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Define "conscious" to arbitrarily include or exclude various depths of perception/cognition. It's like declaring the existence of a "soul" to draw a line between humans and lesser …

Reading for intent is pragmatic. Reading adversarially is what people do who are looking for ways that something can be abused, from an offensive or defensive position. Personally …

We know. This is not news.

Users of MacOS rarely have an active dislike for Windows, nor are they likely to announce this.

this is backwards. advertisers WILL pay you money for your eye balls. legitimate senders will not because it's insulting to ask them for money. this is like dating vs prostitution.…

Never admit when someone else is right. They'll forget they were right and begin to think they won a fight. Or something. You're right.

Hm... Why? Ah! Because you are also a tortoise

People aren't talking about AutoCAD, but things such as Autodesk Inventor, AD Fusion 360, ...

The reason being that Open Source is a bunch of people who approach EVERYTHING as a programming problem, and they are chronically allergic to graphics, graphical UIs, and any kind …

Autodesk should have started their own ECAD from scratch. They have mountains of CAD know-how in house. Their acquisition of EAGLE did nobody any favors. I am not sad to see it go.…

The history of FreeCAD proves that UI/UX is the hard part.

I am not trained to be a mechanical engineer. I wanted to explore 3D printing. The usual suspects (FOSS missionaries with a deep-rooted hotly burning hate for capitalism) gave me O…

Age has an effect, no matter if it's software or electronics. These types learned their trade once, some decades ago, and keep driving like that. If you want old dogs to learn new …

Where I studied, they reduced that, at least the workload and class time, in favor of more math and informatics. Definitely no ALU design on the curriculum, no interfacing or busse…

Someone with a physics background might be better prepared for the analog world than someone with a digital background.

I wouldn't even rate this "pasta". It's word salad, no carbs, no proteins.

I asked Gemini 3 flash/fast. It didn't fall for the trap. When I revealed this to be a meme doing the rounds on the internet, it admitted knowledge of this: > The "Car Wash Test" h…

I don't speak Polish. Does it respond appropriately to the kurwa bober meme?

North America. It's such a cramped little island, 50 meters is all but crossing it. You should be glad you can even go that far without having to revisit your starting position! 50…

That's a real danger, yes. If it's the reasoning kind, then it'll run through one iteration in the background before it composes its emissions for the meatbag.

Absolutely! I've been wondering for years how to make whatever LLM ask me stuff instead of just filling holes with assumptions and sprinting off. User-configurable agent instructio…

>bury the *survivors* I did not catch that in the first pass. I read it as the casualties, who would be buried wherever the next of kin or the will says they should.