — beyond just lots of computing power and data, that doesn't diffe
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You mean humans doing humor? Because humans also do intelligence. Computers don't do humor.
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Sure, throwing more computing power at a problem that's already conceptually solved, more or less, is going to yield results. But that won't help for creating general ai because it's not conceptually solved.
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The point is that yes, there are some things he was wrong about, and when we think of the questions that "physics" amswers, those are the ones that come to mind. But that ignores the contributions he made that we don't think
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Starting with a blank slate lets you refer to just the program's documentation to configure it, while if you start with a config bundle you'll have to refer to both the program's documentation and the bundle's documentat
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It sounds like you're using tap-to-click. If you don't want to get used to the trackpoint you could disable that and actually depress the touchpad when you want to click. Setting the synaptics parameter "ClickPad=0" make
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It has thunderbolt 3, which is compatible with all type-c devices.
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They tried recording video of the theft to have proof that they didn't provoke it, and then conveniently it gets stolen after they stop filming...
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Australia, judging by TLD
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I don't think that meditation is useful evidence for the hard problem. Personally, I don't need further convincing that the hard problem exists, and I'm sympathetic to the usefulness of meditation as an exploratory tool, but
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I'd imagine that since lavabit NSLs make that harder if not illegal.
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The tor browser bundle pops up a warning if you try to resize it.
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No, but also you use pointers for a far narrower set of semantics in Go than you do in languages like C. I think you'll find that if you have a grasp of reference semantics in java and javascript, then Go's pointers won't cau
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Do you think that people with a rodent problem shouldn't invite others over for dinner? Do you think they shouldn't eat in their own home? Are your concerns actually about health or about the sanctity of food being corrupted by im
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You won't be easily manipulated by virtue of having strong opinions, as long as they're weakly held, because you'll probably state your strong opinion to someone who knows better than you. If your opinion is actually weakly h
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That was not a strawman, unless you think I missed something about your position. The question I asked was how much we should value the extent to which people "deserve" longer life against the moral value inhernet in extended life
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You don't need to understand something well to be justified in having a strong opinion about it. Your belief should be based on the evidence you have, even if that means a small amount that leads you to an extreme conclusion. Otherwise
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If you can give a million rich people an extra 1000 years of life, is that not as good as giving 100 million poor people an extra 10? Arguably it's better since those thousand years are going to be spent in greater comfort than the 10
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Why do we need those things to flourish?
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Did you watch the video? This guy makes tools using just the resources from the woods and his own body. Interesting for anyone with a passion for engineering.
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Instead, what if we had just a few programming languages, and made them more expressive? Because one of the most valuable things a language can do is remove unnecessary components to make a coherent small set of abstractions. That's

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