joeberon

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by joeberon 5y ago
I don't think my music is bad enough that it will make people braindead
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by joeberon 5y ago
> Having said that, as someone who tinkered a bit with production some twenty many years ago before lapsing, and tinkering and lapsing once again a couple of years ago, I would argue that some form of shared community outlet is essential
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by joeberon 5y ago
Haskell is very widely used though, that is not a reasonable comparison.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Forth is not under the radar in any sense. It is much more popular and well known than any underground band.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Yeah I definitely agree with this. Many people can and do perceive the inexplainable issue directly. I had a discussion about that recently here on HN, about those who can perceive a "hard problem of consciousness" and those who c
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by joeberon 5y ago
I tried it, and it felt more like a fantasy computer game, like TIS-100 or something, rather than a real language. It felt neither easy to write nor read, and I'm not sure what problem it solves with "software" in general tha
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by joeberon 5y ago
Forth fans live in what seems to be a world of delusion. They rail against modern software, claiming to have an enlightened "system", and yet cannot communicate anything about the real capabilities of their system. If you ask most
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by joeberon 5y ago
That's a pretty common beginner's trap, to have your motivation be to release music rather than in creating music itself. For basically any beginner you need many years to get to the point where that should be a consideration. You
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by joeberon 5y ago
not only “not easy”, I highly doubt it is even theoretically possible in this universe. Probably it can be proved that a computer that simulates the universe must have at least as many qubits as atoms in the universe to be able to describe
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by joeberon 5y ago
How do you know it is nonsense? I don’t understand how you’ve categorically decided this. I’m a Buddhist so I don’t believe in a soul but I do believe in non physical aspects of the mind and also rebirth. It is actually possible to verify t
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by joeberon 5y ago
> Because I think we both agree they're solidly physical in the sense that a "thought" can be reduced to chemical signaling. I don’t agree with that. I think there is an inseparable spiritual element that justifies the sub
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by joeberon 5y ago
Is "mathematics" a thing in our physical universe? Many people argue it's an abstract set of constructions with no physical reality in themselves. Sounds kind of outlandish and bizarre according to your criteria. > Everyth
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by joeberon 5y ago
Right but the idea that there are aspects of our minds that don't exist within this physical universe is not outlandish or bizarre, it's a very reasonable and historically defended position. EDIT: Also not sure what this bizarre s
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by joeberon 5y ago
> But we do have computation readily available, my 3060 is just sitting there while I sleep You have vastly overestimated the power of your 3060 if you think it can simulate all the Earth's atoms at the beginning of life here.
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by joeberon 5y ago
We can't even simulate the dynamics of a simple atomic system in an exact way, without making assumptions. The universe is that but with many many more atoms and complicated couplings. The universe is much more powerful of a simulation
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by joeberon 5y ago
It's impossible to really rule out such a thing but at the same time I don't think there's any way we can understand how to actually simulate or even identify that.
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by joeberon 5y ago
How do you know it is pure nonsense? We actually have no scientific evidence either way. There is a reason why discussing the "hard problem of consciousness" is so popular. There are many people now advocating for a universal cons
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by joeberon 5y ago
It's the difference between eating an okay meal and literally stabbing yourself in the face with a knife
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by joeberon 5y ago
I feel like this implies that creativity is the creation of the interpretation of a work rather than literally its creation and I don't really agree with that conclusion.
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by joeberon 5y ago
During an engineering degree in the UK you will not be required (or even usually have the possibility ) of doing a non-engineering module
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by joeberon 5y ago
Indeed, and even educated people might not grasp it. I'm a doctor in quantum physics and honestly I find electronics almost always impossible to understand.
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by joeberon 5y ago
Engineers are not taught humanities here in the UK, and I'm sure that's also true in many other countries
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by joeberon 5y ago
My point exactly. It's still a relatively utopian situation compared to most places in the US
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by joeberon 5y ago
Yes it is
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by joeberon 5y ago
I find it quite distasteful and lacking perspective when hearing Dutch people say "cycling really isn't that great!" (although I know that's not really the point of this article). But still, don't ignore the horrifi
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by joeberon 5y ago
Unfortunately I found the SDV style grating and lifeless
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by joeberon 5y ago
No, not really, two romantic paintings can (and do) have totally different styles. > Maybe you're focusing on the style too much, and not enough on other artistic elements. Well if we look at another "artistic element" of
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by joeberon 5y ago
People always say this about such trailers, that the game has a chance to change and probably will look totally different when it comes out, but I very rarely have found that actually to be true in the end.
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by joeberon 5y ago
I think it's one of those situations where it's like, yeah I appreciate that it's just one dude, but for me as the player, that doesn't actually affect my enjoyment of the game, so there's only so much I can ignore
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by joeberon 5y ago
I personally find it's very disappointing that the game is almost entirely visually indistinct from Stardew Valley. In fact even the sound effects are identical. I understand that this saves a lot of time and money, but this feels more

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