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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I think the word autism has become such a loaded term that it has become undesirable. The removal of the distinction between 'autistic person with significant access needs' and 'autistic person with low access needs' (f
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Obviously, beacuse people who figured out how to fit in just fit in, and don't hang out much on such subreddits. On those boards, you're dealing with a minority within a minority. Social difficulty is probably the most common
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Whatever diagnoses I may or may not have, they are not me – and I don't want my children growing up identifying with their diagnoses either It's not a matter of identity, but explanatory power. To reiterate, the self-acknowl
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Will they melt down or get violent at slightest provocation? Autistic meltdown can be made a lot worse if someone hasn't the theory of mind to understand when someone is experiencing it (i.e., the double empathy problem). This ca
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I'm saying that ASD only really matters for when support is needed. Diagnosis can open doors to government provided support. I think self-diagnosis is fine for people who don't require support. Though I've noticed that some
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Conformance is an advantage How about society loosens its prejudices? > And I think nobody's really asking anyone to actually change behavior, And I think nobody's really asking anyone to actually change behavior Literally
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The subset of ASD is really just BAP where the intensity of the traits and/or their particular expression come in conflict with the expectations and basic needs of daily life, requiring support (and diagnosis). Even in absence of this
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
More equanimity than intelligence, and probably more epistemic humility than 'intellectual humility' > It is not important to know where the voices are coming from. It had just been demonstrated to me that prior to turning arou
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Rationale from the README: > Lua, Luau and even LuaJIT have fairly substantial overheads when making function calls into the script, especially when many arguments are involved. The same is true for WebAssembly emulators that I have meas
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
What is code but interpreted text? If the comments are interpretable and enforced by a logical system, then they become instruction.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It would be a useful tool in a post-apocalyptic scenario: > During the Second World War, many motorized vehicles in continental Europe were converted to drive on firewood. That happened as a consequence of the rationing of fossil fuels.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It's a bit of a wild interpretation that the author claims that making driving unpleasant is an effective way of reducing carbon emissions. The second quote seems more a wry observation from someone who has disdain for wealthy people.
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> Low-tech or traditional methods don’t mean they’re inherently better for the climate or environment though How is this in contradiction with what I'm saying? To quote my own post: > Low-Tech Magazine's niche is low tech s
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> overall both the article and the art piece itself seem to imply that this is a somewhat good idea Literally this is not the case, and should be evidenced by the quotes I highlighted. It's more an intellectual deep dive on an inte
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
This is covered in the fine article: > On the other hand, the CO2 emissions from fuel production and combustion are not praiseworthy. First, there is the burning of plastic on the roof. Making 1 liter of diesel requires burning 1 kg of p
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It has a gradual type 'system', along with a means of type checking (via Dialyzer) at compile time. However the type checking isn't enforced at compile time, and it has the possibility for some false negatives (though it i
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I would class that as 'training' and 'repurposing', and the former could be loosely classed as 'practice' fighting
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
What does the army 'fighting' look like in this scenario? It seems like there's no other solution for deterrent weapons than refurbishing and replacing stock (preferably without dispatching)
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
This article made me wonder if dyspraxia was related to impaired or inhibited cerebellum function. A cursory search yields at least one article supports the idea: > Results revealed that children with DCD had reduced grey matter volume
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
At a rough guess, each Purkinje cell is an MLP unto itself, and as the article states, this implies some orders of magnitude more computation for a brain simulation. I also heard something like 'a neuron is an MLP unto itself' on
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The non-euclidean nature of the cats placement of things
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
It would be a very sisyphean way to build a nest given the objects kept moving. Seems more like play behavior (or mouse OCD)
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
By alter, I mean legitimately within the C2PA framework. It’s a matter of cost and control, and who’s arbitrating that
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> What you are describing is basically subsidies In this case, subsidies (and incentives) are 'governments throwing money at engineering problems'. The US does the same for SpaceX, EV manufacturers, and the entire military i
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
As much as I can glean from the video, it's heavily dependent on a central database to hold the edits. If someone alters a video, the original would need to be viewable. Who's storing that, and streaming it? And then who's
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
Anyone know how resistant this could be to cropping, scaling, or grading? Is this purely for verifying the raw or could this be something that social platforms could verify and tag on posts?
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The second "we" was all too happy, and still is, to buy cheaper products, even when apprised of the economic consequences. The third beneficiaries are businesses, for whom components and manufacturing are now vastly cheaper, ena
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
I immediately regretted my claim soon after posting it, and this was the first example I had in mind, along with this counterargument. If I was to make a further (somewhat weak) counter-argument, it was engineering know-how that establishe
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
> "Resting on your laurels" always ends badly. And history is littered with examples of technological disruption ending empires
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by h0l0cube 3y ago
The trade war between the US and China (and the precipitating outcones) were instigated by the US. The withholding of ASML lithography equipment is a case in point. That said, in spite of tarrifs from the west, China still has plenty of sk

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