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by ruthmarx 2y ago
No idea where you are getting that from. It's used in production on plenty of sites.
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> Is it too much to ask to keep politics out of software recommendations and social media version announcement updates? Frankly, yes. Things have become so bad that the more people taking a stand and showing they don't support a par
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I'm a fan of Wagtail, built on Django. Much more setup to get configured, but it's far more customizable and stable once you do.
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> By consciousness, I mean my ineffable sense of here-ness and me-ness; the feeling that all the subjective experiences of my senses, redness and coldness and pleasure and longing are all "real things" happening to a "real
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> Why not? Because the plant isn't conscious? Awareness can't be defined in terms of consciousness if consciousness itself is defined in terms of awareness—that's circular. The problem is we are using the same word to mean
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> There isn't one, There we go. So if we go back up to your first comment where you say there are separate replacements for some services, you can see that isn't really relevant since what is being discussed was a drop in repla
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Nah, not high, just experienced. > The only way Neuralink is secure is if we get rid of the system that incentivizes #1, aka capitalism, and not replace it with something equally bad or worse. Oh man, you've ingested that anti-capit
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No one is denying alternatives exist, people are denying alternatives exist that are anywhere near as good.
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> Interoperability is great, Yup, and that's what people want. So what is the integrated service you are saying exists that can be a drop in replacement for the way so many organizations use Google's integrated services?
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> What other services don't have perfectly reasonable replacements ready and waiting? How about which single reasonable replacement offers the same services with the same level of integration? Using Yahoo Mail and Amazon Cloud and O
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> Why would Neuralink be different? At some point in the future no one will be using x86 or any variation, and we will all be using a secure architecture. Same as with insecure languages, far enough in the future, every language in commo
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What would happen if you replaced Google with a perfect functional equivalent? Well, nothing. You don't happen to know where one could find these magical perfectly compatible and functional drop in replacements, do you?
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> What are you smoking, Facts and reality, I guess? > we hear about breaches of super important databases all the time and that doesn't seem to convince any company to give a single shit more than just enough to avoid negligence.
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> Security will never be a "largely solved problem", when there are humans involved (and probably even when humans are not involved). It absolutely will. I didn't say completely solved, I said largely solved. > Ther
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That's not really true, in that context security will largely be a solved problem. Using chips with a secure architecture, safe languages and safe protocols is going to result in secure implants. Not to say there might not be some new
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Anglosphere military I would guess. Somewhat of a shared culture unique to those veterans.
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> It'll be less effort than building the tool you're describing. That's not necessarily at all. I could build a rough version in a week. It shouldn't take anyone much effort to imagine that there are all types of situ
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I appreciate your comment very much, thank you.
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Sure, but sometimes death happens before people repair relationships to a point they can really do that.
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This kind of story is heartbreaking, and something I think about a lot. My parents don't know me very well, a lot of people don't, and I've always been a very private person. I've also been through a lot, written a lot a
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> It was my understanding that all this connectome-based research was largely a deadend, There's obviously something to it or implementing what we map in software wouldn't give results as accurately as they do.
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> Is consciousness even real, or is it just a feeling? And I've never heard a satisfactory argument that it is real. That you wrote this comment is ample evidence it is real, unless you are using a very non-standard definition of co
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> I would consider "x is aware of y" to only mean (fundamentally) that x is responsive to the state of y, but your notion of awareness clearly goes beyond that. Well, surely you can agree what you've described isn't a
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> What is sensing, if not ingesting data from sensors? Ingesting data from sensors with a level of awareness . > What is reflecting upon something, if not processing data related to that thing? You really don't think reflection
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> A camera does this. No, it doesn't. > So does a camera pointed at a mirror. No, there is no 'reflecting' going on here. > You may have misunderstood qualia. Not at all. Been debating this stuff with vegans for year
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> would emoticons have existed at all if computers had the capability to display Unicode glyphs from the start? Probably not. > It feels like still insisting on using Morse code after keyboards were invented. For some of us older peop
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> If you want to insist that biology is as testable and verifiable as physics, I have no interest in arguing with you- it's just a difference of opinion I just think the whole "There is a continuum of hardness within the quanti
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> Emoticons was a western word for emoji I think, which originated in Japan. Emoticons predate emoji are were always purely ascii text based.
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> only a few oddball applications (tar, gzip) care about extensions. Most desktop gui programs care about extensions.
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Yes, they absolutely are. Congrats on your PhD. Hard sciences are simply those that can be tested and verified. Biology and neurology fall into this category. Soft sciences are those that don't lend themselves to testing and verificati

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