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by tikwidd 5y ago
This is a good example of why IT professionals need to unionise. Nobody should have to put up with abuse at work. With a unionised workforce we could create standards for ethical employment relationships and independent mediators. Without a
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by tikwidd 5y ago
An array of tactile antennae/feelers?
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by tikwidd 5y ago
If there is no coherent notion of physical or material, there is no notion of immaterial either. Chomsky talks about this at length in "The Machine, The Ghost and the Limits of Understanding" (previously discussed on HN here [1]).
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Or we will realise the conclusions of the 17th century philosophers, that there is no coherent notion of physical/material. Anything we can reason about is a construction of the mind on the occasion of sense.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Declaring peaceful intentions strikes me as the opposite of aggression.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
There are calls for independence, but ROC maintains a claim over the Chinese mainland which constitutionally requires a referendum to change. Source: ROC constitution.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
This is great, congrats for shipping. It also reminds me a bit of Padlet in that there is no freehand drawing and the focus is more around connections between objects. Maybe it would be better to describe it as a corkboard or pinboard. I do
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by tikwidd 5y ago
The ROC also 'vows reunification' with the Chinese mainland. It's a standard line in the One China diplomatic framework which both states follow. Edit: can we get the title changed to "Xi vows 'peaceful reunificatio
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Imagine an ornithopter drone doing a vertical takeoff with the grace of the Dark Marathyssa.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
I think you're right that it's mimicry, but I'd like to offer a more precise distinction about the difference between humans and GPT-3. Threads, network adapters, web browsers and primitive cells communicate too. What I think
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by tikwidd 5y ago
You're describing any hegemonic power structure. But my point was not that Democratic/Republican parties are worse than the CCP (on domestic power at least - they are worse than the CCP on foreign policy, but I digress...). My poi
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Here's another weird one. One of the 9/11 hijackers [1] checked into a Florida hospital with apparent cutaneous Anthrax symptoms. After investigation of this incident, the FBI officially ruled out a link between 9/11 and the
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Why not start with the low hanging fruit? Be an inspiration for Chinese dissidents and topple the Business party (Republican/Democrat).
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Another thing the US can do (and other countries that criticise China's human rights policies) is set a better example in international affairs. People in the US and US-aligned countries can organise opposition, for example to end the
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by tikwidd 5y ago
If the US or a European state signed a treaty with the UK under the conditions that the UK imposed on China, would you call for the US to be punished for breaking that treaty?
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by tikwidd 5y ago
You seem to be referring to the South Australia Home Quarantine app [1]. There has been a lot of misinformation circulating about this app recently. I'd just like to clear up some things: The app only applies to people that need to qua
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by tikwidd 5y ago
"Displaced by modernity" is such a wonderfully Orwellian description for what the colonisers did to Aboriginal Australians.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Isn't Australia showing the exact opposite, that you don't need CCP-style top down control to enact powerful surveillance laws? That's always been possible in a "free democracy". The Australian government has explic
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by tikwidd 5y ago
And not all freedoms are equal. My freedom to drive on the wrong side of the road is lesser than your freedom to drive safely, so we restrict the former over the latter. Australians have chosen the freedom to live free of the virus over som
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by tikwidd 5y ago
It's called a lockdown...
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Even if we can get rid of the repetitive programming tasks, that still leaves a lot of software development work to do. Someone needs to specify the behavior of the code, either by writing tests or some other way. Those people will need to
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by tikwidd 5y ago
There is a built in coaching system in DOTA 2.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
What this discussion is missing is Chomsky's distinction between I-language and E-language. I (individual/internal/intensional) language is the knowledge of an individual native speaker. E-language represents the body of exte
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Reminds me of a Google translation of "bass" to Chinese as "low frequency fish"
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by tikwidd 5y ago
So far it's working well on my LC III (68030 with 36mb ram)! I'm writing this comment from the LC III using w3m over ssh :)
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by tikwidd 5y ago
I would love to read your writeup if you get around to it.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Neat! I just have an LC III, SE and Powerbook 1400 running at the moment. Always wanted to find a NeXT... > Rather than run a bunch of Ethernet cables all over the place I put little Ethernet to Wifi bridge adapters on them. Works great.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
For classic macs with ethernet ports, the simplest method I have found is to host a basic FTP server on another computer (e.g. you can set one up easily enough on a Raspberry Pi) and use an Ftp client such as Fetch on the mac side. I use th
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by tikwidd 5y ago
As a proponent of biolinguistics, my bet is that as we study those neural substrates more closely, we'll probably just learn more about the sensorimotor systems (which we largely share in common with other mammals) that have been coopt
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Yes, we have sophisticated digital systems that interface with our (analogue) sensory systems - a screen and keyboard are examples of this. Maybe these sensory interfaces involve some machine learning (maybe they don't). In the future,

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