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by b800h 3y ago
You don't need to eat the whole cake at once. It's astonishingly tough to give advice on this sort of thing. A couple of starting points which might work for some people: 1. Dwelling on the utter absurdity of the universe appearin
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by b800h 3y ago
I'm Christian, and feel likewise - no existential dread. We recently had various deaths and mortal health scares in our family and among friends. I hadn't really confronted death before that but I realised that because I had compl
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by b800h 3y ago
This is a bad test case. Summaries of books are more likely to have been generated from reviews than the books themselves. We don't want bad precedents set by weak cases like this.
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by b800h 3y ago
"Tea, Earl Grey, hot"
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by b800h 3y ago
Brought to us by the Tea Marketing Board? Have to say I'm delighted that it will protect me from alcohol-induced damage. Back on the plonk it is then.
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by b800h 3y ago
I'm still unclear on this - I notice from online that Linux, for example, supports up to 256 TTY devices by default. How might one go about actually physically hooking up that many devices these days? Is a terminal concentrator still a
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by b800h 3y ago
With regards to BiiN, one thing I'm not familiar with was how the serial connection to, say, 80 terminals was handled on a machine like this. If I had 80 Wyse terminals (alas, I only have two), and wanted to hook them up to, for exampl
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by b800h 3y ago
I was about to opine that this title was an homage to the 2009 GI Joe movie, but then I realised it had been written prior to the film's release. I can only assume that in actual fact, "GI Joe: The rise of COBRA" was in fact
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by b800h 3y ago
I have a yearning to spend the money and use it to boost a post called "I bought this to the top of HN".
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by b800h 3y ago
I have what gets called ADD, and found at 17 that I was a much better programmer when hungover, keeping focus all day long and finishing a project. It is somewhat sad that when I excitedly told people about this the next day, that no-one sp
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by b800h 3y ago
> You know what rich college students don't have a lot of? "fear, social anxiety, and trauma". Good lord, what a statement.
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by b800h 3y ago
"There is too much blood in my alcohol-stream", yes?
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by b800h 3y ago
The full text of Tolstoy's essay is available here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Do_Men_Stupefy_Themselves...
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by b800h 3y ago
I've been expecting the psychologists to jump on AI since before it was famous. It's an obvious move, but hopefully the people without real qualifications in the "AI Psychology" field, which frankly will end up being a u
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by b800h 3y ago
The politically correct ground is the status-quo, and the status quo may very well be horribly wrong. I'd much rather people read ten diverse opinions on a subject and were challenged to make up their own minds, than be fed the party l
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by b800h 3y ago
Yes, at work.
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by b800h 3y ago
"Yet, these models contain known racial, gender, and class stereotypes and biases from their training data and other structural factors, which downstream into model outputs" This isn't my experience at all, certainly in the c
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by b800h 3y ago
NOBODY expects the RaspberryPi YouTube guy! His chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and absurdly impractical Kubernetes clusters. His TWO weapons.. etc.
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by b800h 3y ago
And then they'll put ads in the LLM chat stream. "Using texts on neurolinguistic programming and mentalism, find subliminal ways of promoting {product}".
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by b800h 3y ago
Fanfic of what?
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by b800h 3y ago
Absolutely! He's very entertaining. As a committed materialist, what do you make of the Kalaam cosmological argument and others which make similar points? How can something come from nothing?
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by b800h 3y ago
"In mice"
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by b800h 3y ago
I get where you're coming from too, I've read plenty of RA Wilson for example, and the Autonomedia stuff. I'd argue there are other ways of confronting the "animal" as you put it, but I have to leave the house now.
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by b800h 3y ago
> the kind of people who really like the idea of hidden power and taking control of the world around them. That’s also why you see the same people drawn to transhumanism, etc. Good point - actually not just a case of hidden power but als
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by b800h 3y ago
@krapp - Disagree on that point. Obviously the three above are going to break down into further stages, but there are plenty of apologetic arguments which squarely fall into a broad question of "is there a God?" and not a more spe
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by b800h 3y ago
You might like to look at some apologetical writing. Christian apologetics, for example, are often split into three layers, essentially: 1. Is there a God - this is actually fairly straightforward to argue, simply because we can use analyti
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by b800h 3y ago
The occult is a form of theology. The sense I take is that he's taking a pot-shot at the lot of it. But I could be wrong.
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by b800h 3y ago
As regards the drugs and sex, I'm speaking from personal experience of people I've known. Easy enough to google "Tantra Scandal" and find examples, but you could argue that plenty of individuals in mainstream religions h
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by b800h 3y ago
Methods plural. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as smug - what I'm trying to get across is that a lot of people who have been failed by western religions in their desire for the numinous , and an understanding of how on earth it
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by b800h 3y ago
That's a good shout. What are invaluable and in sadly limited supply are religious teachers who can explain things one on one. As a result of (amazingly and sadly) the Second World War, this sort of training fell out of fashion in semi

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