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Staying Alive 3 years ago

Yeah the soul question seemed unfair, in the sense that I answered the first two with the assumption there is no soul, but the third question asks to assume a soul exists, so there's no way to answer it and stay consistent with my previous two answers

I highly recommend MIT open courseware 6.824. Incredibly valuable for learning distributed systems, and one of the lab assignments is implementing raft in Go. http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2022/schedule.html

There are a ton of fascinating and potentially frustrating edge cases and gotchas to implementing raft correctly. There's no better way to understand it than actually implementing it, and I probably never would have done it myself without these course materials.

When I tried to give a quick explanation of what an aperiodic was to a friend recently, calling it a geometric version of irrational numbers was the easiest way to do it. Glad to hear my explanation had some substance to it, and wasn't just one of those "you can think of it like this, but that's not what it really is" explanations.

At some point in the long to infinite history of the universe there will eventually be born a creature with a configuration of neurons sort of similar to the configuration you had before you died. So it's sort of reasonable to say that's you. Plus time passes quickly when you're dead, so to you it will feel like no time at all.

If your goals are 1) pay for it 2) have the convenience of no DRM, then it sounds like doing it this way worked out fine. Except maybe that pirating as a second step is slightly less convenient than downloading directly from the same place you bought it.

Not to dispute any of your points, but one of the reasons I find some of the JRE podcasts interesting is that he gets people to open up and talk about (admit to) stuff they otherwise might not. Joey's comments are repulsive, but it's a good thing we now know what kind of person he is.

Not sure if that's a net positive overall, but it's something to consider.

Thanks for the quote, now I want to go read that book! I really like the way he voices parts 1 and 2, as it echoes similar thoughts I've had but haven't articulated so elegantly.

I think my personal answer to (3) is slightly different but to each their own!

Pet Airways 4 years ago

If we're being honest, many people would prefer not to be forced to share space with other humans, either