Zompist Bboard Again

It seems I’ve gotten some sort of respiratory infection. On the one hand, this sort of thing really sucks, especially if you’re immune-suppressed. On the other, the past few years I’ve gotten an infection like this, it was like it sort of pre-immunized me to whatever was going around when I did wan...

malloc wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:41 pmYou can forget about people abandoning tradition and learning true facts through Marxist literature once that happens.

Be careful not to oversell your point; I doubt there are many "true facts" which are only found in Marxism.

malloc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:00 pmArtificial intelligence with the ability to read and decode ancient languages clearly differs fundamentally from photography.

I think this is ennobling what the "Artificial intelligence" actually did just a little bit.

This is what I always hated about programming in Java -- conventional Java design standards greatly encourage boilerplate coding, to the point that you need to use a Java IDE* which automates much of the writing of boilerplate for you, as it otherwise becomes simply unmanageable. * And the only IDE...

rotting bones wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:58 amAll non-sentient machines are tools.

Well, someone has to say it: so are many sentient non-machines.

AIs are now being used to plan, script, and run entire events. Be afraid! Be very afraid!

My friend was wronged, and that wrong has been compounded seven times seven by society at large. There is no justice for him, and I am aggrieved. Bloody hell, that is awful. Meanwhile, I've just spent two weeks (slowly) recovering from an ME crash, and it looked like I was returning to normal, but ...

Another year's worth of funding for my job has been secured.

I'm writing a book on religion now, so I'm full of thoughts. :) I'll go out on a limb and tentatively hazard a speculative guess that the title of this book might possibly bear some resemblance to "The Religion Construction Kit". FWIW: Somewhere between atheist and agnostic, not sure which.

A user yesterday identified a major seemingly long-standing bug in console I/O for the first task started on the second core of the RP2040, which has since been fixed. Thing is, though, that I feel like an idiot for having not caught it myself, because it was such an obvious bug. Welcome to the won...

Here's something to make you reconsider; AI-generated images of cells:

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula ... f-inspire/

A few more at the reddit link. Perhaps some inspiration for very low-level biological conworlding???

Very sorry to hear that, Ares Land. I hope the nonsense all sorts itself out.

Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:43 pm I got a lot farther with a pretty important project today!

By a bizarre coincidence, so did I!

I think I might have some idea: |---------------|---------------|---------------|-----------------| left centre-left centre centre-right right <- nominally *|<-------------------- IRREDEEMABLY EVIL ----------------------->| <- actually * = acceptable in a very specific limited set of circumstances

A user yesterday identified a major seemingly long-standing bug in console I/O for the first task started on the second core of the RP2040, which has since been fixed. Thing is, though, that I feel like an idiot for having not caught it myself, because it was such an obvious bug. Welcome to the won...

I'd add /l r/ and possibly /w j/ to those consonants; maybe replace the palatals with postalveolars, but that's a matter of phonetics.

QFT. Are there any legitimate uses? To me, it seems as if bitcoin & co. are "money" with which you can buy illicit drugs, firearms and the like, or pay ransom That's the entire point: allowing people the freedom to trade in things they're not supposed to because The Government Won't L...

I'm really jealous of you being able to do all these things!

Picking up on what I posted in the Computer thread, as a result of a long drawn-out saga involving weird software behavior, I now have two online subscriptions to one and the same newspaper. I can use one of them perfectly fine, while the other is unusable; I can't even log in to it. At some time o...

Anyway, one of O'Toole's main ideas about Brexit is that it is mostly an assertion of a specifically English , as opposed to British or UK, nationalism, which sounds about right to me. Oh, very much so. It has nothing whatsoever to do with most kinds of Scottish nationalism, for example. I'm not a ...