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by skissane 2y ago
There are practising scientists who take philosophy of science much more seriously than you do. To give a random example, I'm quite a fan of Lynn Waterhouse's Rethinking Autism: Variation and Complexity (Elsevier Academic Press,
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by skissane 2y ago
The difference is that what we now call “science” actually did start out as a branch of philosophy, and only gradually became separated from it; and there are figures who made substantial contributions to both disciplines (e.g. Henri Poinca
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by skissane 2y ago
From another viewpoint, all human language is only at the finite-state level - a finite state automaton can recognise a language from any level in the Chomsky hierarchy provided you constrain all sentences to a finite maximum length, which
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by skissane 2y ago
> This is a philosophical argument, therefore dismissible by science. The claim I just made - that dismissing philosophy on empirical grounds is self-refuting because it relies on the philosophical position of empiricism - is not “dismis
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by skissane 2y ago
Your position is self-refuting: you are dismissing philosophy, yet simultaneously making philosophical claims in doing so-claiming that all knowledge is empirical is itself a philosophical claim (empiricism)
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by skissane 2y ago
> According to our current understanding of physics, everything is cause and effect, We don’t know whether the apparent indeterminism of QM ultimately reduces to determinism or not. It depends on which interpretation of QM you prefer, an
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by skissane 2y ago
> Integrated Information Theory To me, it seems like a bit of a trick - take a philosophical question, propose an answer, stuff some mathematics into the answer, maybe even a few minor empirical predictions, make people think those added
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by skissane 2y ago
Articles like this annoy me: it seems to want to comment on philosophy of mind, but shows zero awareness of the classic debates in that discipline - materialism vs idealism vs dualism vs neutral monism, and the competing versions of each of
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by skissane 2y ago
> In Linux, as I have written in the foot note, accepts anything but 0x00 (null) and 0x2F (“/”) POSIX 2024 encourages (but doesn’t require) implementations to disallow newline in file names, returning EILSEQ if you try to create a n
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by skissane 2y ago
Also: Musk is in the headlines a lot right now with DOGE, but DOGE is officially a “temporary organization” which expires mid next year, plus Musk is employed by the White House using a status (special government employee) which only allows
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by skissane 2y ago
> Civil code law uses that way of thinking, where there are specialised courts for different areas: administrative, civil, labor, family, commercial and so on. This happens in common law countries too. For example, the US has specialised
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by skissane 2y ago
I’ve often thought we’d get more sensible results in court cases on computer-related issues if we had specialised courts where the judges were required to have a relevant degree (computer science, software engineering, computer engineering,
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by skissane 2y ago
> Local politics is, by contrast, extremely responsive. I've gotten things done --- including a law passed You live in a country where local governments have the power to make laws… in a lot of other countries they don’t - or, to be
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by skissane 2y ago
> Microsoft aren't taking more right now. So you have to wait for some unknown time in the future when/if they start doing that again. Interesting, I hadn’t heard that, is there anywhere I can read more about it? > You could
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by skissane 2y ago
Someone should start a real CA business, complete with all the proper audits and everything to get it into the browser trust stores… and call it “Honest Achmed’s Used Cars and Certificates” (have it buy some random used car dealership in th
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by skissane 2y ago
I’ve seen fraud detection used in a SaaS product, and the great thing about a weighted rules approach, is professional services can understand it well enough to adjust it without help from engineering or data science, and they can explain t
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by skissane 2y ago
My dad's partner was once interviewed by investigators, her friend's son (in the Royal Australian Navy) had put her down as a character reference for his security clearance upgrade. They asked her if he was gay. She said she didn&
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by skissane 2y ago
> Put one on the ISS. I can see it already: cloud provider offers orbital FPGAs for testing your AI hardware designs
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by skissane 2y ago
I think dang did something manual to push it back to the frontpage, and that reset the timestamps on everyone’s existing comments… There is a comment here by me which says “2 hours ago”, I swear I wrote it longer ago than that - indeed, my
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by skissane 2y ago
> The reason is that while on a system that _uses_ crlf if you were to open those lf-only files in any text editor, it'll run the lines together into a jumble This isn’t true. Windows is the only major contemporary platform to use C
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by skissane 2y ago
The issue is that space launch is a lot smaller market than EVs with a lot higher unit costs. I think the majority of the companies you mention are going to fail, because the market isn’t big enough for them all. Rocket Lab is most likely t
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by skissane 2y ago
> One of the most basic things you do when doing a security clearance is checking that you don't have any bad things in your closet. I knew a guy years ago who was going for a security clearance. And he was really worried about them
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by skissane 2y ago
> do any POSIX APIs even involve threads? pthreads (POSIX threads) is itself a POSIX API I guess one reason why it doesn’t have any TID concept, is although Linux nowadays uses 1:1 threading (one kernel thread per user-space thread), his
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by skissane 2y ago
No, it isn’t. Neither glibc fork nor kernel fork syscall provide any special handling for PDEATHSIG beyond what clone syscall does.
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by skissane 2y ago
Digressing a little, but Glibc’s pthreads implementation is painful, because they don’t provide any public API to map a pthread_t to the kernel TID, except for the horrendously awful thread_db. Of course, for the current thread, you can jus
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by skissane 2y ago
> The setting is retained across forks, as shown in the original article That’s not what the man page says: > The parent-death signal setting is cleared for the child of a fork(2). https://man7.org/linux/man-pages
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by skissane 2y ago
> Are there any differences between threads and processes in how signals are handled? Yes. As signal(7) notes [0], Linux has both “process-directed signals” (which can be handled by any thread in a process), and “thread-directed signals”
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by skissane 2y ago
> I think they don't want PR_SET_PDEATHSIG but rather PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER, which I think would be both more correct than PDEATHSIG for letting them wait on grand-children / preventing grand-child-zombies, while also avoiding
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by skissane 2y ago
I think this is just reacting to the headline though. The linked article isn’t engaging in such a conflation, it explicitly calls it out as a limitation of the study: > Given the narrow demographic of the study, however, it's not po
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by skissane 2y ago
> Our human designs strive to work in many environmental conditions. Many early AI designs, if iterated in the real world, would incorporate local physical conditions into their circuits. For example, that fluorescent lamp or fan I'

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