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by dempseye 10y ago
Do DDoS and comment spam count as hacking now?
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by dempseye 10y ago
Did anyone come?
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by dempseye 10y ago
There is a language problem here where it is impossible to be sure that when people describe subjective experiences in the same words they are actually having the same qualitative experience. I don't take it too seriously. It's ju
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by dempseye 10y ago
> I wonder if it's possible to improve your visual imagination through practice? There are various meditative and esoteric practices based on exactly that.
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by dempseye 10y ago
No problem recognising people here either. It's like a hash, as you said. I'd say it operates more like a bloom filter in my head, as I will always remember an image if I see it again, but previously unseen images can still occasi
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by dempseye 10y ago
I'll put it this way: I have no problem imagining a physical system in my head and running a simulation of it, but it is as if instead of receiving the output of the simulation as images on a screen I am receiving it in the form of i
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by dempseye 10y ago
This is another thing: people complain about film adaptations on the grounds that they look different to the mental image of the characters, setting, etc., that they formed while reading the book. I never understood that.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I took the test and apparently I fall into the lowest five percent for richness of mental imagery. I recall being frustrated by exhortations to "close [my] eyes and imagine" things as a child, as if I was being asked to do somethi
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by dempseye 10y ago
I certainly respect people who work hard to achieve expert status in any (worthwhile) domain. Some people are just driven that way.
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by dempseye 10y ago
Does that matter if they do their work properly?
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by dempseye 10y ago
Thanks for the heads up on this. Does it have tools for working with stored procedures? This is the main thing I am looking for.
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by dempseye 10y ago
I once bought a pre-made landing page template with all kinds of whizz bang Javascript libraries built in. The demo page was 4 MB. In the time it took to strip all the trash out of the template I could have designed the page myself. I'
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by dempseye 10y ago
I tried this out as a replacement for SQL Developer (awful) and PL/SQL Developer (good, but like something from the 90s) when the Early Access Programme started. It wasn't up to snuff then, but I have faith in Jetbrains and am a b
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by dempseye 10y ago
Hardly a "once in a lifetime idea", is it?
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by dempseye 11y ago
It is very simple. I blame the property owners because they have vastly more power than the renters. If a renter has a choice between paying an exorbitant rent and sleeping on the street, then I do not blame him for paying. However, I think
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by dempseye 11y ago
He does not see it wrong. You are appealing to supply and demand as if it was an immutable law of the universe and not just an outcome of predatory human behaviour. When demand outstrips supply, prices go up. He never suggested otherwise. B
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by dempseye 11y ago
> How is profit "fucking people over"? There is a line of thinking that says that profit is by definition fucking people over. I am not telling you that you ought to agree with that line of thinking, but I think you should at l
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by dempseye 11y ago
> effectively targeting a profit margin of 0% Why would anybody want to invest in that? What am I missing here?
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by dempseye 11y ago
If it's any consolation, "real programming" doesn't have any prestige either.
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by dempseye 11y ago
Well done, and I appreciate that this is valuable to you. However, I am not looking for a job so it is not relevant to me.
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by dempseye 11y ago
I see the value from LinkedIn's perspective. I just don't see the value from mine. All they're really offering me is an opportunity to be spammed by even more recruiters. And, yes, I am in business.
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by dempseye 11y ago
Why do you need LinkedIn at all? I never saw the value in it.
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by dempseye 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
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by dempseye 11y ago
Sorry, can't get past the weird scrolling.
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by dempseye 11y ago
Why do you care about the safety of a torturer?
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by dempseye 11y ago
They are aiming for the weddings.
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by dempseye 11y ago
Care to illuminate their point of view for us?
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by dempseye 11y ago
This is an excellent piece of marketing.
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by dempseye 11y ago
I agree.
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by dempseye 11y ago
This research seems barbaric.

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