Very cool, fun idea. For the time travelling and debugging purposes, one could conceivably run a POSIX path system on top of an in-memory object store such as RocksDB and get fast, persistent snapshots as well!
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Then, unfortunately, you must compartmentalise, wear a mask, whatever that makes shurikens endlessly fascinating for you until you (make money to) get your ship fixed. Then set sail, and cast away the mask.
V’z fbeel V cbfgrq zber naq gura qryrgrq vg, V ernyvmrq gung guvf jnf n choyvp sbehz naq V nz cnenabvq nobhg cevinpl. Cyrnfr rznvy zr ng zl yj unaqyr ng tznvy, V’yy or unccl gb nafjre nal dhrfgvbaf lbh unir.
V’z fbeel V cbfgrq zber naq gura qryrgrq vg, V ernyvmrq gung guvf jnf n choyvp sbehz naq V nz cnenabvq nobhg cevinpl. Cyrnfr rznvy zr ng zl yj unaqyr ng tznvy, V’yy or unccl gb nafjre nal dhrfgvbaf lbh unir.
Vs V nz ubarfg, gura, V zhfg nqzvg gung gur cenpgvpr vf pbzzba va fbhgu Vaqvn, va gur fznyy gbja naq ivyyntrf. Pbzr penpx bs qnja lbh’yy svaq jbzra fjrrcvat naq jngrevat gur ragenaprf gb gur gurve ubzrf :) Ner lbh jevgvat na rffnl nobhg fbhgu Vaqvn? Gur fnaqrq sybbef naq gur juvgrjnfurq jnyyf ner nyfb erzvaqref bs gur fnzr guvat.
For #2 Fcevaxyvat jngre ba gur tebhaq gb xrrc vg sebz envfvat qhfg?
Similarly, and this should be scary to anyone who cares about epistemic rationality, suppose you have various false beliefs and you decide that those beliefs are so important to your identity that people who don’t also believe them can’t possibly love you the way you are, so you only surround yourself with people who agree with them..
Sure, in such a case, I’ve optimized for my own ‘social harmony’. We all do this to varying degrees anyway. Signalling, sub-cultures and all that blah. Note that the quote simply speaks of a process (selection) to maximize an end (social harmony, however that is defined). It doesn’t say anything about whether such selection should be for false or true values (however these are defined).
I think I parsed that quote less along the lines of ‘dude, you hardly know any math and so I won’t love you’ and more along the lines of ‘dude, you seem to have the same taste for movies and music and we can have a conversation—I love (hanging out with) you’.
The former has an objective measure and thus one can speak of definite growth while the latter is subjective.
I suppose it does, in as objective a measure something like ‘harmony’ is.
I enjoy your posts, and I have been a consumer of your G+ posts and your blog for sometime now, even though I don’t much comment and just lurk about. While I would want some sort of syndication of your stuff, I am wondering if an external expectation of having to meet the monthly compilation target or the fact that you know for sure that there is a definite large audience for your posts now, will affect the quality of your posts? I realize that there is likely not any answer possible for this beforehand, but I’d like to know if you’ve considered this.
I enjoy your posts, and I have been a consumer of your G+ posts and your blog for sometime now, even though I don’t much comment and just lurk about. While I would want some sort of syndication of your stuff, I am wondering if an external expectation of having to meet the monthly compilation target or the fact that you know for sure that there is a definite large audience for your posts now, will affect the quality of your posts? I realize that there is likely not any answer possible for this beforehand, but I’d like to know if you’ve considered this.
Selection is the key to social harmony. Surround yourself with true friends who love you just as you are. If you don’t see any around, quest for them.
Most of the comments on this thread are about people who seem to find this useful or think that this will make a difference positively. While I think the idea interesting, and would like to try it out, I am one of those who don’t seem to like really bright lighting. In fact, at work, I’ve had some of the overhead lights removed to make it generally less bright ambiently. I tend to suffer from eyestrain or seem to get a headache, though now that I think about it, I am not sure if this was because the over head lights were reflecting badly off of my computer screen or not.
Anyway, I’d like to get the opinions of and comments from people who generally turn off lights at work (such that the ambient light source is behind the monitor) , and likewise, even better if they have tried this out.
Makes sense, thank you for the elaboration.
At this point I would like to make the comparison to flow charts and their interpreters (us), but even in this case, when we look at a flowchart (with the purpose of implementing something) we mentally substitute the boxes and flows with the code/libraries/interfaces for them. Then following this thought, if we had a compiler that could do the same when fed a diagram ie. parse it to generate the appropriate code, we’d be getting somewhere, I suppose. But as it stands I see why a diagram might not be enough to formally encapsulate all the data and state needed for execution.
OrphanWilde’s assertion was mostly meaningless and given without substantiation/clarification
I agree.
your reply engaged it on object level instead of pointing that out (or silently downvoting), sustaining a flawed mode of discussion.
Can you elaborate what you mean by ‘object level’?
Also, I am kind of perplexed here—you don’t approve of my deciding to react to a seemingly vague statement, which was made with the intent of getting OrphanWilde to perhaps clarify himself? I realize that I phrased my reply badly, starting with a negation was counter productive, but still.
Let me clarify here, I do not care so much about the down vote, as much as I do about being engaged in a conversation.
Fair enough.
Really? I think, after staring at it for some time, that the comic is making fun of the thinking that maths is a young man’s game.
I know, and I’ve read too, that Hardy was apparently not in the pink when he said this. And in all honesty the comic seems to be making fun of the conception that maths was for the young.
Does a link to a comic have a place in this forum? I don’t know the answer to that, perhaps it is not. That said, my comment was more a reaction to other down votes, this just happened to be the straw I was commenting on.
There seems to be a general variance in what pulse oximeters display when measuring healthy individuals with readings from 94% − 100%. I also seem to remember reading that they are sensitive to altitude, whether hands are cold etc (n.b typing on phone, can’t verify at the mo)
Talking to a doctor friend—in clinical settings if an oximeter shows a reading < 90%, it’s considered serious, but different people respond differently, but closely enough for the purposes of this discussion to fall into two groups. Either you develop a shortness of breath by the time its at 92%, for eg., and you have to go an ER anyway. Or you feel fine, but have less than 90% reading and you’ll end up going to the ER (because you’ve looked at the range of normal measurements)
If the suggestion of use of the pulse oximeter is supposed to be a diagnostic about whether you need to go to the ER or not (and thus avoid picking something up at the hospital), it doesn’t seem to help? It also doesn’t tell you anything specific to Covid-19, I mean, you could be short of breath for a variety of reaons (note: short of breath sustained for many minutes, not the kind where you are panting after climbing stairs for eg.)