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Franky it's irrelevant. Penrose's insistence that the human mind isn't algorithmic in the Turing sense is born from his human insecurities. But if the human mind isn't bound in such a way, than any man-made computer need not be bound either. Penrose's argument falls short of being a proper dualist argument. Furthermore Roger Penrose has not proven his claims, and they are not supported by mainstream neuroscientists. He appeals to quantum woo that he pulled out of his ass.

I know that he disagrees the human mind is bound by physical laws.

Last I heard, Penrose appeals to quantum woo to claim that the human mind isn't strictly algorithmic. But sources of quantum randomness isn't enough to push you into dualism, quantum shit is part of our physical universe and while there is no proof that the human mind critically exploits quantum phenomena for it's computation, we can certainly build machines that have RNGs exploiting quantum randomness.

So, they are arguably the same species, though arguably not.

Nature has no respect for our discrete classifications.

Changing the subject? Oh, I'm sorry. I could have sworn I was replying to you saying:

Many of us get dropped into vim by accident.

> It's not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing configuration files.*

can be used for anything != should be used by everybody

It is used by the general public.

Laughable.

That's your distro's problem, not vim's. There is no reason to fuck up vim just because distros are poorly configured.

If you took the modal interface away from vim, you wouldn't have vim anymore. If you don't want a modal interface, don't use vim.

You may as well expect Porsche to move the 911's engine to the front.

What interactive terminal programs exit using ^C? Nano doesn't, top doesn't. There is no standard for interactive terminal programs. Furthermore ^C doesn't fit with the rest of vim's control schema, so you wouldn't really be doing anybody any favors in the long run.

they ended up in vim by accident.

Sounds like a distro problem.

Why solve a "problem" that no actual user of the software has? It's not an iphone, it isn't meant for use by the general public.

Use nano if that's what you want. There's no reason to fuck up vim for people who actually use it to help the people who don't.

Do society a favor and remove yourself from the industry.

Zuck lacks more than just charisma. He lacks social competence. He'd be more like Jeb than Carson. He falls to pieces when he gets flustered, worse than most awkward autistic teenagers in front of a crowd of judgmental peers. Shit, Jeb might just make Zuck look smooth.

Wow, you're a real piece of work.

Throw in some ice. Juice isn't rocket science, I'm sure you can figure this out if you really apply yourself...

it'd be wrong to hire a dude to clip out all the ads

hire

Well I'm not paying for my adblocker. What if this dude volunteers? What if I'm doing it for my family members? This isn't a hypothetical.

Here's a digital analogy for you. Suppose I:

1) Disable my ad blocker.

2) "Open Link in New Tab"

3) Wait for my browser to finish requesting that data from the server

4) Close the tab without ever looking at it.

Is that unethical? Is it unethical for me to decide I don't want to read a webpage after requesting it? Should the "open in new tab" feature always force a tab switch against my wishes, so ensure I'm not ripping off some website by requesting their data but not looking at their ads?

When I was a kid, my dad used to rip the advertisements out of magazines as soon as they came in the mail. That's a practice I've carried on, despite getting far few magazines these days... My family also used to mute the advertisements on TV, though I don't think any of us still watch it.

So when I see people claiming that adblockers are immoral, it always gives me a good chuckle. Is ripping the ads out of a magazine immoral too? Is the mute button on my remote a ethnical crime against poor hapless television companies?

Wow, incredibly rude. What ever happened to HN civility?

TTS is what I use. I picked up a used old kindle keyboard, one of the versions that still had the feature. I slip that into my jacket pocket when I go on walks. It's nice because you're not limited on selection. The robotic nature of the voice fades away after an hour or two of listening to it.

Unless you're an unskilled driver, driving becomes "automatic" in much the same way that riding a bike does. When you ride a bike, are you concentrating on not falling over? Maybe for the first week or so that you're learning...

That's a form of institutionalized hazing. Probably unethical, but I've seen behavioral science defenses of it.

"It's unethical to shoot somebody"

It's unethical to pull on a little piece of metal?

Citation for suspicion? Is this a joke?

"Planet" refers to points of light that have complex motion in the night sky throughout the year. Earth is below the sky, therefore Earth cannot possibly be a planet. This is just common sense people.

How much of that "99% unreleased" is represented by the stub files:

    ::: THIS ARCHIVE FILE IS STILL BEING EXAMINED BY WIKILEAKS. :::
    ::: IT MAY BE RELEASED IN THE NEAR FUTURE. WHAT FOLLOWS IS :::
    ::: AN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED LIST OF ITS CONTENTS: :::

Good enough for it to get... awkward...

I love open offices because in an open office it's easier for me to socialize while pretending to work. I greatly prefer socializing over working, so I prefer any office environment that facilitates this.

Some of my coworkers are a lot less social so they get annoyed with everybody around them chatting. They probably get more work done than me, but thankfully being less social means they get worse peer reviews than the rest of us.

That's a shitty solution for a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place.

Don't worry, Bernie was never a serious threat. The DNC kept us safe.

Doing it for profit is hardly a better excuse than following orders. Should we not hold it against Trump that he ran casinos which preyed on the intellectually and financially disadvantaged?

It was set because of nuclear testing. Thankfully we made it through the 80s without nuclear war.