postultimate

The UK got the .gb domain because it's the correct country code. The .uk domain came about because it was in use on the Janet academic network, shortly before all the networks were smooshed together to make the internet. It was probably expected that everyone would eventually move to .gb, but nothing ever gets fixed in computing...

Brb, just writing a firefox plugin to do a p2p adverse optimization.

No subinterpreters in 3.11 ?

If we had those, all this async idiocy would go away, no more code colours, no more single-core, even better isolation and protection against context-switching tangles.

(the implementation not so nice though. Python threads on machine threads ? Whose stupid idea was that ?)

This one ?

https://archive.ph/0iu7V

> buying up government debt,

Can someone explain what this actually means ? Presumably it means that something that came from somewhere was exchanged for something else, but what exactly ?

The last 64 bits are derived from the MAC of the interface, which is quite a good idea (we probably won't see MAC exhausion because it's only two-level, and it's supposedly guaranteed unique). The stupidity lies eleswhere.

(Seriously. Just how fucking stupid do you have to be to replace a protocol whose addresses are too short, with one whose addresses are too short.)

Does 'blackhole' imply that Zayo accepted packets for delivery and then threw them away ? Because if UPS had done that, someone would have gone to prison.

So, who wants to crowdfund a tortitious interference suit against Zayo ?

Against government it wouldn't help much. But against mega-corporations, it could be quite effective. How do you pull the plug when the logical and physical topologies don't match ?

Would there be any merit in rebuilding the internet inside the exising one, using it only as transport ? Rebuilding all of it, including DNS ?

I've been doing this, except I have a bath. It finally dawned on me that heating water and leaving it to cool was exactly the way the house is normally heated, so it was costing me nothing to bath as long as I liked. I live there now.

Drag story hour is involving children in your fetish.

This one is stupid even by halfbakery standards.

So you're going to burn food in a 20% efficient process to heat food ? Rather than just burning the food directly at 90+% efficiency ?

> We don't know what qualia are

Actually, no. This is the one part of the problem we are clear on.

Since this is an adequate excuse to give a lecture, here we go:

Suppose I say "I am fat", and suppose you say of me "he is fat". In both of these sentences, the same thing is meant - an observation of the physical world was made, and excess lipids were detected. However, if I say "I am looking at a laptop", and you say "he is looking at a laptop", we don't mean the same thing. You mean that a particular physical state has been observed, with my eyeballs and brain directed laptopwards. Whereas what I mean...

...well, what I certainly don't mean is that I see any eyeballs, or brain. I don't observe any process of looking at all. I just look. What I mean by "I am looking" is completely different to what you mean by "he is looking" even though the two statements are formally similar.

In other words, there are two wildly different, incommensurable uses of the word "am". One of them has a corresponding "is", one of them does not.

So, getting back to qualia, there simply are no qualia. There are qualia that am, but as noted above, that doesn't imply that there are qualia that are.

We can go back to saying "geometrically", which was the previous term for multiplicative increase. It even has the advantage of being confusing when misused.

I believe you meant "Technical fora that are not dominated by insufferable pedants"

There's no such thing as "AGI for the sake of AGI itself". AGI is synthetic and its goals are synthetic, it doesn't want anything that you didn't tell/construct it to want.