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Peter Watts covered the possibility of "zombie" intelligences pretty well in his novel Blindsight. One thing I took from it is that such an intelligence could not possibly behave exactly like a human being, because a lot of what we do as humans involves interaction with other humans where we have a mental model of their consciousness being much like our own. Expressing sympathy toward another person, for example, would be inconceivable without consciousness.

Postgres (>11) also implements the SQL/JSON path language that lets you extract table data from JSON.

The kernel uses the sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure to determine whether to evict cache vs. process memory.

Sam Vimes's $10 boots have become the 800 dollar cars in that article.

But cars are optional if you live somewhere with working mass transportation.

RISC-V International's plan to give away 1,000 boards to developers seems like a good idea. I like some of the products I've seen but the cheap ones are just toys and the decent ones are way overpriced.

Nobody likes Monty Python references?

I guess I shoulda known, my Simpsons one got downvoted too. Well, lessons learned, I guess.

I think it'd be more appropriate if the post bore a great red label: 'WARNING: EMACS!!!'

Yes, same here. "Close Tabs to the Right" gets used a lot. If there's anything I want to keep I either pin it or drag it all the way to the left first.

I negotiated a deal at a former employer where I worked 4 x 9.5 hour days with Wednesdays off. I took a 5% pay cut and lost a proportional amount of vacation time. I kept my benefits but had to pay a slightly higher share for my contribution to the health care plan. It worked out very well—I especially liked having Wednesdays to run errands when government offices and banks etc. were open.

> unrestricted immigration

I'm in the USA and this polemical strawman is standard fare on Murdoch's Fox News. It's just a lazy way of dismissing the issue without real discussion.