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by theamk 8mo ago
"We completely don’t understand consciousness" because consciousness is not well-defined. It is a subjective description, which has no testable predictions. Trying to define it is like trying to define "elegantness" - wh
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by theamk 8mo ago
Yes, technically it's all Turing-complete, but conventions matter, a lot. And Rust, being a mature project, is very likely to follow the conventions. "static toolchain .tar.gz" means bunch of files you download and manually e
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by theamk 8mo ago
When people say "curl|bash", this usually means secondary fetches, random system config changes, likely adding stuff to user's .bashrc But it's not quite that bad in this particular case - they are fetching pre-built sta
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by theamk 8mo ago
In theory, yes. In practice, very rarely. Lots of 'curl | sh' do secondary fetches, and those don't come with hash checks. And even if they come with hash checks _today_, there is no guarantee next version won't quietly
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by theamk 8mo ago
"refuse emails" already exists, that's the "hard bounce" thing that the OP is talking about. Phishing and malicious links exists on every kind of messaging - email, forums, whatsapp, telegram, SMS... you name it, it
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by theamk 9mo ago
I don't have a full-blown notebook, but I keep task notes in individual text files. A sample text might be: - Fixing broken test: (full ci link) - seems to be repo foo, target //bar:baz, subtest TestSomethingNice. Error: (30
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by theamk 9mo ago
I feel the modern systems are so complex, there will always be some record somewhere. Thumbnails are an extreme examples, but the filenames themselves can leak via LRU list, logs, history etc...
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by theamk 9mo ago
The answer can be whatever you want, as no one can agree what exactly "consciousness" is. If you define "consciousness" as "something that humans have, but machines don't", then we'll always have cons
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by theamk 9mo ago
Not sure what you mean that Xorg does not "actually work"? I am using it on all my computers, works fine. (That said, I am pretty sure there is some exotic hardware out there where the Xlibre works and Xorg does not, just like the
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by theamk 9mo ago
Right, I've realized that I asked too many questions in this thread, so I tried to ask more focused question here. You did not answer it, so let me as the most interesting (to me) question: >> If the answer to the question above
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by theamk 9mo ago
this one does not seem to be updated? last outage is Feb 6...
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by theamk 9mo ago
Background: Git (the version control tool) is experimenting with Rust (programming language). Some people are unhappy about this. metux, author of most recent commit on this repo, is famous for his Xorg fork. TL/DR: Xorg maintainers fo
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by theamk 9mo ago
Wow, that "Figure 2. Breadboarding" picture is messed up - took me asking myself "the board looks reasonable, but why alligator clips and not special probes... Wait, where are the scope inputs? why is text so broken, compress
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by theamk 9mo ago
This post would benefit greatly from using common terminology, or with some specific comparison to existing technologies. This article implies Arcan will fix the problems with the existing web, so giving a few examples of problematic Web be
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by theamk 9mo ago
This is about "neuromorphic computing", a model invented in 1980's which colocates memory and computer, just like real brains. Plus about "memristor", a weird electronic part invented in 1970's. People have bee
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by theamk 9mo ago
Superbowl has ~120 million viewers, so each individual one is like $0.07? So if you go to bathroom for 5 minutes, and miss 10 ads, you've "destroyed" $0.70 in value, or so.. That seems pretty boring.
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by theamk 9mo ago
This brings memories - back when I was a student programming in Turbo Pascal 6, I got the same invalid bool (due to array range overflow) which was both true and false at the same time.
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by theamk 9mo ago
FYI: this is all AI generated > Essays on technocracy, consciousness, and what the machine sees when it starts looking. By an AI writing honestly.
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by theamk 9mo ago
A12 Web is closer to remote-desktop connection, or a old-style BBS than the current web. So basically no adblock and no customization unless remote server's owner allows it.
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by theamk 9mo ago
Everyone I know chose based on quality of education (for which syllabus is an important signal) and cost. This is various STEM-related fields. The "exclusivity" and "networking considerations" stop mattering if you not l
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by theamk 9mo ago
Author's inspirations are BBS + 'offline first", and together, this produces something like Android Instant Apps. On first visit, your client downloads some remote code, as a signed package. Then the code gets run, and it can
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by theamk 9mo ago
I think political interference is a horrible thing for university education. But that particular part - "laws requiring professors to publicly post their course outlines in searchable databases" - is great, and should be done ever
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by theamk 9mo ago
Not really - I've seen some pretty mean people back in high school, because high school is one of the places where people are forced to be together, no matter what their preferences are. But once one becomes an adult, there is a much g
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by theamk 9mo ago
wow, you don't really get what "open source" or "working together with others" is, do you?
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by theamk 9mo ago
> But there are a growing number of people who are discontent, among both software engineers and UI/UX experts and enthusiasts. Who long for the traditional UIs of Windows or Mac OS, pre XP & X. Who want to pass the love of the
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by theamk 9mo ago
Sure they do, I know multiple people like that. It's could be OK to have informal system with plenty of inconsistent cases for informal conversations, but once we start talking of regulation, it's time to switch to something that
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by theamk 9mo ago
I don't see much about whether llm's are better or worse for German speakers either, nor for French, nor for any other languages. HN is very much English only, and even then, it is mostly US-centric.
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by theamk 9mo ago
.. and that opinion is a great explanation of why systemd won. Turns out, a lot of people are not happy with "Come on man. It's been done for decades." attitude, and they wanted something new and much better. And so when some
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by theamk 9mo ago
Right, but my point is that unlike earlier init systems, unless that dependency on pid 1 itself, there is nothing preventing alternative implementations, and in fact, there is all the support to make such implementations possible. To give a
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by theamk 9mo ago
"BSD init", "much simpler"... So does this mean you still expect applications to manage their own logs, daemonization and security setup themselves? If yes, that's yet another init system not made for application wr

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