cosignal

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One time I invented an entire internut.
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Comment · 7 months ago
Are you new to this site? I ask because your comment is entirely against the decorum we try to maintain here. This is a place for meaningful discussion (on topics pertaining to engineering and science in particular), it is not like Reddit where we hurl insults on one another in some apparent attempt to ratio people we disagree with.
Comment · 9 months ago
I'm sorry but what?! 'Socializing with people you know IRL' is almost exclusively what I've seen Discord used for, and almost solely what I personally use it for. There are vastly more Discord servers set up among IRL friend groups (or among classmates, as another popular use case) than there are Discord servers for fandoms of people who have never met IRL.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, are you perchance the famous 'First Officer Blunt'? Or... are you 'Captain Allears'?
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah ... I don't think there's any overlap between "users largely unfamiliar with terminals" who want something easy to use, and 'Linux users who are sufficiently technical that they would even hear about this repo'.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm a novice in this area so sorry if this is a dumb question, but what is the difference in principle between a 'non-reasoning agent' and just a set of automated processes akin to a giant script?
Comment · 1 year ago
Interesting, thanks for the reply!
Comment · 1 year ago
Pardon my dumb query, as I'm a tech novice, but aren't QR just encodings of data? And the max amount of data a QR can encode is like 3kb, which would roughly correspond to 3000 or so plaintext characters. So the achievement here is that this Doom-like game can be run from an executable roughly of that size?
Comment · 1 year ago
Same in terms of quelling anxiety, but I think the commenter was referencing the fact that, in contrast to the original post mentioning 'cozy' games, this commenter is talking about a highly 'un-cozy' game.
Comment · 2 years ago
I know next to nothing about physics, but isn't the "It just so happens" part of what you said potentially misleading? Isn't it that light is massless, so that directly implies that it would travel at the maximum speed?
Comment · 2 years ago
Well ... consider my brain fucked
Comment · 2 years ago
Very nice graphics in this.
Comment · 2 years ago
You're definitely bringing up issues that are worth consideration. The low-resolution view of Tibet that is/has been popular among (usually liberal, middle-to-upper class) Westerners following a kinda Buddhism-lite trend is that it was actually Shambhala/Shangri-la. You can see how gorgeous parts of Tibet are by looking up photos, and the assumption is that society there was as beautiful as the landscapes and thangka paintings.

But in fact Tibet was in many ways just about as far from Disneyland as can be conceived. Even by the early 20th century, it was a medieval-esque serfdom and theocracy. It doesn't matter how technical or philosophical someone gets about how Buddhism is non-theistic and Vajrayana is some kind of system of applied psychology, the fact is that powerful lamas were viewed as actual gods and, like a caste system, the underprivileged were regarded as deserving of their lot due to karma. There was a centuries-in-the-making ingrained resistance to outside ideas throughout the region, and those which would include things like modernity and human rights. While the rest of the world was getting stuff like penicillin and effective surgery, the stranglehold that the monastic institutions had on the education-deprived Tibetans prevented any meaningful cross-border dialogue.

All that being said, the CCP was not (and China still is not) some kind of bastion of human rights and openness to ideas. The People's Army would have never been so much as scratched by whatever barely passed for Tibetan soldiers, so they arguably did not need to be nearly so heavy-handed. Assuming it's actually anyone's legitimate responsibility to 'liberate' that place, I suppose that some 'force' might've been required to crack the nut of that massively insular Tibetan world, but there's no way that it was necessary to engage in ethnic cleansing and erasure.

In a parallel universe, the world of Tibet could have been introduced to modernity without being placed under the thumb of the Chinese monolith. So I guess I'm just trying to provide a balanced perspective.

Comment · 2 years ago
The site seems incomplete. Tibetan does have 5 vowels, and it looks like the non intrinsic vowels are written at the bottom section of the view, but I can't get them to work. I assume the intention would be that you click one of the other vowels to toggle it, but it no worky.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ooo “drive-by dismissal”, I like that phrase, gotta remember that one

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