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by grumbel 5y ago
The response to the lack of definition should be investigation into how that definition could look like, not arguing if we or something else has it or not. Without a definition and criteria to test you're never going to make progress.
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by grumbel 5y ago
> there could be a brain just executing logic and making decisions, or there could be that same brain but it's actually aware of that fact But here is the thing: You are not aware of any of this! You are only aware of the world arou
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by grumbel 5y ago
> That still doesn't explain consciousness itself. Well, which part doesn't it explain? It's pretty conclusive as far as I am concerned. As among other things, you can explain why philosophers would even ask that question
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by grumbel 5y ago
> "consciousness is just an illusion" Replace "illusion" with "perception" and it will make a lot more sense. Consciousness does obviously exist in one form or another, but when people think intuitively abou
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by grumbel 5y ago
> Virtually all the innovation in VR was made by Valve, the only innovation Facebook has added is inside out tracking. That hasn't been true for a long while. Having a room-scale VR system back in 2016 certainly made Valve look quit
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by grumbel 5y ago
> The modern web does not suck. FB is usable by my grandma I'd say the fact that your grandma has to use FB instead of publish on the Web itself is exactly why it sucks. What most people are using isn't really the Web, but apps
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by grumbel 5y ago
> I'm guaranteed to not be flooded with ads That seems more like an artifact of it not being popular than a feature of the protocol. If companies wanted to, they could just run native advertisement on Gemini just like they do elsewh
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by grumbel 5y ago
You can use inotify to figure out what files are opened, closed or when they are written too. Can be used for example to indicate active file downloads in the file manager. However I don't think that's quite enough, as most apps w
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by grumbel 5y ago
What makes this a bit hard to pin down is that around 2009 was also the (re)start of indie gaming. Xbox Summer of Arcade started in 2008, Humble Bundle and Steam Greenlight followed in the next few years and ever since we had an enormous ma
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by grumbel 5y ago
The AA lithium-ion rechargeable are internally 3.7V, just like any other lithium-ion battery. They have a buck converter build-in that regulates that down to a constant 1.5V. Which can be handy in the handful of applications that don't
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by grumbel 5y ago
While that's certainly possible, this feels like a mistake AltaVista would make 20 years ago, it seems weirdly out of place for Google doing that in 2022. They used to be a bit more context aware and not just present you results due to
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by grumbel 5y ago
First Sale doctrine or similar laws exist in many countries, so they are required to allow used sales (e.g. https://www.hallgrimgames.com/blog/2019/9/22/eu-steam-resale ). NFTs provide a means to make tha
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by grumbel 5y ago
A signed PDF can be copied, but an NFT can not. That's what makes them useful. They allow you to sell digital things with the same freedom, securities and limitations you would get with physical items (i.e. First-sale doctrine). The NF
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by grumbel 5y ago
Scientists go by evidence, not anecdote. If people could think themselves to death, suicide would be a lot easier to accomplish. Just take the first case, girl goes to a doctor because she is out of breath and chest pains, tells him a tale
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by grumbel 5y ago
Taking a show originally cropped for 4:3 and expanding the image to 16:9 can also lead to fun results when microphones, lightstands and crew are in the parts of the picture that where originally cropped out. Buffy was a famous victim of tha
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by grumbel 5y ago
That might not be up for Steam to decide, first-sale doctrine already exist as law in many countries, what's missing is the enforcement of it for digital goods: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steam-should-let-users-re
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by grumbel 5y ago
Game services aren't allowed to give away games for free. The game you own on Steam is a different one than the one you own on GoG. So it requires the publisher's permission to allow this kind of import which in turn means it&#x27
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by grumbel 5y ago
It's a quick and easy way to dramatically increase their user base. At the moment nobody can complete with Steam because Steam has most of their games. If there would be a way to transfer games between services, services would have to
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by grumbel 5y ago
That does not allow selling your used games or transferring them to another person.
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by grumbel 5y ago
How do I transfer a game from a shop that is already dead into one that doesn't yet exist? Any kind of transfer depends on both services still being alive and well. With NFTs I could retain ownership even when the shop is gone.
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by grumbel 5y ago
> No, that would require the other game provider to accept your Ubisoft-minted token. Game providers already accept games from other shops. I can import my Steam games into GoG right now. That feature exists. The issue is that it's
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by grumbel 5y ago
How? Which digital sales system still works when the shop I bought it from goes down (as happened with GameStopApp and Desura)? Even DRM-free doesn't work in the modern landscape where games are getting updates years down the road. Try
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by grumbel 5y ago
> but his account will still be closed. That wouldn't be a problem with NFTs as they could just go to another game provider, show their proof-of-ownership and download their games from there. Such import functionality already exist
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by grumbel 5y ago
The problem is that both the client and the server is controlled in large part by Google and they like to optimize the user experience into whatever allows them to sell ads. Lynx is about the only browser that still notifies you and has you
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by grumbel 5y ago
So what happen to that URN discussion? It has been 20 years. Have there been any results I can actually use on the Web today? I am aware that BitTorrent, Freenet and IPFS use hash based URIs, though none of them are really part of the actua
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by grumbel 5y ago
Rollbacks are a minor feature, I never found any use for in either Guix or Nix. The main advantage of both of them is that installation and 'making available' are decoupled. Meaning you can install five different versions of the s
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by grumbel 5y ago
I found the easiest way to answer those questions is to look at how other packages do it. The issue here isn't just that the documentation is lacking, but that Guix wants to have everything done in Scheme, so you often run into the iss
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by grumbel 5y ago
That's my experience as well. Guix error messages can get quickly completely unreadable, as you are five layers depth into some Scheme macro expansion and wherever that code originally came from that caused the problem is long forgotte
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by grumbel 5y ago
The issue is that the FSF fine with that binary blobs as long as it's stored in ROM, but if it's in RAM, that's bad. To me that is completely backwards. If a driver loads firmware into RAM, that means I have easy access to th
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by grumbel 5y ago
Copyright isn't going away anyway soon and with the way things are going, we are going towards a future where Disney basically owns everything. I don't find that very desirable. NFTs provide a way out of this, as the rights holder

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