pavas

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by pavas 5mo ago
Ah, "status quo", that's a Latin phrase! I'm particularly fond of "carpe diem": seize the carp!
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by pavas 5mo ago
I donno for me life's just good. I'm living that Asterix lifestyle lol.
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by pavas 5mo ago
Chill out brother. Life's good.
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by pavas 5mo ago
Turns out to be a grounding issue--it reliably does/doesn't do it depending on location.
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by pavas 5mo ago
Yes after more investigation this seems to be it--the clue was that it doesn't do it in all locations.
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by pavas 5mo ago
The same thing happened in the Apple store I went to visit. Devices tend to zap you when you touch them. Maybe the problem is localized to certain regions?
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by pavas 5mo ago
Ah yes it is a 2 pin...ungrounded. Is there a way I can ground myself/and-or my laptop? I just had achilles tendon surgery so I can't really touch grass, so to speak proverbially (or literally?).
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by pavas 5mo ago
Yes its relatively dry. I had a humidifier but the fuse blew so I'm kinda stuck with what I've got. Is there any other way to dissipate charge in dry climates than humidity?
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by pavas 5mo ago
Yes exactly! That's how it started, but now it happens even when its not charging...and for my phones too. Maybe it's just a change in my perception, like what was subliminal before is becoming liminal now because I learned to pay
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by pavas 5mo ago
It used to only happen when I had it plugged in, initially when I took my MacBook to Romania a few years ago and plugged it into the power grid there, they use a different frequency and I had to use an adaptor. But then it started happening
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Why is my MacBook zapping me lately?
2 points by pavas 5mo ago|13 comments
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by pavas 5mo ago
No shit sherlock.
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Reddit content moderation is broken(old.reddit.com)
1 points by pavas 5mo ago|2 comments
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by pavas 5mo ago
I am a reddit power user from way back in the day (2006), with multiple accounts. Today I tried to make a few light banter comments and all of them got blocked by auto-moderators with insane rules. What is going on at reddit? Speaking as a
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by pavas 6mo ago
> I think it's just one of the bugs in our genetic code that evolution didn't shake out. I say that not as a biologist or anyone who has done any work in the field. I'm just curious, do you know what the opinions about thi
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by pavas 10mo ago
Yep that's a cogent, serious stance, and it sounds a lot like illusionism (famously argued by Daniel Dennett) or functionalism if you ever wanted to check out more about it. It’s a serious stance, but the really interesting thing to me
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by pavas 10mo ago
Yeah that pretty much seems to be it. > then isn't the experience just of "a surface attribute, of given spatial extent". I don't know why this seems to be so hard for me to think about and even put into words, but is
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by pavas 10mo ago
I'm actually curious here, because maybe our experiences are different. When you look at something red, before any associations or thoughts kick in, before you start thinking "this reminds me of fire" or analyzing it, is ther
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by pavas 10mo ago
> It seems entirely possible that the "philosophical zombie" is an impossible/illogical construct, and that in fact anything with all the structure necessary for consciousness will of necessity be conscious. Yes, and that&
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by pavas 10mo ago
> As noted, consciousness seems to just be the ability to self-observe, which is useful as another predictive input. As far as I know, consciousness is referring to something other than self-referential systems, especially with regards t
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by pavas 3y ago
It's the sound your passengers make, which is a joke.
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by pavas 3y ago
I've been in Europe for almost 2 months now and started seeing the GDPR banners a lot more often. I've yet to feel like I'm missing anything by either clicking reject all, or by avoiding the site if I can't reject all no
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by pavas 3y ago
> Once you have worked a while in business or marketing, you will see that it's not that easy unfortunately Nobody is forcing anybody to do this, this is a personal and business decision to make more money at the expense of users&#x
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by pavas 3y ago
It's both (though I would lean towards lost for a majority of them). It's also true that the longer the outage, the greater the impact, and you have to take into account knock-on effects such as loss of customer trust. Since these
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by pavas 3y ago
My team's systems play a critical role for several $100M of sales per day, such that if our systems go down for long enough, these sales will be lost. Long enough means at least several hours and in this time frame we can get things ba
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by pavas 4y ago
Agreed. Cause I trained it not to.
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by pavas 4y ago
You're talking about the dog not minding being in the crate since you've taught them its nice and cozy. In that case why does it have to be a crate, why not say, an indoor doghouse? As far as that goes, there's nothing wrong
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by pavas 4y ago
A salaried role is paid the same regardless of how long one works. A rationally run business should care about what's produced, not the amount of labor-hours it takes to produce it. Developer productivity varies wildly, so in a fair la
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by pavas 4y ago
Socratic dialogue, where everyone is intent on building up a shared truth. Socrates talks about these two different ways of engaging in dialogue in Plato's works.
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by pavas 4y ago
What are your thoughts on marriage between people of who one is infertile?

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