benj111

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by benj111 1mo ago
You do realise that modern germ theory was discovered in the 19th century due to cholera in a well. The 19th century! So no it isn't obvious. London's sewers were originally built to get rid of the smell, ie 'miasma'. Th
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by benj111 1mo ago
>You are conflating fitness of the individual with population robustness against systemic shocks Yes and as per my first example, the ones who don't drink the contaminated water survive. The population robustness is people doing thi
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by benj111 1mo ago
No. I don't think so. Your original comment is basically 2 parts. "If we are talking about genes, the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself." We have already discussed the above. You then proceed on that basis. &quo
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by benj111 1mo ago
The timing of this seems weird. The UK uses much more energy in the winter, so this isn't going to bring the grid down or anything. This just seems like a wasted attack, alerting us to the vulnerability.
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by benj111 1mo ago
The point is that crypto is hard. Therefore many people need to check it, to ensure it is correct. The crypto you rolled yourself is unlikely to have been extensively tested. It's like alpha software. It may have no known bugs, but it
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by benj111 1mo ago
I assume it's called MartyPC because it Marty McFlies?
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by benj111 1mo ago
So explain "If we are talking about genes, the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself" That is your basis for 'mistake', and the general position that you are objectively right. I am saying divergence from the n
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by benj111 1mo ago
Hmm. If only we had some sort of language that would allow us to display a page in different ways without losing meaning. Hmm....
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by benj111 1mo ago
Weirdly that works for me in the UK, despite us having the same laws.
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by benj111 1mo ago
But that's always been the case. Do you think Vogue advertisers were ever the same as Byte magazines or whatever?
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by benj111 1mo ago
Bonus 1. I see it despite having an ad blocker. Bonus 2. If ads were like this, I wouldn't need the ad blocker to start with.
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by benj111 1mo ago
>This kind of framing-inversion might work as a coping mechanism to get you through some dark times as a spergy adolescent. But eventually you have to reconcile yourself to the reality of autism: it really is a neuro-developmental disord
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by benj111 1mo ago
" the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself" You are talking about putting all your eggs in the tribal cohesion basket. That doesn't deal very well with black swan events. Not putting all your eggs in one basket mai
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by benj111 1mo ago
I'm 42. Autism as it applies to me wasn't really on the radar for most of my life. I have always had to deal with the majority of people thinking different to me. Knowing the label gives me access to tools and research, so I'
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by benj111 1mo ago
So if all the tribe goes to one water source because that's what they always do. And someone decides they want to try other water sources because they don't want to use the traditional source just because it's always been don
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by benj111 1mo ago
But you're kind of missing the point. If you were immensely intelligent to the point that most of the population found your ground breaking insight boring. Would you think you were deficient? Or different? What would others think of yo
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by benj111 1mo ago
You can accept yourself though, which seems to be the important element. If you can't walk you have a disability, but that doesn't mean you can't or shouldn't live a fulfilling life. I do have Autism, rather than ADHD, s
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by benj111 1mo ago
What? You try reading the actual written policies of any large organisation. Then find the places where they aren't following their rules, then point out with reference to the written rules what they're doing wrong. Then see what
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by benj111 1mo ago
I like to call NTs Neuro boring. Or 'Nobs' for short...
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by benj111 1mo ago
Well it is a spectrum. I don't display the obvious traits, like stimming. And then there's autistic burn out, where you can't concentrate on things anymore. I found the Austistamatic YouTube channel quite helpful fwiw.
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by benj111 1mo ago
I don't really watch YouTube on my desktop. But the point still stands unless you have replacements for all the other websites.
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by benj111 1mo ago
The point is, if I want to edit a text file, I don't need to use eclipse. I can use something that hasn't added loads of features. I don't need to use whatever Adobe product, I can use some paint app. If I want to watch strea
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by benj111 1mo ago
Yes. But that's like saying B is typed. If you give an untyped number to B's print function, it'll print the ASCII letter. That doesn't make B typed. And this is being generous. Types in typed languages aren't just
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by benj111 1mo ago
Surely the biggest cause of slowness is doing more stuff. We don't turn faster hardware into faster programs, we turn it into more program. AI isn't going to change that. We'll just get even more program because the optimisat
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by benj111 1mo ago
>Assembly is usually considered the perfect example of such an “untyped” language. >However, every instruction has a set of valid forms. Each form dictates the kind of each operand (register, memory, immediate, label), the class of ea
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by benj111 1mo ago
Yeah, I'm just reading it as hobyists putting it in the workshop next to the 3d printer. It isn't even well thought out. You can fold the keyboard away while you're doing work. But you can only access the storage while the ke
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by benj111 1mo ago
How would you make a low run product? Casting requires molds.
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by benj111 1mo ago
Why the number pad on the left? I'm left handed and don't think that's a good idea
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by benj111 1mo ago
So you think supply isn't going to increase in the next ~40 years?
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by benj111 1mo ago
What? "Forced into the Brexit outcome" Cameron stepped down after he shat the bed, every PM was a Tory. And yeah, the position was consistent. Before it was 'we could have all the benefits of being in the EU, with none of the

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