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by ksaj 3y ago
You inadvertently brought up the issue that people who work with Artificial Life bump into all the time. And for the same reason. At what point is something truly alive is just as difficult to answer as at what point something is truly i
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by ksaj 3y ago
Oh, I was unaware that editing wouldn't change the date/timestamp. That is pretty common, including here (I just edited this line in on purpose to see). That would be quite misleading. If that's what happened, it just demonst
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by ksaj 3y ago
Ah, the article does say it's a parody account. Maybe he isn't specific enough about that in the profile. The article's author certainly seemed to know, so it's obviously not a secret, or trying to deceive anyone.
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by ksaj 3y ago
I use uBlock and Ghostery. I gave permission for uBlock to pass the Google ad sites, and for whatever reason I still never see ads. Not that I'm complaining.
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by ksaj 3y ago
The Farmer's Almanac said we should expect a bitter cold and snowy winter where I live. Polar Vortexes (Vortices?) are pretty much what does it every time.
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by ksaj 3y ago
What was he suspended for? It doesn't make sense to suspend someone for correctly foretelling the future, so there must be something missing in this story. Of all the things Elon accepts on that site, this one crosses the line?
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by ksaj 3y ago
I've only ever seen Phenylephrine once, and we didn't bother buying it. The name itself sounds like the cheap knockoff that it is. It's easy to get pseudoephedrine here (but harder to get straight-up ephedrine), but you can
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by ksaj 3y ago
Because of the photo and photo blurb, I thought they were going to say pseudoephedrine doesn't work! I was so very glad that it is actually the drug that some places (thankfully not where I live!) replace it with that doesn't work
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by ksaj 3y ago
No males in the 20-29 age range in any category? That seems quite remiss.
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by ksaj 3y ago
I live in Toronto, and I find it weird that people have too-often acted in surprise to find out I don't own a car. Considering everything is in walking distance, or fairly quick transit ride away, why on Earth would I bother paying for
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by ksaj 3y ago
That desktop pretty much looks exactly like my first Linux desktop, from pretty much the same year. I had colour though, but that might be a subjective word given how limited it was at the time before the flood of different window managers
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by ksaj 3y ago
Yes, but some OS's use 0x0ah alone, which is half the bytes of \n representation. People from the 90's will easily remember navigating the ^M (which is the 0x0dh showing up) showing up at the end of every line in a DOS text file w
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by ksaj 3y ago
What about \n, which decodes to 0x0ah - two bytes to one byte? I can't think of any others like that, but newline in different OS's get represented in various different ways (like DOS's famous CRLF, which adds an 0x0dh to the
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by ksaj 3y ago
The cruelty potential was something I always wondered about since I first heard of this. Given how easy it is to produce, and the money to be made, there is so much incentive to cram as many civets as you can into whatever space you have fo
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by ksaj 3y ago
Interestingly, nobody thought about this with AI. Especially considering Isaac was really hinting toward robots with AI, and not robots as we understand them today, in the industrial sense. However, it is surely understood that only the &qu
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by ksaj 3y ago
I've gotten to completely ignoring the timeline, and this just alerted me to it, and why I've been ignoring it. It feels to me that they're trying to make GitHub into a different kind of social networking. But those worlds do
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by ksaj 3y ago
I don't want to be "that guy" but the Scribblewithai site flipped around so much I eventually gave up on its weird loading sequence, and expected entirely the worst. I have no idea what it was supposed to be even after it fin
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by ksaj 3y ago
In some ways, yes. Definitely not in all ways. Or even most. Otherwise "eastern" wouldn't be automatically connected to words like "pollution" and "counterfeit" and "territorialism" and "dic
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by ksaj 3y ago
I'm a Canadian. I'd like to chime in on this opinion piece about technology's ability to remain entertaining. It sounds like playing old game consoles is a punishment in itself. Meanwhile there's a whole subset of the In
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by ksaj 3y ago
Here is something I did that your son might be interested in. It is simply Hello World, but done 6 different ways using ARM assembly language. https://github.com/ksaj/helloworld I did a lot of Assembly language program
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by ksaj 3y ago
Yup. Also Woodstock got famously rained upon, and people just went along with all the mud.
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by ksaj 3y ago
All modern hearing aids let you use your cell phone through them. Or at least the last 3 brands I've used over the years. They use Bluetooth LE to pair with.
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by ksaj 3y ago
There are great points in here. I use hearing aids for two different reasons for each ear. My first hearing aid was because I had a benign tumor that while benign, ate away at my stapes. After surgery to remove it, I no longer have a stapes
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by ksaj 3y ago
I've only seen one so far. But that means there are others around here too, and I'll be seeing a lot of them soon enough. So I really hope that this article is right. Our city is already reeling with a white fungus that's kil
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by ksaj 3y ago
The Raspberry Pi OS Install (and some other Linux installs) simply change the image on the screen detailing various features or whatever. You may or may not see them all. You may or may not see them repeat. But what you do see, is that the
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by ksaj 3y ago
Except it's trillions of bananas. I don't think these comparisons are helpful because of the scale in question. Everyone understands that it is greatly watered down, and will be meted out over decades. You can make this exact same
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by ksaj 3y ago
I think that happens everywhere. For example, Toronto, from Front Street (aptly named, since it was the waterfront once upon a time) to the actual waterfront, complete with all its skyrises and highways, is 100% landfill underneath. I'
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by ksaj 3y ago
The hashes can not have collisions anymore, because modern forensics hash with both md5 and sha512, and both hashes must be together for use in any legal case. The odds of both of them having a collision is big enough to flat out say it&#
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by ksaj 3y ago
I have worked a few times in Riyadh (one time for an 8-month stint!) and one thing that rather shocked me is that capital punishment is done publicly, and it draws huge crowds. Literally you can't even drive by the square because the
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by ksaj 3y ago
You can download them both, and then they come with a huge sorted directory of different models and whatnot, so you can view the source as well. It's truly amazing stuff.

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