Hayarotle

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by Hayarotle 3y ago
I find it interesting to speculate why those words are not in widespread use. Many of them seem to either have more commonly used near-synonyms (acedia - apathy, indifference or ennui), or be somewhat unwieldy to use (absquatulate would be
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by Hayarotle 3y ago
You shouldn't, but it happens. The UI makes it much easier to open a new tab than to close older tabs (unless you close all of them at once). You even inadvertently open new tabs when you click on links and they open on a new tab rathe
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by Hayarotle 3y ago
It's not just a public place, but a very specific type of public place: a shopping mall. Were it just a public square with people from your social circle, then it wouldn't be as dangerous. As a shopping mall, it's full of adv
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by Hayarotle 3y ago
An AGI being able to wipe out humanity doesn't necessarily mean that it can take over the universe. The world's governments are already capable of causing extreme suffering through a nuclear war. AGI risk scenarios aren't equ
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
> Memorisation is adding nodes to your existing network of knowledge Adding nodes to your existing network of knowledge is learning facts. Memorization is making the nodes persistent. Both are important, but they're not equivalent.
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Find out if your addiction is because you find the world boring, or if you're trying to escape from something you fear. If it's the former, block the addictive content and replace it with other things you find fun (hobbies, books,
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Timeless is another skin, which was never made default [1]. The skin that hides the languages and doesn't use the full screen space is the new skin (Vector 2002). There was talk about fixing the language menu on Vector 2022, but they d
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
> I recently came across a term for this. Telic vs. atelic activities [0]. Telic activities are things with some terminal state, e.g. a typical goal-oriented project, or something like the act of getting married. > Atelic activities a
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Such perspective isn't really so surrealistic, when we think about the lengths some governments and institutions go to stop people from talking to each other. Some countries censor the outside internet wholesale. Military conscripts ar
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Essays are often meant not as a measure of understanding, but as a tool for the student to learn, to reflect on how well they understand the material, and for the teacher to be aware of their weak points. Sometimes they're also meant a
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
They're testing out the new UI in the other language Wikipedias. It adds a nice collapsible topic structure to the sidebar and sets a text width limit, but hides the available languages for the article behind a button on the header. Th
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
> There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head. Which does make this a type of art. It just isn't the same form of art as digital
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
The problem is with the (interpreted) subtext of the question. The question "Is our checkout page not performing well?" might be just a question, but in the context the author was put in, it usually has different implications. Man
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
How do you define "consciousness", though? If we define it to be just a human interpretation of an observed physical process, and we believe subjective experience to be an illusion, then the hard problem is not a problem at all. T
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
That's a problem that affects all theories about the metaphysics of consciousness. All of them share the burden of explaining how a world where "consciousness" exists would be different from a world without it. The ones which
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Some forms of panpsychism (such as panprotopsychism) aren't much different from emergent materialism. Emergent materialism states human consciousness originates from the state of a physical brain, while the constituent parts of the hum
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Extreme situation that could be a counterexample to your claim: Dr. Evil is 90 years old, his consciousness is slowly fading away, and he is going to die in a week. He is almost ready to release a bomb that will torture kill half of the wor
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Some of them seem specially hard to read. I mistook the phone emoji for a "missing character" symbol, the baby emoji for a hand and the dancing emoji for an Among Us crewmate with Elvis hair. The monkeys at the end also looked lik
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
Above a certain percentage it's going to poison human-generated content too. You will have to discern between ai-generated content, ai-influenced-human generated content and genuine human-generated content. One could argue it's al
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by Hayarotle 4y ago
> I had a similar view as a kid, driven mostly by the fact that I wasn't very good at memorisation. I found that I could get by in maths without it, eg. deriving the quadratic formula by completing the square rather than memorising
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
They usually were two separate parts on the same page, the shout-box was a widget and its content did not get indexed. The forum was usually not a single-page application, and forum threads were paginated. Here's a modern-day example [
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
The issue of the barrier to entering a forum and ask a question used to be a non-issue, as it was easily solved by appending a shout-box to it. Ephemeral, anonymous, low barrier chat coexisted with search engine-indexed, longer-form forum t
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
At least we can still use duckduckgo and use the !wa bang (wolfram alpha) Sometimes even without the !wa, as duckduckgo itself often provides the result
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
I wouldn't assume any of those things about grandparent though. They haven't mentioned anything about wanting to be babysat, wanting a prop for instagram, etc. And many locals are often eager to meet tourists, specially in less vi
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
And furthermore, the two skills depend on each other. If you can't keep your balance, keeping your feet in the pedals means falling down and not getting back up right away (as you also have to learn how to quickly get your feet off the
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
It's an useful technique and I've already used it many times, but what do you do if there isn't enough genuine positive feedback for you to give to the person to make the constructive feedback more palatable? I find it to be
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
Another point, I think way too many people confuse "you should give clear feedback that shows you're judging your subordinate's work, not their worth as a person" with "you should sugar-coat feedback so you don&#x27
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
Trust alone isn't enough to make a cryptic message not cryptic. I can 100% trust someone, but still be scared when they send cryptic messages like that. With a cryptic message, you won`t be able to predict what they are going to say, a
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
The seeds(known as pinhão) from Araucaria angustifolia are edible and tasty too, they're larger than pinoli and a common winter delicacy in the southern states of Brazil I wonder if there are others
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by Hayarotle 5y ago
> Eventually, the feminine gender prevailed, and all Romance reflexes of dies are feminine. I believe this might be a mistake, as "the day" in Spanish and Portuguese are masculine, and come from diem: "el día" and &qu

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