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So they need something proven, scalable, highly concurrent, fault tolerant, and runs in a VM so it's not tied to hardware.

Sounds familiar.

I guess ya'll should just switch to erlang then with it's negative space internet explorer logo.

Ha! Gas station was the first thing that came to my mind, then car rental company.

Yeah, it would be nice if the API's were standardized and then every browser had an "App Mode".

ReactOS is meant to be a drop-in solution. Just install it over your existing Windows installation and keep using your machine like nothing has changed. That's the goal anyway.

I agree, I find the same of myself, and I beat myself up over any loss of concentration.

The solution might be a system where the driver drives at a higher level of abstraction, but ultimately still drives. Driving should be like declarative programming. For example, the driver still moves the steering wheel left and right, but the car handles the turn. Or when the driver hits the breaks, which is now more of a on/off switch, the car handles the breaking. The role for the driver is to remain engaged, indicating their intention at every moment and for the car to work out the details.

Edit: On second thought, that might end up being worse. I can think of situations where it might become ambiguous to the driver of what they are handling and what the car is handling. Maybe autopilot is all or nothing.

I do this for written articles that begin with https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22technology+has+become+...

I don't think that would help. Chinese is very heavy on homophones and the characters allow meaning differentiation. In spoken Chinese you have to rely on context. Written and spoken Chinese seem tightly coupled.

I think it's a little too early to call vaporware on Euclideon.

I check on them about twice a year and they are often experimenting with something new.

They have a VR entertainment center here in Australia you can visit called Holoverse.

They also released a web demo a while back which is no longer available, but here is a video of it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlR8AQuIQH4

It's interesting to see all the CPU cores at near 100% utilization and very little on the GPU.

Agile methodology applied to safety-critical systems engineering, god help us.

I wonder if their will be a resurgence of web directories.

When I can't find something useful through a search engine, I look for the most active subreddit in the topic area and check their wiki. They are often full of well-organized, curated content and FAQs built from years of newbie questions.

Example: r/fitness

My solution is to legally pay for ebooks and keep a [partial ;)] backup of each.

I like the little trivia that show up, although sometimes they disappear too quickly.

My favorite mentioned which Wikipedia article had the longest article name:

Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nannichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzukake_no_Ki_no_Michi_de_%22...)

The Oreo update was released one month ago for Zenfone 3, which is not bad given the Zenfone 5 is coming out soon.

I went into a Samsung store to look for a new phone for my partner and I was really surprised how sluggish all their phones felt, even the flagship models. I couldn't tell why it felt that way. Maybe it's the animations, or software bloat. The glass used on them seems to have a high friction, which contributed to the poor feeling. My partner currently uses an ASUS Zenfone 3 which is one of the snappiest phones I've ever used and it's a lower mid-range phone. I ended up buying her another one. ASUS are making some solid phones at the moment. Their ultra-books are nice as well.

Clean your room!

https://youtu.be/OoA4017M7WU

(Then rescue your father from the belly of the whale, roughly speaking)

Browser extension that restores functionality by end of the week?

(At least Bing has really good image search.)

It was from a conversation between two neuroscientists. They were talking about Nagel earlier in the discussion. I don’t know if Nagel came up with that definition though. Could you explain how the way I stated it is circular?

But the definition isn’t if it is like something for a human to be a bat. Human experience doesn’t really come into it.

It is like something to be a human. But the conscious experience of a bat (if it exists) may be completely alien to us in every way. That’s not relevant to what it is to be like a bat. The only important thing is if it is like something to be a bat.

That seems more like a definition for intelligence or learning.

My favourite definition for consciousness is the following:

If it is something to be like a particular thing, then that thing is conscious.

If it is something to be like a bat, then a bat is conscious. If it isn’t something to be like a bat - the “lights are off” so to speak - then it’s not conscious.

Edit: clarity

I recommend the latest episode of Sam Harris' podcast Waking Up. It's a 3 hour discussion about consciousness between him and Anil Seth, it's quite good and probably warrants multiple playbacks.

Pascal’s wager doesn’t apply in this case as Ray Peat believes cutting back on sugar is really bad for you.

He doesn’t just think all current experts are wrong, he seems to be one of those rebel doctors who will specifically claim the opposite of any currently accepted fact regarding health and nutrition.

Ray Peat is a quack. cowseatgrass is based on his work.

This is interesting. I’m no business strategist but I feel like this is the wrong move on Googles part. It would have been a fine tactic against pretty much any other company. But Amazon is probably the one company with the infrastructure (and will to expand/diversify) to create its own video hosting service and be competitive.

It’s not just about food though, is it? Being able to grow plants on mars is, I would have thought, an important step for terraforming.

Also, if we work out which plants kinda work, we might be able to isolate the genes that improve survival and add them to other plants.

Has anyone low in conscientiousness had any success with GTD? It seems to me like this system is amazing for people who are already very conscientious but not well organised.

Another impressive system for mental arithmetic is the Trachtenberg System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system

This could be a data mining wet dream. They have found a way to make filling out surveys addictive. It seems all you had to do was present it in a fun way and make sure the surveys are about other people. I wouldn't be surprised if the questions start shifting towards things that could be used to market to people. Imagine if all of John Smiths friends say he is "Most likely to skip work to play a videogame". It wouldn't matter if John had ever mentioned video games on his profile.