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- Comment on turing completeness 13 hours ago:
it does not make you conscious
That wasn’t obvious at all until a few years ago.
Anyway, I do think Turing would put as much importance on the Turing test as the meme implies. But it really looked like it predicted intelligence until we got there.
- Comment on YSK americans requires 60 votes out of 100 in the Senate to pass any law. Most americans think it's very smart. But in Canada or Britain, you just need a simple majority 14 hours ago:
In Brazil every expense that is required by law just keeps getting paid, whether there’s a budget or not.
We spent 4 months this year without a budget due to neither house agreeing with each other and none agreeing wit the Executive. Almost nobody noticed, it didn’t even make it into news.
- Comment on Research shows research is the leading cause of research 1 day ago:
Is further research needed?
- Comment on Ain't no one breaking in 1 day ago:
I wonder what goes through a person’s mind as they solder that.
- Comment on So much... 2 days ago:
lot of propellant and oxidizer
You can only realistically get close to one of them that way.
You are better off studying plasma containment fusion. And that’s a fuckton of math.
- Comment on 2³² will get interesting... 3 days ago:
With everybody tied up before the 34th track, who exactly is there to push the lever?
- Comment on You just had to ask that question 4 days ago:
“I’m going to do this unless I hear otherwise”
Don’t. We need to discuss it. I’m setting a meeting Monday morning with the 4 involved departments so we can settle that down. Is 9 to 5 ok for you or do you think we will need more time?
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 6 days ago:
You are not filthy rich if you depend on a salary. And that’s not FU money basically anywhere.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 6 days ago:
3.0 and 2.0 are the same, aren’t they?
- Comment on My collection is growing 1 week ago:
If you don’t have a dozen 1.5mm hex wrenchs, is you life even worth living?
- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 1 week ago:
In a high-level, you don’t design them anymore. You write them, in code. The compiler turns your code into the chip masks, and has an optimizer that will mangle the hell out of the relatively simple stuff you wrote.
In a lower level, that compilation is not really done automatically, and people will intervene in lots of places, and AFAIK, how people divide it and interact with it are well guarded secrets from the chip maker.
- Comment on Go Green 1 week ago:
From this far away, looks like you can expect plenty of mangoes in the summer.
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 1 week ago:
I didn’t say it’s efficient.
Cars are merging there in 6 distinct points. They may need to merge up to 5 times to leave the collider. It’s anything but efficient. Also, not every street can be reached from every street.
A roundabout is orders of magnitude better than this.
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 1 week ago:
I never noticed, if you make the rotary supercollider with two way streets, it works!
- Comment on Can't have nice things 2 weeks ago:
Accelerometers do use a relatively large amount of power.
But if your thing has haptic feedback, it’s safe to say the battery is going all into it.
- Comment on And I don't care 2 weeks ago:
Notice how filling a void just created another, larger void.
You can’t win.
- Comment on Fictional 2 weeks ago:
You are correctly trying to say it’s well defined, but you are complaining about the wrong comment. You should check the meaning of “arbitrary” again.
Anyway, it’s not entirely arbitrary because it was created to represent a “round” fraction of the Earth’s circumference that is similar to the length of a person’s arms. But it deviated from that too, so it’s subjective how much that counts.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 2 weeks ago:
If those clock actually didn’t exist anymore, than it really would be no point in knowing how to read them.
And there’s close to no point nowadays. If I was making some school curriculum, I would probably keep them because they are useful for teaching fractions. But I would look for an alternative.
- Comment on mercy merci 2 weeks ago:
Hum… I tried to maintain that philosophy until they attracted a wanderer that I was unable to get rid of for 2 days until it ate all the spiders. Also, one of them attacked me, what wasn’t a big issue, but I prefer not to happen again.
Now I kill them all.
- Comment on Autograding tool 2 weeks ago:
If you use moodle, it has a plugin for that, with instructions.
If you don’t use moodle, you may want to check the instructions on the plugin anyway.
- Comment on Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win? 2 weeks ago:
Seems to be a common practice on that type of article.
- Comment on eel butts 2 weeks ago:
You just need capacitors.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that makes sense. I can even imagine how it tastes now.
Around here, people use spaghetti (and probably an egg to make it larger), what is probably not too different.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
Oh, you eat it without the bread?
- Comment on If only we knew... 2 weeks ago:
Nah, the OP is one step ahead and wants to execute people for holding tattoos.
- Comment on Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win? 2 weeks ago:
Also, hard to believe that thing in the image weights as much as a rhinoceros. How much is a rhino in metric?
- Comment on From the outside looking in 2 weeks ago:
The GP is living in a more normal time when the media amplified disasters to fill the available time.
They’ll eventually come to 2025, then the media summarizes disasters to fill the available time.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 2 weeks ago:
Corporations nowadays are more honest about it. They’ll plainly say that it has been their best year ever, but they are letting you go because they missed their financial target… that they increase 10 to 30% every year no matter what.
- Comment on necessary read 2 weeks ago:
Sadly, it is the cowards who invent nightmares and conjure them into reality, and who also have little hesitation toward cruelty and violence when they lash out at those they project their inner demons onto.
You say that in response to a comment from a person considering themselves courageous and asking to the death of most people on the world…
- Comment on life purpose 2 weeks ago:
WFH pros: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!
WFH cons: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!