unfocussed_mike

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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
No, I don't think so. I think they get it largely right. How many reviews of movies have you seen from a senior, experienced reviewer got a film really totally wrong? I don't mean "hated a movie that genre fans will like&quot
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> is equivalent to > !!:s/string1/string2/ I didn't know about this syntax either. I thought I knew a bit of bash and it turns out I'm a novice after all this time. How fun.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It is in the nature of bash that you can go a decade without ever figuring something out only to have your life changed by a random comment on the internet. So thank you. That changes everything!
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Dear scientists, for the love of all that is good, don't repeat this test. Cats aren't ever going to forgive you for engineering a situation where they are seen to land in an ungraceful way, and there's a tiny chance that the
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
The bit about help as a subcommand and having to edit it out in a cumbersome way really hits home. I'm looking at you, otherwise-excellent wp-cli. :-)
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> That establishing of a model of another animal's mind in their own mind is likely a key part of intelligence. Yes -- this is literally "theory of mind", as I understand it. But the really striking thing is that this sort
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
This is absolutely the primary non-religious argument against euthanasia, and it's a serious one; what happens to the priorities of a healthcare system that "prices in" assisted dying? Discussions like this have even happened
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I wrote this quickly while I was trying to think back through the way I lost a relative to cancer, and I suppose this brief bit kind of makes no sense because it sounds non-linear: "And then a scan brings you right back to the median
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
My father died recently from sudden illness at a really very advanced age -- with some problems from dementia that never really got to the worst possible. I lost my mother to one of the worst cancers possible when I was much younger (again
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
This is a plainly weird position to take. I don't know how you imagine this working, but you should read about the Dignitas operation and the legal and policing framework in which it exists.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Seems like there's an opportunity here for a smaller scale marketplace to move in and provide artisan makers what they actually want. There are two sites in the UK that do this, with slightly different emphasis on each: https:&#x
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
You mean a sly marketing campaign? A friend from some years back went to a sensible European country. It doesn't work the way you are suggesting.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Right.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> I saw a family member go from diagnosis to death from stage 4 cancer and several things just feel off to me. The timeline of the posts, with an initial expected death by end of April, then extended to next winter then a sudden "r
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Understanding how to track others in mirrors is one thing -- understanding with clarity that the cat in the mirror is them, is actually another. The mirror dot test (which I imagine needs to be done really carefully with cats since they ins
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I find it completely maddening, and it poisons search results. But on the other hand, in specific markets (like fashion, artistic photography etc.), Pinterest is unavoidable. People use it for planning all sorts of creative endeavours. I lo
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yep. 30 minutes is super-fast compared to play-by-mail! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-by-mail_game
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Makes perfect sense to me considering animals have been seeing their reflections in water for millions of years. It's not like they just recently learned what a reflection is. I suppose. But I think this point is in danger of bein
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I am! Thank you! This is a very, very interesting video. There are other interpretations (that it is for example mum/dad's favourite toy too for example). But it is worthy of discussion.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> No, cats do not recognize themselves in mirrors. Very few animals do. That is certainly the conventional belief. But that conventional belief is founded on a single fundamental test (the mirror-dot test) that may simply be difficult
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> "That's my leg" or "that's my ear" seems a reasonable discovery for a cat. I doubt that there was a deep existential discovery because it happened in a mirror. It does, except that mirrors are not truly a
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Make videos of this. There really is a conventional scientific view that cats are not capable of passing typical mirror-related self-awareness tests. But it strikes me that the problem might be that the tests just aren't designed to t
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Yeah. Though the typical view is that cats do not ever grasp that it is them in the reflection at all. That moment is just completely fascinating.
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I don't know. But after twenty years of cats around me as a kid, that video never ceases to confound me. Because I've only ever seen cats confused, agitated or completely avoidant around mirrors. I'd always assumed the avoida
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Incidentally the greatest moment in this video is not the "oh... that's what those are" moment, looking in the mirror. The greatest moment is the head-turn and the wide-eyed look on her face as she is sitting down. Like: &quo
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
I am one of those people who had one view before a youtube video and another view after. We had cats when I was a kid, and I would observe that cats are very good at tracking prey, at opening doors or at getting humans to open them, at figu
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
Not sure if it is counterfactual. We know that dogs were definitely bred for utility. But cats were already effective pest controllers and may simply have moved in with humans after being tolerated. Cats never needed selective breeding for
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> Conserve eyesight Well that sounds scientific. (Never used w3m but links is a useful browser)
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
> But - they have this impossible to peal / remove layer of heat shrink material over the top lid - I have to always use two hands and knife carefully. That stuff is the worst! Bottles of soy sauce come with that stuff on in the UK
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by unfocussed_mike 5y ago
It's an extreme example but you might enjoy this website, which is one of the low-key-greatest things on the web: http://www.folias.nl/ A lot of the lawsuits that come up will I think end up resolving in this way -- po

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