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by simiones 3y ago
In a deterministic mindset, your choice is still specific to you, even though it is determined by the state of the universe at the time it was made. So, your choice to commit a certain act is very much still determined by the existence of l
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by simiones 3y ago
True, though I don't believe there is any reason to think such systems would actually be physically realizable. To me this seems similar to the dome shape where a ball sitting at rest on the top would randomly move down at any time in
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by simiones 3y ago
First of all, I believe the majority of philosophers of mind today are compatibilists - they hold that free will is in fact compatible with determinism. Secondly, there is very clearly no room at all for strong free will in any physical the
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by simiones 3y ago
First of all, in a Newtonian model, flipping a coin is not a random event, the result of the coin flip is determined by the exact forces applied, which are determined by the muscle movements of the flipper, which are determined by chemical
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by simiones 3y ago
Would these locks actually cost less than the bike itself?
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by simiones 3y ago
Lots of people choose Android entirely unrelated to control - especially as this change apparently only affects users of rooted Android devices, which are an extremely small minority of Android users. Other reasons include price, interop wi
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by simiones 3y ago
No lock can withstand a determined thief.
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by simiones 3y ago
If the payment for the service doesn't cover the costs of the service (insurance for a bike and for the loss of work before a new one is found), then what is so surprising? The market is adjusting: if the cost is fixed, then the offer
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by simiones 3y ago
LLMs are nowhere near being able to research other, better LLMs. It's not even known if existing LLMs are at 1% or at 99.99% of what an LLM can in principle achieve.
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by simiones 3y ago
I hadn't heard about this one when I was researching options. I'll give it a go next time I feel inclined to play with Linux, it sounds like it supports most of the features I'd like.
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by simiones 3y ago
It's obviously not required , but I do find it nice, especially for newer games that still receive regular patches. And of course, achievements are sometimes fun to have as well.
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by simiones 3y ago
Researching a bit more, it seems that Lutris can download and perhaps run these games, but it doesn't offer other integrations. It's not clear to me whether it downloads updates automatically for them, but it certainly doesn'
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by simiones 3y ago
Clarified in another reply, I was referring to GOG Galaxy, the launcher that you would use to keep those games up to date, sync saves across systems etc.
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by simiones 3y ago
I'm referring to GOG Galaxy, the Good Old Games game launcher. It's an app similar to Steam, which allows you to install and update your GOG games, get achievements, sync saves etc.
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by simiones 3y ago
There's a limit to how many third parties I was willing to install to get the programs I wanted working. I also didn't read anywhere that Lutris would have helped with GOG - every reddit thread I trawled ended up saying that we ne
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by simiones 3y ago
Unfortunately Linux is still far from ready. It's awesome that it can run Steam games quite seamlessly, and it can even run non-Steam games if you fiddle around a bit and find the magic incantations. But - I tried using it for things l
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by simiones 3y ago
As far as I know, there is a better definition that is commonly used. A soft real time system is one in which every instruction that the programmer writes has a known well-defined maximum time bound in which it executes. This can be achieve
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by simiones 3y ago
Haven't many cities actually dismantled public transport that they had already built (or rather, sold it to car companies "to operate more efficiently", who then proceeded to dismantle it so it didn't compete with their
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by simiones 3y ago
That only makes sense if all the people using self-driving cars would have driven drunk (or drugged, or sleepy) instead. Otherwise, you're replacing a decent driver with a sub-mediocre automatic system.
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by simiones 3y ago
No, it simply means that it can better utilize multiple cores to do the GC work faster, so pauses will be proportionally shorter. With the current SBCL collector (or the old one, since this one is already released), even if you ran on a 16-
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by simiones 3y ago
The new GC is not concurrent, it is still a stop-the-world collector. The improvement is that it can do the collection and compaction work in parallel on a multi-core machine. As such, it will greatly increase throughput if given multiple c
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by simiones 3y ago
The point is that a test that has a guarantee like "out of 100 people who test positive, only one will turn out to be negative" (99% specificity) can have an arbitrarily high false-positive rate when applied to the whole populatio
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by simiones 3y ago
Based on this, it sounds more like tuna is the only fish we know is mostly parasite-free, not the only fish that is mostly parasite-free. Perhaps most fish is actually parasite-free, but since we don't have enough evidence of that,
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by simiones 3y ago
Sure, and rightly so, but still there needs to be some limit to how much the advertising industry is permitted to do.
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by simiones 3y ago
As far as I understand, it's actually used to indicate a hiatus instead of a diphtong. E.g. naïvety is meant to indicate that aï are part of different syllables and shouldn't be pronounced in the same syllable, just like the oö in
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by simiones 3y ago
In human languages, each culture develops its own name for each different culture they interact with. That name is a separate concept to how the other culture calls themselves. Sometimes, the two names are relatively similar (France /
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by simiones 3y ago
I think it's only fair. You have no idea if I mean what I wrote and/or why I'm insisting on it.
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by simiones 3y ago
So one would actually have to remember to call the country TALT-129kyie?
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by simiones 3y ago
> That doesn't work. He shot himself in the head. Was that his plan all along? Clearly that method of analysis has some problems. Perhaps. He did "achieve" a few other things before that point either way. > That's
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by simiones 3y ago
Yup, Australia is just one of the few places where it succeeded, since it's big and rich enough not to be easily bullied with "international law". The Philippines lost in trade tribunals - apparently the commercial interests

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