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by jstanley 2y ago
> It's a way to modify a code base without changing the source files Is another way of saying your source files might not do what they say! You're not selling it to me.
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by jstanley 2y ago
I think the assumption is you're paying for the coffee, and what the staff spend their wages on is their own business.
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by jstanley 2y ago
But if it's on localhost, how does the management engine get a chance to reply? Are you sure you're not actually talking to some Windows service? EDIT: From reading further in the Twitter thread, it is indeed a Windows service you
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by jstanley 2y ago
If you think the economy is zero-sum how do you explain that there is plainly more wealth now than there was 200 years ago?
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Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Hypothesis(theethicalskeptic.com)
5 points by jstanley 2y ago|5 comments
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by jstanley 2y ago
We were promised bicycles for the mind, but what we got was public transport for the mind.
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by jstanley 2y ago
It is.
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by jstanley 2y ago
No, because we don't have access to the ideas of those who don't write them down.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Not every part of your ideas need to be novel and unadulterated by the rest of human progress. If your ideas need to fit in to some wider context (e.g. you need to produce working code) then it is very helpful to be able to look up import
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by jstanley 2y ago
In some sense, isn't making flawed arguments an intelligence flaw by definition?
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by jstanley 2y ago
The real problem with the p-zombies thing is why do p-zombies talk about consciousness? . You and I have the experience of talking about being conscious because we have the experience of being conscious in the first place . But for a p-
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by jstanley 2y ago
Drying out 3d printer filament is another. Also heating up engine casings to get bearings in/out.
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by jstanley 2y ago
I had a plumber tell me that if I left the filling loop open then the pressure in the radiators would just keep rising and rising forever until they burst. He didn't agree that it would stop at equilibrium with mains pressure.
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by jstanley 2y ago
When people set up these NAS's, how are they accessing the files? NFS? SFTP? And how are you accessing it when away from home? A VPN that you're permanently connected to? Is there a good way to do NAT hole-punching? Syncthing kind
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by jstanley 2y ago
There's a big difference between putting yourself in a dangerous situation by choice and being in one out of necessity.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Being reckless and going off unprepared is a different type of experience. You can't have the same experience if you come prepared. Yes, you might die, but while you're alive you're really living . I'm quite comfortable
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by jstanley 2y ago
> It’s so, so hard for any amateur to hit a target that is moving radially in a polar coordinate system centered on them, at all. Isn't that the easiest possible way because they remain on a constant bearing?
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by jstanley 2y ago
Why does it need to be on the phone? Carry a normal USB stick.
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by jstanley 2y ago
> unlike England We have the same thing in England though.
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by jstanley 2y ago
It might do if they had a chance of running them efficiently.
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by jstanley 2y ago
In the same way that a sandboxed HTML page is "not executing machine code on the CPU". Of course that's how everything works if you drill down deep enough, but if your direct connection is to the internet, rather than to your
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by jstanley 2y ago
I've given this a skim, and it seems to be very much "of its time" (the notes were written in 2006, but only published in this paper in 2021). It basically takes as an axiom that in order to be conscious you need to be intera
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by jstanley 2y ago
It sounds like a tiny number of people might have eaten mammoth in the 20th century, which while surprising in itself is quite far from many people eating it every year.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by jstanley 2y ago
The bike appears to have 2 front brake levers, only one fork, and she is holding the left handlebar the wrong side of the switches.
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by jstanley 2y ago
Well then it's not all of the above unless there's more than 375 million kilograms of rhino horns in the world, because all the gold is worth 15 trillion dollars. Unless that's the case, which seems unlikely, all the gold is
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by jstanley 2y ago
Sure, but that's not a fundamental thing, it's just a unit that's convenient to trade. It's like wondering whether gold is worth more than Microsoft by comparing an ounce of gold to a share of Microsoft. Or to an ounce o
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by jstanley 2y ago
What does it mean for rhino horns to be worth more than gold? There are lots of ways to measure it. All the world's rhino horns put together are worth more than all the world's gold put together? All of Africa's rhino horns a
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by jstanley 2y ago
Replace "AI" in this comment with any other marginalised group and see how clever it sounds! I wasn't being sarcastic, but I wasn't really 100% serious either. I suppose I was really trying to get beneath the kneejerk &q
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by jstanley 2y ago
> AI-generated slop This is prejudice.

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