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by raldi 2y ago
This fails the brain-in-vat test. Put mine in one, give it the exact same signals, and I’m still sentient and will experience hunger even without a stomach. Or even without the science fiction: people with amputated limbs frequently report
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by raldi 2y ago
What makes these "emoji" and not the IBM PC font, which contained hearts, smiley faces, musical notes, gender symbols, and more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
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by raldi 2y ago
Exactly. Another good model for certain kinds of product is to allow unlimited use of a limited dataset.
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by raldi 2y ago
I’m left wanting to hear more about the motivation for dumping the type in the first place. What kind of swindle was suspected? Did the partner try to reconstruct the type?
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by raldi 2y ago
See also tom7’s Reverse Emulation video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0
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by raldi 3y ago
Yes, I expect “A” will continue to be encoded as 01100001 far into the future.
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by raldi 3y ago
Huh?
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by raldi 3y ago
I’m pretty sure we’ll still be using ASCII in 1000 years.
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by raldi 3y ago
I had a 200LX in college. I managed to get Linux set up on my main computer so that it would provide a login terminal on the serial port, where the LX was plugged in. This meant my girlfriend could check her mail while I used the big comput
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by raldi 3y ago
Yes — we do the same thing!
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by raldi 3y ago
What does "Reset the test point" mean in this piece?
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by raldi 3y ago
Cmd-F perl no matches
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by raldi 3y ago
I just discovered this site a few days ago, when trying to plan overnight rail travel in Europe. Everyone else (including the rail companies!) had missing or outdated information and often sites that were simply broken, and then this guy ha
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Claude 3's system prompt, with commentary from an Anthropic ethicist(twitter.com)
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Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018)(popularmechanics.com)
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by raldi 3y ago
What’s the problem? Prices tick up over the course of the year. That already happens with regular money and we call it inflation.
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by raldi 3y ago
Not playing discrete songs is another interesting one mentioned.
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by raldi 3y ago
The article says it goes down in value by 10%, not 100%.
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by raldi 3y ago
Nachos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio_Anaya
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by raldi 3y ago
Boysenberry
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by raldi 3y ago
I guess everyone knows that the Bell System was named after some phone guy, so maybe it's more of an aptonym, but seems worth including on the list for completeness.
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by raldi 3y ago
He was originally going to be called Indiana Smith but Spielberg didn’t like the name.
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by raldi 3y ago
Similarly, I thought my Chinese friend was conscious, but as soon as his translator app stopped working, everything was just gibberish.
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by raldi 3y ago
Also I expect you to mow the lawn every two weeks and replace roof shingles whenever necessary.
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by raldi 3y ago
I love the mnemonics.
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by raldi 3y ago
Addressed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39420084
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by raldi 3y ago
You listed a bunch of reasons that you personally don’t want to live in an apartment building, but the issue at hand is whether other people should be allowed to build them on the land they own.
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by raldi 3y ago
Nobody’s seeking to forcibly evict homeowners and seize their property. If you like your house, you can keep it.
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by raldi 3y ago
There’s a difference between “if you like this policy, you’re a racist” and “this policy has historically harmed people of color”.
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by raldi 3y ago
No, historically (as in, the rules that were in effect when all the beloved neighborhoods were created), if you wanted to built apartments, you could. In most American cities, that rule wasn’t changed until the 1970’s, when the Supreme Cour

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