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by ebg13 6y ago
> What if consciousness is fundamental instead of emergent? And what if Wolverine was Lord of the Vampires? Speculative fiction is still speculative and still fiction. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Truly I find the mechanistic view of nature so grim and pointless. Ok, but an anthropomorphic view of nature is fanciful and _also_ pointless. This is not alive by any but the most inclusion-oriented definitions, and yet it follows l
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by ebg13 6y ago
This is plastic that has glass dust in it. The plastic burns away during sintering.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Is glass dust sintering really so special? Hasn't SLS printing been done for a while now? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering
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by ebg13 6y ago
> That's more than what many people even make in salary. It's more than what 50% of entire households make, and that's before taxes are removed.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> "The new 3000XT family of processors focuses mostly on boosting the turbo frequency by 100-200 MHz for the same power." Except they've only done this for the high power 95W/105W models, not the 65W 3700X I actuall
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by ebg13 6y ago
It looks like this is YOLOv4 implemented on PyTorch, not actually a new YOLO?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> filled to the brim with ads You let yourself see ads on the web?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Lua can have functions that assume a "this" parameter (Lua calls it "self") Even Lua's assumed "self" via the thing:funcname(...) call is just a charade and is secretly just thing.funcname(thing, ..
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by ebg13 6y ago
Ignoring metatable weirdness, I think "you need to throw out most of what you know" is quite wrong. The main thing you need to know is that Lua's table type can be numerically iterated between index 1 and the first gap where
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by ebg13 6y ago
Be bad enough to ship. Be good enough to not fail an ethics test re customer data. Everything else is sales.
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by ebg13 6y ago
You can pay in to recapture now and have it cheap enough for everything later as our needs expand, or you can fritter it away now and have it become a burden on our future expanding needs and have to pay in to recapture it then anyway. Not
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by ebg13 6y ago
I use it all the time. Things I want to work that don't: 1) NVDA screen reader. 2) 32bit applications in macOS Catalina. At least for #2 there's CrossOver, but it's somewhat expensive just for "this one weird trick wineh
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by ebg13 6y ago
When I knew someone who worked for the NSA, they told me that the accounting department worked this way and that it regularly caused their salary payments to be wrong. This was years ago, though, so maybe it's changed.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Maybe the selection of candy bars and magazines is so extensive that it will take that long to browse. J/K. I'm 99% sure that commercial charging stations charge in ~30 minutes or less, not 8 hours.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> There is no brutality in that video Putting someone into a headlock and dragging them around by their neck when that person had not initiated violence is brutality. And that person clearly did not initiate violence. > The officer
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by ebg13 6y ago
> they would have to identify themselves False. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_fraud In order to understand this, you really need to start thinking like a criminal. "If I had money, power, maybe guns,
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Again I'm not trying to defend the police You're doing a great job of it anyway trying to justify marching in brutes covered head to toe in armor all prepared for a gas attack and then mysteriously "reacting" to a
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by ebg13 6y ago
> that video. First of all, it's two videos. Watch the aerial view in the immediate reply. (If you didn't see it, you can find it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this
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by ebg13 6y ago
Context. https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gv0ru3/this_is_the... Or maybe you think that holding an umbrella wrong is reason to gas and throw explosives at an entire crowd of people.
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by ebg13 6y ago
This one is from a link further down. I think it tells pretty much everything. https://twitter.com/stephtseo/status/1267680737915924480?s=0...
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I'm on the side of the protests, but I smell a concern troll. > but really to change minds you need to be concise and accurate in reporting Ok. Show us the links you think are the right ones.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> They may have overreacted, but No. They overreacted. No may have. No buts. Police agencies must have greater accountability, not less.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It's really interesting the world we live in, some people look at these clips and get enraged at how horrible the police are. I look at the clips and they all make perfect sense. OH YES? Do tell us more, please. https:/&#x
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by ebg13 6y ago
At this point, if that's all you've seen, it's because you aren't looking. So maybe look up videos of cops shooting journalists, smashing windows, bashing people in the face when they weren't doing anything, and run
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It helps me verify that the software I use comes from the developer I expected. Nobody needs to charge money for me to be able to sign my executables with something like PGP. > The cert certifies an identity, that's it. It d
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by ebg13 6y ago
> With that kind of money they can pretty much bypass any measure an OS manufacturer could reasonably put in place Exactly. That's why this should just stop. Because it hurts without helping.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The problem isn't the rent. Yes and no. I'm making free software for the world, not running a business, and I don't appreciate getting shaken down by a megabillion$ corporation.
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by ebg13 6y ago
You don't get to handwave away a clear fallacy with "ok but you get the point". _My_ point is that the point is false, not that the example is bad. If Bonzi Buddy can just buy their way into your computer, then this does not
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by ebg13 6y ago
Oh, yes, so we're supposed to believe that malware outfits bringing in millions of dollars a year in illicit profit can't afford to set up front organizations. And it doesn't even have to be fake! You could be Zoom! Or Avast!

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