You’re certainly not wrong! To me, it seems that consciousness is just what it is to be the kind of machines that we are, and also why sentience/consciousness is so impossible for the sort of synthetic 'AI’s we have that currently exist. But how could we ever really tell? Hard to know what evidence would ever be convincing either way!

Truly the strangest epiphenomenon we’re all aware of

moderating more than five subreddits with 100,000 monthly visitors.

I mean, that’s clearly a rule that considers size of sub a factor, so, um, what?

I’m not even sure which elements of this are bait, sarcasm, or douche

FFS I was just about to buy myself one and now I’m obviously gonna have to wait until November

Oh, wait, I can just upgrade it. Nbd.

Micrexit

Once your computer’s working to your satisfaction, pretty much all you’ll need to do is alias sudo packman -Syu and try to remember to run that every so often. The arch Linux wiki is second to none, and if you stick with the distro you should find it all feels very familiar in no time.

Wellllll the implications of the ending of 28 weeks later is that the rest of the world had a reprieve but are fucked eventually…

Alas, doesn’t fit my purpose since it requires action by the script user. I usually just use perl in those situations

I can never get grep to work consistently on Mac and Linux. Now, ripgrep OTOH…

Damn it. Gonna have to be bacon, curse my carbon footprint

If you can, just use Perl. Probably installed on your systems, even the ones without python.

There are two difficult problems in computer science. Naming things, and pairing with Bluetooth speakers.

I have no idea why the engagement with this was down votes. So your friend thinks having an LLM to answer questions will help to learn Linux? I imagine he’s probably right.

Don’t knock being perpetually high. Some of my best code I wrote in my mid-20s

Sounds like a mnemonic for something

Yeah these articles are boring and there’s no substance to them. Much like everything generated by AI lol

For a younger age range you might be right, but in general that’s not true; the approximation via a Fourier series is definitely something we teach kids. We don’t generally expect people to be able to actually calculate it at the speed of a calculator, sure, but at least it’s tested whether they can derive the expansion.

Producer of calculators says kids don’t need to learn maths, they just need a calculator