The nastiest typos are autocompleted similarly named (and correctly typed) variables, functions, or types. Which is why it’s a good idea to avoid such name clashes in the first place. If this is impossible or not practical, at least put the part that differs at the start of the name.
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I don’t really disagree with anything you laid out here.
I’ll just add that I think we don’t yet have the conceptual frameworks to fully describe (and by extension - understand) the problem in the first place.Yes, strong emergence seems like magic, as does dualism. But if there is no magic, consciousness feels like the closest thing to it; so who knows?
I can see what points you’re making, but it’s unclear what you’re arguing for. It would be helpful if you made that explicit, too.
My best guess is that you don’t think that consciousness is emergent. What then, do you consider the nature of consciousness to be? Are you perhaps agnostic on the matter?
I agree that strong emergence sounds like magic and I’m therefore highly sceptical of its existence. I find consciousness one of the most intriguing and mysterious phenomena we know of - I don’t really think I understand it to a degree where I can make confident claims about its nature. But dualism sounds like magic too, so weak emergence seems to me the most reasonable and likely mechanism, not least because it’s one we actually observe in reality.
wols@lemmy.zipto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Every support thread on Reddit is literally this nowEnglish2·10 days agoYup, Reddit fucked us all after we gave them our knowledge for free.
Trick people into thinking they’re contributing to a commons, steal the contributions and run. Very understandable that many people decided to retaliate after the betrayal.
I really hope decentralized knowledge bases take off. Aggregating niche knowledge from experts and non-experts everywhere the internet touches is such a valuable proposition!I had like one useful comment posted to Reddit. I’ve left it up, and once every few months I get a comment being appreciative for the info.
Reddit gets the traffic because of Google indexing the original post of a user with the problem. People are going to visit it regardless of whether they’ll find the answer or not. In fact, if they don’t find it, they’re more likely to keep browsing posts in the hope of finding something.
wols@lemmy.zipto Europe@feddit.org•Finland's capital Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic deathEnglish17·17 days agoUnfortunately, the data used in that map don’t appear to be corrected for population size.
So the high numbers in China and India don’t really mean much without some additional context.The map on Wikipedia is based on deaths per 100k inhabitants, which seems more useful for gauging overall road mortality rate.
Before they knew it, the search had turned into a wild goose chase.
wols@lemmy.zipto Games@lemmy.world•ROG Xbox Ally Is $700 And Xbox Ally X Is $1050English2·1 month agoYou can’t just say “perchance”
Can only speak for myself, but bookmarks are not at all the thing I want.
There’s more cognitive effort needed when creating a bookmark (not to mention several clicks and key presses) - I need to classify, organize, assign a folder, think about relevant tags.
More importantly: while I expect to need the tab again in the near future, it is likely to be completely useless in a few days. Creating a bookmark for that is going to be wasteful clutter that I need to spend more mental energy cleaning up.
The parent comment expressed incredulity at being able to manage that many tabs. I’m not sure how converting them to bookmarks instead helps. It just seems like I’ll need more clicks to get to my site.Also, I care about the state saved in my open tabs and don’t want to reload the page every time I visit it. Many websites are built in such a way that loading the URL again doesn’t even restore the same state, and sometimes it doesn’t work at all.
Bookmarks are useful, and I do use them, but they are not a workable replacement for tabs, at least to me.
haha wrong account oops
wols@lemmy.zipto World News@quokk.au•How Much Meat Can You Eat and Still Be ‘Climate-Friendly?’5·2 months agoIn case anyone else didn’t automatically know that means 255g/week:
In March 2025, researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) found that to eat sustainably, individuals should consume no more than 255 grams — or about half a pound — of pork or poultry per week. The study also makes clear that beef, lamb and other red meats are not compatible with a sustainable future under current environmental constraints.
Thanks for the warm welcome!
Can we have a list of the default blocks (perhaps divided into political vs NSFW)? I have dozens of my own blocks which I had already imported before knowing you added some by default.
What do you mean? For what purpose would you sort variables or functions?