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Comment · 2 years ago
Very easy to fool. For example, when it asked me "Which city is the capital of Australia?" providing the answer "the capital city of Australia" was judged to be correct. Same when asked about the author of a novel and answering "the author of 'novel'".

I did 7 in a row simply refecting back the question.

Comment · 2 years ago
You're correct. My other phones were from my wireless carrier, and didn't support unlocking the bootloader, so I had to keep upgrading (over a period of years.) I bought the Zenfone to try to break that cycle. The old devices still function, aside from being outside of vendor support (or in the case of one, incompatible with the carrier's network after infrastructure upgrades.)
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Comment · 3 years ago
I've never been able to approach this book in text. I did listen to an abridged audiobook performance of Finnegan's Wake, and enjoyed it in the same way I suppose I would enjoy listening to a foreign language poetry recital.
Comment · 3 years ago
So sad. Such loss. Wow.
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Comment · 3 years ago
The quote above is from the book 1984. I felt it fit.
Comment · 3 years ago
>What I am trying to say is, it doesn't matter if the subject is actually conscious. All that matter is we (I), feel/think that it is conscious, or deserving of care and respect.

The law of gravity is nonsense. No such law exists. If I think I float, and you think I float, then it happens.

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Interesting that the core is oversized. 640Km should be enough for any body.
Comment · 3 years ago
Oh! Thank you. That makes much more sense now.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've written code like this in C to create library functions that will be linked in to other projects, but where there is no 'main' function in the C file. Do people use C++ the same way, or is it best practice to include 'main?'
Comment · 4 years ago
Tuesday is Soylent Green day.
Comment · 4 years ago

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