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GoblinSlayer··on New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software
If you died, then complain.
GoblinSlayer··on Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
Can't they store that information encrypted? What analytics can be extracted from phone numbers? It's only good to sell on black market.
GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Now you say security isn't that much of a problem. And rust isn't going to help.

Also modern standard compliant (without adblock) browsers don't perform anywhere good.

GoblinSlayer··on 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
Then we'll have a lot of cheap RAM.
GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
Oh, you intended to disprove the supernatural assumption Λ≥1? Is it Chalmers who postulates it?
GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
Breakage is broken merger, which doesn't merge, i.e. results in distinguishable states. Correctly implemented merger must produce indistinguishable states. If the substrate tries to implement merger, but fails, then the substrate is broken and doesn't implement computation.

>Implementation requires >= 1.

No, you require computation to work on a broken substrate, and that's an inadequate requirement. It's agreeable that your requirement isn't met and computation can't work on a broken substrate, but this doesn't imply that computation can't work on a working substrate.

GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
If the substrate is unreliable and breaks, then computation isn't implemented after breakage, the computation is still implemented before breakage.

Do I understand it right that you claim that computer programs are nonportable if you assume Λ≥1? But computers have Λ<1, at least it's difficult to imagine something else.

GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
You hypothesize that a merger can fail when it's supposed to succeed? But the merger is a part of computation, so if it's required by computation, then it shouldn't fail, otherwise computation is not implemented.

Indistinguishability of merging states: π(x)=π(x’’)=q

Continuation during merge: δ(q,i)=δ(π(x),i)=δ(π(x’’),i)

GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
Instantaneous as in FTL?
GoblinSlayer··on The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)
>Its design is not based on executing best algorithms, but rather finding good enough solutions among many time constrained but interlinked signal cascades.

That's known as optimization algorithm, and genetic algorithm is known to produce good enough results fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna Computers are time constrained too and cut such corners just like humans.

> They do not experience time. They can check the clock.

Humans experience time because they check biological clock. And sometimes humans forget about time just fine, when they don't check the clock.

GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
FWIW C++ can do bound checks aka hardened STL. On the other hand google did riir some of their programs and removed bound checks there for speed, welcome to real world, so absence of bound checks is not a mistake, but an intended performance goal.
GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Can't you run servo apps in the browser? There's no compat in the reverse direction only.
GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
>and will be perpetually ignored in all discussions about cross-browser compatibility

If violence doesn't solve your problems, you use not enough violence.

Also if you don't implement web standards, it's doesn't mean that nothing works. Adblock and noscript break web standards, but people use them just fine, they actually make web work better.

>A massive project like that will have massive code complexity, which leads to enormous number of security holes.

Presumably much of that is in network protocols like heartbleed, which has little to do with something like html parsing or google fonts. Also this is in fact a reason for a new browser engine: Chrome and Firefox lost security, because no matter how much they fix, they still have holes.

>If you don't use Rust, then security would be so bad it's not even funny.

Proofs?

GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Does Servo still launch a herd of processes like Electron?
GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
There are more important things to work on like that overengineered bloatware regex.
GoblinSlayer··on June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more
Because webdevs are lazy and Electron works?
GoblinSlayer··on Hooray for the Sockets Interface
Unix sockets kinda already connect by name.
GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
My algorithm is at least to not predict it as not what it is. All ten atoms decay according to the formula above.
GoblinSlayer··on Netstrings (1997)
For this I made a tlv format, where string is encoded in byte prefixed chunks with length between 0 and 222 for final chunk and between 223 and 255 for intermediate chunks.
GoblinSlayer··on G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics
I think C# switch supports type matching.
GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
We can predict decay process as

sqrt(1-exp(-t/T))|1> + sqrt(exp(-t/T))|0>

GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
The trick is that you can't predict something that doesn't happen even if you feel otherwise.
GoblinSlayer··on US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent
And health problems will pump money into big pharma.
GoblinSlayer··on US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent
It's just names, might as well call it humpty dumpty time. Local time is defined by offset from UTC.
GoblinSlayer··on US House of Representatives takes step to make daylight saving time permanent
Every division of society should just use its own schedule, then the number of divisions doesn't matter.
GoblinSlayer··on How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction
That's what commoncrawl does.
GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
Since the decayed state exists, then any. Your question tries to assume sqrt(exp(-t/T))=0, which is false.
GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
> we do not need a complete, finalized theory of consciousness to assess AI sentience

Erm... this can't possibly work, can it?

GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
The decayed state exists, it's the second term sqrt(exp(-t/T))|0>
GoblinSlayer··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
Observable effectiveness can be demonstrated statistically. The only option I see is if it's unobservably ineffective, which can't be ruled out experimentally.
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