babyloneleven

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by babyloneleven 8y ago
In medieval times, learning how to read wasn't really necessary to perform day-to-day tasks for the vast majority of people.
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
seL4
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
Another perspective is that we're like an ML model that takes tons of raw data and extract features from it, and infer stuff like "x is alive" and "y is dying". We insist that the features we extracted are the real
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
I don't know what he or she meant, but I wrote a comment elsewhere on the thread about a Buddhist perspective that touches on this. Ctrl+f Buddhism. The tldr is that all our experiences are constructions of our mind. It's our mind
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
Since you mentioned Buddhism you probably know what it's about, but for the benefit of someone that might be curious, The Buddhist perspective is that none of this is actually real. It's all an elaborate illusion. The battle is an
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
> My experiences also suggest that a lot of this is fixable, without drugs or therapy, if you can help the family disengage from long-standing patterns of interaction and help the child in question understand where their dysfunctional be
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
We offload to others the externalities of our activities as much as possible. We are not sustaintable, and nobody is eager to bear the costs of whatever they are doing. This is a result of our narrow vision. Slavery - treating people as pro
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
> Suck it up. Why?
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
They shouldn't, and they aren't (not in Cuba at least)
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
No, that's parallelism, because the cores are running in parallel. The software is written using concurrency techniques such as threads, that work on both multicore machines and machines with a single core.
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
The thing is that the description method in the Error trait in the stdlib is broken. I can't find the post on the internals.rust-lang.org atm, but the author of Failure has a plan for backwards compatibly fixing it and eventually movin
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
It's still a dark pattern.
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by babyloneleven 8y ago
Saudis can invest in public markets too.