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Chicago School jerks got their way in the '70s and we effectively decided to stop doing that. This was the first notable fruit yielded by the postwar pro-rich/business "think tank"…

Do I think supernatural things like thoughts not being represented in physical reality exist? I defer to Russell's Teapot on this one and lean toward "no". If they do, then attempt…

Possibly metaphysical naturalism is wrong and supernatural things exist! And maybe thoughts (and/or the experience of consciousness) are among those supernatural things. That could…

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Yes, brains apparently can do consciousness. Can descriptions of brains do consciousness? I don't know why we'd expect that they could. You can describe a fire in all the detail yo…

> Would you say that displaying image of something on a screen qualifies as actually happening? Yeah, of course. What I'm addressing is "if we turn 100% of everything about neurons…

"Resolution" has nothing whatsoever to do with it. No amount of scribbling graphite onto paper will produce a butterfly.

Computing something isn’t the same thing as it actually happening.

You can add everything and commit all at once in git, so you’re technically using staging but it doesn’t feel like it. I stopped using it the first time I committed something I did…

“Yo, this violates your rules” and then twitter sometimes going “yep, true, we’ll do something” and sometimes “nah” is pretty low on my list of concerns, yeah. Then again I also do…

I once spent an hour or so tracking down and reading parts of the twitter files specifically highlighted by people loudly complaining about them (as I figured those would be the wo…

It shouldn't . But under this Supreme Court it might. Corporations are creations of the state and treating them as strictly private, especially when they're trampling rights, is il…

Same, I can't pass any test that relies on getting syntax correct. If you want me to fizzbuzz on a whiteboard in a language I've been writing dozens or more of lines of per day for…

> this still wasn't perfect and a lot of new users did think their documents were in programs, which might be why we gave that up To this day there exist office workers—ones old en…

Not even joking that the main benefit I've seen from "AI" for editing code is that it lets me quickly do all the things I could already have been doing just as quickly if I'd ever …

Just title it "draft". Odds are nobody will look at it anyway. Add a pre-commit hook to re-create the diagrams on every commit (in case anything changed, of course), that way you c…

To save folks the search, these both sell ~$300 sunglasses. They show action shots of people wearing them kayaking or at the beach but I'd be so worried about dropping them in the …

There's really no end to dot-language diagrams you can have it make. Call graphs, package dependency maps, let it try to figure out an architecture diagram, whatever.

I notice a lot of Cursor's suggestions are just stuff a linter should auto-fix. But if you hit "tab" it'll claim that as an AI-edited line, LOL. (A lot of the rest of it is stuff I…

It’s a business decision, but one of the options won’t move enough units to keep Wal-Mart and Target and Costco and Best Buy using shelf space for your product, and the other might…

I haven't had any insight into the industry lately, but did work for a company in that space several years ago. Most (all?) ordinary TVs, plus things like Roku streaming devices, a…

I had a subscription for a couple years, and grabbed a bunch more between sale-priced single issues on their site and eBay. We've got a couple stacks of them, maybe 20ish issues to…

Can confirm, that kind of thing (murder that the jury decide was OK because they had it coming, or a town collectively deciding and sticking to “we didn’t see nothin’” so a prosecu…

Beware that there exist people who will cut you out of their lives—professional, personal, whatever—completely, likely with no warning, and possibly loudly, publicly, and with-rece…

> You buy a share of stock and participate in their gains That is "literally not how it works", as you missed "... and losses". Since dividends aren't really a thing any more and g…