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You seem very well informed, so I'm sure you've read that every single railway engineer and independent expert is saying that this seems like a freak accident and that the causes are totally unknown.

Knowing this, you're still all over the thread trying to score political points while there are dead people still on the tracks. One quick glance on your posting history is all one needs to see that you're happy to take any chance to do so, apparently including the death of at least 39 people. You disgust me. Y te creerás un "español de los buenos". Felicidades, patriota.

Always amazed by the work of people like Fabrice Bellard. I wonder how you even get to the point where you're this proficient at software development. Passion and talent are surely a must, but I can't imagine the tremendous amount of practice and possibly failures to learn from that get you to that point.

  > So weight loss was actually maintained for most people

That's ok, me and my "dark arts" will have to make do without your "compassion", somehow. And the world will have to make do without "training" on your secret "methods to measure intelligence", somehow.

I don't appreciate your expletives in your original unedited post, by the way, but the fact that you lost your temper is once again proof of something. You sound young, so I hope one day you "find a short program" to recover that data.

That last part was not sarcasm, in case you have any trouble picking it up.

Reducing comedy to 'subverting predictions' and empathy to 'compression algorithms' is like explaining music as 'organized sound waves', technically defensible yet completely missing the point. Missing the forest for the trees is an objective sign of limited metacognition, by the way.

The fact that you claim to be 'above average' at empathy and social cues while writing this robotic dismissal that completely misses the point (I asked for measurement methods, you provided questionable definitions) is the ultimate proof of my argument. You haven't defined intelligence, you've just compressed the meaning of it until it's small enough to fit inside your ego.

How do you measure the capacity for improvisational comedy? How do you measure a talent for telling convincing lies? How do you measure someone's capacity for innovating in a narrative medium? How do you measure someone's ability for psychological insight and a theory of self? How do you measure someone's capacity for understanding irony or picking up subtle social cues? Or for formulating effective metaphors and analogies, or boiling down concepts eloquently? How about for mediating complex, multifaceted interpersonal conflicts effectively? How do you measure someone's capacity for empathy, which necessarily involves incredibly complex simulations and mental models of other people's minds?

Do you think excelling in any of these doesn't require intelligence? You sound like you consider yourself quite intelligent, so are you excellent at all of them? No? How come?

Can you tell me which part of an IQ test or your "rigorous, moslty equivalent definitions for intelligence" capture any of them?

  > I hate how stupid people propagate this lie that we don't know what intelligence is, just because they lack it. It's quite convenient, because how can they be shown to lack intelligence when the word isn't even defined!

You just invented programming languages, halfway

For Windows, you can use SimpleWall, which uses Windows Filtering Platform underneath. The UI is nice, it's very efficient and works systemwide, deeply integrated with Windows' network stack. You can set domain/IP rules, but it's generally more oriented towards per-application basis blocking/allowing.

Wow. I expected this to be just bad clickbaity content, but I didn't expect this level of algorithmic-driven slop. Disturbing. 25 million subscribers, too; millions of views on every single video, one new hour-long video of this insane crap every few days. All clearly directed at children.

How did you find such organizations? Can you give some examples, please?

if the thief could use an AFU exploit to tell the SE to only trigger the reboot after 300 days, the entire feature becomes useless

Then why not simply hardcode some fixed modes of operation? Just as an example, a forced choice between 12, 24, 48, or a maximum of 72 hours. You can't cheat your way into convincing the SE to set an unlimited reset timer. I'm sure there must be a better reason.

Why did you put quotes around "war"? It may be other things

I think you answered yourself right there

Here are some things that were, at some point, long considered to be physically impossible:

-Deep sea exploration

-DNA sequencing and cloning

-Flight

-Long-range electric power

-Microbes

-Organ transplants

-Solar panels

I understand the enormity of the proposition of things such as FTL travel. But just saying "it doesn't have a fit within our current framework of understanding, so it's impossible and a moot point" seems a little...conceited, given all the historical precedents of exactly the opposite becoming true, eventually, given enough public interest.

"Condemning the actions of a foreign government" and "condemning similar actions by your own government" seem a little more related and on-topic than "social media and car crashes".

And in my own personal opinion, that's especially true if those questionable actions by your own government overshadow any other similar effort both in scope, size and funding by several orders of magnitude when compared to the rest of the world.

This obsession with shills is unhealthy. I'm glad there's a rule against it.

I'm not Chinese either, and I find it quite sad that you have to state that in here sometimes just to be taken seriously, or else be called a shill.

Excuse me, but it seems like your comment was generated by a language model, most likely ChatGPT. While it's impressive that AI technology can produce text that sounds so human-like, it's important to be clear about when a comment is written by a machine instead of a person. This can help avoid confusion and ensure that our conversations are productive and informative. Is there anything else I can help you with?

