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by jemmyw 3y ago
I've never made the exact criticisms above but I've got the solution. Taking the money from Google is fine. Stop spending it all. The CEO doesn't need an inflated salary, Mozilla is not a tech giant. Mozilla doesn't need
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by jemmyw 3y ago
They had a super easy way out of it: another referendum voting for options, or a referendum on any deal. Nobody could agree on what leaving meant and giving the choice to the electorate would have a) been more democratic and b) probably hav
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by jemmyw 3y ago
This prediction isn't about climate change, it's about the formation of a new super continent. Because it'll be such a large landmass, and the energy from the sun increases by about 1% every 100 million years, the inner parts
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by jemmyw 3y ago
You put an amusing picture in my head of "I've found most productive and rewarding to me - in person" showing up at the office and finding it empty. Do they then start visiting their colleagues at their homes, pestering them
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by jemmyw 3y ago
So you give one point that makes you sound anti-WFH, but then you caveat that with a lot of other information that makes your position pretty vague - i.e. taking a job where you really cannot be in the office, and will be in a separate time
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by jemmyw 3y ago
If you lease an office and now your employees are working from home, does it actually make a difference? You leased it for X years, regardless of where people are working. If you're hiring then it is an opportunity to hire more office
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I use GeForce now, it works really well.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
We switched from cypress to capybara+selenium. I do really like playwright but it looked like more work to fit in with our app. Cypress had some flakiness issues that we just could not get fixed despite putting in considerable effort. Even
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I've never heard a credible explanation of free will or what someone means by that. Can you offer a description of what free will means, within known science? I think it through several layers. At a personality layer most of the time y
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I don't like the turns on red, it makes things a little harder. Here, where we don't have that rule, they put in a little cutaway lane on the intersections where you can turn to avoid the lights. Usually with a stop sign or a merg
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by jemmyw 3y ago
ISO is supposed to be the sensitivity of the film to light, and the numbers were set by a standards organisation so I'm not sure you can double the number to double the effect. Also, how does this even work on a digital camera? Surely
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Yes I don't disagree with any of that, I was just commenting that Ukraine probably couldn't have resisted nearly so well with just small arms. I sincerely hope western govts continue to support them and wish they/we had done
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I got the largest electric one I could find. It's pretty good, entirely metal housing so it won't fall apart, and no gas or oil to deal with. I don't know if 120v vs 240v makes a difference in that regard for Americans who wa
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by jemmyw 3y ago
They've regulated chipping mulching and composting?
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Ukraine seemed to do it with MANPADs and anti-tank equipment over small arms. Unless you're counting those, but that doesn't seem like the kind of weapons ordinary Americans have at home.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Major's government was pretty unstable, with multiple scandals, rebellions etc. And they competently destroyed some public services. I would say his govt is responsible for the now dismal state of public transport in the UK. I hated To
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by jemmyw 3y ago
A lot of people seem happy with kagi, myself included. I haven't used g! for months now. I really like some of their tools like the panel of more obscure results.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
That's a tragic story regardless of the medical hope. I don't think I would want to trade that level of discomfort for a little more time with my partner, but I couldn't say for sure.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I've been using it since March 2022. Right from the beginning the results were better, I didn't have to append my country to every search when I wanted a local business. It's not always that snappy though.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Why is it pseudoscience to label the medium by which particles are entangled as consciousness Because it's untestable nonsense. Just because all consciousness derives from physical processes that include quantum effects doesn&#x27
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by jemmyw 3y ago
You could probably find a written article about the subject. For many things I prefer a written source. But these videos from Dan Olsen are entertainment. The subject is kind of dry and boring really, I don't care that much. Yet he pre
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by jemmyw 3y ago
I'm not making that assumption. I'm thinking that either I'm a zombie or you're insane.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Thanks that was insightful
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Yeah I’m not sure why someone would argue that consciousness isn’t physical Reading the comments, one thing that's been unsaid is whether each person discussing is religious/spiritual or not. My guess is that if you are relig
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by jemmyw 3y ago
There are always physical changes happening. External stimuli, and time based internal changes. > If that's the case, the physical change should precede the changes in thought patterns. Not precede, are. These aren't separate t
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> We can invert this and ask, if physicality is not ideal, then how do we come to know it? Why would we ask that? Not ideal for what? It just is. > The third option is that physics is unable to interrogate itself. This is likely true.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Internal feedback loops. Activity from the existing structure further modifies that structure. That activity is that thoughts are. So sure but it's all physical.
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by jemmyw 3y ago
Funny because the whole argument does work better if you imagine the proponents are 5. "I'm special therefore the universe must care about me and my thoughts"
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by jemmyw 3y ago
There are plenty of reasons to believe it's physical. I mean, in some ways I can't believe I'm having to write "there are no ghosts" to a technically minded community. If consciousness was not physical then where is
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by jemmyw 3y ago
> Then nothing prevents silicon from eventually also being 'conscious'. I would agree except "nothing we know" because we still don't know how consciousness works.

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