ordu

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by ordu 3d ago
> It’s called ud2 because the 0F FF variant was retroactively named ud0, and the 0F B9 variant was retroactively named ud1, leaving ud2 as the recommended undefined opcode. It was a surprise for me as a reader. When I came to this sent
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by ordu 20d ago
> The only people for whom his asssertion "we believe they [that is, other living beings] are conscious when and because we care about them" is true are the kind of people who don't truly see other people as conscious be
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by ordu 21d ago
> That's just utterly and completely backwards. Yes, he says exactly that explicitly, that in his view we should look backwards. > We (at least, most people) avoid inflicting unnecessary pain on animals because they are consci
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by ordu 24d ago
I don't use TUI when I can avoid it. I happily use CLI apps, or GUI apps, but TUIs are not here, not there. They lose all the appeal of CLI apps, while getting some weird text interface instead of a polished GUI library and all the pos
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by ordu 1mo ago
> Being snarky doesn't really help your position. Pity. I laid great hopes on that particular phrase.
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by ordu 1mo ago
> I don't know what you really mean by "cancelling" It surprises me, that you don't know. But if you wanted to know you'd ask LLM, not me, right? So I'd rather spare myself from explaining it. > I thin
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by ordu 1mo ago
> Public shaming... People already tried to cancel others because they didn't agree with them. Eventually the most of people came to a conclusion that it is no good. I think at least that the most did just that. So I'm propos
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by ordu 1mo ago
So... Pin should be defined as Pin<T: !Move>?
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by ordu 1mo ago
> If instead the transaction is a must-move type, you would get a compiler error if you fail to call exactly one of either commit or rollback Can you elaborate how it may work? I mean if I create a function: fn fail_silently(txn: Transac
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by ordu 1mo ago
I don't see why it may fail to integrate. Declare Pin as !Move and... thats all? I mean, there will be issues, edge-cases because it is just how these things happen, but still I don't see any fundamental issues with continuing to
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by ordu 2mo ago
Wow, thank you. I'd love to learn what others are capable to come up with starting with these premises.
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by ordu 2mo ago
Hmm... The Reality changed itself when guys in Siberia changed the sensor? Some years ago I was playing with the idea that the Reality might invent new laws when people look for them, and doesn't bother with laws when no one observes t
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by ordu 2mo ago
I believe it is a Lisp related story, not some general truth. I mean, if I had a hashtable that needs to be mutated asynchronously, I'd probably create a single writer to it. Some entity that takes ownership of a hashtable and you can
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by ordu 2mo ago
> You entire thesis was that one party to the argument is stupid. It is your interpretation of it. My proposed explanation for their behavior is not stupidity, but dogmatism of their worldview. > I am obviously not on any one side
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by ordu 2mo ago
> This resolved the most basic liar paradox, but not every diagonal attack, since not all functions on [0, 1] have fixed points. To make this work in general, we can for example allow only continuous functions on [0, 1] (which always ha
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by ordu 2mo ago
> argue rationally. Argue rationally about what? I invite you to stop for a moment, reread our converstaion while asking a question: what about are we supposedly arguing. There was no rational arguments, you've changed topic from
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by ordu 2mo ago
No one forced them to become gynecologists.
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by ordu 2mo ago
> The pro-lifers don't have a monopoly on stupid people Tu quoque [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque_defense
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by ordu 2mo ago
It is a temporary solution. Events of these kind tend to escalate up to a obligatory VPN for just using Internet, and beyond that to VPNs that resist blocking, like amnezia-wg, xray and suchlike. You see, they block, then they notice that b
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by ordu 2mo ago
> If access is not easy, there needs to be a different solution. The only way is to make access easy. If you make it hard, then demand for black market drugs will drive supply. Which in turn would drive a repressive machine. Sites bloc
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by ordu 2mo ago
> Both options are free of charge and free of judgement, especially the latter. Maybe they are free of charge, idk, but they doesn't seem to be free of judgement. From the article: Even if an abortion seeker is within the 12 week
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by ordu 2mo ago
"we cannot be certain that the subjective experience which they [digital minds] may be having is like what we imagine it to be like" It is even more interesting: we cannot be certain that other people have the subjective experienc
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by ordu 2mo ago
> I did not say spending money on science is a waste of money. This research is science, you've said it is waste of money,... well, I see now, that it is not the same as "science is waste of money", you argue that this p
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by ordu 2mo ago
Science give us knowledge rooted in hard evidence, science give us models that can be reused as is or used to refine other models. The article mentions how hard it is to monitor atmosphere at 60-80km because it is too high for weather ballo
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by ordu 2mo ago
There is a general wisdom: if you invoke "the ends justify the means" you have crossed the border to the Dark Side. I'm not going to explain my full understanding of this piece of wisdom, it would be a wall of text, I want ju
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by ordu 2mo ago
> I can't prove, but strongly suspect that this is the case. I think you can benefit from reading Franz de Waal works. He was a primatologist and he had a similar ideas. Though according to him intelligence was (is) not just a usele
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by ordu 2mo ago
I've read that wikipedia article, and I got the impression that to say that birth control just wasn't as effective is an understatement. One more my finding: the idea of planning your family is relatively modern: Malthusians promo
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by ordu 2mo ago
I think that these victims are paid by the likes of Google to create a precedent. It is unbelievable stupid scheme to fall to.
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by ordu 2mo ago
> There's absolutely no evidence of that on the article. If you treat evidence as in the law of excluded middle, then yes. But if you are ready for a probabilistic evidence, then the article is a piece of evidence. It chains Fermi
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by ordu 2mo ago
> Don't forget this is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness Technically, it is just a text editor. It was created to be a text editor, so you are right, but up to a point. Emacs is written in lisp,

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