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by gerbilly 5y ago
> I don't think the term intelligence helps define the novel behavior of fungus in this article. Maybe you are right, but I think humans are blind to any behavior that happens at a frequency either too low or too high. If an organis
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China bans ‘sissy men’ from TV in new crackdown(thestar.com)
11 points by gerbilly 5y ago|4 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I'm starting to feel that when people protest things they disagree with that it has less to do with the actual issue than with a desire to voice a contrary opinion in general. I suspect that the opposition—even anger sometimes—is a lot
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Thanks for your ungenerous and bad faith summary of what I wrote.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I've just finished a network overhaul as well. I used similar techniques, except I preferred not to use any external DNS server¹, so I hosted a recursive DNS server (bind9) on a small fanless server (apu2d4). The DNS server can also bl
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I've sat this out for long time, but I've got to say that it's hilarious watching the HN community—mostly made up of engineers—constantly harp about the replication crisis in Psychology. In some cases effect may be real even
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Maybe an earthquake moved his body to one side of the tomb?
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Yeah, and I don't have to take his word for it either.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> rarely or never observed it people with relative pitch This seems like hair splitting to me. You even refute yourself by including the word _rarely_.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Prove it. This is just argument by assertion.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Who says we can identify colours well? Try learning to paint and you'll perhaps see that your perception of colour isn't as good as you think. I did and it certainly opened my eyes, pun intended. As for recognizing pitches, it&#x2
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by gerbilly 5y ago
There is a scene in the film « Immortal Beloved » where a young Beethoven has a similar experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59hhDE9ObxY
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by gerbilly 5y ago
Sounds like your area doesn't have a deer problem. It has a wolf problem. In other words there aren't any. You might like this essay on this very topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_like_a_mountain
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I think some of us feel that you sounded a bit peevish about the whole thing.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
More like our genenration’s EJBs ( https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/enterprise-javabean... )
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by gerbilly 5y ago
We’ve squandered the ‘personal’ part of personal computing. A lot of this tracking nonsense is enabled by services which rely on server side processing. For example somewhere lower down someone mentioned an AI assitant to extract todos from
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by gerbilly 5y ago
If you're enjoying your Kubernetes, then have at it, but in my opinion it sounds like Stockholm syndrome. The thing is so complicated that even the guys who wrote it probably can't figure it out. I myself would rather sew together
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> N=36 This is just a cheap shot. I'd be more impressed if you demonstrated why the sample size lacks the power to demonstrate an effect. (Use math and show your work.) Also, it's a common mistake to assume that if the sample
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by gerbilly 5y ago
The guy who invented this, the historical Buddha, recommended many more techniques than just vipassana. I think what happened in the west, is that—aside from zen centres/monasteries which draw upon a wider, established set of tradition
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by gerbilly 5y ago
What makes git really complicated is that for every command you type, there are two things that may be affected: * the working copy * the graph And it gets better, if any file gets disconnected from the graph, it can be hard to locate. (Yes
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> by making little changes to their environment. [...] If you interrupt them, they can't start from where they ended. They start the sequence from the start. Who says we do any different? Also there's a huge difference between
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by gerbilly 5y ago
The only reason we think animals are stupid automatons is because in our culture we don't observe them very closely. Like the article says, every time we bother to look we are _surrpised_ to find abilities in all sorts of animals. Mayb
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by gerbilly 5y ago
+10 from me on the "awful half-baked language" (HCL). Only cmake's 'language' is worse.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
You can totally provision using ansible too, on most cloud vendors. The reason to use ansible over a shell script is that the ansible playbook will be idempotent. That is to say you can run/rerun the playbook from any point without ha
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I agree, and the software additions are mostly useless (lasers, GPS etc...). The primary reason the software is there is for vendor lock-in and rent seeking.
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by gerbilly 5y ago
> most tractors there are nearly sixty years old. When I worked as a farmhand we were still using some 1950s Massey Ferguson tractors every day. An it's one of the biggest dairy farms in the province (Canada). I mean we had newer st
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by gerbilly 5y ago
These kids are letting themselves be exploited. They are being 'paid' with useless perks like luxury accommodations, and shoes and clothes. The 'perks' aren't even a reward, but are the just 'products in use&#x
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Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find(nytimes.com)
3 points by gerbilly 5y ago|0 comments
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by gerbilly 5y ago
I think the biggest benefit will be that mRNA vaccines may be used more in cancer treatments. Now that we know they are safe (we've just had an informal clinical trial with hundreds of millions of patients) maybe they will get used mor
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by gerbilly 6y ago
> If you want to solve the problem, children are ones who can do it Yeah, but maybe not human children . If anything we need more non human children on this planet, we are attempting to fish the oceans dry, there's less than 10% of

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