Affric

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by Affric 2mo ago
Yep, I have come to believe that as complex adaptive systems made of complex adaptive systems the part of us that experience music do so through being able to predict new information. If there is no ability to predict it’s random and just n
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by Affric 2mo ago
Stupidly terse code is fun and a good laugh to show to people as a puzzle… it is the opposite in an application that relies on it.
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by Affric 2mo ago
Since they nixed uBlock Origin Safari has not been a serious web browser to me. No amount of technology can make up for it.
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by Affric 2mo ago
I still have the last cd I was ever given. Incredible mix.
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by Affric 2mo ago
I was thinking the same thing. I think what it describes is about right too: computers programs should have a REPL and we should have agents that can input them for us if we don't want to get into the weeds and wish to automate tasks,
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by Affric 2mo ago
These are all great nominations. Crazy to add complexity like this.
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by Affric 2mo ago
I had people who had been writing Tabs on paper for a very long time. I would wager that ascii is just a representation
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by Affric 2mo ago
My Apple Watch has 3 days of battery tops.
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by Affric 3mo ago
So, aside from nothing to hide domestic/family violence and stalking, the fact that they can and will build an inference about you to attempt to influence your choices is fundamentally menacing to every person. Corporate stalking has b
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by Affric 3mo ago
Not sure if it was from the last time this was posted but there’s a decent YouTube video about this place.[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUKRPoQKynk
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by Affric 3mo ago
Right so it would seem increased physical exertion would be the answer. Yeah, humans should have more free time and do enough work or exercise each day to keep their body in shape.
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by Affric 3mo ago
Played this originally, glad to see scripting included
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by Affric 3mo ago
Would be cool if Apple incorporated something like this into pages
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by Affric 3mo ago
I skilfully use computers to make art every day. I also can identify a bird by myself, have my own sense of timing and rhythm, and can figure out things about a person myself. It doesn’t augment reality, it simply puts a display on your fac
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by Affric 3mo ago
Our eyes, sight: close enough to magic. It creates an experience, that in people without synesthesia, cannot be encapsulated within another experience. Elves know and sense, they have names for things, they don’t get told the names of thing
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by Affric 3mo ago
No, it’s the “reading about exercise isn’t exercise” argument
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by Affric 3mo ago
Other animals use symbols, Koko clearly used symbols. Not using our senses except to read symbols is the death of human experience.
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by Affric 3mo ago
That’s not what you see when you wear the glasses, you will see a symbol, a series of symbols, a facsimile of life that you will convince yourself is real. It’s not elf like, it’s not magic, it’s not a sense, quite the opposite, it’s replac
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by Affric 3mo ago
It's been a while since I did telecoms related stuff but also you might want a different CLI and ANI for forwarded calls so you can preserve the original line being used. Obviously the whole scam call centre has changed how it has to w
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by Affric 3mo ago
Emoji are fun to use because they make written communication more human… corporations or LLMs using them just comes off as insincere.
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by Affric 3mo ago
Bingo. Again Apple's offering is the worst apart from every other one on the market.
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by Affric 4mo ago
Should be noted that Australia, and even NSW, had quite a few different systems. Country NSW was largely done by the (local) county councils and they didn’t seek to profit by once the debt was cleared and instead wanted to give out cheap po
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by Affric 4mo ago
I thought e was optimal
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by Affric 4mo ago
Needs to be generic in the United States, and only the United States... which is funny considering the global jurisdiction US courts often assume.
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by Affric 4mo ago
Never for production at scale admittedly, only for research and on fixed line connections, mostly public transport related. Some datasets are better than others. Internet connected options here in Australia generally have good speed limit d
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by Affric 4mo ago
Get a determined ex-partner who knows a lot about you and wants to harm you or kidnap your children. For most people this represents the greatest immediate risk with this kind of data.
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by Affric 4mo ago
Why wouldn’t they? Dataset is readily available for most places. Pull local on entry to jurisdiction on every drive…
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by Affric 4mo ago
Tragic
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by Affric 4mo ago
Bingo. I know I would. I am the king of knowing immediately when I have fucked up. “Undo” has made us far too comfortable with mistakes.
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by Affric 5mo ago
Well said but by the time mobile phone towers were built we had been tapping phone lines for a long time. Hard to not think that to an extent default insecurity for telecoms was a choice.

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