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esikich

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    Comment #49253081

    just add a flag to the OS What a fucking stupid, impossible, idea. Like, explain to me how you think this could be done meaningfully other than some setting that can just be arbitr…

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    Comment #49244608

    Yeah there's nothing like that sweet hour of zen decompressing while fighting my way through rush hour traffic.

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    Comment #49237507

    Unless it's -40F, modern cars don't need to "warm up".

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    Comment #49217883

    Right, that's on the prompter being ok with that. It does what you tell it to do. I don't understand how you dorks on this site are so obtuse about this shit. Give it examples of w…

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    Comment #49217877

    Lol why, this is just silly

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    Comment #49217874

    Right, because of the person promoting it.

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    Comment #49205567

    This is just a problem of articulating what you want. Most people can't write for shit, I'm sorry. Because they maybe took one writing class in college. It's a skill in it's own. L…

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    Comment #49205414

    It's highly filtered, you are only getting a small slice of all of the wavelengths. Only a tiny fraction of all that energy hits the photo collector. I believe the collector is als…

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    Comment #49201809

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49192828

    Virtualization uses standard rack mount servers, crypto does not. The machinery they use are completely different.

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    Comment #49192820

    You can't without making an effort to reduce your dependence on it. The most anti DC people I see are chronically online blasting their shit all over social media. Typically influe…

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    Comment #49192780

    A traditional colo DC isn't running super power dense GPUs and doesn't use water cooling. These exist in whatever city you live in and no one knows where they are because there is …

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    Comment #49151483

    You might like this. Maybe math is existence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

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    Comment #49146434

    These discussions are older than computers. I suggest you take a beginner level philosophy course.

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    Comment #49132655

    I think the question there is how do you make test actually test? Allowing them to break their test env so they can actually fix something they broke, imo. It's enabling and it's e…

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    Comment #49132491

    What gives the intention and ability to the human?

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    Comment #49132456

    Obviously. I'm talking about waiting for the elevator for 30 seconds, total trip is 2 minutes vs 1 minute 30 sec wait and total trip is 1m45s.

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    Comment #49132304

    Your brain also is physical. Electrochemical gradients flow between physical molecular constructs. Isn't it just chemistry? Do you attribute it to physics or some whole-is-greater-…

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    Comment #49132217

    How often are you testing those backups? What kind of monitoring do you have? Do you pay attention to it? Skip any of those and it's just a prayer.

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    Comment #49132019

    Even the 5 senses are arbitrary. Sensing where your body is positioned, where it's boundaries are, whatever tickling is, whatever itchy is, whatever sour is, whatever salty is, gre…

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    Comment #49131961

    You've just described Mary's Room - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument

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    Comment #49131937

    Tell me why only human brains are capable of whatever thought, conscious, or experience is (if you can define them) and I'll congratulate you on solving the hard problem of conscio…

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    Comment #49131917

    "Philosophy is an intrinsically human thing. It has to be." What is philosophy? Thinking? Reasoning? Thinking about thinking? You're asserting that only a human brain can think and…

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    Comment #49131038

    I think I might. In a past life I was a full time musician and had tons of time to kill. I was able to just go to places and simply exist. It wasn't to read or work or write or mee…

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    Comment #49130858

    And our nerves are a series of electrochemical impulses. There are nerves that do optical processing before it hits the brain. It's not obvious, and that's what's frustrating aroun…