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by geophile 6y ago
This guy is trying really, really hard, wildly inflating our susceptibility, our risk, the vectors by which prions can be transmitted, everything. I hope I never sit next to him on a long plane flight.
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by geophile 6y ago
In marcel this is a command: ls -l And this is arithmetic: (ls -l) In general, parens delimit arbitrary Python expressions. https://marceltheshell.org
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by geophile 6y ago
Or take a look at marcel: https://marceltheshell.org
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by geophile 6y ago
Oh, wait, I just figured out part of it. In Jetbrains products, I am CONSTANTLY hitting Esc to Tab to deal with the helpful predictive suggestion. I find that feature sometimes useful, so I have not turned it off. But it definitely produces
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by geophile 6y ago
Emacs keyboard macros have an inferior equivalent in Intellij (and, I'm assuming, their other products). But also, emacs just somehow feels faster. Maybe keystrokes are marginally faster, maybe it's my expectations, but there it i
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by geophile 6y ago
Restarting is easy. But you know how it is. You get to your breakpoint, go forward carefully, and then step over something you should have stepped into. Oops, start again.
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by geophile 6y ago
Incredibly cool. Watch the video, but also be sure to check out this guy's website -- wide range of interests, and a rich collection of sophisticated geek projects.
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by geophile 6y ago
I found that my use of debugging peaked a few years into my software career, and then fell off rapidly. Debuggers are great for single-threaded code, less useful for multithreaded. And close to useless if your problem spans processes. As th
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by geophile 6y ago
I see that AndroidStudio was released in 2013. Intellij was pretty well established by that point. No doubt this deal helped them grow far faster than they would have otherwise.
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by geophile 6y ago
I definitely haven't "switched". In fact, I have a key binding for escaping to emacs to work on the current source. I find that useful because emacs kbd macros are so much less clunky than the Jetbrains equivalent. But yes, J
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by geophile 6y ago
As many on this discussion have noted, JetBrains tools not only don't collect dust, they are widely used, and the company is profitable. The company is privately held. I hear that they are constantly turning down investments. This prov
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by geophile 6y ago
Pop OS: - Well integrated with my System 76 laptop. - Never a problem with drivers, wifi, bluetooth, etc. It all just works. - Good looking, out of the "box". - Good availability of packages. - Never had a problem with package upg
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by geophile 6y ago
The efficacy rates are not comparable. My understanding is that, compared to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, J&J was tested on a more diverse population with respect to age and location, and also tested later, so that it faced more var
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by geophile 6y ago
... and I agree completely with your point about consciousness lacking a definition.
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by geophile 6y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look.
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by geophile 6y ago
The author of TFA disagrees with you: "Most importantly, though, IIT is a scientific theory, unlike panpsychism."
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by geophile 6y ago
I have no doubt that lots of organisms are conscious, maybe even earthworms. And I certainly believe that I am! My only point is that in the popular articles I've seen on consciousness, that discuss IIT, I have not, over many years, se
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by geophile 6y ago
Excellent reference. I see that Aaronson is pointing to articles more than ten years old, so the lack of progress goes on longer than the five years I mentioned.
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by geophile 6y ago
I am not qualified to do so. The existence of "real papers with math behind thest claims" is sort of irrelevant. IIT is being proposed as a scientific theory, and the author of TFA claims that IIT is testable, but he has not said
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by geophile 6y ago
See above. TFA claims that IIT is testable, but does not say anthing at all about a test that has been published, a test that has been done, a test that some research group is doing, a test that is being considered, a test that could be do
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by geophile 6y ago
I have been hearing about Koch, and Tononi, and panpsychism, and phi for years now, in these articles summarizing consciousness for laymen, (a group that includes me). And these very long articles bloviate but never go any further than givi
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by geophile 6y ago
I have a 2-yeard old Darter Pro, which has an Intel CPU. Love it, great laptop. Can someone comment on the pros and cons of the Ryzen CPU? Wondering how to compare the new machine to the Intel-based System76 laptops.
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by geophile 6y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see that this article discusses the Psion 5, which I had and loved. I recently acquired a Gemini PDA, which has a similar form factor and keyboard, and runs Linux and/or Android, (I run just Linux). Alas,
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by geophile 6y ago
A cognoscenti! It was Akiban.
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by geophile 6y ago
So much of this is familiar. I was at two database startups. The first one, an object-oriented database company (last 80s, early 90s) suffered from an extreme case of misperceived markets, due to the occasionally intentional blurring of the
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by geophile 6y ago
You seem to be in agreement with the article and my top-level comment, since you aren't using the Object/Relational Mapping part of your favorite ORM. It is not surprising that the ORM/SQL dichotomy is exaggerated if you igno
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by geophile 6y ago
Yes, exactly. When I write SQL applications now, I usually start by implementing a little database interface to take care of the boilerplate. The application can then provide SQL as needed.
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by geophile 6y ago
This is very short, and awesome. The events at 1:05 were new to me. I didn't realize that the host cell had proteins carrying out a necessary step between binding of the spike protein to the ACE2 receptors, and the merging of the virus
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by geophile 6y ago
Thank you, I should have included a definition or link myself.
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by geophile 6y ago
A long time ago, I designed and created an ORM for Java. I brought it to a startup and we made some money selling it. One of the key features was that it went a long way to solving the N+1 problem, which was a unique feature at the time. Ob

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