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Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video](youtube.com)
171 points by nsomaru 6y ago|142 comments
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by nsomaru 6y ago
This is a good example. In this situation you’d actually prefer to lightly rear end the car in front of you and deal with those consequences than possibly lose your life because someone asleep at the wheel hit you from the side.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
I’m getting downvoted for voicing my opinion on a darling HN technology, is that it? Next time I’ll just keep my mouth shut (as I usually do because of the downvote brigade). This time, I’ll bite. I guess you guys have never driven in Afric
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by nsomaru 6y ago
No thanks. I drive an aged car and drove a friends recent Mercedes long distance. The thing has a feature where it breaks where it thinks it’s good to break, often just when I need to accelerate to get out of a tight spot. I need the vehicl
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by nsomaru 6y ago
I find that the slight breeze created by a house fan is enough to throw the mosquitos in my room off. They find it extremely hard to fly in “turbulence.”
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by nsomaru 6y ago
My childhood was contemporaneous with the development of mobile phones. We also had a pool at home... “Nooo....” changed to “my phone, my phone!”
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by nsomaru 6y ago
How are you dealing with the jagged line issue and the other issues like no custom templates, no bookmarks etc.? I was pretty sold on RM2 but then I read about the slow development pace, the apparent nonsensical lockdown of the device etc (
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Nitpick: it seems it should be “woe unto thee”
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by nsomaru 6y ago
So this argument reduces to: “People might not understand a question which is important that they understand. So let’s just not ask them in case they misunderstand and assume they answer in a way that is beneficial to us.” Does that sound r
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Keep a small video playing a local Comission of inquiry whilst working
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VBS liquidator looks to claw back the money by suing KPMG for R864M(dailymaverick.co.za)
2 points by nsomaru 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Is there a way to do this for people based in Africa? My cursory searches came up empty...
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Bain and Company – The KGB of Consulting(dailymaverick.co.za)
4 points by nsomaru 6y ago|0 comments
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by nsomaru 6y ago
How does the growth and concentration of wealth in the hands of billionaires affect that data? An average doesn’t seem like a reliable stat in this context.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
In South Africa, jails are where criminals go to level up.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Actually, crime disproportionately affects the poor in South Africa and the poor are disproportionately black. The “real” crime rate for middle and upper classes is far lower than reported numbers suggest.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
To be honest our lockdown measures were the best they could have been, given the socioeconomic climate.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Another South African here, brought tears to my eyes. I don’t know what citizens can do because these MPs are completely deluded and derelict of their duty. I would support directly electing MPs. Then political parities report directly to u
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by nsomaru 6y ago
I’m starting with a NAS for my music and select media so I can get off Spotify and Netflix. After that it a GPU gaming server that will train ML models for me too. The NAS will store datasets. Finally, maybe next cloud.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
The reputation of your country is thoroughly ruined in South Africa. Paying the money back (as was agreed, and even then my understanding is that not all of it will be repaid, no interest was offered and no criminal charges have been proffe
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Been thinking seriously about this. Do you just inform your contacts with an auto responder? How long do you intend to keep the gmail account?
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Unless the new Wordpress is written in node, comparing the new “JavaScript” stack with the old “LAMP” stack makes no sense to me. Those technologies do not serve the same purpose.
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by nsomaru 6y ago
> I prefer to version sites with git and install updates locally, then git pull down on to the live server. I’m working on my first WP project and am trying this approach. A question I have is how do you handle plugins that have hooks th
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Curious; is it better to train locally on something like a 2080ti 11G or go for colab and offload checkpoints to S3? Asking because it seems V100 performance (or the other colab paid GPU) is worth the occasional instability if you’ve set up
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by nsomaru 6y ago
> 1. how to edit words inside a double quote? - "ciw" ciw will change inner word, ci" will change inside quotes > 2. how to move to the end of line? - "g_" $ is generally used as the noun object to represent
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Yes and compare with a healthy diet. Control as many variables as possible (eating time, exercise time and duration, etc)
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by nsomaru 6y ago
What’s the likelihood that the fantastical myths of old are the stories of an advanced civilisation which was destroyed (along with their knowledge), and the myths are the fragments of memories of that time which became distorted by the pas
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by nsomaru 6y ago
I don’t know, I live far away from the SV bubble and Facebook has worked well for our local, annual paid event (we advertised exclusively there so attribution was not difficult, in a simple way). 5000 people over 2 days. Is there another ch
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by nsomaru 6y ago
Did you set up an auto responder to notify senders of the change?
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by nsomaru 6y ago
> It just popped up annoying ads, which it doesn't need special permissions to do. Maybe that’s the problem?

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