onnoonno

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by onnoonno 11y ago
Talking, arguing for materialism also means that one separates materialism from 'the rest' or 'the other ways of seeing the world'. This means that anyone calling themselves a materialist must also have a concept of this
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by onnoonno 11y ago
Maybe a related question: Where does the idea of materialism fall? Is the idea of materialism itself part of materialism?
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by onnoonno 11y ago
How do you avoid damaging the consistency of Python objects then? I think the only way to do that would be to have a reentrant lock for each object individually. Isn't that potentially a big performance issue? I think that is the main
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by onnoonno 11y ago
... and it should be added that having infinitely many worlds is maybe not really the simplest explanation of reality.
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by onnoonno 11y ago
Agreed, it just feels inadequate to me, too. Information theory is a hammer ... and now everything we can think of (~ information...) looks like a nail. Another hint that maybe the big Turing machine isn't quite cutting it might be the
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by onnoonno 11y ago
> But again the question is, how do we want this to play out. We can let people be born and then starve to death, or we can not let them be born in the first place. Exactly. It can also be argued that not reproducing is probably the most
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by onnoonno 11y ago
How about putting #if !defined(__AVR__) && !defined(__MSP430__) #warning "Fix this FIFO - ++/-- possibly not atomic!" #endif into the header of that thingy then. Save work on small uCs, and be warned when moving it so
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by onnoonno 11y ago
> "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M. Pirsing Seconded. I think this one does a good job at resetting one's worldview to the state of 'what do we actually know?'
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by onnoonno 11y ago
He's angry, but arguably every item in his list is valid, so shouldn't he be angry? Why do you call this unhinged?
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by onnoonno 11y ago
People argue equally well that feminism as a word is used up and all kinds of bad things happen under the label of feminism, so it might be better for you and your friend to distance from it. More to the point, you might want to have a look
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by onnoonno 11y ago
Parents are unavoidable. Kids and gf/wife pretty much are avoidable.
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by onnoonno 11y ago
If we'd all live like Walden, the planet would be a suburbian dystopia. I sincerely hope many people WANT to live in cities.
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by onnoonno 11y ago
But then, if they make their own phone OS it does go to infrastructure, or doesn't it?
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by onnoonno 11y ago
The enthalpy of fusion for water is 335 J/g. The specific heat capacity of ice at -10C is 2.1 J/(gK). So the major part in melting the water isn't heating it until it melts - it is the melting itself that is expensive. That s
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by onnoonno 11y ago
One thing I would likely miss living in a small forever is the intellectual input. Sure, it is nice to have exchanges through the Internet for that, but sometimes it is good to have some intriguing discussions with other driven people. OTOH
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by onnoonno 12y ago
So you think we're driving each other crazy? Resonates with me. But I still don't know whether it is really the others or just oneself doing the driving.
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Interesting weird and crazy read. Thanks for the link. So maybe we are going towards a 'Weirdocalypse' now? While reading the article, it feels to be somehow close to the edge of insanity. For some reason, that seems to happen now
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by onnoonno 12y ago
> Ah, actually that's not true at all and is a foundation of this debate. If an individual had a machine that created infinite bread for free the person, under the current market, could restrict access and distribution all they like
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Ah ok, I see. Well for a while I was looking at those factors to be external rather than internal as well - but I am more and more convinced that people get exactly the government they want, all the time.
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by onnoonno 12y ago
> I don't know but having lived in all three countries, I don't see that many differences in term of people's character that could explain the difference in murder rate. No offense, but could this be selection bias? You ha
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by onnoonno 12y ago
^ This. There might be a very harsh wake-up to energy realities for the ignorant subset of the treehuggers, but nuclear can and hopefully will keep us going energy-wise. I am MUCH more scared of a nuclear war breaking out over diminishing o
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by onnoonno 12y ago
> SDI made sense. We still have SDI. Now we call its "Strategic Missile Defense" and its our biggest counter against rogue nation nuke launches and other attacks. It also has Putin scared as he can't match it and is demand
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Did he say anywhere that he is gay? If he is neither gay nor bisexual, gay marriage is obviously not an option for him. And heterosexual marriage looks more and more like a really stupid idea for guys, with no visible benefit. I guess that
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Why marry at all? I mean, seriously, what is the advantage?
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by onnoonno 12y ago
A video that might be worth to watch, criticism of feminism from an eloquent woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp8tToFv-bA
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Hmm, but the randint(...)/... method should come pretty close to a uniform distribution on the 0..1 interval, shouldn't it? It wouldn't have maximum entropy, though.
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by onnoonno 12y ago
> So unless there is a relatively low limit for total humans on this planet, we won't reach it before we become a spacefaring race, at which point the limit will be the carrying capacity of the Universe. But even in that case, you c
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by onnoonno 12y ago
Looks indeed very interesting, thanks for the link!
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by onnoonno 12y ago
What is the naive way? Interpreting a random bit string as a float? Or rather randint(1000000000L)/1.0e9?
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by onnoonno 12y ago
A very good reason to generally attack/dismiss feminism IMO is that it is this morphing amoeba-like ideology. One's personal feminism is always different from 'those mainstream feminists', yet you do not see a lot of dis

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