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by gfody 5y ago
are we certain they're not? i'm not sure we know how to measure smartness
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by gfody 5y ago
I often recommend this book to developers who are just starting to seriously use databases and learning to how to better model information - it's one of the best introductions imo. I wasn't aware of the shenanigans with the newer
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by gfody 5y ago
a bunch of my remaining junk accounts have broken pw reset, or even after taking control there's no way to delete the account and/or the "optout of everything" option doesn't actually stop them from sending me junk
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by gfody 5y ago
the email w/unsub link could be forwarded also, it's often a portal to change notification settings w/o auth and leaks personal preference info - and when there is auth it's impossible to unsub when if were signed up mal
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by gfody 5y ago
otoh I looked up a few games my kids play that I consider to be flagrantly evil (genshin, gardenscapes, emojiblitz) and they all score a "neutral" here
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by gfody 5y ago
you're thinking of Clyde ( https://ryanharveyauthor.com/2018/09/27/learning-clyde-sensi... ) he's the most interesting one
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by gfody 5y ago
Pacman is a good example - the ghosts are deliberately simple so you have a chance of avoiding them and the game is fun. I wouldn't call it a "dark" pattern unless the ghosts were also mind hacking my desire to play more with
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by gfody 5y ago
there's no classical software development engineering so depending where you were trained (web startup vs. software company vs. deep in the bowls of a huge corporation etc.) you could have very different ideas of normal - see eg: http
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by gfody 5y ago
> there is something profoundly weird about [numbers] you should hear John Conway (RIP) talk about numbers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eAmxgINXrE
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by gfody 5y ago
FOKs (feeling-of-knowing states like when you know it when you hear it or you know it but you can't get it off the tip of your tongue) are supposedly the perception of "certainty" encoded in cannabinoids and our brains have m
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by gfody 5y ago
something like sql server's "use plan" it really comes in handy when you need it ( https://forrestmcdaniel.com/2018/07/19/how-to-use-the-use-pl... )
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by gfody 5y ago
> Which of these are commonly accepted (or even argued by a sizable minority) to have free will in a metaphysical sense? both, see the free will theorem from Conway and Kochen
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by gfody 5y ago
I really only use the native ios app and figured anything that did what I want would be taken down for violating some tos
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by gfody 5y ago
I'd be interested in that, ideally not a third party but a custom client that filters everything not from friends and sticks to chronological order.
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by gfody 5y ago
that's this sun. the sun next to the last earth might also be 5 billion years from growing but that's 100 billion years from now.
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by gfody 5y ago
gross sparkle queries
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by gfody 5y ago
you can also call your isp and get port 25 unblocked, gp's experience hasn't been my experience
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by gfody 5y ago
we ought to be able to "correct" our own data and mislead anything seeking an advantage
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by gfody 5y ago
> The amount of energy consumed by the network will continue to increase, as it should, as it secures more wealth. this is very apt. after exhausting the worlds resources guarding our money from each other maybe we'll reflect that
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by gfody 5y ago
crypto fanatics are still just civilians operating a network, the state can and should regulate by setting policy (eg by making it not so lucrative to waste electricity mining crypto that it threatens the environment)
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by gfody 5y ago
that's an escalation - I would risk my life to fight against a state that threatens life in prison to control something like crypto
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by gfody 5y ago
you could only drive it into the underground where it sprouted from in the first place, it would inevitably return. the only way to stop this form of crypto is to invent a better one
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by gfody 5y ago
it's interesting to turn the question around: is it possible to fuck someone up for life w/25mg of psilocybin? with the right set and setting maybe
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by gfody 5y ago
> It is my understanding that something about not having to take a network hop and being able to directly invoke the database methods makes a huge difference. Are you able to execute queries and reliably receive results within microsecon
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by gfody 5y ago
(I) think of the baroque cycle as fictionalized history rather than historical fiction
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by gfody 5y ago
I always loved the look of Burt Rutan's dragonfly, there's a list of issues mostly related to conventional (non-vtol) flying - https://www.nestofdragons.net/weird-airplanes/tandemwings/qu...
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by gfody 5y ago
you can always imagine another dimension, with all the symmetry of every dimension so far plus some novel one
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by gfody 5y ago
it's not because "atom" isn't a technical term, it has always referred to the indivisible bedrock (greek root a-tomos or "not-cuttable"). equating information with data outside the context of information theory
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by gfody 5y ago
information theory equates information with data (bits), it's the spherical cow in a vacuum and in that context the "information" that DNA "holds" is just a jargon referring to the bits.
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by gfody 5y ago
> the most loaded "just" in history nah I can do better. DNA is just data, you can say it "holds information" the way a footprint holds information but that's just an idiom. knowing is just a perception. you can

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