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by yarg 2y ago
Sure, but there's also a subrange at the (subjective) centre of that range that will not be perceived as either more blue or more green. And the teal that I referenced in my earlier comment was (for me) such a colour.
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by yarg 2y ago
Thanks. https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/29/44/13992.full.pd...
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by yarg 2y ago
It's neutral (-1 * 0 ≡ +1 * 0); don't confuse it for an infinitesimal (which can be positive or negative).
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by yarg 2y ago
If that were the case then there's no way that they'd be able to extract images from people's neural activity, and yet they've started doing that very thing.
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by yarg 2y ago
Is zero more positive or negative? You should be able to answer that.
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by yarg 2y ago
The philosophical question is not dealing with the objective external reality; It's a question of subjective experience - and that experience should be reflected in electrical activity. Given the fact that the broad structure of the br
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by yarg 2y ago
The word vaccine actually results from this fact - it derives from the latin word for cow. We (I say we) used cowpox to immunise against smallpox.
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by yarg 2y ago
I do think that the philosophical question could potentially be approachable in a modern context; Show people a colour and map their brain activity - the level of similarity between two people's colour perceptions should be reflected b
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by yarg 2y ago
I'd prefer blue/green/neither. With the third colour, I just thought "no, that's teal", and my decision was (as you suggested) semi-arbitrary.
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by yarg 2y ago
We have adaptive immune systems. Exposure to disease allows us to respond to more dangerous related diseases - if this weren't true vaccination never would have worked.
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by yarg 2y ago
Talking with (or listening to) adults is the primary way that children learn to speak - but that's far from the only thing that these children have been deprived of. The social understanding that children develop by playing with other
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by yarg 2y ago
I've had a couple of these. The first one was programming; I'd been working on a little image editing application, implementing anti-aliased gradient brushes (one colour in the centre and another at the edges, with a fast enough a
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by yarg 2y ago
I don't even need the coffee - I wake up having solved the problem. Generally around 2 or 3 in the morning, just when I need it the most.
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by yarg 2y ago
Reminds me of what Microsoft was trying to do for Longhorn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
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by yarg 2y ago
I'm sorry, do you really need to be so damned pedantic? Today - in the present, given the relative levels of influence of the different authoritarian groups, it is predominantly the far left that is engaged in the weaponisation of cens
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by yarg 2y ago
I think people are starting to see the long term consequences now; but the problem has been building for decades. You don't get every university across every ostensible democracy banning free speech yet permitting physical violence aga
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by yarg 2y ago
I can't; I got permabanned from the site for hate speech. What did I say? That it's unfair for men to compete in women's sports and that TRAs use bad faith tactics like deplatforming as a means to silence their critics and av
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by yarg 2y ago
I quite liked it in the 5 minutes it existed - it was just really easy to use.
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by yarg 2y ago
Did you reply to the wrong person? Because I'm not the guy that didn't know that.
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by yarg 2y ago
It was in 3.5 only. If they've replaced it with something else in the last decade and a half that does not mean that they didn't get rid of it, or that it wasn't short lived. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us&
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by yarg 2y ago
LINQ yes, but they killed off the component not long after introducing it.
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by yarg 2y ago
This reminds me .NET's short lived Linq to SQL; There was a talk at the time, but I can't find the video: http://jaoo.dk/aarhus2007/presentation/Using+LINQ+to+SQL+to+... . Basically, it was a way to clean
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by yarg 2y ago
I think it's circumstantial - do your abstractions make it easier or harder to implement and integrate the sort of features that the application generally requires? There's sometimes significant use in having some powerful abstrac
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by yarg 2y ago
It gets worse (this isn't too much of an exaggeration): https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris... . Sometimes there's a scary lack of understanding and competency where you'd expect
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by yarg 2y ago
And it's clearly an insufficient protection.
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by yarg 2y ago
When it works sure, but too often the system is adversarial and the behaviour more in line with what you'd see from a private insurer - as opposed to a government entity acting for the good of the people.
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by yarg 2y ago
Redundancy is complicated as well - it places burdens on hiring new people in the same position. So if you want to remove an incompetent to replace them with someone useful, you cannot do it with a redundancy.
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by yarg 2y ago
I left a job in large part due to the fact that they couldn't get rid of our incompetent tester. We really need it to be easier to get rid of idiots in positions too technical for them to understand.
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by yarg 2y ago
> NZ has government provided healthcare. We really don't. You won't be bankrupted by hospital bills, but the absolute shambles that we're working with is far from an adequately functioning healthcare system. The ACC (which
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by yarg 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messaging_Layer_Security https://github.com/facebookresearch/asynchronousratchetingtr...

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