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by hacker_9 10y ago
> How do you define conscious? 'Feeling' just like you do? I think many modern AI's could be said to experience a different, simple form of consciousness as they process inputs. What an odd comment. So because we performed
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by hacker_9 10y ago
At some point we will fully automate the creation process. Meaning robots will be able to build robots. I'm still not seeing the need for consciousness here, this is just more advanced mechanical motions and cleverer math. Just because
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Amazing that every sentence you wrote is objectively wrong. I'm bored so lets go through them: 1. Consciousness is just you adapting to the world Since when did adaptation require consciousness? We're not even sure most animals ar
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It's not like this viewpoint isn't known, it's just not accepted because it makes no sense. Consciousness really is unexplainable by what we know of the physical world, it's constancy is just odd. When were talking about
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Tax the robots!
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It was community peer reviewed. As long as the 'game' didn't break in any obvious ways it was allowed on.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
They probably have bad memories of their last indie store on Xbox 360 which, if you visited it, was full of tutorial games and dating apps...
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It's not like MS don't know they are locking down the console, they've been doing it since the beginning.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I tried to download a game off of it, some 30GBs, it took 2 days and broke at 29GBs, then tried to restart from 0%... never again.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I think we're arguing different things here. I fully agree that from a design perspective, things need to look distinctive (MacOS vs Windows vs Android etc). But implementation wise, the only actual difference is the images used and th
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by hacker_9 10y ago
To be honest UI dev tools just plain suck, making everything move more slowly that it needs to. If I'm on the web it's the HTML + CSS clusterfuck, If I'm in C# I'm writing color converters for WPF, if it's Java I ha
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This is a good example of changing the layout to suit the technology though. And I see the Amazon store as taking the next step and applying the technology in an even more convenient way. The tech is still relatively new, and it takes a whi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
To be honest, a lot more robots could be used if locations were designed for them in the first place. I'm not exactly expecting to see my bartender get replaced by a humanoid robot, as seen in Passengers, anytime soon. Instead I expect
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I switched to IntelliJ + Cursive, and haven't looked back since.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
And so you should be because these things aren't predictable in the slightest. No one thought Stephen Hawking would change the world's view on black holes, until he actually did. Same goes with all the other famous scientists. In
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I like Clojure but ended moving away from it to Racket instead. The error messages and debugging story in Clojure just plain suck, and have for a long time now. Error output is just java stacktraces, which for a newcomer make zero sense. I
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Depends on the problem? Abstractions can usually make assumptions about the data, and thus be faster.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"Years ago we stated our intention to support DX12, but since the introduction of Vulkan which has the same feature set and performance advantages this seemed a much more logical rendering API to use as it doesn't force our users
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by hacker_9 10y ago
This won't suprised anyone that uses twitter. In fact I rely on 2-3 bots to retweet my tweets and so get more coverage. They have a place, it's not all bad.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
So happy out variables are finally a thing, removes such a pain point in the language, especially when having to write: SomeReallyLongTypeNameICantQuiteRemember data; if (dict.TryGetValue(id, out data)) { ... } Now reduced to
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Why would it matter if it was cross platform if it is running on a server?
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Great to hear the move to Roslyn is complete! Last time I used F# I was suprised at the lack of IDE features compared to C#, so I look forward to trying out the improved experience.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Eto.Forms and also XWT are good choices.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
There have been trials of basic income though, so people are thinking about it. Additionally the term 'robot' is very handwavey and could mean anything intelligence wise, so difficult to say what jobs will get replaced and when.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I love vscode, I just wish the clojure plugin had a debugger so I didn't have to use intelliJ anymore.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Glad your reply is top. To be honest we could do with less of these fluff pieces on HN, leave them to Reddit and Facebook.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Utterly embarrassing, but not unexpected. News in the US exists in a different reality compared to other countries. If the BBC did this it would be such an utter shock it would probably make the newspapers. But in the US? Business as usual.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> If you watch carefully I thinks the problem; many browsers don't care to fact check, or even click through to the articles underneath. Indeed I just scroll through the list a few times throughout the day, and might click on anythi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
There is brigading going on with some HN articles, though the comments fare a lot better. I think this mainly related to people not being able to down vote until they reach a considerable amount of karma. Often if an article reaches the top
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by hacker_9 10y ago
It's a shame this has happened. It used to that aggregated news was the best news because it wasn't opinionated. It also didn't need to focus on the big ticket items (murder, sex, drugs) like newspapers, as sales weren't

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