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by ordu 1y ago
So, life exists to create more universes? It seems, that you've found the meaning of Life, Universe and possible Everything, and turns out it is not 42?
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by ordu 1y ago
> The student is under stress due to their struggle with the passage, which the author isn't taking creative liberties to describe as that's how most people will react. It doesn't look for me as a satisfactory explanatio
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> You can’t blame demographic shifts or foreign students on these results I don't think that it matters. I'm not a native speaker and I did on that sample better then the most. I'm just one point of data, but I believe wha
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by ordu 1y ago
It is one of my issues with lua. I'm starting to forget semicolons in C/C++/Rust and write : instead of ::. I think, that I'd better deal with a language recognition, I could configure emacs to use different highlighting
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by ordu 1y ago
Compiler can figure that out, but the thing is compiler needs also to understand lifetimes at the site where this function is called. In general case compiler will not look into the code of a called function to see what it does, compiler re
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by ordu 1y ago
I cannot say for everyone who doesn't like coffee, but I can say for myself. I hate coffee, but instant coffee is ok for me. Maybe it is bland or one-dimensional, but it is much better than bitter+sour.
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by ordu 1y ago
> This is just being pedantic over the terminology, as means to discredit Varoufakis' thoughts and arguments. I hadn't see the attempt to discredit Varoufakis' thoughts or arguments. What I did see is a critique of an an
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by ordu 1y ago
> My understanding of the memory access provided by fbdev is that it's an extremely simple API. Maybe some of fbdev are like that, but most of them are not. They use vga/vesa interfaces to get a real video memory and write into
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by ordu 1y ago
> The person I am having a conversation with is advocating for threads instead of processes. How do you think threads work? Are they? I looked back and I've found this quote of them: "The overhead of process-per-request, or eve
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by ordu 1y ago
> If the practitioners haven’t adopted what you’re offering for 50+ years, that thing can’t be good. I wouldn't trust opinion of practitioners. Not after they have chosen javascript and, God forbid, PHP. Practitioners choose not w
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by ordu 1y ago
> Threads and processes do the same amount of context switching. Yes, therefore real webservers use a limited amount of threads/processes (in the same ballpark as a number of CPU cores). Modern approach is to use green threads which
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by ordu 1y ago
The current propaganda trends of Kremlin are relying a lot on a glorious past. The 9 May is one of the staples of the propaganda, that now represents WWII as a victory over the most of the world, not just a victory on an Eastern European fr
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by ordu 1y ago
How about third party js? The site doesn't render properly without third party js from www.w3.org.
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by ordu 1y ago
Correct. I avoid autotools and cmake as much as I can. I'd better write Makefiles by hand. But when I need to deal with them, I'd prefer cmake. I can can modify CMakeLists.txt in a meaningful way and get the results I want. I woul
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by ordu 1y ago
> Wikipedia is a joke when it comes to politics. What isn't a joke when it comes to politics? The only way to be informed about politics I have found is to regularly read news from several different media sites paying careful attent
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by ordu 1y ago
What can a molecule do for such a long time? I mean they move very fast, the distances there is very short, so I kinda assumed that all the molecules do they do almost instantly. But 0.1 sec doesn't seem like an instant event.
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by ordu 1y ago
I'm a little surprised by their approach. I mean, it did work, it is cool, and it is the most important thing. Still I can't stop thinking that I wouldn't sleep before I wrote an assembler and a disassembler. Judging by the p
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by ordu 1y ago
> she was imagining peering at products on the shelves through a rifle scope. > "I thought, 'Wow! This is interesting'," she recalls. Yeah! That was my reaction too. It is not "unpleasant". Maybe "un
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by ordu 2y ago
Western psychology tried that. In its special way, but still. Introspection was a big thing in XIX century. To become a subject of a psychological experiment you'd need to get a special education and training. There was that guy, Titch
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by ordu 2y ago
No problem, don't mention it.
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by ordu 2y ago
> What separates a crackpot from an eccentric person or someone with weird ideas, or is that just a crackpot? I believe it is how a person construct their beliefs and how they defend it. I don't know enough about Giordano Bruno to
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by ordu 2y ago
You can change brightness and color of individual satellites as they move, so they would match the "pixel" they are in now. Just imagine swarm of very small emitting light bugs moving chaotically behind your screen and changing co
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by ordu 2y ago
> in the case of rotifers, if they are alive, either they are hibernating or suspended, or reanimation really is the instantiation of a new rotifer. It is not a new rotifer. Firstly, any life is a continuation of a previous life. Tree
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by ordu 2y ago
This belief doesn't make people immune to become crackpots. I personally know one crackpot that happens to believe that the earth revolve around the sun. He believes also that 2+2=4, and it doesn't help either.
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by ordu 2y ago
I believe that all categories are like that, not just binary ones. All models are wrong, it is their bug and their feature.
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by ordu 2y ago
You know, I studied psychology and I still feel sadness that undergraduate course will discuss Galen and his humors determining different types of personality (only to mock the very idea of typologies), but it keep silence about buddhism, w
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by ordu 2y ago
> I wonder if this is also using the vagus nerve to suppress being startled? I don't know about vagus nerve, but I can propose a different explanation. Emotions can change the state of your body, your brain feels the state and tri
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by ordu 2y ago
I don't remember Yudkowski good enough to point at the missing references. But I can point to my last find. Didn't you hear about Charles Sanders Pearce[1]? He said basically that the truth is what people are ready to bet on. Not
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by ordu 2y ago
I wonder what is the cause and what is the effect? If Rationalism promises mind changing, I bet it attracts people obsessed with mind changing. Rationalism promises a chance to touch the eternal Truth, or at least to come closer to it, so n
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by ordu 2y ago
I think that there are two sides of an intelligence, intelligence as an inborn ability to become intelligent and intelligence as the result of the process of becoming intelligent. People are more intelligent then animals in the first sense,

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