A "sightly-less-shitty-than-other-theories" theory is still a shitty theory. Low-confidence means exactly what it sounds like.

But most of all, dear friends, that quote is 2,300 years old! Was Aristotle misogynistic?

Yep

In his work Politics (1254b13–14), Aristotle states "as regards the sexes, the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject".

While Aristotle reduced women's roles in society, and promoted the idea that women should receive less food and nourishment than males, he also criticised the results: a woman, he thought, was then more compassionate, more opinionated, more apt to scold and to strike. He stated that women are more prone to despondency, more void of shame or self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive, and of having a better memory.

_________

apparently nobody has ever read the great philosophers.

Yep

Very normal in Spain, too

Care to expand on the burner phone part?

No one implied that it should be illegal to warn anybody. However, it should be illegal to operate a large-scale service like this without offering some kind of proper communication and prompt action, which isn't unreasonable considering they're notorious for destroying someone's livelihood for no reason.

Keep in mind that the reason this happens isn't because of "faulty AI automated systems": the reason this happens is because these companies choose to save pennies by not offering proper support channels and recourse. Those saved pennies make the difference between a 2-hour outage and literally bankrupting you for no reason at all.

"I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today - and even professional scientists - seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is - in my opinion - the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth."

― Albert Einstein, correspondence to Robert Thornton (1944)

Thanks.

Do you have a source for this? Just curious.

What will be the confluence of circumstances that will demand that we take our jobs more seriously? I can think of one "confluence of circumstances" that would make me take my job more seriously: Higher salaries

Thank you for posting this. I really enjoyed it.

This game is better played when you have skin in the game

I think framing a life as a "game", which implies that there is a specific goal upon which one can either "win" or "lose" is the core of your disagreement with that particular way of thinking. Some people see things as more of an open-ended, "freestyle" exercise, rather than a win-or-lose plan

Do you mind expanding on that a little bit? How did that come to be?

This feels encouraging to read. Thanks for posting it. I only have 5 years of experience, but I've gone through something similar and it's extremely disheartening to see yourself failing these convoluted, labyrinthine tests knowing full well that you'd be able to do the job you're interviewing for pretty well given half a chance.

Using drugs in public is not tolerated at all, and it doesn't matter whether you're in Madrid or Barcelona or anywhere else in the country. I am frankly tired of explaining this, and I don't know where this notion comes from that drugs are socially tolerated in Spain; I'm guessing from some kind of ignorant association with our neighbors of Portugal, where, by the way, drugs are decriminalized, not semi-legal. Decriminalized means you won't get put in jail for personal-use possession, full stop. And personal-use means very low quantities, comically low in most cases.

You will go to jail for dealing, and for possessing any quantities above a threshold of purity (you read that right: they do test the purity of hard drugs even for street-possession charges, and will slap you with a harder charge when the results come back). Nevermind that 90% of regular citizens find drugs very disturbing and will call the cops and treat you as a degenerate junkie the moment they even think that you might be on drugs, especially if you're a foreigner and you're outside a tourist-trap nightlife district.

Spain, or our neighbors in Portugal, it doesn't matter: you do something supposedly "light" and "tolerated" like smoking weed on the street, and the police will impose a hefty fine between €400 and €1200 (a person's whole salary in many cases), depending on the circumstances. It's the law. It goes without saying that they will confiscate everything. On top of that, if you're a foreigner/tourist and they think you're flaunting your drug usage or simply assume that you just don't give a damn about learning the law of the place you're visiting, they will put your ignorant ass in jail for the night on any charge they like, just for the annoyance. Like that. And then you can talk that 'but it's tolerated!' nonsense on your way to the back of a police van. And then, if still feel like getting smart with them, they'll bring you back to your senses. With a slap across the face, follow by an obstruction of justice charge. And you'll still go in the damn police van.

Take it from me, who's grown up here and have been living here for 30 years, or take your risk with taking idiotic internet tourist assumptions for granted. I strongly advise you to do the former, but as we say here: you're free to do as you please, and so is the police.

Or like an arrogant anglonerd who's been sold too much caffeinated baking soda and rastrojos in tourist traps for his own good. By the way, did your Prince Of Logic & Facts x-ray vision see that the parent post spoke specifically of "xtc, heroine and coke"?

Since drugs are so widespread and you seem so confident: why don't you go get some of these easily obtainable, semi-legal drugs and walk them up to a policeman, see if you're right about the issue or if maybe they semi-put your stupid ass in semi-jail for the semi-night? Please, please record the whole thing, me and my friends always welcome a good laugh.

Finally, a PSA: there are so, so many jokes about anglo tourists in Spain (I'm a native), and for some reason, a huge percentage of them are specifically about 'adventurers' who have 'seen the world' and 'know where the good stuff is'. Go figure lmfao.