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Blood sugar affects mood. A person's decision-making can be affected by mood. Judges make decisions. Seems pretty common sense to me.

It may not change guilty/not-guilty verdicts but it's easy to believe that perhaps it would affect milder differences.

Is it implied anywhere? That's a feature I'd love and also why I haven't bothered delving into LLMs very much; I didn't know there were any that could locally index your library and train on that data. I'd love to ask it a question and have it reference my local ebook library.

I thought the same being that you have to have a license just to fly a drone in the US, as long as it's non-recreational, of course.

They do have some computer-based mags in their huge database [0]. It's nice to see them still doing their thing, it's an incredible project and goes back decades. I used to scan for them almost fifteen years ago; just the website itself makes me feel nostalgic now, let alone the gaming mags.

0: https://www.retromags.com/magazines/

If we're allowed to use computing analogies here, would it be fair to say the old model is more like how we view a standard CPU and the new model is more like a FPGA? Where the old model viewed genes in a more classic reductionist approach as CPUs, arranged and static logic waiting for input from the environment and impressing on the environment in such a deterministic way. While the newer model analogy, genes act as an FPGA, an array of gates with potential to adapt to input imposed upon them with this bi-directional synchronicity of environment impressing on genes and genes therefore impressing on environment?

It seems as fields mature we move further away from classic reductionism and encompass more a holistic approach, a path gravitating towards objectivity which I find interesting from a philosophical perspective.

Ah, 2012, not surprised. Ad-served malware seemed more common in those days. Even in the early days of reddit, it had an episode where one of their third-party ads infected users. I don't recall it being very malicious but it definitely made me button down on my defense of ad-blockers.

>Please don’t try to print it.

Sounds like a print bomb waiting to happen. Last time I had a printer it was next to impossible to cancel a print job on Windows. Back when people had wifi printers that were open or ill-secured, those were fun times.

That's such a naive take and insulting to those who haven't encountered any believable gods. You're implying those without religious beliefs are holding society together when it's proven that in nature that even birds have a sense of fairness. Even without belief in gods, birds will 'take note' when other birds receive food non-proportionately[0]. That's not even mentioning how religion has been used in the past to tear societies apart as well as individuals. Once again, I get tired of having to defend secularism from this special snowflake-ism, virtue-signalling and self-righteousness that pervades the religious mindset. You do things animals do, be careful in thinking you're much better than we are.

0: https://www.oipa.org/international/animals-sense-of-fairness

That is just genius. NASA is wasting all this money on engineers when they could just ask HN.

Theism tends to be the default in general society so by nature, it is a more congealed group vs the rest. And when we use taxonomy to classify groups, casually in this case and by will of the group, we naturally define a commonality. Having "beef" with a defined group is more sensible than having "beef" with some nebulous other so no, I don't consider your assertions true that these are the same "beefs", if that's what you're implying.

In the case you pointed out, the only thing those atheists had in common with other atheists then and now, in general, is just a name. There is no shared doctrine(s), it is defined by a lack of. I'd argue the converse, that it is much harder to be of toxic nature when your whole belief system, or lack thereof, is defined by a lacking as opposed to the what can be the insistence of the ones who posit beliefs.

And instead there's people coming together under other banners. And just because people don't come together isn't necessarily a bad thing. Unity as a society creates tyranny for those who don't follow. Dis-unity of society creates freedom for those who are happily different, more agility to think more freely and go more freely.

You want it one way but many others are happy with what you don't like.

"the decree". There is no single decree in atheism, that was my point. By definition it's many nebulous people with nebulous beliefs in many different places.

I think you missed my point. Many religious people would say that their religion provides agency for them and you can't deny it, in itself, isn't an agent of forces, for better or worse.

It sounds like the lack of toxicity of your religious ones there is on par with the lack of toxicity of non-religious there. Here in the US, religious toxicity seems to have increased non-religious toxicity. I suspect that's the case.

That's a nice hypothesis but it breaks down when you historically look at just how many people were killed in the name of religiuos jihads, crusades, witch trials (including all the individual people killed for rather benign reasons but against religious doctrine). The religious are just as guilty of using fear to kill others.

I will give you that there are surely some who can say fear of gods kept them from killing but in fairness surely there are some who were set free from those gods and realized they didn't have to persecute others just because a religious doctrine says, even if their sympathies said otherwise to the doctrine.

That take assumes there's some sort of religious vacuum, that if they don't worship a god then those desires will go into worshiping other things. It's naive in assuming their lack of desire to worship someone or something is a lie. There are many who actually feel no need to worship anything powerful and even some of them assume the powerful are doing well enough to not need worshiped.

None of those were done under the decree of atheism. There was no atheist doctrine giving them authority so you can't blame atheism.

Religious apologists have used this excuse for ages to try to invalidate those who criticize it but it's a really naive take to say that religion has no manipulative influence on people whatsoever. And in a different conversation, the religious are generally sure to admit that it has had manipulative influence on them.

Yes. Humans, just like information, are prone to bitrot. Every day your data is rotting, there's no stopping the entropy train, so most anyone who cares about it takes preventative measures by increasing redundancy. Man does this via procreation and perpetuating, hopefully, to other planets while Earth is habitable. Extreme stagnation is a form of degeneration as well as extreme change for change's sake.

Good luck getting off this earth without industry. Earth won't last forever. It's a degenerate mindset that thinks we should just rot here on Earth without advancing.

Is there a Kaczynski equivalent to Godwin's Law? HN likes to reference him a lot.

Anyone remember the Beos song[1]? Legit good.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6mEZ84liW8

Or you could get an r36s for less price which has a bit more power to handle some PSP, Dreamcast and N64 games. I honestly can't review it yet because it's still in delivery but /r/SBCGaming sold me on it.

If you want a much more refined version of the original GB tetris, check out the rosy retrospective mod: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5813

I'd argue that if we want to support individual growth and creativity, freedom-to should have higher priority than freedom-from, which consciously or not has seems to be the traditional default in the US perhaps due to its culture of supporting innovation and its break-away past. I believe some refer to these as positive and negative freedoms, respectfully.

At the same time with taxonomy, we're basically lossy encoding the information and so data is lost or glossed over. IE, white walls aren't exactly white, there's other color information there but it's easier for our brains to encode. Creating lines, borders and categories is a lossy function and if objective truth is to be obtained, it's important to retain as much of it as possible while we can also be intellectually honest about our needs for such distinctions.

>Also there were claims starting in the 50s where planarians were taught a maze or to respond to certain stimuli and then fed to other planarians and that the trait would sometimes transfer as well

So superpowers were transferred when ate? Kirby devs were on to something.

Audio buzz emulation has been done already with a Gameboy emulator and from what I could recall when trying it, it was pretty dead-on. I wished I could remember which one it was but indeed, it's a rarity that emulators emulate some of the more esoteric, some might say 'unwanted', faults of the system.

You can paint a hole in the side of mountains and fool roadrunners into running in(to) them, then perhaps feast on the fruits of your labor. Or paint holes in the ground to fool your nemesis'. Though if Looney Tunes taught me anything, it's that it only works when you don't want it to work.

After trying Linux on and off for 20 years, only to go back to Windows after a day or so, I feel it's finally usable enough that I ditched Windows a few months ago after using it for 25 years. Linux has come a long way and I'd argue it's much more usable than XP now.