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by calibas 1y ago
> Yes, the talking drums are attested in Africa from the 18th century This highlights another important bias when viewing African history through the lens of Western culture. Talking drums are likely much much older, but oral history get
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by calibas 1y ago
They also encoded messages, so they had a high-speed communications network that used cryptography. In essence, it was an early version of the internet. I've noticed a bit of resistance in Western cultures when I bring this up. People
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by calibas 1y ago
Note that I didn't say they aren't conscious, I said they aren't conscious "in the same way as a human being". I left open the possibility they could be conscious "in a very alien way".
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by calibas 1y ago
> Is/was the same true for ASCII/Smalltalk/binary? They are all another way to translate language into something the computer "understands". That's converting characters into a digital representation. "
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by calibas 1y ago
The fact that we have figured out how to translate language into something a computer can "understand" should thrill linguists. Taking a word (token) and abstracting it's "meaning" as a 1,000-dimension vector seems
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by calibas 1y ago
> It’s well known that video games today are disposable pieces of slop. Yes, and that's always been the case. From Wikipedia: "The video game crash of 1983 (known in Japan as the Atari shock) was a large-scale recession in the
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by calibas 1y ago
Worst case scenario, it bricks your device: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36928638?pli=1 Even if the system boots properly, there's various critical systems that depend upon having the correct time. Say g
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by calibas 1y ago
I should have been more clear, I'm not responding to Alvy-Ray's article, I was simply adding to the idea that a pixel is not a little square. If you don't treat a logical pixel like a discrete little square, you can take adva
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by calibas 1y ago
We're going off on tangents here, I only brought this up to reinforce the idea that a pixel is not a little square. And I guess I should have explicitly stated that I'm not talking about high-DPI displays, subpixel rendering obvio
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by calibas 1y ago
> even Windows does not do subpixel antialiasing in its new apps (UWP/WinUI) anymore This is a little misleading, as the new versions of Edge and Windows Terminal do use subpixel antialiasing. What Microsoft did was remove the featu
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by calibas 1y ago
Maybe true for Mac users, but the average Win 10 desktop is still using a 1080p monitor.
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by calibas 1y ago
If you want a good example of what happens when you treat pixels like they're just little squares, disable font smoothing. Anti-aliasing, fonts that look good, and smooth animation are all dependent upon subpixel rending. https:/
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by calibas 1y ago
It's very simple, the reason people favor a more permissive license is generally the same reason they open source their code: You want other people to use your project. Obviously, a more permissive license is going to let people do wha
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by calibas 1y ago
From my experience playing guitar, the average punk or metal song is almost entirely power chords, while this data says power chords are only 5% of chords in both genres... I thought maybe there's types of metal and punk that I don&#x2
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by calibas 2y ago
Is it not obvious? The number of protons is the atomic number. If "c" was the answer, ions couldn't exist.
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by calibas 2y ago
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by calibas 2y ago
I'm not arguing that animal isn't a useful term, but if you're dividing eukaryotes into the major groups, it's not one of them. > More personally speaking: what am I missing out by using the four kingdoms? Like, how c
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by calibas 2y ago
Children can memorize all 50 US state capitals, they can memorize a handful of scientific names. If we really wanted to, we could teach them a much more accurate view of the tree of life. Also, I don't think the four-kingdom system has
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by calibas 2y ago
> with eukarya containing all multicellular organisms within the four kingdoms of fungi, animals, plants and protists. This bugs me so much. The four-kingdom system should have died out decades ago, it's absurdly wrong. For one thin
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by calibas 2y ago
I see people bringing up arrays, and an array index is represented by a number, you can do math on it, but it's not a regular number for counting a sequence of items. It's a unique reference to a location in the memory, and it&#x2
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by calibas 2y ago
> We should reduce the use of fossil fuels but that will take decades. I remember people saying that decades ago, and fossil fuel consumption has only risen since then... Here in the US, we've been expanding production and breaking
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by calibas 2y ago
Suppose for a moment that human-driven global warming is real, and a direct threat to human survival. Suppose that burning fossil fuels is one of the biggest drivers of global warming. Now who are the "bad guys" and who are the &q
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by calibas 2y ago
So anything authored by an AI is effectively public domain? And does that go for code as well as art? I did a little reading on the subject, and it looks like these questions are still in the process of being answered.
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by calibas 2y ago
They only made less than 400 available for purchase by the general public, which all sold out, and there was a waiting list for more. You keep criticizing the sales, yet it was the supply that was the limiting factor. You can't sell mo
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by calibas 2y ago
> The RAV4 nickel-metal hydride plug-in hybrid from 97-03 sold a grand total of 1400 units. FYI, it wasn't a hybrid. And your statement is a bit misleading. 1400 sales sounds pathetic, until you realize that means they completely so
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by calibas 2y ago
What about electric cars wasn't "viable" in 2003? That was the year Toyota released their all electric RAV4 in California... Unlike hydrogen, there was already whole highly-developed system for production and distribution of
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by calibas 2y ago
Back in 2003, President George W. Bush announced the Hydrogen Fuel Initiative. At the time, people criticized the effort as an attempt by the oil industry to shift attention away from electric cars. The oil industry knew that hydrogen power
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by calibas 2y ago
> While mathematicians traditionally pursue understanding for its own sake, industry researchers must ultimately deliver products, features, or capabilities that create value for their organizations. This really isn't about mathemat
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by calibas 2y ago
Looks like it's broken link because Cloudflare deleted the forum post. Google's still got it in their search results: https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.clou...
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by calibas 2y ago
Be honest about your User-Agent and get you blocked, pretend to be Chrome and all the problems go away. It creates a strong incentive for people to lie about User-Agent.

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